The South China Sea has attracted considerable attention among politicians, journalists and scholars since it has …. The South China Sea is defined as "Mediterranean." By comparing it to other maritime spaces, like the Baltic and the … from concepts of the cultural theory of Oswald Spengler. The paper will look at the South China Sea from two perspectives …

Imperial China used an empire-wide system of examinations to select civil servants. Using a semiparametric matching …

earlier paper. China is emerging as a strong trade partner of Nigeria and significantly influences its natural resource …

The formidable economic growth of China in the past few decades led to outstanding improvements in virtually all …, this paper identifies the predictors of the trend of life satisfaction in China between 1990 and 2007. Our findings suggest …

This paper studies the causes and consequences of political centralization and fragmentation in China and Europe. We … argue that the severe and unidirectional threat of external invasion fostered political centralization in China while Europe … the frequency of nomadic attacks and the number of regimes in China. Our model allows us to explore the economic …

analyses which include a focus on China, Japan, Brazil, and South Africa, this paper not only highlights why there is need for … particular, the Basel III leverage ratios in jurisdictions such as China. Ultimately the paper also aims to investigate whether …

The extent to which China's family planning policy has driven its fertility transition over the past decades is … China's family planning policy and accordingly, proposes a new policy measure that integrates the policy variations more … completely, heterogeneously, and exogenously by using the cross-sectional data of the China Health and Nutrition Survey. The new …

results from the relevant literature and promote discussion on how financial and economic developments in China in recent …

-financial liberalization that offers insights into this phenomenon. When applied to China, it not only facilitates a better understanding of …