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An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Recruitment Patterns on RDS Estimates among a Socially Ordered Population of Female Sex Workers in China
Yamanis, Thespina J.; Merli, M. Giovanna; Neely, … - In: Sociological Methods & Research 42 (2013) 3, pp. 392-425
Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a method for recruiting “hidden†populations through a network-based, chain and peer referral process. RDS recruits hidden populations more effectively than other sampling methods and promises to generate unbiased estimates of their characteristics....
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From the Revolutionary Family to the Materialistic Family: Keywords for a Contemporary Social History of China
Min, Dongchao - In: Indian Journal of Gender Studies 20 (2013) 3, pp. 393-413
materialist orientation. This era is divided into two periods: the first stage begins from 1949, the year when the new China was … China embarked on a new open policy towards the outside world, and continues into the present. During the first stage …
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Rising Women’s Status, Modernisation and Persisting Son Preference in China
Xiaolei, Wang; Lu, Li; Dong, Zhou Xu; Chi, Zhou; Wei, Liu; … - In: Indian Journal of Gender Studies 20 (2013) 1, pp. 85-109
in China the sex ratio at birth has been the highest in the world for over two decades despite rapid modernisation … ratio is persistently high in China. High sex ratios persist probably because, while the majority is essentially gender …
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The impact of citizenship on labour process: state, capital and labour control in South China
Peng, Thomas - In: Work, Employment & Society 25 (2011) 4, pp. 726-741
Sweatshops remain scattered around southern China where scholars have explored the despotic nature of labour control …
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A Chinese Social Structure of Accumulation for Capitalist Long-Wave Upswing?
Phillip Anthony O’Hara - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 38 (2006) 3, pp. 397-404
The objective of this article is to examine whether China has a viable macro social structure of accumulation (SSA) for …. The article concludes that China is currently an emerging capitalist economy and that it is likely to continue through …
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Workers’ Participation in Management and Firm Performance: Evidence from Large and Medium-Sized Chinese Industrial Enterprises
Li, Minqi - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 36 (2004) 3, pp. 358-380
theory. There has not yet been any empirical study on this subject regarding China. Theauthor uses panel data of large and …
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China and Japan’s Energy Security Approaches in the Central Asia
Koolaee, Elaheh; Tishehyar, Mandana - In: China Report 45 (2009) 4, pp. 267-283
enhanced political standing. The build-up of closer ties with the developing world, and China and Japan’s growing presence …
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China and Vietnam in the South China Sea Dispute: A Creeping ‘Conflict–Peace–Trepidation’ Syndrome
Chakraborti, Tridib - In: China Report 48 (2012) 3, pp. 283-301
The South China Sea dispute which has spilled over from the twentieth to the twenty-first century, is yet to find an … which, all the disputing countries should change their mindset from local to global level and keep the South China Sea …
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China, Israel and the US: The Problematic Triangle
Kumaraswamy, P. R. - In: China Report 49 (2013) 1, pp. 143-159
China as before. This was primarily due to American pressures and its perception of China as its new strategic threat. Given …, emergence of China as the second-largest economy in the world and China’s growing strategic relations with the Middle East is … likely to result in Israel re-examining its no-arms policy towards China. …
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India’s Diplomatic Entrepreneurism
Thakur, Vineet - In: China Report 49 (2013) 3, pp. 273-298
The article documents India’s involvement in the Korean crisis from 1950–1952. It argues that India’s ‘diplomatic entrepreneurism’ allowed it to become the interlocutor, mediator and adjudicator, all rolled into one, helping India to create a space of manoeuvre...
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