How are political elites embedded in both civil and political domains? I studied 246 Chinese political elites who also served on nonprofit foundations' boards from 2011 to 2015 and conceptualized a framework to understand the state-nonprofit relationship before 2015. The political elites can...

This paper provides technical details and user guidance on the Research Infrastructure of Chinese Foundations (RICF), a database of Chinese foundations, civil society, and social development in general. The structure of the RICF is deliberately designed and normalized according to the Three...

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is a common institutional framework for worldwide trade in goods and services. In anti-dumping area the U.S. and the European Union (EU) always consider China as non-market economy (NME), which results China suffering a greater loss compared with treating China...

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) play significant role with worldwide subsidiaries in the global economy. MNEs generally dominate agreements with their offshore subsidiaries to promote their global operation. How to hold MNEs liable for the tortious acts of their offshore subsidiaries is a...

To obtain comprehensive materials with both high temperature coefficient of resistivity (TCR) and magnetoresistance (MR) at low magnetic fields, polycrystalline La0.72Ca0.28Mn1− x Cr x O3 (x = 0, 0.02, 0.04, 0.06) ceramics were prepared herein by the sol–gel method. The electronic...

The national security review mechanisms for foreign investments in China are influenced strongly by cross-border factors. Since China’s reform and opening-up, China national security review mechanisms for foreign investment have gone through four phases. The beginning phase is from 1979 to...

The 1982 Constitution of the People's Republic of China (PRC Constitution) Article 18 introduced for the first-time principles of openness and protection for foreign enterprises while sanctioning general limitations for foreign investors such as compliance with domestic laws. China's policy...

The article analyses potential intellectual-property-related disputes amid transfer of technology in the green economy within the international investment legal regime. Intellectual property rights (IPRs) protect human innovation and intellectual efforts. Tech transfer, IPRs in particular, has...

Adsorption of 4He and para-H2 is predicted to exhibit exotic properties on weak-binding surfaces. For 4He, alternative scenarios include nonwetting, prewetting and a Bose gas monolayer. For H2, a monolayer superfluid phase can be created by a suitable choice of the substrate. Intriguing...