The Attitude towards Life and Death

TO be, or not to be, that is the question ..." to Hamlet and to the majority of people, who generally treasure life and fear death. In many cultures it is taboo to raise the topic of death in everyday discourse, but this is not the case with the Chinese people. To them life and death are a common conversational topic. Their matter of fact approach is illustrated in the sayings: "Human life is nothing but a stage over which the sun and the moon     

Chinese Gays Emerge from the Shadows

The 10th Asia-Oceania Conference on sexology concluded in mid-October 2008 in beijing. Although homosexuality was not the main topic of the conference, it is a topic of great interest to society in general. In contrast to just a few years ago, an increasing number of ordinary Chinese are now able to better understand and accept gay people.     

World Could Pay For Yuan Appreciation

Debating whether China's yuan is undervalued is a hot topic of conversation between China and its major trading partners, particularly the United States, which has a large trade deficit with China. Soon after the Second Meeting of the China-U.S. Strategic Economic Dialogue focused on this topic in May, some U.S. senators proposed a bill that is widely recog- nized as aiming to force the acceleration of appreciation of the yuan. But Professor Liu Zhibiao, Dean of the School of Economics of Nanjing University, points out one salient fact: With the increase of foreign invest- ment and rising level of trade openness, China is contributing more and more to the world's economic growth, with the benefits of this growth being shared by the whole world. Therefore, the cost of sharp appreciation in the value of the Chinese currency will exert impact on the whole world, he says.     

Sex and the Contemporary Chinese Woman

A full 90.6 percent of the women that participated in the investigation spoke openly on the topic of their sexual desires and 75.1 percent of them expressed satisfaction with their sex life.     

Zero Tolerance

Anti-corruption was the key topic of the Sixth Plenary Session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China(CPC)between January 18 and 20,where President Xi Jinping,also General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee,demanded to punish corruption with a zero-tolerance approach.     

THE COMING CHANGES

China is banking on tax reforms to help transform its economy Reform of the taxation system will be a topic of significant importance at the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China(CPC)to be held in October,according to sources.     

United States Law on the Protection of Abused and Neglected Children

1.Introduction This paper discusses child protection in the United States.I will discuss four general topics.The first topic is United States laws on the protection of children from child abuse and neglect.The second topic is providing care for children who must be removed from their homes.The     

Cracking the Consumption Nut

Increasing domestic consumption has become a hot topic filtering through various economic circles in China.In the aftermath of the global financial crisis,the call has gone out to emphasize consumption and downplay saving among people in the international community.Xia Bin,Director General of the Research Institute of Finance of the Development Research Center of the State Council,made 10suggestions in the Economic Information Daily to achieve this goal.     

Strength From the Soil

From the rise to the recent ease of Sino-U.S.trade frictions,the soybean has been a hotly contested topic throughout the period.While affirming that the two countries are important partners in the soybean trade,China has highlighted the importance of increasing soybean output at home as it strives to boost the domestic agricultural sector.     

Overseas Purchases,Domestic Benefits

正Recent investment in European football clubs by Chinese companies has become a hot topic internationaly. For instance, home appliance retailer Suning Holdings Group purchased nearly 70 percent of the shares of the Italian     

MARKET WATCH

OPINION Internet Finance:AnIrresistibleTrend As early as late 20th century, Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, had predicted that tra- ditional commercial banks would die out like the dinosaurs. Recently, the topic of Internet finance aroused debate at the Bund Global Financial Summit in Shanghai.     

Driving Force to Socialize the International Norms of Human Rights

Human rights,as a great term and lofty goal, have unquestionably become a topic of mainstream talk in the present-day world. 2 Such mainstream talk has been internalized into part of the social structure. The current international society is experiencing a profound reorganization and transition in values. all kinds of new interactions under the context of globalization have resulted in the development of the current norms of international human rights,     

New Era forCentral Tenet Of Governance

On October 20-23,the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th Communist Party of China(CPC)Central Committee was held in Beijing with the overlying theme of advancing the rule of law.Generally,each of the CPC Central Committee’s seven plenary sessions held during its five-year term focuses on a different topic,with the fourth reserved to discuss the economy     

Provide Equal Protection to Property Under All Ownerships

Question: The formulation of Real Rights Law of the People's Republic of China is now a hot topic of debate with- in China's legal community. To the gen- eral public, however, the law is entirely new. Would you tell us the main con- tents of the draft law and what the law means to the Chinese society? Answer: Real right, also known as right of property or property right, refers to the right of a natural person and a corpo- rate entity to the disposition of a certain piece of property. Real…     

A Chinese Economist’s View of the Global Financial Crisis

Amid the escalating global financial crisis, books on the gloomy topic are flying off the shelves. Which Way Should China Turn–When the Sub-prime Crisis Changed the World gives one Chinese economist’s take on the cause and effects of the current crisis–and how one of the world’s few growing economies should respond.     

A Chinese Economist＇s View of the Global Financial Crisis

Amid the escalating global financial crisis, books on the gloomy topic are flying off the shelves. Which Way Should China Turn - When the Sub-prime Crisis Changed the World gives one Chinese economist＇s take on the cause and effects of the current crisis - and how one of the world＇s few growing economies should respond.     

New Perspectiveon the History Of China-U.S.Relations

<正>Editor’s Note:A Brief History of China-U.S.Relations 1784-2013 was recently published by the Beijing-based Foreign Languages Press.Theauthor,Tao Wenzhao,a researcher with the Institute of American Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, offers fresh perspectives on the well-worn topic.J.Stapleton Roy, former U.S. Ambassador to     

Managing Depreciation Expectations

正The stability of China’s currency is dependent on a number of factors For the last two years the renminbi has been plagued by depreciation pressure.It has,once again,become a hot topic since October.Although the renminbi’s depreciation has not roused market panic,the instability of the current international political and economic environment signals the need for caution when dealing with the     

SCHOOL INFORMATION

Novartis AG Pays Visit to BiMBA Peter lager,who is in charge of international coordination of Novartis AG,recently paid a visit to Beijing International MBA(BiMBA),accompa- nied by the medicine group's Chinese heads Li Zhenfu and Hong Chaoyang. During his visit,Jager had a discus- sion with Yang Zhuang,dean of the U.S.branch of BiMBA,on the topic of     

Should Premarital Property Be Personal?

The latest effort by the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) of China to clarify the ownership of premarital property has become a hot topic for discussion. The SPC issued on November 15 a draft judi-