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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Southwest China"”.
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Decentralization of Forest Management in Southwest China
China’s decentralization has been recognized internationally, as it has arguably made significant contributions to rapid economic growth and social development in the past three decades. However, the impact of decentralization on resource management is more ambiguous and less studied. Given the …
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Change and Continuity of Yi Medical Culture in Southwest China
… living in the two Yi autonomous prefectures in southwest China. After over forty year's development, these two subgroups show quite different levels of both receptivity to biomedicine and incorporation of state-run health care service into their own medical systems. This work provides a …
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The Residue of a Deep Past: Struggle over cultural transmission in southwest China
… living in Zheba, a rural mountainous area in southwest China. They perceive and live their cultural past through unreconciled fragments that are deeply embedded in their everyday lives. It is a deep past that continuously gives meanings to local people’s existences, even through times when …
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Consensus and attractors: the dynamics of knowledge circulation and transformation in southwest China
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The individual and the state in China: being a graduate village official in rural southwest China
… village official in a local government office in southwest rural China, which enabled me to observe at close range the workings of political power and official administration. After one year’s in-depth exploration, my materials include the following: state propaganda publications, observations of …
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"""Chopsticks Only Work in Pairs"": Gender Unity and Gender Equality Among the Lahu of Southwest China"
… months of full-time fieldwork among the Lahu of Southwest China and Thailand, I explore in this dissertation the ways in which gender unity is constructed as a master motif---as encapsulated in the Lahu metaphor, ""chopsticks only work in pairs""---that fosters gender equality and that prevails …
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Transformation of rural space from an institutional perspective. Socio-economic development and land use change in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China
… in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in Southwest China have undergone unprecedented changes over the last 60 years. These transformations within the landscapes manifest themselves as land cover change, for example intensification of traditional land use systems and introduction of …
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An Assessment of Outmigration-related Land Use Transition in Rural Area and Corresponding Social and Ecological Dynamics - A Case Study in Southwest China
China’s urbanisation rate has been rapidly increasing for decades (increased by about 40% during 1978-2017). This expansion has led to massive outmigration in rural regions, which has changed regional labour force structure and local landscape patterns and resulted in a series of social, …
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An Assessment of Outmigration-related Land Use Transition in Rural Area and Corresponding Social and Ecological Dynamics - A Case Study in Southwest China
China’s urbanisation rate has been rapidly increasing for decades (increased by about 40% during 1978-2017). This expansion has led to massive outmigration in rural regions, which has changed regional labour force structure and local landscape patterns and resulted in a series of social, …
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The impacts of rural-to-urban labor migration on the rural environment in Chongqing municipality, southwest China: Mediating roles of rural household livelihoods and community development
… The increasing rural-to-urban labor migration in China since the early 1980’s has formed the largest population flow in world history. The primary objective of this doctoral dissertation research project is to obtain a better understanding of how this large-scale circular labor migration movement …
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Water Quality Impacts from Agricultural Land-Use in the Karst Groundwater Basin of Qingmuguan, Chongqing, China
… distribution throughout the year. In contrast, southwest China is affected by a monsoon climate with high precipitation in the spring to summer and drier conditions in other seasons. In the wet season large storm pulses can effectively transport contaminants to water sources resulting in loads …
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Kaili, the homeland of 100 festivals: Space, music, and sound in a small city
… of social space in Kaili, a small city in southwest China, through its branding as “the homeland of one hundred festivals”, inhabitants’ conceptualizations of music, amateur music-making practices, and the construction of the built environment. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre's triad of social …
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Masks
… Chuanju, which comes from the Sichuan region in southwest China. In Chuanju, each character has his or her own type of face makeup. For example, semi-transparent makeup is often used for females and young men, while yingyang makeup splits a face into two different colors. One special technique …
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A Faint Light
… dance from Yunnan, a province located in southwest China. The thematic melody was inspired by a Chinese fairy tale about a recluse named Han Guang. In Chinese, Han Guang also means a faint light, which became the title of this work. I was impressed by the faith of the recluse in the story. …
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PERFORMANCE EVALUATION, COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT, AND DECISION LEGITIMACY: A CASE IN CHINA
… Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan province in southwest China, the study found that perceived government performance and perceived speech conditions were both positively related to perceived legitimacy of government decision; furthermore, perceived speech conditions moderated the relationship …
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Socio-economic drivers of agricultural production in a transition economy: A case study of Hu Village, Sichuan Province, China
… As the largest developing country in the world, China embarked on market reform three decades ago and has ever since experienced dramatic socio-economic transition towards modernisation, industrialisation and urbanisation. Significant levels of academic attention have focused on empirically …
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Soil conservation in relation to maize productivity on sub-tropical red soils in Yunnan Province, China
Agricultural land in China is being degraded, with soil erosion becoming an increasing problem. In Yunnan Province, south-west China, there is a long history of soil erosion due to soil type, climate, anthropogenic influence and because 95% of the Province is mountainous. Population pressure and …