Brexit: Be Careful What You Wish For?

In this paper, I focus on the British future from Brexit. The institutional form this will take is not yet fixed. However, one can consider likely outcomes based on dominant economic frameworks. From this perspective, it seems unlikely that Brexit will address the actual grievances that resulted in Brexit. These transcend European Union membership.     

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THE Wuling Mountains in Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou provinces are abundant and beautiful Set in isolation, the Tujia people have lived hvre generation after generation. This is my hometown. In the summer of 1994, I returned home after having left to attend college in Beijing five years before. Homesick loneliness called me back to my home in Shizhu County, Sichuan Province.     

For (The) Real: You Mean Rate ’em or Rape ’em?

Building on the textually (Dolven), temporally (Salamon) and topographically (Webster) illuminated analyses of Vanessa Place’s Rape Jokes, this piece articulates the “rationally” contrarian ethics of the real (gendered body) dummified in her reiterative metapoetic practice by critically exploring its communicative potentials as well as its radically composed platform itself.     

英文歌曲《You Are Not Alone》歌词的人际功能分析

本文对迈克尔·杰克逊的歌曲《You Are Not Alone》的人际意义从韩礼德功能语法的角色转换、语气系统、情态系统进行了分析。通过分析,揭示了这首英文歌曲的语言选择与所表达意义之间的关系,从另一个全新视角来赏析这首家喻户晓的歌曲。     

As You Sow,So Shall You Reap?

Foundations’ capacity‐building grant programs strive to bolster performance and outcomes for their nonprofit grantees. Yet with few outcome evaluations of such programs, we have limited understanding of whether these capacity‐building efforts achieve their intended result. This study evaluates fifteen years of data for one foundation's capacity‐building grant program to understand whether targeted capacity building for financial management and development contributes to nonprofit financial growth. The authors examine the management–performance link in this context and inform sector leaders who dedicate resources to capacity‐building programs about the outcomes of these efforts.     

For Better or For Worse? State-Level Marital Formation and Risk Sharing

Why do some U.S. states have higher levels of marital formation than others? This paper introduces an economic model wherein a state’s representative individual may choose to marry in order to diversify his or her idiosyncratic income risk. The paper demonstrates that such a diversification motive is enhanced for some utility functions when a state’s level of undiversifiable risk becomes larger, and when a state’s initial income is lower. A test of the model’s predictions, using cross-sectional data for the 50 U.S. states, provides some suggestive evidence for a risk sharing motive in marriage formation and joint spouse labor participation.     

For 80 Million Poor Population

POVERTY is always a concern of China's government and people. In 1978, there were 699 impoverished counties in the whole country with a population of about one quarter of a billion, which was concentrated in the middle and western areas of China. These included remote mountainous areas, stone mountain areas, flood plain areas, wilderness areas and regions where minority nationalities live in compact communities. In these areas, resources are scarce, transportation is difficult and limited,     

Chinese Tea Drinking Goes Back Centuries

TEA is a necessity in Chinese life. According to historical records the Chinese had already learned how to plant and bake tea more than 2,000 years ago. Sipping tea has always been a favorite Chinese tradition. To the south of the Changjiang River is a region with good irrigation and a climate favorable for growing tea: it is cool at night and often misty. Zhejiang Province is a well-known tea production area, and the famous Longjing Tea is solely produced along the West Lake in Hangzhou, capital of the province. Tea is produced in four areas of China:     

National Honor For Rural Women

NEWLY literate women are taking the lead in eliminating rural poverty through literacy. Ten of the nation's best newly literate women were selected by'the All-China Women's Federation to attend a grand prize awards ceremony held in Beijing on September 7, 1996, just before the World Anti-illiteracy Day. The All-China Women's Federation has set a goal of wiping out illiteracy     

Stepping Back in Time in Xi'an

AS a metropolitan resident who is used to seeing towering buildings, an incessant stream of vehicles and people, I've always longed to have a taste of an ancient civilization, which is vigorous but exquisite, bold but elegant, natural but mysterious. I realized my dream when I went to Xi'an, a capital with a history of over 1,000 years. Xi'an was once the capital for eleven dynasties, including the Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang. This is the place where China's ancient civilization developed. Ancestors at Banpo created exquisite painted pottery; the Western Zhou Dynasty (about 1,066-771 B.C.) saw the height of the splendors of the bronze culture; the Qin Emperor Shi Huang (Qin Dynasty, from about 221-206 B.C.)     

For the Sake of the Children

THE United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has come a long way in China. Since its assistance program was resumed in 1979, UNICEF has assisted children of China through 100 major projects involving a commitment of more than US$ 200 million through 1995. The global organization's contribution to improving the well-being of 380     

Husbands Should Be Punished For Spousal Abuse

A family violence case tried in the Fangcheng County Court in Henan Province on June 18,1997, created an uproar. Plaintiff Yu Xiumei married a young local man by the name of Hu Dongpo some two years ago. Prior to their     

Group Wedding For Migrant Workers in Beijing

Aspecial group wedding was held recently in Beijing for five newly-weds all of whom came to Beijing in search of better prospects. The event was cosponsored by Beijing Purple House Clothing Decoration for Marriage Company and the Home for Working Women. Zhang Shuguo, general manager of the Marriage Company, said the purpose of the ceremony was to express the value of