Abstract Middle-class parents in China are increasingly torn between the need to secure their child's future an environment where competition starts kindergarten and parenting ideologies focusing on individuality, creativity freedom. Our study, based ethnographic fieldwork among middle-class Chinese migrants Budapest, shows that one result of this tension is a new wave emigration justified term...

The Secrete History of the Mongols (SHM) is a special Mongolian historical document transliterated with Chinese characters as phonetic symbols, which feature causes many multivariate analyses in later ages. The discussion of this paper mainly focuses on the data of used Chinese characters, the frequencies, and the rules of transliteration on SHM. All the statistic data and the analysis are base...

The current ethno-linguistic landscape of mainland Southeast Asia is a result of the spread of Tai speakers from southern China. This study examines Chinese loanwords in Proto-Southwestern Tai, the hypothetical ancestor of all modern Southwestern Tai varieties and proposes a dating of the spread of Southwestern Tai languages. By comparing the reconstructed Proto-Southwestern Tai forms with corr...

Sericulture is one of the great inventions of the ancient Chinese. Besides the mulberry silkworm (Bombyx mori), Chinese farmers developed rearing of the Chinese oak silkworm (Antheraea pernyi) about 400 years ago. In this paper, the historic records of the origins and dispersal of the domesticated Chinese oak silkworm in China are summarized. The first document with clearly recorded oak silkwor...

Most visual search studies have been restricted to alphanumeric stimulus materials. Research related to scanning patterns of Chinese characters is sparse. This study is an attempt to understand the differences and similarities in visual search of Chinese characters having a varying degree of complexity among Hong Kong Chinese, Mainland Chinese and Chinese reading non-Chinese people. Eighteen pa...

Given a family of Abelian varieties over a positive-dimensional base, we prove that for a sufficiently general curve in the base, every rational section of the family over the curve is contained in a unique rational section over the entire base. 1. Main results sec-intro The starting point for this article is the following theorem. Theorem 1.1. [GHMS05, Theorem 6.2] Let B be a smooth, quasi-pro...

In this Special Issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management on Managing in Ethnic Chinese Communities, we seek to shed light on the complex and dynamic relationships existing in many ethnic Chinese businesses around the world. This is an exciting time to study ethnic Chinese business. Ethnic Chinese business used to mean Overseas Chinese firms, that is, enterprises run by Chinese business p...