Essays about: "political systems in China"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 27 essays containing the words political systems in China.
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11. Perspectives on the Occupy Central Demonstrations in Hong Kong : A Critical Discourse Analysis on English-language Press in Hong Kong S.A.R, Taiwan and China
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskningAbstract : This paper is concerned with media perceptions and how these manifest as hegemonic practices. Exploring the theme ‘language and politics’, against the backdrop of the Occupy Central with Love and Peace (OCLP) demonstrations in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), this paper sheds light on the discursive constructions of media representations in three ‘Chinese’[1] regions as well as on how such representations constitute vested interests. READ MORE
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12. Analysis of Savings Behavior after a Pension Reform from a PAYG to a Fully-Funded System in Asian Emerging Economies
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : Pension systems in Asian emerging economies are under great pressure to conduct important reforms in response to declining growth rates and population aging. Our analysis aims to investigate how a shift from a PAYG to a fully funded pension scheme influences household savings. Our analysis is focused on China, Thailand and the Philippines. READ MORE
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13. Decrease in traditional ecological knowledge through modernization : Perspectives on culturally protected village fengshui forests in Southeast China
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience CentreAbstract : China’s fast development after the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949 involved intense pressure on forests, leading to a massive decrease and degradation of forest landscapes, loss of biodiversity, soil erosion and flooding. However, many village fengshui forests (VFFs) have been spared devastation due to protection by informal village institutions built on fengshui, a form of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). READ MORE
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14. The Combat against Counterfeiting: From the Perspective of Chinese and EU Law
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : For the past decades, counterfeiting has severely threatened China-EU trade. It not only led to tremendous loss for businesses, but also created problems such as harm to public health and other crime related activities. China has been accused by its main trading partners as being the biggest counterfeit source for a long time. READ MORE
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15. Chinese (in)action: Seeing breathing as a means to understand citizens’ (in)action
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Civic engagement plays an important role in governmental transparency – so how does transparency work in a non-democracy like China where the political and juridical systems repress public participation? Through quantitative methods this paper examines how a selection of citizens in Shanghai, China, make use of environmental information made available through the Chinese government’s Open Environmental Information (OEI) transparency measures. The findings indicate that information on air quality is only utilized by a small percentage of the research sample, while the majority do not adhere to warnings of heath risks associated with smog. READ MORE
