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Based on materials obtained from fieldwork in three Chinese cities and data collected through online ethnography as a complementary method, this article investigates the relationship between Chinese trade unions and food delivery workers resisting the exploitation of platform capitalism. The article first analyzes the impact of the official character and structure of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) on its compatibility with delivery workers. Constrained by Chinese policies and regime, the ACFTU is absent from the collective action mobilization of delivery workers. Thus, it is shown that, by this absence, the Chinese couriers have opted for self-organization. However, while avoiding the role of mobilization, Chinese unions have responded and acted on the emergence of the couriers and the growth of their protest actions. As a result of these practices, some new union organizing patterns in platform capitalism have emerged in different regions. Whereas unions for platform workers, initially in the form of service stations, focused on providing welfare to workers, the actions of these unions are now shifting toward promoting collective bargaining. This article highlights that the ambiguous legal relationship between platforms and workers, the multiple outsourcing of Chinese platforms, and the geographical dispersion of outsourcing companies have challenged the ACFTU’s traditional union organization patterns, with the result that special unions have been created at different levels for couriers by innovating beyond the established system, abandoning the tradition of employer-controlled “paper unions” and potentially gaining substantive bargaining power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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China has been spreading its tentacles across continents particularly sub-Saharan Africa and Nigeria. The objective of this paper is to investigate the influence of Foreign direct investment on the economic and political framework of Africa, using Nigerian as a case study. The foreign direct investments from China to Africa and particularly to Nigeria has not been received well in the pool of public opinion. However, the benefits the investment pool has on the economic and political framework is positive. Yet, researchers, believe that caution should be taken to avoid excessive FDI from China. The method of regression analysis was employed to prove the relationship between FDI inflow and annual GDP. The result showed that there is a strong and significant influence of FDI on GDP and vice versa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The objective of this paper is to empirically test various hypotheses about the determinants of intra-industry trade between China and its major trading partners using panel data over the period 1980-2003. To strengthen the synergies between regional economic integration (ASEAN, as an example) and the determinants of intra-industry trade (in particular, the geographical distance), so we find it very important for us to have a concrete idea on the determinants of intra-industry trade in China before (during the subperiod 1980-1991) and after (during the period 1992-2003 under) the integration of the countries in ASEAN. The results of our estimates show that the relationship between the factors and different types of intra-industry trade varies from one period to another. The results indicate that the nature of Chinese intra-industry trade is negatively and significantly correlated with geographic distance for the entire period (1980-2003) and after the integration of China in ASEAN (1992-2003). This leads us to conclude that the proximity of trading partners means lower transportation costs and information, than the trade increased. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The WTO is often blamed for not taking into account noneconomic values although article XX has occasionally been invoked to justify internal measures that were deviant from GATT prescriptions. China - Audiovisual Services deals with this topic in opening a new era in WTO law-making.This paper thus aims at promoting the idea of a controlled globalisation which combines market liberalisation rules and the necessary protection of noneconomic values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper treats a phonological analysis of Sharkhog Tibetan dialect and a discussion of its classification. This dialect is one of the lesser-known dialects of Tibetan, mainly spoken in Songpan County, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan, China. Its phonology is characterised by the existence of register (suprasegmentals) as well as the preservation of many types of consonant cluster. The coexistence of the suprasegmental opposition and the abundant types of consonant cluster is typologically remarkable in Tibetan. Based on these phenomena, the possibility of the establishment of a new dialectal group is proposed with the support of a contrastive consideration among Sharkhog dialect and other Tibetan dialects spoken around Songpan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents an editorial in which the author discusses the journal's dedication to academic research on work and employment, changes to the journal's article embargo period beginning in 2016 to a single year embargo, and the journal's policy of French and English article parity. The article also mentions the articles in this issue on work-family conflict, recession and its impact on aboriginal people in Canada, and employers and minimum wage policies in China.

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The article analyzes whether a democratic regime would be more favorable to environmental sustainability. It discusses the argument advanced by German-born philosopher Hans Jonas in his book "Principe Responsabilité" regarding liberal democracy and the solution to ecological crises. Also mentioned are criticism over democracy being slow and short-sighted and the argument that democracy could potentially repair the damages of capitalism via a major overhaul of the system of production and consumption. The author defines the concept of democracy and responds to some of the arguments and criticisms. Topics include globalization, environmental degradation, and China's pollution.

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The article focuses on the history of the hydraulic system of China. Topics include the connection between the hydraulic system, the social organization and the research fields in China, an analysis of how water is distributed in several villages in the Chinese province of Shanxi, and the history of the creation of hydraulic rights in this region. According to the article, villagers respect the rules on water consumption and in each household, women are the ones responsible to make sure these rules are applied.

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The article introduces this edition of the journal and cites a number of reports contained in it including Karel Dobbelaere's comments on various views of secularization in China, Michael Szonyi's investigation of Chinese sociology of religion and an examination of rituals used in legal cases by Paul Katz.

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This study analyzes Chinese consumer behavior across different retail food store formats and how household demographics affect shopping behavior. A multivariate probit model with four categories of retail food store formats (wet markets, small grocery stores, super- markets, and hypermarkets) in Quindao, China is estimated. The results indicate that the new hypermarkets are substitutes for supermarkets, but they do not compete extensively with wet markets and small grocery stores. Furthur development of various catagories of food shopping store formats is linked to store-owner characteristics, potential interrelations among existing retail formats, as well as consumers' demographics and shipping habits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]