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The article focuses on global consumption of paper and speculates about the future consumption of paper by China. The author presents statistics related to worldwide paper consumption. The article discusses how residents of wealthier countries tend to consume more paper than those in developing countries. The economic, cultural and environmental consequences of increased paper consumption are discussed.

Chinese novelist and film producer, Dai Sijie has been writing his novels in French. The aim of this paper is to highlight the main similarities between Chinese and French cultures in three different novels: Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise, Le complexe de Di et Par une nuit où la lune ne s'est pas levée. In all his books, ubiquity has allways been on an ever changing fields, as a result of the fact that the two cultures continuously collide. The novels' main topics refer on one side, to the impact that the books' power has on the reader, and, on the other side, they are the writers' avatar who confessed that « j'ai appartenu à une génération qui pense qu'un livre peut changer la vie ». Dai Sijie's talent reflects in the way in which he approaches terms like Occident and Orient. The whole story is the result of the character's presence, whose names "travel" from one book to another in order to re-emphasise the main topics: education, knowledge that do not know any historical or geographical barriers. [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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