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Going Green? Urban vs. Rural Residency and Pro-Environmental Attitudes in China
(2009-04)
With the fastest growing economy in the world, China questions the viability of their
economically oriented country under increasing international pressures to strengthen
environmental regulations. Understanding public ...
The Effect of the Trump Tariffs on Major US Trade Partners
The research question I am pursuing is how the aggressive trade tariffs that the United States has put in place has affected trade partners such as China and Mexico. I am specifically addressing the tariffs on steel and ...
Media Choice and Political Behavior
Government-sponsored sources of information are the main source of news for many Chinese citizens due to the strict government control of news and information. In a democratic country such as The Netherlands, there are ...
Inter-Cultural Conflict and Rewriting History: The Case of the Yi
(2011-04-30)
This thesis examines why the Yi people of Liangshan – who call themselves Nuosu – in southwest China have been reviving their identity since the end of Mao‟s Cultural Revolution. Ultimately, I conclude that internal pressure, ...
The Theory of the Demographic Transition and Its Cultural Implications
Literature Review: David Riesman conceptualized three distinct cultural groups called the Tradition-directed, Inner-directed, and Other-directed. These groups mark three distinct shifts in how humanity absorbed information ...
Does the Outcome of the US-China Trade War Meet the Purpose?
Nowadays, as the two largest economies in the world, China and US economic relations have expanded substantially over the past decades. China is the US's second-largest merchandise trading partner, third-largest export ...
Woodrow Wilson: Self-Determination and the Dissolution of Empire
(1991)
No single person is more associated with the concept of self-determination than Woodrow Wilson. Though the political and philosophical discussions of self-determination began centuries earlier, they never truly gained ...
Recent Century Climate Change's Impact on East Asia Renewable Energy Resources
(2019-05-03)
This research aims to identify the climate change and air pollution emissions impact on renewable energy resources, specifically for solar energy availability. We analyzed meteorological reanalysis data of solar radiation ...
The Higher Costs of Doing Business in China: Minimum Wages and Firms' Export Behavior
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-02-01)
This paper examines the relationship between changes in the minimum wage and firms’ export behavior in China using detailed firm-level data of medium and large manufacturing enterprises between 1998 and 2007. We find ...
Whither the Trade War with China?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-09-21)
In the ongoing trade dispute between the U.S. and China, the U.S. has demanded reducing or even eliminating tariff and non-tariff barriers and that China halt intellectual property theft and forced technology transfers. ...