Annotated bibliography (dan lu)

Topic: cultural crash between china and foreign countries.

Source information:
1.Deliberation, East meets West: Exploring the cultural dimension of citizen deliberation
Seong-jae Min.
Acta Politica; Houndmills (0001-6810)
Dec 2009. Vol.44,Iss.4;p.439
Source: ProQuest Research Library

The current conceptualization of deliberation may represent Western Enlightenment ideals in that it values rationality, publicity, equality, argumentation and reasoning. This essay explores the potential of deliberative democracy in non-Western contexts, such as the Confucian East Asian societies where it is often considered that the public sphere is less developed and people are reluctant to engage in public argumentation. Herein, several cultural traits of the collectivist East Asian societies relating to deliberation are identified, including the lower value of public talk, the strong influence of social position in talk and the unique traits of their cognitive reasoning processes. Considering these traits, the promises and perils of deliberation in the East Asian context are discussed.

2. Research on Foreign Innovative Countries and Their Revelations.
Wang Yue; Wang Yue.
Canadian Social Science (1712-8056)
02/28/2009. Vol.5,Iss.1;p.60-78
Source: Academic Search Premier


Focused on the Chinese innovation, The paper researched on the typical experiences of foreign innovatiove countries and the revelations for china to build an innovative country. Firstly, the paper intruduced the original theory of innovative country:Schumpeterian's innovation theory. Secondly, it expounded the theory connotation of innovative country from two levels of technological economics and institutional economics and described totally the representatives and their basic theories of innovative country. Furthermore, it summed up the inevitability into the times of innovation-oriented nation, and the basic connotation and characteristic of innovative country. On that basis, it studied characteristics of foreign typical innovative countries in different levels, including USA, Japan, South Korea, Finland, Sweden. Finally, According to the achievements and shortcomings of building an innovative country of China at past time and making recommendations of the construction with Chinese characteristics, such as innovative national policy, institution, environment and so on, the paper specified the concepts of 'innovative country', concluded by advocating strengthening of national level capacities to revelate seven levels as follows: speeding up the national innovation system and culturing the initiate innovation ability of enterprises; improving the system and building a innovational security policies system perfectly; strengthening coordination between the innovation main bodies and enhancing the overall efficiency of system innovation; making good use of global science and technology resources, and expanding the economy and technology cooperation with developed countries; strengthening personnel training and setting up a relaxed environment for employment; accelerating the integration and construction of regional innovation system and improving the operating efficiency; building an innovation culture and strengthening the innovation spirit trainine and the innovational sense cultivation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

3. Performance of wind power industry development in China: A DiamondModel study.(Report)
Zhao, Zhen Yu.
Renewable Energy (0960-1481)
1 Dec 2009. Vol.34,Iss.12;p.2883(9)
Source: Academic OneFile

A reliable supply of energy is essential to maintain and to improve human being's living conditions. Compared to the conventional coal-fired approach, renewable energy (RE) helps to mitigate the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions to a large extent. As a newly developed sector with large resource potential and good commercial prospects, China's wind power industry is exceeding expectations. By 2008, installed capacity of wind power in China totaled over 12GW, making China the fourth largest wind market in the world. However, China has to admit the gap with foreign leading countries, mainly in technical R&D for large-scale wind turbine generation units. This paper attempts to formulate an analytical model for studying and assessing factors that have significant impacts on the local industry. An improved dynamic Diamond Model is developed to help the international community to understand the status quo of the Chinese wind power industry. In order to build a stronger wind power industry, the elements identified in the model need to be strengthened.

4. Chinese Immigrants Chase Opportunity in America.
Morning Edition (10:00-11:00AM)
19 Nov 2007. p.NA
Source: Academic OneFile

Among the millions of immigrants who have come to the United States illegally, many are Chinese. The smuggling network that brings them here is well-organized, lucrative, and sometimes dangerous. How about these immigrants’ lives? what do they feel? I can do a survey to these immigrants.

5. The coming of the second generation: immigration and ethnic mobility in Southern California.(Section Three: Places and Locations)(Author abstract)(Report)
Rumbaut, Ruben G.
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (0002-7162)
1 Nov 2008. Vol.620;p.196(41)
Source: Academic OneFile

In a context of widening inequality and governmental persecution of undocumented immigrants, central questions concern the social mobility of new ethnic groups formed as a result of mass migration from Latin America and Asia--especially the growing number of children of immigrants now transitioning to adulthood. This article presents findings from merged samples of two research studies in Southern California, the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS-III) and Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles (IIMMLA). The focus is on the educational mobility of foreign-parentage (1.5-and second-generation) young adults of Mexican, Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Filipino, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian origin. The author examines factors that facilitate or derail mobility, including the role of parental human capital and legal/citizenship status, family and neighborhood contexts, early school achievement, acculturation, incarceration, and teenage and nonmarital childbearing, compared to patterns observed among native-parentage (third-generation and beyond) whites, blacks, and Mexican Americans. The article then considers the relationship between acculturation and mobility outcomes and the resulting new patterns of urban ethnic inequality.