Twenty-First Century Bimonthly, Issue 207 (February 2025), Research Centre for Contemporary Chinese Culture

With Donald J. Trump returning to the White House, the future of China-US relations is in the spotlight. The theme of this issue of “The Twenty-first Century Review” is “Learn from History: The Prospect of Sino-American Relations”, in which two historians review and look forward to the development of the relationship between the two countries from a macro perspective.
The Twenty-First Century Review
Learn from History: The Prospect of Sino-American Relations
Ma Zhao: The Cyclical Pattern of China-US Relations: A Historical Overview
Liu Xiao-yuan: End of the Cold War and the Paradox of Globalization: The Macro History of the China-US Relations
Research Articles
Ma Ai-fang, Hu Yong: The “Informal” Regulation of Private Internet Firms in China: A Case Study of the Party-Building
Fan Lu-lu, Han Jing-ying: Research on the Application of Artificial Intelligence for Customer Service in Chinese E-commerce Platforms: An Analytical Framework Based on the Labor Theory of Value
Wu Tong-yu, Xia Bing-qing: When Digital Capital and Local Development Collide: A Case Study of a Data Annotation Base in a Chinese Poverty Alleviation Community
Discourses and Peripatetic Notes
Ma Xiao-xiao, Meng Ai-he: The Evolution and Prospects of US Sanctions on Chinese Technology Talents From the Scientific World
Ross Cheung: Multifaceted and Open Participation in Global Artificial Intelligence Governance
View on the World
Wei Jun: A Look Back after 150 Years: “Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism”
Review Articles
Zhou Lu-yang, Li Wen-rong: The US Sociological Studies on the Soviet Union during the Cold War (Part II)
Book Reviews
Zhu Yue-run: Contesting the “Chineseness” of the Diaspora in Southeast Asia: A Review on Jeremy E. Taylor and Lanjun Xu, eds., Chineseness and the Cold War: Contested Cultures and Diaspora in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong
Xiao Yi-han: At the Crossroads in the Cold War: A Review on Po-Shek Fu, Hong Kong Media and Asia’s Cold War
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Current Research in Chinese Linguistics (Volume 104 Number 1), T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre

Current Research in Chinese Linguistics (Volume 104 Number 1) has been released. There are 14 articles in this issue.
- Kai Wang and Chunli Zhao: The Discourse Relevance and Semantic Connotation of Zhihao in Mandarin Chinese
- Haoming Wang: Re-exploration on Separated Forms of Separable Words in Modern Chinese
- Kexin Yang and Huibin Zhuang: A Preliminary Study on the Dataization of Prototype Categories of Word Classes: Taking Adverbs as an Example
- Xinzheng Wan: Formation Mechanism and Comprehension of the “Synonymy of High and Low” in the Combination of Zhekou Discount’ + Gao/Di ‘High/Low’ in Chinese
- Winnie Chor and Gloria Siu: The Adverb Mai6 in Cantonese: A Discourse Analytic Approach
- Shuting Chen and Huayong Lin: Ya [ia31] and Ha [ha23/25] in the Tag Questions in the Sanshui Yue Dialect: A Comparison with Guangzhou and Lianjiang Yue Dialects
- Yuhuan Luo: Syntactic Features and Subjectivity of the “Noun-Classifier” Structure in the Zunyi Dialect
- Jiale Chen and Xiaojin Chen: The Multifunction and Semantic Evolution of Tao in the Ruijin Dialect of Jiangxi Province
- Yanyun Xiao: The Types of A-not-A Questions in the Dialects of the Shiyang River Basin in Gansu Province
- Li Guo: Stratification and Classification of Zhi, Zhuang, Zhang in Huangxiao Dialects
- Funing Jiang: The Phonetic Characteristics and Phonological Properties of Japanese and Chinese Annotations on Phonology in Baxianzhuo Yanshi Ji
- Chengyu Guo and Di Jiang: The Causes of Synonymous Tone Polyphony in Standard Mandarin and Its Implicit Tonal Properties: A Case Study Based on Materials from Orthoepic Practice
- Xueqi Jiang: The Earliest Early Cantonese Corpus in Romanized Transcription According to Current Knowledge: The Sea Travel Diary of the Swedish Scientist Pehr Osbeck
- Zixuan Xue and Huaixing Dang: The Discrimination Between Shiyu1 and Shiyu2
PDF copies of these articles can be downloaded freely via https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/clrc/. |