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Attitude Decay, Event Salience, and Emotional Reversal: Chinese Cyber-Nationalism after Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan 态度衰减、事件显著性与情绪反转:佩洛西访台后的中国网络民族主义

ISSUES & STUDIES Pub Date : 2023-10-31 DOI: 10.1142/s1013251123500108

YI-RU ZHA, JIA-WEI JIN

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Industrial Policies Under Xi Jinping: A Steering Theory Perspective

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ISSUES & STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-12-11 DOI: 10.1142/s1013251121500168

D. Fischer, Hannes Gohli, Sabrina Habich-Sobiegalla

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Dual Elite Recruitment Logic and Political Manipulation under Xi Jinping

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ISSUES & STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-12-04 DOI: 10.1142/s1013251121500156

C. Kou, Wen-hsuan Tsai

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What Can Comparative Authoritarianism Tell Us About China Under Xi Jinping (and Vice Versa)?

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ISSUES & STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-12-04 DOI: 10.1142/s1013251121500132

Hans H. Tung, Wen-Chin Wu

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International Norms, Policy Transfers and Energy Transition: Implications for Taiwan’s Development 国际规范、政策转移与能源转型:对台湾发展的启示

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ISSUES & STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-12-04 DOI: 10.1142/s1013251121500144

Fang-Ting Cheng

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INDEX OF VOLUME 57, Nos. 1—4 (March, June, September, and December 2021) 第57卷1-4号索引(2021年3月、6月、9月和12月)

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ISSUES & STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.1142/s1013251121990010

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Social Movements in Hong Kong 香港的社会运动

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ISSUES & STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1142/s1013251121500090

Yongshun Cai

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Dividing without Conquering: Generation, Class, Ethnicity, and Nationalism in Taiwan’s 2016 Presidential Election 分裂而不征服:台湾2016年总统选举中的代际、阶级、种族和民族主义

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ISSUES & STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1142/s1013251121500120

Dongtao Qi, Shengqiao Lin

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The Pending Territorial Sovereignty of the Batanes Islands: A Taiwan Perspective 巴丹斯群岛未决的领土主权:台湾视角

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ISSUES & STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1142/s1013251121500119

Hurng-Yu Chen

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The Impact of Pre-Election Protests in Electoral Autocracies: The Case of Hong Kong’s Anti-ELAB Movement 选前抗议对选举专制国家的影响:以香港反elab运动为例

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ISSUES & STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1142/s1013251121500107

S. Wong, K. Chan

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