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    Self-cultivation and the legitimation of power: Governing China through education
    Educational Philosophy and Theory 50 (13): 1192-1202. 2017.
    A revival of Confucianism in post-Mao China helped the government legitimate its power in the face of a new socio-political and economic situation. This paper specifically explores the role of Confucian self-cultivation in China’s governance. Drawing on Beetham’s theory of legitimation of power and Weber’s tri-typology of authority, we argue that self-cultivation, appealing to ingrained cultural values and traditions, fulfils the criteria of legitimation of power through two principles, namely, …Read more
  •  32
    Social connectedness in marginal rural China: The case of farmer innovation circles in Zhidan, north Shaanxi
    with Jules Pretty
    Agriculture and Human Values 21 (1): 81-92. 2004.
    The intrinsic dynamics andinnovative potential of the rural poor in Chinacan be illustrated by the phenomena of farmerinnovation circles in north Shaanxi.These are informal networks used by farmers tocollaborate on technology learning andagricultural production. Though not limited tospecific geographic locations, these circlesare particularly important in the marginalareas of rural China where the complexity ofthe geographic environment, the diversity offarmer demands, and the inefficiency of fo…Read more
  •  4
    The field service scheduling problem is the key problem in field services. Field service pays particular attention to customer experience, that is, customer satisfaction. Customer satisfaction described by customer behavior characteristics based on the prospect theory is considered as the primary optimization goal in this paper. The knowledge of the insertion feasibility on the solution is analysed based on the skill constraint and time window. According to the knowledge, an initialization metho…Read more
  •  13
    Cheng (誠) as ecological self-understanding: Realistic or impossible?
    Educational Philosophy and Theory 51 (11): 1152-1163. 2019.
    Recent studies have recognised the Confucian holistic perspective as transformative in addressing the ecological concerns. This article complements and complicates this line of argument. The aforementioned literature has seldom examined whether or not the Confucian ideal is attainable. Centring on cheng, a Confucian metaphysical concept, this article highlights the struggle between the ideal and the real. The discussion is based on the premise that essential to the current ecological crisis is a…Read more
  •  5
    Multiplex Network Embedding Model with High-Order Node Dependence
    with Nianwen Ning, Qiuyue Li, and Kai Zhao
    Complexity 2021 1-18. 2021.
    Multiplex networks have been widely used in information diffusion, social networks, transport, and biology multiomics. They contain multiple types of relations between nodes, in which each type of the relation is intuitively modeled as one layer. In the real world, the formation of a type of relations may only depend on some attribute elements of nodes. Most existing multiplex network embedding methods only focus on intralayer and interlayer structural information while neglecting this dependenc…Read more
  •  4
    Effects of 15-Days −6° Head-Down Bed Rest on the Attention Bias of Threatening Stimulus
    with Shan Jiang, Yi-Ming Qian, Yuan Jiang, Zi-Qin Cao, Bing-Mu Xin, and Ying-Chun Wang
    Frontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.
    Previous researchers have found that head-down bed rest will affect the emotional state of individuals, and negative emotions such as anxiety are closely related to attention bias. The present study adopted the dot-probe task to evaluate the effects of 15-days of −6° HDBR on the attention bias of threatening stimulus in 17 young men, which was completed before, during, after the bed rest. In addition, self-report inventories were conducted to record emotional changes. The results showed that the…Read more
  •  1
    Entity Linking Based on Sentence Representation
    with Bingjing Jia, Zhongli Wu, and Pengpeng Zhou
    Complexity 2021 1-9. 2021.
    Entity linking involves mapping ambiguous mentions in documents to the correct entities in a given knowledge base. Most existing methods failed to link when a mention appears multiple times in a document, since the conflict of its contexts in different locations may lead to difficult linking. Sentence representation, which has been studied based on deep learning approaches recently, can be used to resolve the above issue. In this paper, an effective entity linking model is proposed to capture th…Read more
  •  11
    Characterisation of case depth in induction-hardened medium carbon steels based on magnetic minor hysteresis loop measurement technique
    with Cunfu He, Meng Yang, Xiucheng Liu, and Xueqian Wang
    Philosophical Magazine 97 (31): 2829-2844. 2017.
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    Corporate Social Responsibility Under Authoritarian Capitalism: Dynamics and Prospects of State-Led and Society-Driven CSR
    with Jeremy Moon and Peter S. Hofman
    Business and Society 56 (5): 651-671. 2017.
    This article introduces the concept of corporate social responsibility in the seemingly oxymoronic context of Chinese “authoritarian capitalism.” Following an introduction to the emergence of authoritarian capitalism, the article considers the emergence of CSR in China using Matten and Moon’s framework of explaining CSR development in terms both of a business system’s historic institutions and of the impacts of new institutionalism on corporations arising from societal pressures in their global …Read more
  •  18
    Farmer innovation diffusion via network building: a case of winter greenhouse diffusion in China (review)
    with Liyan Zhang
    Agriculture and Human Values 30 (4): 641-651. 2013.
    Farmer innovation diffusion (FID) in the developing world is not simply the adoption of an innovation made by farmers, but a process of communication and cooperation between farmers, governments, and other stakeholders. While increasing attention has been paid to farmer innovation, little is known about how farmers’ innovations are successfully diffused. To fill this gap, this paper aims to address the following questions: What conditions are necessary for farmers to participate in FID? How is a…Read more
  •  4
    Do negative investor attitudes drive corporate social responsibility? Evidence from China
    with Lijing Tong, Wen Wen, and Lu Xie
    Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 31 (1): 239-256. 2021.
    Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 239-256, January 2022.
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    Do negative investor attitudes drive corporate social responsibility? Evidence from China
    with Lijing Tong, Wen Wen, and Lu Xie
    Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 31 (1): 239-256. 2021.
    Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility, EarlyView.
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    Interval time-varying delay is common in control process, e.g., automatic robot control system, and its stability analysis is of great significance to ensure the reliable control of industrial processes. In order to improve the conservation of the existing robust stability analysis method, this paper considers a class of linear systems with norm-bounded uncertainty and interval time-varying delay as the research object. Less conservative robust stability criterion is put forward based on augment…Read more
  •  16
    Efficient Conical Area Differential Evolution with Biased Decomposition and Dual Populations for Constrained Optimization
    with Weiqin Ying, Yu Wu, Yali Deng, Hainan Huang, and Zhenyu Wang
    Complexity 2019 1-18. 2019.
    The constraint-handling methods using multiobjective techniques in evolutionary algorithms have drawn increasing attention from researchers. This paper proposes an efficient conical area differential evolution algorithm, which employs biased decomposition and dual populations for constrained optimization by borrowing the idea of cone decomposition for multiobjective optimization. In this approach, a conical subpopulation and a feasible subpopulation are designed to search for the global feasible…Read more