Learning science in English: the plight of rural students in Malaysia by Tunku Ahmad, Tunku Badariah, Preece, Abdul Shakour Duncan, Nordin, Mohamad Sahari

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Reinterpreting the role of traditional Chinese medicine in public health in rural China in 1970s by Fang, Xiaoping

“…Together with the three-tiered rural medical system, barefoot doctors and cooperative medical services have been associated with improvements in basic health indicators under socialism after the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. …”
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Diseases, peasants, and nation-building in rural China : social conformity, institutional strengthening, and political indoctrination by Fang, Xiaoping

“…Since China had a predominantly rural population, the peasantry naturally provided the main source of personnel for these movements. …”
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God crossing borders : religious reconciliation and trans/national identities among Indonesian migrants in Philadelphia by Kang, Yoonhee

Subjects: “…DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Rural sociology…”
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Internal migration in China: Linking it to development by Huang, Ping, Zhan, Shaohua

“…In recent years, the Chinese Government pursued a more positive approach towards rural-urban migration, and adopted a number of policies in support of rural migrants in urban areas. …”
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Environmental impacts of ecotourism on mangrove : case study of Kuala Selangor Nature Park by Ali, Maisarah, Musa, Mohd Faiz

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Zakat recipients' satisfaction on housing programme by Mohit, Mohammad Abdul, Nurul, Nazyddah

“…Public sector provisions are mostly concentrated in large urban centres such as Kuala Lumpur, George Town, and in the rural areas as well, while private sector operates in both urban and suburban areas. …”
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A human rights-based approach to teenage pregnancy prevention in China by Luk, Sabrina Ching Yuen

“…It shows that teenage pregnancy is caused by social and cultural factors, including adolescents' more open attitude towards sex, the lack of formal and comprehensive sex education at schools, parents failing to be prominent socializing agents of sexuality for their children, and the problem of “left-behind” children in rural areas. Teenage pregnancy adversely affects adolescents, their babies, and their family in different ways. …”
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Health, medicine and disease : among the barefoot doctors of Hangzhou by Fang, Xiaoping

“…My research focuses on the histories of medicine, health, and disease in rural China after 1949. From 2002 to 2012, I researched the lives and activities of the so-called “barefoot doctors” (chijiao yisheng 赤脚医生) in Chinese villages during the Cultural Revolution. …”
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Medical marketplace, commercialism, and Chinese medicine in the cholera pandemic in southeast coast China, 1961–1965 by Fang, Xiaoping

“…It argues that the top-down state medical system, which was gradually established after 1949, started managing the previously unregulated medical markets as a part of the institutionalization process of Chinese medicine, particularly in rural areas. However, the retrenchment of the medical system after the Great Leap Forward not only aggravated the problem of scarcity in the medical marketplace, but also sabotaged participation in epidemic prevention, identification of suspect patients, and the reporting of epidemic information. …”
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Economic and Market Value of Biogas Technology by Yousuf, Abu, Khan, Maksudur R., Pirozzi, Domenico, Zularisam, A. W., Atnaw, Samson M.

“…This approach generates a large revenue opportunity that supports the socioeconomic development in rural areas. However, very little initiative has been introduced specially in the developing world to gear up the biogas technology. …”
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Is securitizing migration a mandatory choice? Lessons from the EU and China by Chou, Meng-Hsuan, van Dongen, Els, Koff, Harlan

“…Internal migration regulation in China has been viewed through the security lens because it is a question of social stability relating to urban–rural relations and the reduction of economic disparity that has characterized the period of economic reforms since 1978. …”
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