Pronunciation errors of Arabic consonants among chinese students in Gansu, China by Yalan, Ma

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A tale of two wares: an unusual type of Late Neolithic vessels from Gansu Province, China by Stilborg, O, Hein, A

“…A group of pots found at Majiayao-period Neolithic sites in Gansu and Qinghai Provinces is very special. As they are made of two parts – one coarse ware with a rusticated surface and one fine ware with a burnished, painted surface – we named the phenomenon Double-Wares. …”

Motivation and Arabic learning achievement: a comparative study between two types of Islamic schools in Gansu, China by Qiao, JuPing, Abu Kassim, Noor Lide, Badrasawi, Kamal J I

“…To achieve these purposes, 348 students were randomly selected from two types of Gansu Islamic schools in China to complete a 36-item questionnaire.…”
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Investigating prehistoric pottery from the Gansu-Qinghai region (northwest China): from Andersson's first excavations to contemporary research by Hein, A, Womack, A, Stilborg, O, Dammer, E

“…Andersson first brought the prehistoric pottery of Gansu and Qinghai Provinces, China, to the world stage, significant advances have been made in our understanding of Neolithic and Bronze age pottery from that region. …”

Ritualistic cranial surgery in the Qijia Culture (2300-1500 BCE), Gansu, China = 甘肃齐家文化中仪式性开颅手术初探 by Dittmar, Jenna M., Zhan, Xiaoya, Berger, Elizabeth, Mao, Ruilin, Wang, Hui, Zhao, Yongsheng, Yeh, Hui-Yuan

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[Regional differences in patterns of alcohol consumption: findings from the China Kadoorie Biobank study on half a million people from 10 regions]. by Lyu, J, Guo, Y, Bian, Z, Yu, C, Wang, Z, Zhou, H, Tan, Y, Chen, J, Chen, Z, Li, L

“…Although the mean alcohol consumptions appeared lower on regular occasion in Gansu (195.2 g/week) and Henan (239.6 g/week) than in other regions, the amount consumed on special occasions in these two regions were the highest (Henan:202.3 g/day; Gansu:171.2 g/day). …”

A discussion of Qiang bilingualism - with concurrent comments on the influence of Chinese on the Qiang language by Sun, Hongkai

“…During the Zhou-Qin (周秦) dynastic period the Qiang resided along the He (Gansu), Huang (Qinghai), Tao (Gansu), and Min (Sichuan) rivers. …”
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公共服务提供、绩效测评与政府信任:2013连氏公共管理会议综述 = Public service delivery, performance evaluation, and government trust : a review of the 2013 lien conference on public administration... by 马亮 Ma, Liang, 于文轩 Yu, Wenxuan, 吴伟 Wu, Wei

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From dungans to Xinyimin: China, Chinese migration and the changing sociopolitical fabric of central asian republics by Yeoh, Emile Kok Kheng

“…This paper analyses how a new ethnic identity has since emerged due partly to the geographical isolation imposed by the formidable natural barrier of the Tianshan (“Heavenly Mountains”) However, their Chinese language in the form of a mixture of the Shaanxi and Gansu regionalects, remarkably written today not in Chinese characters but in the Cyrillic alphabet, and Chinese traditions of the Shaanxi and Gansu varieties have been fiercely preserved through the generations until today, including nineteenth-century vocabulary and traditions which are no longer found in modern China, due both to the cohesiveness of communal life and an aversion to marriage outside the community. …”

The traveling waqf: Property, religion, and mobility beyond China by Erie, M

“…Drawing on material from historical Gansu and ethnographic encounters, I argue that whereas shariʿa suffered a kind of “structural death” in China, it does have its own “afterlife,” as illustrated in documents that travel across time and assume new meanings through transnational mobility and memory.…”

The Majiayao to Qijia transition: Exploring the intersection of technological and social continuity and change by Womack, A, Flad, R, Zhou, J, Brunson, K, Toro, F, Su, X, Hein, A, d'Alpoim Guedes, J, Jin, G, Wu, X, Wang, H

“…The transition between the Majiayao (5300–4000 BP) and Qijia (4200–3500 BP) “cultures” in what is now northwestern China’s Gansu Province has typically been defined by major technological changes in pottery forms, subsistence practices, and site locations. …”

Health Outcomes and Socio-Economic Status Among the Elderly in China: Evidence from the CHARLS Pilot. by Strauss, J, Lei, X, Park, A, Shen, Y, Smith, J, Yang, Z, Zhao, Y

“…<p>We are concerned in this paper with measuring health outcomes among the elderly in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, China, and examining the relationships between different dimensions of health status and measures of socio-economic status (SES). …”

Shariʿa as taboo of modern law: Halal food, Islamophobia, and China by Erie, MS

“…<p>On July 1, 2016, a Chinese Muslim (Hui) man named Mr. Xian Guolin, from Gansu province, opened a halal beef noodle shop near People’s Square, the center of Shanghai. …”

Peopling history of the Tibetan plateau and multiple waves of admixture of Tibetans inferred from both ancient and modern genome-wide data by He, Guanglin, Wang, Mengge, Zou, Xing, Chen, Pengyu, Wang, Zheng, Liu, Yan, Yao, Hongbin, Wei, Lan-Hai, Tang, Renkuan, Wang, Chuan-Chao, Yeh, Hui-Yuan

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Languages of the ethnic corridor in western Sichuan by Sun, Hongkai

“…In recent years. scholars in China devoted to the ethnohistory, ethnology, and minority language studies of southwestern China have often used the term "Ethnic Corridor" to refer to the strip of territory extending from southern Gansu and eastern Qinghai down through western Sichuan and southeastern Tibet to western Yunnan and the northern Burmese and Indian frontiers.…”
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Does School Quality Matter?: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Rural China. by Park, A, Shi, X, Hsieh, C, An, X

“…This paper investigates the impact of high school quality on students’ educational attainment using a regression discontinuity research design that compares students just above and below entrance examination score thresholds that strictly determine admission to the best high schools in China’s rural counties. Using data from Gansu Province in China, we find that attending the best high school in one’s county of residence increases college entrance examination scores by 0.21 standard deviations and increases the probability of qualifying for college admission by 18.7 percentage points conditional on taking the college entrance exam, but decreases the probability of taking a college entrance examination by 9.3 percentage points. …”

The Amdo dialect of Labrang by Makley, Charlene, Dede, Keith, Hua, Kan, Wang, Qingshan

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Manifestations, drivers, and frictions of mobile phone use in low- and middle-income settings: A mixed methods analysis of rural India and China by Haenssgen, M

“…Qualitative data from 231 participants and survey data from 800 adults in rural Rajasthan and Gansu provide consistent and strong support for the claim that the notion of “ubiquity” can mislead development practice because it obscures persistent non-use, under-utilisation, and heterogeneous engagement with mobile technology despite its apparently wide accessibility in the rural field sites. …”

The Limits of the State: Coercion and Consent in Chinese Tibet by Pirie, F

“…While both dynamics are present on the Tibetan plateau, ethnographic fieldwork among the Tibetan populations of Qinghai and Gansu Provinces reveals that consent is primarily generated by local officials who negotiate a form of local order with religious and tribal leaders. …”

A new approach to the chronology of Caves 268/272/275 in the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes: combining radiocarbon dates and archaeological information within a Bayesian statistical frame... by Staff, R, Pollard, A, Rawson, J, Chen, Y, Guo, Q, Su, B, Dee, M, Liu, C, Lu, C, Liu, R

“…This chronology is a crucial topic in terms of further understanding of the establishment of the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, early Buddhism in the Gansu corridor, and its relationship with Buddhism developed in the Central Plains. …”