A Family By Yellow River

A 63 minutes film produced by CCTV. It is only for education and non-commercial purpose. With thanks to Documentary Research Committee, of the Chinese Broadcasting and Television Academy.This filmed 5 years' record of a small village community, namely Lijiashan (Li's Mountains) of Qikou, Shanxi Province, might serve as an illustration for a profoundly changing rural China. A town in the valley of the Yellow River, Qikou lies culturally in the heartland of the vast yellowish land. It used to be the hinge of transportation and still boasts a legacy of architecture created hundred years ago in the Ming or Qing dynasties. You naturally sense a perplexity of time, particularly on market days when you walk up and down the town in the fusion of the ancient style of the weatherbeaten buildings with a modern variety of commodities hawked by peddlers

Open and distance language learning at the Shantou Radio and TV University, China, and the Open University, United Kingdom: a cross‐cultural perspective

Open and distance learning is experiencing rapid growth throughout the world. China in particular is undergoing a massive expansion of its distance EFL programmes. This global phenomenon challenges all those involved in delivering distance learning materials to examine current practice and the assumptions and expectations that underlie it, with particular regard to the factors influencing approaches to learning, not least the extent of the effect of differing cultural backgrounds. The cross‐cultural study which forms the subject of this paper investigates foreign language students in two very different open and distance learning cultures, The Open University, United Kingdom and the Shantou Radio and TV University, China. It seeks to investigate different attitudes to the distance teaching of languages as spelt out in the two groups’ answers to questions relating to beliefs, difficulties and learning strategies

Interorganisational conflict between national and provincial sport organisations within China's elite sport system: Perspectives from national organisations

© 2018 Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand. In this article, the authors examine interorganisational conflict between provincial and national sport organisations in China. The authors theoretically ground the research in work related to interorganisational relationships and interorganisational conflict. The three case studies are artistic gymnastics, swimming, and cycling, and the authors conducted interviews with 11 staff from the relevant national-level sport organisations. Secondary data was sourced from official publications, websites, and influential domestic media. The key finding is that, whilst famed for its top-down bureaucratic system, there is considerable interorganisational conflict within the Chinese sport system. The extent and characteristics of the national-provincial conflict vary between sports. But there is also some consistency regarding the causes of the conflict and the measures adopted to mitigate the tension. Interorganisational conflict provides a useful heuristic for articulating and understanding the interorganisational relationships within the Chinese elite sport system and hence advances elite sport management research

Elephant poaching and the ivory trade: The impact of demand reduction and enforcement efforts by China from 2005 – 2017

African elephants are iconic species threatened by poaching and China was considered as one of the main destinations for illegally sourced ivory. In this article we combine two surveys of ivory carving enterprises with other data sets, including Chinese government seizure statistics, market prices for illegal ivory and substitute goods, to understand the impact of enforcement and demand reduction measures on ivory prices and poaching. Our analysis indicates the strong enforcement measures to combat ivory smuggling temporarily suppressed the tendency of illegal trade while stimulating a steep rise in illegal ivory prices thereafter. Peaking in 2012–2013, prices thereafter fell due to government measures to reduce demand under China's ‘Ecological Civilization’ programme and the announcement of ‘The Eight-point Regulation of the Centre’. Our survey suggests that most Chinese carving enterprises were intending to close or to diversify their business activities away from ivory carving as a result of the total ban on domestic ivory trading by 31st December 2017. And China had banned domestic ivory trade for over half a year and all ivory carving enterprises closed their ivory business activities since this domestic ban. In order to prevent ivory demand in other countries that may undermine Chinese efforts, we argue that other countries now also need to adopt multifaceted actions to curtail their domestic ivory trade

The Chuanxi Hall (A place to teach and learn folk arts in Yunnan)

A forty minutes film produced by CCTV. It is only for education and non-commercial purpose. With thanks to Documentary Research Committee, of the Chinese Broadcasting and Television Academy.In 1993, Tian Feng, a composer of China Symphony Orchestra, came to Yunnan Province where live the greatest number of ethnic people. He established the so called Chuanxi Hall to house folk artists and talented children of the province. His goal was to protect ethnic cultures and to preserve them by teaching. This documentary film is about his Chuanxi Hall

Abing in 1950

A Thirty-four minutes film produced by CCTV. It is only for education and non-commercial purpose. With thanks to Documentary Research Committee, of the Chinese Broadcasting and Television Academy.The documentary described the life and music of the most famous Chinese erhu player, Abing

Grandpa Jing and his old customers

A forty-three minutes film produced by CCTV. It is only for education and non-commercial purpose. With thanks to Documentary Research Committee, of the Chinese Broadcasting and Television Academy.In the centre of the city of Beijing there is an ancient residential area named Shichahai (‘hai’ means ‘a big lake’), which has a history of four hundred years. The inhabitants used to think the lake as two parts – Qianhai (the front lake) and Houhai (the rear lake), with the Yinding Bridge as the division. This telefilm records the life of Old Man Jing, the barber, as well as the life of a dozen of his old customers. The group of old men, aged from 65 to 96, are mostly ordinary working people. In their placid retirement, haircut means quite an occasion to them. It seems only during this activity that they are tasting the sweetness of life

Dabia (Yunnan)

A 60 minutes film produced by CCTV. It is only for education and non-commercial purpose. With thanks to Documentary Research Committee, of the Chinese Broadcasting and Television Academy.Dabiya is a musical instrument used by Nu people in Yunnan. Nu is a minority which still keeps a primitive way of life. As they have no writing of their own, Nu people have handed down their history and legends by intoning. And while doing this, they play Dabiya. By the ancient custom only boys have been allowed to learn to be balladists. Oudede, the hero of our story, is outstanding in this training for he is the only one who has mastered forty ballads. But now something worries him. He has three daughters and no son, and this means he has no one to inherit him. The Party Secretary of the village asks him to choose a non-kin boy as his pupil. Oudede is annoyed with the seemingly ugly custom but he does not feel he would like to violate it. He goes to the tombs of his father and grandfather, where he throws away his century-old Dabiya

YEN YANG CHU 1930

A thirty four minutes film produced by CCTV. It is only for education and non-commercial purpose. With thanks to Documentary Research Committee, of the Chinese Broadcasting and Television Academy.The documentary described the famous Chinese educationor Yen Yang Chu's life in 1930