Chinese Publishers Research Articles

Usage pattern analysis of academic articles from Chinese journals

Usage metrics have become increasingly popular in scientometric with the advent of electronic resources. While most current researches relied on the usage data retrieved from English publishers. In this study, the usage data was extended to Chinese publishers. We collected and analyzed the usage data of six well-known Chinese OA (Open Access) journals in different fields from journals’ official websites and Chinese Academic Journals Full-text Database (CJFD) in China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI). It was found that websites’ information architecture affected usage pattern. “Progressive rule”-based site guided users to view full-text articles more than download them and “parallel rule”-based site guided users to download full-text articles more than view them. CNKI proved its popularity in China. Although CNKI is a non-OA platform and has a time delay in indexing full-text articles, but they still attracted a large number of users. PDF tended to be the preferred format than HTML in most journals in the study. Also, CNKI citation were more skewedly distributed than usage data in most journals and it showed strong or moderate correlation between CNKI citation and CNKI full-text downloads in most journals. Finally, it depicted that usage data of most articles was at their peak around pagination month and at the bottom at very earlier or later months.

중국 출판정책의 특성과 변화

This study attempted to explain the promotion system and changes in China's publishing policy during the 13th 5-year rule period (2016-2020) and the 14th 5-year rule period (2021-2025) through literature analysis of Chinese publishing policy documents, academic research, and reporting. First of all, China's publishing-related ministries continue to support the publishing industry and public libraries during the 12th five-year period, expanding reading infrastructure in rural areas, and support overseas publications. In addition, the reading rate of Chinese people is also increasing along with the increase in the publication of paper and e-books by domestic Chinese publishers. In addition, since the Central Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China became the responsible department of China's publishing policy from March 2018, China's publishing policy promotion system has strengthened its connection with the Communist Party and Xi Jinping's ideas and policy promotion and education. However, despite the ongoing difficulties of offline bookstores in China due to the discount competition of Chinese e-commerce companies, Chinese publishing ministries do not implement a book sales price system and only local governments in some administrative districts provide subsidies for offline bookstores. In addition, copyright infringement of overseas video content by some Chinese companies and the prohibition of publications criticizing China's political and social problems continue.

Through the Shanzhai Lens: Reframing the Transmedial Copying and Remaking of Games

China is one of the fastest growing games markets, housing not only some of the world’s largest video and computer games companies, but also millions of active gamers. From a Western perspective, engagement with China is considered essential to future growth for game developers and publishers, both in terms of inward investment from Chinese publishers and in growing sales with what will become one of the most important markets. However, Western perceptions of copyright, IP, and, copying of games in China can problematise game creators’ and consumers’ views of China. In this paper, we develop a framework for understanding the act of game copying in the West and in China that combines the Chinese concept of shanzhai with developing understandings of the concept “transmedia” and fan-created works. The aim of this framework is to introduce cultural and contextual awareness to our collective understanding of why game copies exist in the West and in China, and how they intersect with existing copyright and IP concerns. Through a case study of the 2018 game Among Us, we demonstrate that the reality of Western and Chinese game ‘copies’ is far more nuanced than is often depicted in Western media.

Research data policies of journals in the Chinese Science Citation Database based on the language, publisher, discipline, access model and metrics

AbstractThis article investigates the research data policies of China's scholarly journals to provide a regional perspective. In total, 1243 science, technology, and medicine (STM) journals in the Chinese Science Citation Database (CSCD) were examined in June and July of 2021. The findings show that the existence and attitudinal strength of the research data policies of China's scholarly journals are weak overall, but differences exist across journals with different languages, publishers, disciplines, access models and metrics. A large imbalance exists between English‐language journals and Chinese‐language journals in setting their research data policies. The existence and attitudinal strength of the research data policies of journals co‐published by Western publishers and Chinese publishers are much stronger than those of journals published solely by Chinese publishers. In terms of discipline, journals belonging to the life sciences have stronger attitudes towards research data sharing. Open access model journals and hybrid model journals are better than subscription model journals in opening and sharing research data. The higher the impact factor (IF) and CiteScore of a journal, the more likely the journal is to have data policies.

Improve academic publishing and serve national science and technology innovation strategy

<p indent="0mm">In recent years, with the increasing support for academic publishing in China, the development of academic publishing in China is facing good opportunities. Under this background, first, we should conscientiously study and summarize the experience of international and domestic academic publishing, accurately understand the nature of academic publishing, which is an integral part of scientific research, an important field of cultural work, and the core sector of cultural industry; second, to promote the prosperous development of academic publishing in China, we should pay close attention to the international and domestic progress and trends, including the new advances in digital technology, the high concentration trend of international academic and professional publishing, the influence of open science on the publishing industry, etc. At present, professional publishing has experienced a development path from paper publishing to online databases and digital decision-making tools and has formed a mature modern academic publishing process. We should not only learn from the advanced experience of international academic publishing, but also realistically summarize and analyze the experience and problems of domestic academic publishing since the reform and opening-up, fully realize the significance of academic publishing in promoting scientific and technological innovation and economic and social development, and continuously improve the level of academic publishing in our country, to better serve the national scientific and technological innovation strategy and provide strong support for our country’s high level of self-reliance in science and technology. Finally, Chinese publishers should have lofty pursuits, strive to establish a relatively complete publishing system that also participates in international competition, and serve China’s economic, technological, and cultural development, and the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.

The Crown &amp; The Capitalists, The Ethnic Chinese and the Founding of the Thai Nation by Wasana Wongsurawat

Reviewed by: The Crown & The Capitalists, The Ethnic Chinese and the Founding of the Thai Nation by Wasana Wongsurawat Mala Rajo Sathian The Crown & The Capitalists, The Ethnic Chinese and the Founding of the Thai Nation (2019). by WASANA WONGSURAWAT. Seattle: University of Washington Press and Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books. 216 pp. ISBN 0295746262, 9780295746265 The Crown and The Capitalists examines the making of the Thai nation state through a focus on the ethnic Chinese in Thailand and their association with the Thai court. The changing relations and policies of Thailand towards its largest ethnic minority is scrutinized within a complex trans-national web of European colonial geopolitics, Chinese national politics and Japanese militarism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributions of the Chinese entrepreneur class, from crown traders to European colonial subjects with privileges of extra-territoriality, towards the coffers of the kingdom as well as in fostering Siam-China diplomatic relations largely shaped Siam's policies towards the ethnic Chinese, between the fourth and sixth reigns. Wasana examines these policies from the lens of education, print media, economy, regional diplomacy in the period of the Greater East Asia War and finally the global impact of the Cold War. Each of these themes are discussed in five separate chapters. The monitoring of Chinese education and newspapers discussed in the first two chapters sets the tone for the ensuing anti-Chinese sentiments in the country. Despite the compulsory Education Act, the state faced limitations in providing public education to the masses and private Chinese education compensated for this insufficiency. It produced a part of the manpower for Siam's civil service. Essentially Chinese education through the use of the standard Mandarin created an 'imagined' solidarity with China and its national politics. It was the latter, particularly, the anti-monarchist and republican leanings coming out of China in the post-revolutionary period that displeased the Siamese King Vajiravudh, in turn prompting nationalization of Thai education. The Chinese educated in Siam, including leading capitalists and journalists, began publishing Chinese newspapers in the country. Publisher-owners of these newspapers were also subject to stringent state surveillance. A transnational imagined community is evoked through Chinese language publications that connected host and home over generations and trans-distance. The outcome is a plurality of imagined communities that connected overseas Chinese to their respective ancestral clans in southern China, prompting a provincial 'Nanyang solidarity', while Chinese newspapers, in standard script, connected diaspora Chinese with mainland politics. Diaspora identities became intertwined with both subdialect and Chinese national identities. Chinese newspapers were another turf for rival Chinese capitalists for prominence in the Siamese Chinese community and thus the content reflected different inclinations towards Chinese politics, morphing from reformist, revolutionary to republican nationalist. However despite their slant, ethnic Chinese publishers were alternately wary and strategic in courting the trust of the Thai court. Overseas Chinese in Siam were indeed strong allies of the Thai monarchy, and their involvement in the kingdom's economy profited both parties. In a similar vein, they were also a transnational resource for China's post-war reforms and [End Page 223] development. This prompted demands for ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs to show their undivided loyalty to the nation, pursued through an economic nationalization or Thai-ification policy by Rama VI. The scheme turned propagandist and racial under post revolution Thailand; ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs were targeted, in part to cripple the royalist-elite Chinese clique and their strong control of the national economy. Stoking anti-Chinese sentiments through writings and policies, demonstrated under the sixth reign and People's Party eras, clearly heightened Thai nationalism. It served to validate Thailand's nation building process, inspired by alliance with Japan and its ultra-nationalist model. Japanese imperialism polarized Thai society into various political camps; from Phibun (pro-Japan), Pridi (pro-Allied) to the return of the old royalists led by Seni Pramoj through the Free Thai Movement (US-based, pro-Allied, pro-China camp). With Japan's defeat Thailand reverted to royalist nationalism with strong military alliances. The book underscores the continuity of the royalist clique as a formidable force in Thai politics, albeit a transition from absolutism to constitutional monarchism under the People's Party...

Market coupling: an empirical study of the Sino-Korean game industry

This study aims to examine the relationship between the Korean and Chinese game industries, and more broadly, the Chinese stock market. Chinese firms are the most important partners and investors in the Korean game industry, which has emerged as a significant component of a thriving Korean economy. The paper examines the impact of growth in the Chinese game industry on the Korean market and the correlation and cointegration between the stock returns of nineteen Korean game companies, the Chinese stock market, and Chinese game companies. A portfolio constructed from Korean game companies listed on the KOSPI and KOSDAQ is analyzed. Variation in the Shanghai Composite Index is shown to significantly influence the performance of Korean game companies. Further, the Korean game industry is sensitive to changes in the stock price of leading Chinese game publishers. The Korean game industry returns more closely mirror the returns of the Chinese stock markets rather than the Korean markets, evidence of the influence of China. As growth and returns in the Korean game industry are closely related to the performance of the Chinese market, future performance is subject to political and economic changes in China.

Exporting China’s Scholarly Books: Current Conditions for Chinese Publishers

The purpose of this article is twofold: a) to analyse the current situation of Chinese academic book exports from a publisher’s perspective, including models, channels, motivation, and performance; b) to identify the challenges that Chinese scholarly publishers are facing and explain their causes. In all, fifteen publishers from state presses, local presses, and university presses were interviewed. Desk research supplemented the interview data. We found that co-publishing, copyright transfer, and physical book export are the main models and that publishers prefer co-publishing and copyright transfer to exporting actual books. Book fairs and copyright agents are still important channels for negotiating export deals. Applying for funding programs and achieving evaluative benchmarks are the principal motivators for publishers. Surprisingly, over half the publishers interviewed do not profit much from exportation. Nevertheless, supervising departments and chief managers still attach much importance to it. At present, Chinese scholarly publishers are confronted with the challenges of a quality gap, state subsidy substituting for a real market, and information asymmetry. Unreasonable systems of academic evaluation and quality control, state-owned property rights, limited qualified manpower, and rare cooperation are key causes of these challenges.

A comparative study on scientific inquiry activities of Chinese science textbooks in high schools

In response to the 2001 National curriculum review in China, which explicitly promotes scientific inquiry in science-related subjects, many editions of new textbooks were published. Among them, this study explored the quality of scientific inquiry in the most popular science textbooks. There are nine sets of high school science textbooks published by seven major Chinese publishers in this study. Through the content analysis of these textbooks, it is found that all the textbooks included the specific sections dedicated to scientific inquiry. The quality of scientific inquiry in these textbooks was explored on specific aspects including relevance to daily life, the explicit teaching guidance, the complete inquiry process and the openness of inquiry. The findings suggest that 53% of inquiry activities included close connections to daily life. However, there were very few textbooks providing explicit teaching guidance. In particular, regarding the inquiry process of “results implications” and “making new inquiries”, 4% and 9% of inquiry activities in the textbooks came with explicit teaching guidance. Moreover, most of the activities lacked the process of scientific inquiry, especially at the stage of “questioning”. The findings are also in accordance with other literature that states that most textbooks lack high-level, open-ended inquiries. This study suggests that science textbooks should include more relevant scientific inquiries with explicit teaching guidance, opportunities for students to experience the complete inquiry process and more student autonomy in conducting inquiry.

Identities and Literary Culture in Qing China: Manchu Emperors as Chinese Poets, Readers, and Publishers

Abstract The Qianlong emperor bequeathed the largest number of Chinese poems of any emperor, and perhaps of any poet, in the history of imperial China. But how do we make sense of the fact that Qianlong had been adamant in maintaining and preserving what he considered the essence of Manchu culture: the Manchu language and hunting skills? This articles argues that, despite deliberate staging through various fashions of his image as the ruler of a multiethnic empire, Qianlong failed in sending his message to his diverse subjects because, truly enthralled by Chinese poetry, he could not restrain himself from writing poetry in Chinese. In light of the theory of multiple identities and acculturation of John Berry, it is reasonable to argue that Qianlong, despite his unambiguous identification with the Manchus as the conquering ethnic group, in tortuous ways had come to embrace the identity of a Chinese poet of the host society, in which the technologies of culture to a large degree overdetermine the form of identities and how they can be articulated, internalized, embodied, and staged.

Partnering with your Pirate: Interdependent Sino-foreign rivalry in China's textbook market

AbstractAs the Qing state launched its full-scale educational reform at the turn of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of new schools mushroomed all over China. Their urgent and enormous demand for textbooks created a thriving new market that attracted both Chinese and foreign publishing firms. Nurtured in China's traditional book trade, Chinese print capitalists had local knowledge of distribution networks and cultural politics, but not a real command of producing educational Western knowledge. To keep up with Chinese students’ increasing demand for Western knowledge, they pirated textbooks published by foreign companies. Meanwhile, leading American and British publishing corporations were expanding their international business by targeting developing countries that had recently established a modern general education system, like China. Drawing from government and company archives, as well as personal papers and legal documents, this article traces the multinational competition, copyright disputes, and business collaborations between a leading textbook provider in China and their Anglo-American competitors between the 1900s and the 1930s. It illustrates an unexpected and uneasy partnership some foreign publishers formed with Chinese pirates in order to gain better access to China's textbook market. Chinese publishers, on the other hand, used piracy and their local knowledge to bargain for better import credit and deals with their foreign rivals. Both sides were dependent on each other to gain the advantage in their transnational business operations in the globalizing Asian textbook business.

DRAA e-resources usage statistics services in China: research and practice

Purpose This paper aims to share some experiences and practical activities related to the use and management of usage data in the Digital Resource Acquisition Alliance of Chinese Academic Libraries (DRAA) as a reference for library consortia engaged in providing usage statistics services of e-resources to member libraries. Design/methodology/approach A literature review and online survey are used to analyze the research and practice of e-resources usage statistics conducted internationally. The case of DRAA is introduced to present how DRAA develops usage statistics services and promotes the implementation of the Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) to deliver usage statistics to member libraries. Future developments and enhancements are also described. Findings The main actions taken by DRAA to develop usage statistics services are as follows: development of the DRAA Usage Statistics Portal to provide a single point of access to usage statistics from participating publishers on behalf of member libraries; development of a SUSHI client, taking the lead in promoting SUSHI implementation to automatically obtain usage statistics in Chinese academic libraries; establishment of a working group on usage statistics and the China Academic Library and Information System/DRAA Standards and Recommended Practices Research Task Group to form a long-term mechanism for monitoring and gathering usage statistics; and strengthening of the understanding and application of standards and best practices for libraries and vendors in China. Scheduled enhancements in the future include a deep analysis and utilization of usage statistics, the promotion of Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources and SUSHI to Chinese academic resource publishers and raising awareness about normalizing usage statistics. Originality/value This paper has pertinence and wider implications for library consortia engaged in providing e-resources usage statistics services to member libraries.

Pictures and music from stone: the indigenization of lithography in modern China, 1876–1945

ABSTRACTLithography, which originated in Germany, was introduced into China by European missionaries in the nineteenth century. Inexpensive and uncomplicated, it quickly became an important medium for disseminating knowledge throughout a century of social change in modern China. The indigenization of this foreign technology in China was constantly shaped by and in turn shaped a variety of factors such as equipment, materials, human agency, and the market. This new method of printing enabled Chinese publishers to disseminate information and knowledge vividly and introduced Chinese elements into the printing of images and musical notation.

The Neglected Writing Style of Mathematical Modeling Essays

In modern society, academic exchanges are mainly processed in the style of English for Academic Purposes. Western countries have long been attaching importance to EAP teaching, while China just begins to teach EAP in the recent decade. With the purpose to enhance the quality of EAP teaching in China, Chinese publishers have published several sets of textbooks on EAP, most of which illustrate the following language features: formality, complexity and objectivity. However, those textbooks seldom discuss the unique writing style of mathematical modeling essays. Despite the fact that these essays are also written in a formal style, complexity and objectivity do not seem to be their focus. In fact, simplicity and subjectivity are considered as the two accepted unique stylistic features of mathematical modeling essays. This leads to the embarrassing result that most of mathematical modeling essays by Chinese authors are written according to the common features of other academic essays. It may deter academic exchanges of Chinese scholars with their counterparts from foreign countries. Therefore, Chinese teachers who teach EAP are required to be aware of the differences between mathematical modeling essays and other common academic essays.

Book review: Water Resources Research in Northwest China Helps to Deal with Water Issues in the Context of Climate Change and Human Activity

Water resource is one of the most important natural resources for sustaining the survivals ofanimals and plants, promoting the development of agriculture and industry, and maintainingecological diversity and environmental sustainability across the globe. In arid and semiaridareas, water resources are especially important. However, with global environmental change,especially climate change and ecological degradation, the global water cycle has beenchanged, and concerns on this change have been increased. The arid region of NorthwestChina covers over one fourth of the nation’s entire land area and forms one of the world’slargestaridregions.Waterresourceisakeyfactorrestrictingsocialandeconomicdevelopmentand influencing environmental change in Northwest China; issues regarding water resourcesare complex and serious in this area. Therefore, it is necessary and urgent to carry outinvestigations on water resources in Northwest China.Water Resources Research in Northwest China, edited by Yaning Chen, was recentlypublished by Springer in 2014 (Chen 2014, Springer, 444p, Hardcover ISBN 978-94-017-8016-2).Before the publication of this English book, several Chinese books on relevanttopicshave been published by some Chinese publishers, such as Groundwater Utilization and Eco-Environmental Protection in Ejina Basin, Heihe River, Northwestern China by Wu et al.(2004), Hydrologic Cycle and Water Resource Modeling for the Heihe River Basin inNorthwestern China by Wu et al. (2010), and Development, Utilization and Management ofWater Resources in Western China by Ren et al. (2012). This book, however, is the firstEnglish book, to the best of my knowledge, reporting water resources research results inNorthwest China and published by a world famous book publisher. The research reported inthisbookissupportedbytheNationalKeyBasicResearchProgramofChina(973Program)in

Chinese publishers commit to scientific integrity

Chinese publishers commit to scientific integrity

Chinese publishers vow to cleanse journals

Chinese publishers vow to cleanse journals

Virtual property in China: The emergence of gamer rights awareness and the reaction of game corporations

This study focuses on the social formation of game virtual property through analyzing two of its major stakeholders in China: online gamers and game corporations. Based on analysis of the opinions, stakes, and demands of the Chinese gamers, I argue that they are developing an incipient ‘gamer rights’ awareness composed of gamers’ entitlements to virtual property ownership as well as to virtual property rights protection by the state and game publishers. Based on analysis of the stakes and strategic actions of Chinese game publishers, I show that these corporations promulgate a self-serving version of gamer rights protection campaigns and pass the social responsibility of virtual property governance to the state. This study’s findings provide empirical evidence to support theoretical and legal recognition of virtual property, government involvement in virtual-world governance, and the ‘right to play’ critique.

Biosecurity Policies at International Life Science Journals

The prospect of bioterrorism has raised concerns about the potential abuse of scientific information for malign purposes and the pressure on scientific publishers to prevent the publication of "recipes" for weapons of mass destruction. Here we present the results of a survey of 28 major life science journals--20 English-language international journals and 3 Chinese and 5 Russian journals--with regard to their biosecurity policies and procedures. The survey addressed the extent to which life science journals have implemented biosecurity procedures in recent years, how authors and reviewers are advised about these procedures and the underlying concerns, and what the practical experiences have been. Few of the English-language publishers and none of the Russian and Chinese publishers surveyed implement formal biosecurity policies or inform their authors and reviewers about potentially sensitive issues in this area.

Chinese Children’s Book Market and the German Experiences in Cooperation with Chinese Publishers

A summary overview of the children’s and young adult publishing industry in China with a focus on the size of the market, ten major publishing houses, copyright and trends. Special emphasis has been placed on specific transaction for the sale of translation rights from German language publishers to China and minimal activities of German rights sold to Chinese publishers.