Philanthropic endowment, along with government allocation, tuition fee and extra income, is one of the four major means for funding higher education in China. Research on philanthropic endowment is at its beginning st...Philanthropic endowment, along with government allocation, tuition fee and extra income, is one of the four major means for funding higher education in China. Research on philanthropic endowment is at its beginning stage, and so it is not yet well known. With a view to providing some useful information to our government, universities and society, this paper aims at making a brief analysis of the status quo and management of philanthropic endowment in Chinese universities.展开更多
This article examines the circulation of medical recipes through vernacular literature and personal networks from the late Ming through the Qing.During this period,vernacular texts played a leading role in circulating...This article examines the circulation of medical recipes through vernacular literature and personal networks from the late Ming through the Qing.During this period,vernacular texts played a leading role in circulating practical instructions for everyday healing techniques,especially in the form of recipes.Recipes became a versatile textual form for recording and transmitting experience in quotidian practice.They moved among different genres of texts,providing information about healing,offering advice for entertainment,and delivering moral lessons.Literati sociability as well as philanthropic and religious comm Aments motivated people of varied social means to distribute vernacular texts bearing healing information to a broad audience.Recipes acquired legitimacy and authority by clearly marking their provenance and thus its relationship to particular social networks and,sometimes,a religious purpose as well.展开更多
In this study we conduct firm-level analysis of the impact of women in the boardroom on corporate philanthropic disaster response(CPDR).We propose that CPDR contains agency costs and that female directors are more lik...In this study we conduct firm-level analysis of the impact of women in the boardroom on corporate philanthropic disaster response(CPDR).We propose that CPDR contains agency costs and that female directors are more likely to restrain the associated agency costs of CPDR.We predict a negative relationship between the ratio of women on boards of directors(WoBs) and philanthropic contribution,which is weaker in firms with political connections and stronger in firms with better-developed institutional environments.Data was collected from the philanthropic responses to the Wenchuan earthquake on May 12,2008 of privately-owned listed Chinese firms.The results support the hypothesized negative relationship,which is found to be weaker in firms with political connections.However,marketization-related factors do not significantly moderate this relationship.These results indicate that CPDR contains agency costs and that female directors do not facilitate the corporate donation process,but rather evaluate the benefits and restrain the associated agency costs.展开更多
文摘Philanthropic endowment, along with government allocation, tuition fee and extra income, is one of the four major means for funding higher education in China. Research on philanthropic endowment is at its beginning stage, and so it is not yet well known. With a view to providing some useful information to our government, universities and society, this paper aims at making a brief analysis of the status quo and management of philanthropic endowment in Chinese universities.
文摘This article examines the circulation of medical recipes through vernacular literature and personal networks from the late Ming through the Qing.During this period,vernacular texts played a leading role in circulating practical instructions for everyday healing techniques,especially in the form of recipes.Recipes became a versatile textual form for recording and transmitting experience in quotidian practice.They moved among different genres of texts,providing information about healing,offering advice for entertainment,and delivering moral lessons.Literati sociability as well as philanthropic and religious comm Aments motivated people of varied social means to distribute vernacular texts bearing healing information to a broad audience.Recipes acquired legitimacy and authority by clearly marking their provenance and thus its relationship to particular social networks and,sometimes,a religious purpose as well.
基金funded by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.71002049and 70902066)the New Teacher Fund of the Chinese Ministry of Education(Nos.20106102120055 and20090201120038)+1 种基金the Social Science Promotion Program at Northwestern Polytechnical Universitythe New Teacher Support Program and President's Fund at Xi'an Jiaotong University
文摘In this study we conduct firm-level analysis of the impact of women in the boardroom on corporate philanthropic disaster response(CPDR).We propose that CPDR contains agency costs and that female directors are more likely to restrain the associated agency costs of CPDR.We predict a negative relationship between the ratio of women on boards of directors(WoBs) and philanthropic contribution,which is weaker in firms with political connections and stronger in firms with better-developed institutional environments.Data was collected from the philanthropic responses to the Wenchuan earthquake on May 12,2008 of privately-owned listed Chinese firms.The results support the hypothesized negative relationship,which is found to be weaker in firms with political connections.However,marketization-related factors do not significantly moderate this relationship.These results indicate that CPDR contains agency costs and that female directors do not facilitate the corporate donation process,but rather evaluate the benefits and restrain the associated agency costs.
