Crossing Borders,Making Ties

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping inspires and underscores the importance of cultural exchanges during his most recent tour to Europe

Between Convention and Innovation -A Border Crossing in The Summer Before the Dark

Alice Ridout and Susan Watkins offers a best perspective in their book Doris Lessing： Border Crossings, to contemplate Lessing’s writing. In her 57-year publishing career, Lessing always crosses the borders： as a feminist or anti-feminist, as a science fiction writer or a realist who lost her way, as a Marxist or a reactionary, as a British writer or a postcolonial one. Lessing’s border-crossing not only lies in her different genres of writing or in different novels, but even in a single comparatively traditional novel. The Summer Before the Dark is a representative work of Lessing’s women portrayal transition from focusing on their outside world exploration to on their inner world seeking. This essay tries to look at the content and form of the novel, and to illustrate that Lessing’s border-crossing is also fulfilled in one single novel. She successfully crosses the border of convention and innovation： conventional in content, while innovative in form.

Border Crossing in English——An Analysis of A College's Webpage

Border crossing in English, as a phenomenon in post-industrialized society, refers to forms of English in one situation are crossing borders into other ones. The originally formal institutional discourse in the written form can cross into the fields of advertising, informal, and spoken form. Informalisation and marketisation are the two distinct trends of border crossing. Institutions of higher education need to adjust their discourse to suit the development of the commercialized society.

Crossing Cultural Borders

THIRTY-year-old Hong Jun, a Chinese Muslim from Yinchuan. capital city of west China＇s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, could not have imagined that his religious heritage and Arabic language skills would lead him to travel across the Arab world and even to estab- lish his own company. ＂I always saw studying Arabic as a means of communication, a way to build relation- ships, but never as a profession,＂ he said.

Challenges Facing Zimbabwean Cross Border Traders Trading in South Africa： A Review of Literature

Cross border traders make a major contribution to the growth of economies in Southern Africa. Cross border trade is a source of livelihood for many poor people, especially women. However, few studies examined challenges facing cross border traders and future business prospects.The aim of this paper is to examine the challenges that face Zimbabwean cross border traders in South Africa. The paper goes further to review existing literature as well as empirical studies in order to identify the major challenges that face Zimbabwean cross border traders. Among the challenges noted are crime, harassment due to xenophobia, traders are often stigmatized as ＂prostitutes＂ or ＂smugglers＂, accommodation problems, extortion and bribery by the South African Police and municipal police officials, delays at the border post during peak periods and banks that close early and also do not operate on Sundays. The Zimbabwean Cross Border Traders Association should build office in Musina and Johannesburg so that members can easily consult with the association in times of problems and also help with marketing information like distribution of brochures showcasing Zimbabwean products sold by cross border traders and also organize fairs where Zimbabwean traders can display their products. Furthermore cases of harassment by police officials should be investigated and dealt with. Banks that do have branches at the border posts are also urged to provide 24 hour service to cross border traders.

Financial Integration Among the ASEAN 5 ＋ 3 Stock Markets： A Preliminary Look at the First 10 Years of the New Millenium

The purpose of this study is to investigate the financial integration of the stock markets of the ASEAN 5 ＋ 3 countries. These countries include Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, China, Japan, and South Korea. The research determined the stock return volatility for each country＇s index during the first decade of the new millennium. The findings showed that there is the presence of integration and co-integration with Philippine index＇s return with the index＇s returns of the following countries： Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand. Furthermore, there is evidence of volatility clustering in these stock markets. The study concluded with the policy implications of greater integration in light of the planned cross trading among four ASEAN bourses, namely, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia by 2012.

A Bumpy Border Crossing into the Teaching Culture on a U.S.Campus:Experience of a Chinese Faculty Member

Guided by cultural border crossing and teacher identity development theories,this case study explores the bumpy process of a junior Chinese faculty member’s border crossing into the U.S.teaching culture and analyzes the challenges,coping strategies,and consequences of his border crossing on teaching and teacher identity development.The study found the subject demonstrated an active process of adaptation during his border crossing and experienced multifaceted and ongoing identity development in which both Chinese culture and the culture that he embraced played important roles in reshaping and facilitating the development of his professional identity,teacher learning,and teaching practices.

Research on the Optimization of Teaching System of International Economy and Trade

Taking the construction of new liberal arts as a background,this paper proposes that the international economy and trade major should optimize the teaching system and personnel training mechanism by adding the new cross-border e-commerce direction.This paper highlights the development path of high-quality international economy and trade professional training,and further ensures the first-class talent training and first-class professional construction specialty.

Performance evaluation model of cross border e-commerce supply chain based on LMBP feedback neural network

In recent years,with the support of national policies,Cross Border E-Commerce(CBEC)has developed rapidly.This business model not only brings significant benefits to the national economy,but also has many unique challenges,especially at the level of supply chain management.Therefore,to enable CBEC enterprises to develop sustainable supply chain,this study discusses the performance evaluation model of supply chain and proposes a CBEC Supply Chain Performance Evaluation Model(CBECSC-EM)based on the Levenberg–Marquardt Backpropagation(LMBP)algorithm.This experiment constructs performance evaluation indicators for the supply chain of CBEC enterprises.On this basis,the LMBP algorithm is introduced,and improved in the experiment to make the overall performance of the evaluation model more scientific and reasonable.In the verification set,the maximum F1 values of LMBP,DEA,SBM,and BP are 98.46%,93.78%,87.29%,and 78.95%,respectively.The MAPE value of LMBP model is 0.102%,which is lower than the other three methods(0.282%,0.343%,and 0.385%)selected in the experiment.The maximum standard deviation rates of importance and operability of the evaluation indexes are 0.1346 and 0.1405,respectively,and there is a significant consistency between the expert scores.Therefore,the LMBP algorithm has broad application prospects in supply chain performance evaluation of CBEC enterprises.

Crossing the River Frontier trade with Russia gives the Chinese border town of Heihe a taste of prosperity

Aglimpse at the Heihe Island International Trade Center offers a vivid insight into how far the business has progressed. The center

交易效率、专业化分工与跨国并购

基于新古典经济学和新制度经济学框架下的跨国并购理论不能为多种形式的跨国并购活动提供一般理论。本文以新兴古典经济学为分析框架 ,提出了跨国并购的一般理论 :基于企业内较高交易效率和较高水平的分工产生的企业内生比较利益的有效交易要求较高交易效率 ,但由于企业内交易效率高于市场交易效率 ,企业内生比较利益在国际市场上以较低市场交易效率交易时 ,必然会产生“市场失效” ,在内部化利润大于以其他方式交易利润的前提下 ,跨国并购是克服这种“市场失效”的有效途径。我们进一步分析了三种形式的跨国并购的理论和现实意义。