Production-Oriented Approach(POA)is a new concept of foreign language teaching proposed by Professor Wen Qiufang of Bejing Foreign Studies University.Initially designed for teaching foreign languages in lower grades i...Production-Oriented Approach(POA)is a new concept of foreign language teaching proposed by Professor Wen Qiufang of Bejing Foreign Studies University.Initially designed for teaching foreign languages in lower grades in domestic universities,its application has now been gradually expanded to more subjects and has been repeatedly proven to be effective after active experiments by some university teachers.In this paper,the author attempts to apply the production-oriented method to the teaching of intemational business contracts,and take one of the units as an example to demonstrate the teaching design and teaching process.展开更多
Standards are the scientific basis and an important factor for the assessment of the quality of goods.In International Sale of Goods Law,they are consistent with and complementary to the“general provision”on“ordina...Standards are the scientific basis and an important factor for the assessment of the quality of goods.In International Sale of Goods Law,they are consistent with and complementary to the“general provision”on“ordinary purposes”used to assess the quality of goods.Based on analyses of theories and legal practices and by reviewing the relationship between standards and“ordinary purposes,”in this article,I attempt to find out what standards affect the ascertaining of“ordinary purposes”and present a summary of the preconditions for the sellers’obligatory observance of such standards to provide guidance for the accurate application of other“general provisions”through the use of standards.展开更多
As China's economy has reached the stage of'New Normal',Chinese companies are increasingly seeking opportunities overseas.In the context of the slow recovery of world economy,China's outward economic a...As China's economy has reached the stage of'New Normal',Chinese companies are increasingly seeking opportunities overseas.In the context of the slow recovery of world economy,China's outward economic activities have found themselves in many parts of the globe,including the Latin Ameria and the Caribbean(LAC)region,some of the farthest places away from China.While many scholars have conducted extensive studies on China's trade and foreign direct investment(FDI)in Latin America and the Caribbean,this paper focusses on Chinese contracts in the region,a topic that has been rarely studied.Using both random-effects and fixed-effects models covering 30 LAC economies during 1998-2015,the multivariate panel regressions show that among numerous determinants,Chinese companies prefer to undertake projects in the countries that are economically more advanced and more populous.In addition to the level of development and the size of population,those that have natural resources,expansionary economy,and political openness tend to have Chinese contracts completed.The above,however,is true of only the countries with which China has diplomatic relations.For the countries that recognise China's Taiwan‘diplomatically',Chinese contracts do not seem to be as much economically determined as those that recognise People's Republic of China(PRC)diplomatically.Politics appear to interfere with contractual decisions except in the following categories:mineral resources and an expansionary economy.展开更多
文摘Production-Oriented Approach(POA)is a new concept of foreign language teaching proposed by Professor Wen Qiufang of Bejing Foreign Studies University.Initially designed for teaching foreign languages in lower grades in domestic universities,its application has now been gradually expanded to more subjects and has been repeatedly proven to be effective after active experiments by some university teachers.In this paper,the author attempts to apply the production-oriented method to the teaching of intemational business contracts,and take one of the units as an example to demonstrate the teaching design and teaching process.
文摘Standards are the scientific basis and an important factor for the assessment of the quality of goods.In International Sale of Goods Law,they are consistent with and complementary to the“general provision”on“ordinary purposes”used to assess the quality of goods.Based on analyses of theories and legal practices and by reviewing the relationship between standards and“ordinary purposes,”in this article,I attempt to find out what standards affect the ascertaining of“ordinary purposes”and present a summary of the preconditions for the sellers’obligatory observance of such standards to provide guidance for the accurate application of other“general provisions”through the use of standards.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)Project#71272033 for financial support.
文摘As China's economy has reached the stage of'New Normal',Chinese companies are increasingly seeking opportunities overseas.In the context of the slow recovery of world economy,China's outward economic activities have found themselves in many parts of the globe,including the Latin Ameria and the Caribbean(LAC)region,some of the farthest places away from China.While many scholars have conducted extensive studies on China's trade and foreign direct investment(FDI)in Latin America and the Caribbean,this paper focusses on Chinese contracts in the region,a topic that has been rarely studied.Using both random-effects and fixed-effects models covering 30 LAC economies during 1998-2015,the multivariate panel regressions show that among numerous determinants,Chinese companies prefer to undertake projects in the countries that are economically more advanced and more populous.In addition to the level of development and the size of population,those that have natural resources,expansionary economy,and political openness tend to have Chinese contracts completed.The above,however,is true of only the countries with which China has diplomatic relations.For the countries that recognise China's Taiwan‘diplomatically',Chinese contracts do not seem to be as much economically determined as those that recognise People's Republic of China(PRC)diplomatically.Politics appear to interfere with contractual decisions except in the following categories:mineral resources and an expansionary economy.
