Yang Shen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yang Shen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yang |
| FAMILY NAME | Shen |
| SIGNATURE | SHEN Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2895-3068 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 64 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 64 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Does gender education improve gender equality awareness and empathy? A mixed-methods case study from a Chinese university
Gender inequality is a global social issue, yet the effectiveness of gender education remains insufficiently examined. Using a convergent parallel mixed-methods design, this study evaluates the impact of a gender studies course on gender equality awareness, empathy, and self-reported behavioural changes at a Chinese university. Quantitative findings showed significant improvements in gender equality awareness and empathy among the experimental gr…
Unveiling the impact of blockchain affordances on knowledge hiding: A three-wave cross-cultural study
Purpose This study examines the influence of blockchain affordances – transparency, traceability and immutability – on perceptions of fairness and their role in mitigating knowledge hiding in organizations. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on affordance theory, we develop and test a model using three-wave survey data from employees in the United States and China, representing culturally and economically distinct contexts. Findings The results …
Disrupted Development: Urban Productivity Under Changing Place‐Based Industrial Policies in China
Despite the consensus on the importance of urban policy stability, the negative impacts of frequent policy changes on urban development have seldom been accurately estimated. This study aims to fill this gap by empirically analyzing the effects of changes in targeted areas of place‐based policies on urban productivity and explores the underlying mechanisms. We evaluate these policy changes by analyzing shifts in the spatial distribution of city g…
Environmental Levies and Business Ethics: Unintended Labor Market Impacts and Corporate Responsibility in China
Environmental taxation is often seen as a necessary tool for promoting sustainability, yet its impact on employment remains a subject of debate. This study empirically examines how China's environmental protection tax (EPT) affects labor demand, uncovering distinct responses among firms of different sizes. Using a triple‐difference approach, we find that environmental taxes lead to job losses primarily by increasing production costs, which, in tu…
Fieldwork in Chinese undergraduate geography programs: Status and challenges
Fieldwork remains a cornerstone of undergraduate geography education, but the number of fieldwork programs in many geography departments around the world has been declining. This paper examines the presence of fieldwork planning, sites, content, assessment, and management in 31 Chinese sample universities through mixed methods. The results indicate that although fieldwork is an integral component in Chinese undergraduate geography programs, many …
Impact of abnormal metabolic-immunoinflammatory pathway on splenomegaly in patients with chronic schizophrenia and exploration of risk factors: Case-control study
Objective This study aimed to identify risk factors for splenomegaly in chronic schizophrenia patients and clarify associations among metabolic−immunoinflammatory pathways, psychiatric symptoms and splenomegaly. The findings will help optimize somatic monitoring and intervention strategies. Methods A case−control design was used. A total of 426 patients were assigned to splenomegaly (n= 165) and non−splenomegaly (n= 261) groups according to abdom…
Social capital in the Internet era across societies: Development, inequality and netizen’s advantage
Using the 2017 module of International Social Survey Program (ISSP), we explore the differences in individual social capital between netizens and non-netizens across seven countries and make a tentative analysis of how varying degrees of economic development and inequality are associated with social capital and netizen’s advantage in social capital. We find that netizens have higher social capital than non-netizens in six ISSP member countries, s…
Serendipitous ritualization: Dynamics of lay connectivity in Chinese Buddhist temples and beyond
This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational formalization, through which individuals reconfigure their relational entanglements. Ethnographic atten…
Unlocking the potential of supply chain digitalization for enhancing enterprise green transformation performance: Evidence from China
The supply chain is a significant source of carbon emissions for enterprises, and effectively managing this carbon footprint is a key strategy for achieving dual carbon goals and promoting sustainable development. In 2018, China launched the supply chain innovation and application pilot policy to promote supply chain digitalization (SCD), yet its actual impact on enterprise green transformation performance (EGTP) remains unclear. This study uses …
Integrating case-based learning with curriculum-based ideological and political education: Enhancing undergraduate otolaryngology education
The aim of this study was to explore the impact and practical value of combining case-based teaching with curriculum-based ideological and political education (CIPE) in undergraduate Otolaryngology theoretical courses by evaluations of the theoretical test, teaching satisfaction, and the integration of ideological and political education. In this randomized controlled trial, 366 fourth-year medical undergraduates were assigned to either an observ…
The Wage Effects of Material and Service Offshoring: Evidence From South Korea
Using commodity‐level input–output tables with detailed import matrices for South Korea, we construct a direct industry‐level measure of offshoring, avoiding the proportionality assumption common in prior studies. Comparing measures with and without this assumption, we reveal significant disparities, particularly in service offshoring. Integrating this measure with individual‐level worker data, we estimate the wage effects of material and service…
Trend of electroconvulsive therapy use and its relationships with clinical characteristics from a large psychiatric center in China
The ECT usage and year-by-year decrease in ECT use in this study were consistent with the recent trends in other regions. Patients with the married/cohabitating, unemployed, and emergency-referral, unstable vital signs, more severe disability received ECT for quick alleviation of their conditions
Preliminary network analysis of suicide risk and psychosocial factors in Chinese adults and older adults with depression: A cross-sectional study
Depression is a key predictor of suicidal ideation, while anxiety exerts a dual influence. Suicidal ideation among older adults appears to be more strongly shaped by multiple factors, with particular emphasis on the combined effects of depression and sleep disturbances
Prevalence and associated factors of depression and anxiety among patients with melasma: A cross-sectional study in China
The prevalence of depression and anxiety was higher among patients with melasma. Depression was negatively correlated with the older but positively correlated with high BMI and poor quality of life. Anxiety was positively associated with poor sleep quality. On the basis of these findings, the present study suggests that routine screening for depression and anxiety should be conducted in patients with melasma to facilitate early intervention strat…
Polarized views over feminism: Gendered reception of Barbie among Chinese audiences on social media
Bifurcated experiences of single people in urban China: A gendered compressed modernity perspective
The impact of urban-rural residents’ life quality gap on the cultivated land transfer
Responsible business: Analyzing the impact of corporate ESG on employee pay inequality
Against the backdrop of increasing emphasis on corporate social responsibility and sustainable development, this study utilizes data from China's A - share listed companies over the period of 2009 to 2022 to empirically examine the influence of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance on the internal pay gap. The research is significant as it sheds light on how ESG practices, which are gaining importance in the corporate world, aff…
The impact of artificial intelligence on employment: The role of virtual agglomeration
Sustainable Development Goal 8 proposes the promotion of full and productive employment for all. Intelligent production factors, such as robots, the Internet of Things, and extensive data analysis, are reshaping the dynamics of labour supply and demand. In China, which is a developing country with a large population and labour force, analysing the impact of artificial intelligence technology on the labour market is of particular importance. Based…
China’s carbon trading pilot policy, economic stability, and high-quality economic development
The purpose of this study is to examine how economic development and stability are affected by carbon trading pilot programs. Using panel data from 31 Chinese provinces and autonomous regions between 2005 and 2021, two hypotheses were tested using the DID model. The findings indicate that (1) the carbon trading market pilot program has an immediate effect on economic stability. (2) High-quality economic development is positively and significantly…
Algorithmic and sensor-based research on Chinese children’s and adolescents’ screen use behavior and light environment
Background Myopia poses a global health concern and is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. The incidence of myopia tends to increase during infectious outbreaks, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This study examined the screen-time behaviors among Chinese children and adolescents and investigated the efficacy of artificial intelligence (AI)-based alerts in modifying screen-time practices. Methods A cross-sectional analysis was perf…
“Widow-style parenting”: The discursive formation of gendered parenting roles and popular feminism on social media in China
In China, content creators on noninstitutional social media platforms, collectively known as zimeiti, have sparked fervent discussions about “widow-style parenting.” This term is used to describe the lack of paternal involvement in childcare. Using feminist critical discourse analysis, this study explores how widow-style parenting is discussed in the context of popular feminism in China. Rhetorically, zimeiti articles aim to promote a more equal …
Technology-driven carbon reduction: Analyzing the impact of digital technology on China's carbon emission and its mechanism
Local labor market effects of offshoring: Evidence from the US Trade Adjustment Assistance program
We explore the wage effects of offshoring‐induced employment shocks in US commuting zones (CZs) and industries. Using data on petitions for the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA), we measure such shocks by computing the share of TAA‐certified offshoring‐induced layoffs out of total employment. We further identify material‐offshoring shocks and service‐offshoring shocks and connect the TAA data to individual‐level worker data from the American Comm…
Idioms of Dignity and Respect: Addressing Elderly Strangers in Buddhist Monastic Publics in Reformed China
The paper examines the idioms of dignity and respect in addressing elderly individuals within Buddhist monastic publics in reformed China. It analyzes the use of three common address terms— jushi, shixiong , and lao pusa —and other phrasings as observed during fieldwork in Buddhist temples in Eastern and Southern China in the 2010s. By introducing the concept of “Buddhist monastic publics,” the study illuminates the dynamic interplay between a re…
Changing Partners: Toward a Macrostructural-Opportunity Theory of Marital Dissolution
We merge marital history data for respondents in the National Survey of Families and Households with census data describing the sex composition of their local marriage markets and occupations to examine the impact of the availability of spousal alternatives on marital dissolution. Proportional hazards regression models that adjust for left truncation reveal that the risk of divorce is highest in geographically defined marriage markets where eithe…
Delineating the spatial-temporal variation of air pollution with urbanization in the Belt and Road Initiative area
Emotional labour in a translocal context: Rural migrant workers in China's service sector
The service industry is a major pillar of China's urban economy. Rural migrant workers form the backbone workforce in China's urban service sector. Despite much attention to the work and life of rural migrants in Chinese cities, urban employers' regulation and rural migrants' performance of emotional labour in the service sector remain understudied. Drawing on participant observation and in-depth interviews over eight years, we examine how urban …
Exploring the effects of rural site conditions and household livelihood capitals on agricultural land transfers in China
Why Does the Government Fail to Improve the Living Conditions of Migrant Workers in S hanghai? Reflections on the Policies and the Implementations of Public Rental Housing under Neoliberalism
How to get affordable housing is the primary concern of many peasant migrants working in Shanghai. Although the central government has issued a series of policies regarding migrant housing in recent years, they are merely rhetoric and incapable to meet migrant workers' needs. This article aims to interrogate why the public housing policy cannot solve migrant housing problems and what neoliberalism means in housing provision. It is argued that the…
The Power of Wish-Vows: Ethics and Ritual Transformation in Buddhist Temples in Contemporary China
Among the most noteworthy practices in Buddhist temples in China today are yuan or wish-vow actions. Wish-vows encompass both wish-making (xuyuan 许愿) and vow-giving (fayuan 发愿), with both modalities embraced by average temple-goers from a general population. Chinese Buddhist liturgies encourage ritual performers to adopt a bodhisattva stance, wishing/vowing for the well-being of all beings. This introduces an ethical dimension to yuan performance…
Labor Market Outcomes of Professional Women with Two Children after the One‐Child Policy in China
Since the implementation of the two‐child policy in China in 2016, it is unclear how professional women's labor force outcomes and family commitments have changed. Using interviews with 26 professional women with two children in Shanghai, we examined their work–life transitions and labor market outcomes. We found that the overarching constraints the interviewees faced included a lack of institutional childcare support, low paternal participation …
Reproductive Choices of Highly Educated Employed Women with two Children Under the Universal Two-child Policy
This study focuses on urban women who were born in the 1970s and 1980s, and who gave birth during the transformation of China's family planning policy. We conducted 22 interviews with highly educated women who had given birth to two children each, and who were employed full time. We examined why the respondents had decided to have a second child and how their reproductive choices responded to the policy changes. We found that their reproductive c…
Policy coordination in the talent war to achieve economic upgrading: The case of four Chinese cities
This paper captures the on-going “talent war” between Chinese cities by studying how municipal governments have coordinated migration settlement policies and subsidized rental housing policies to restructure the labour force for economic upgrading. Policies in four cities, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Chongqing are coded and reviewed in detail to show the hierarchical and intersectoral policy coordination. The hierarchical analyses explain the…
Non-familial coresidence and life satisfaction: Evidence from China
The impact of urban-rural residents’ life quality gap on the cultivated land transfer
Bifurcated experiences of single people in urban China: A gendered compressed modernity perspective
Intra-clan marriage in modern times: The Role of Elite Education in Assortative Mating
Studies have shown a tendency for educational elites to marry within the elite circle in China. However, little research explores how they find a partner and the platforms' roles in the process. We fill this gap by focusing on an online dating platform targeting alumni of elite universities. We interviewed the core staff of the platform to examine its operations. Through thematic analysis, we analyzed users' self-representations in their dating p…
A matter of life and death: The power of personal networks for medical crowdfunding performance
Between the state, capital, and families: The production of children’s space in urban China
The commercialization of children’s space has become a new global trend. Child-oriented malls represent a new form of commercialized urban space and reflect neoliberal space production that privatizes and materializes the urban environment lately seen in some Asian countries. Examining the first child-oriented mall in Shanghai, we argue that the development of child-oriented malls has been shaped and sustained by dynamic relations – including the…
Publication or pregnancy? Employment contracts and childbearing of women academics in China
The ‘publish or perish’ system has been widespread in the global higher education sector to incentivize academic performance. How the system affects academics in non-western countries has received scant attention. This research studies the relationship between different types of employment contracts, work pressure and the childbearing decisions of women academics in China. The data were collected in 2019 through a survey of 453 women academics wo…
Power Relations in Reproductive Decisions Under the Transforming Family Planning Policy in China
China's family planning policy has had a profound influence on individuals and families for the past 30 years. The universal two-child policy implemented in 2016 is its most relaxed form. The consequences of the policy transitions are worthwhile to explore . By interviewing 26 middle class mothers who gave birth to a second child during the policy transformation, we consider women's accounts of their reproductive decisions-making processes. We fo…
Changing Partners: Toward a Macrostructural-Opportunity Theory of Marital Dissolution
We merge marital history data for respondents in the National Survey of Families and Households with census data describing the sex composition of their local marriage markets and occupations to examine the impact of the availability of spousal alternatives on marital dissolution. Proportional hazards regression models that adjust for left truncation reveal that the risk of divorce is highest in geographically defined marriage markets where eithe…
Rethinking “Traditions”: Reading the Classics as Ritual
How do generations of Chinese remain connected across history? How do the anthropological studies of religion help us to reconceptualize the realm of sociality and historicity? This paper argues that reading the classics is a ritual to bring together many heterogeneous traditions in a subjunctive historical community. In the Chinese context, reading is first done aloud in the presence of other people, in what can be broadly envisioned as a teache…
Elevated Serum Bisphenol A Level in Patients with Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Our findings firstly demonstrated that BPA exposure increased in DCM patients compared with that in healthy controls, while FAI and T levels decreased. SHBG presented a positive association with BPA. It is concluded that hormone disorder induced by BPA exposure might be an environmental factor in the pathology of DCM
Why Does the Government Fail to Improve the Living Conditions of Migrant Workers in S hanghai? Reflections on the Policies and the Implementations of Public Rental Housing under Neoliberalism
How to get affordable housing is the primary concern of many peasant migrants working in Shanghai. Although the central government has issued a series of policies regarding migrant housing in recent years, they are merely rhetoric and incapable to meet migrant workers' needs. This article aims to interrogate why the public housing policy cannot solve migrant housing problems and what neoliberalism means in housing provision. It is argued that the…
Evaluation of the Fairness of Urban Lakes’ Distribution Based on Spatialization of Population Data: A Case Study of Wuhan Urban Development Zone
Lake reclamation for urban construction has caused serious damage to lakes in cities undergoing rapid urbanization. This process affects urban ecological environment and leads to inconsistent urban expansion, population surge, and uneven distribution of urban lakes. This study measured the fairness of urban lakes' distribution and explored the spatial matching relationship between service supply and user group demand. The interpretation and analy…
Fungal Contaminants in Energy Efficient Dwellings: Impact of Ventilation Type and Level of Urbanization
The presence of growing fungi in the indoor environment has been associated with the development of respiratory problems such as asthma or allergic rhinitis, as well as the worsening of respiratory pathologies. Their proliferation indoors could be a result of water leakage or inadequate ventilation. Although the factors promoting mould growth have been widely investigated in traditional dwellings, little work has been done in energy efficient dwe…
Non-familial coresidence and life satisfaction: Evidence from China
Labor Market Outcomes of Professional Women with Two Children after the One‐Child Policy in China
Since the implementation of the two‐child policy in China in 2016, it is unclear how professional women's labor force outcomes and family commitments have changed. Using interviews with 26 professional women with two children in Shanghai, we examined their work–life transitions and labor market outcomes. We found that the overarching constraints the interviewees faced included a lack of institutional childcare support, low paternal participation …
Reproductive Choices of Highly Educated Employed Women with two Children Under the Universal Two-child Policy
This study focuses on urban women who were born in the 1970s and 1980s, and who gave birth during the transformation of China's family planning policy. We conducted 22 interviews with highly educated women who had given birth to two children each, and who were employed full time. We examined why the respondents had decided to have a second child and how their reproductive choices responded to the policy changes. We found that their reproductive c…
Structure of membrane diacylglycerol kinase in lipid bilayers
Diacylglycerol kinase (DgkA) is a small integral membrane protein, responsible for the ATP-dependent phosphorylation of diacylglycerol to phosphatidic acid. Its structures reported in previous studies, determined in detergent micelles by solution NMR and in monoolein cubic phase by X-ray crystallography, differ significantly. These differences point to the need to validate these detergent-based structures in phospholipid bilayers. Here, we presen…
The Driving Influence of Multi-Dimensional Urbanization on PM2.5 Concentrations in Africa: New Evidence from Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data, 2000–2018
Africa's PM 2.5 pollution has become a security hazard, but the understanding of the varying effects of urbanization on driven mechanisms of PM 2.5 concentrations under the rapid urbanization remains largely insufficient. Compared with the direct impact, the spillover effect of urbanization on PM 2.5 concentrations in adjacent regions was underestimated. Urbanization is highly multi-dimensional phenomenon and previous studies have rarely distingu…
Exploring the effects of rural site conditions and household livelihood capitals on agricultural land transfers in China
Delineating the spatial-temporal variation of air pollution with urbanization in the Belt and Road Initiative area
Land finance in China: Analysis and review
An Empirical Study of Geography Learning on Students’ Emotions and Motivation in Immersive Virtual Reality
This paper assesses the impact of emotional arousal on learning through a virtual reality video of geography immersion learning. Validity was measured with traditional questionnaire data and using electroencephalography (EEG). Twenty-four human subjects were recruited and presented with eight geography immersive learning videos with different affective tendencies. EEG data of the subjects were collected while they were watching the videos. After …
City‐chief turnover and place‐based policy change: Evidence from China
The linkage between political turnover and policy change has attracted considerable attention, but little empirical evidence and its impacts on regional development have been provided directly. In this study, we develop a set of indicators to directly quantify the within‐city place‐based policy changes in China between 2007 and 2017, based on the spatial distribution of city governments' industrial land supply. The results show city‐chief turnove…
Gendered age preferences for potential partners: A mixed-methods study among online daters in Shanghai
Single people increasingly look for romantic partners online. We use online dating as a lens to understand age preferences for potential partners and their implications for relationship formation and family change in China. Situated in Shanghai, this mixed-methods study employs a complementary design to analyze data from 5,888 dating profiles and 29 interviews with online daters. Using a two-sided analytical approach, we find that age preferences…
Schizophrenia Patients With Prevotella-Enterotype Have a Higher Risk of Obesity
Recent studies have indicated the critical influence of gut microbiota on the occurrence of obesity. There is a significant risk of obesity in people with schizophrenia. This work proposed that the disorder of gut microbiota in patients with schizophrenia was based on microbial enterotypes. Ninety-seven patients with schizophrenia and 69 matched health controls were eligible. The fresh feces of all the subjects were collected and used to complete…
The Chinese Mandarin Version of the Esophageal-Atresia-Quality-of-Life Questionnaires for Children and Adolescents: Evaluation of Linguistic and Content Validity
The Chinese Mandarin version of the EA-QOL questionnaires achieved satisfactory linguistic and content validity. This can help increase focus of HRQOL in research and clinical practice of children with EA in China
Study on the Impact of Environmental Tax on Industrial Green Transformation
Tax revenue is one of the essential means through which the government controls the macro-economy and plays a vital role in promoting environmental protection and sustainable development. This study takes Chinese panel data from 2004 to 2020 as sample observations, uses the SBM-GML index method to measure industrial green total factor productivity, and then uses econometric methods such as the two-way fixed effects model and instrumental variable…
Anti-tumor effect of Yanggan Huayu granule by inducing AKT-mediated apoptosis in hepatocellular carcinoma
Between the state, capital, and families: The production of children’s space in urban China
The commercialization of children’s space has become a new global trend. Child-oriented malls represent a new form of commercialized urban space and reflect neoliberal space production that privatizes and materializes the urban environment lately seen in some Asian countries. Examining the first child-oriented mall in Shanghai, we argue that the development of child-oriented malls has been shaped and sustained by dynamic relations – including the…
Policy coordination in the talent war to achieve economic upgrading: The case of four Chinese cities
This paper captures the on-going “talent war” between Chinese cities by studying how municipal governments have coordinated migration settlement policies and subsidized rental housing policies to restructure the labour force for economic upgrading. Policies in four cities, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Chongqing are coded and reviewed in detail to show the hierarchical and intersectoral policy coordination. The hierarchical analyses explain the…
Publication or pregnancy? Employment contracts and childbearing of women academics in China
The ‘publish or perish’ system has been widespread in the global higher education sector to incentivize academic performance. How the system affects academics in non-western countries has received scant attention. This research studies the relationship between different types of employment contracts, work pressure and the childbearing decisions of women academics in China. The data were collected in 2019 through a survey of 453 women academics wo…
Emotional labour in a translocal context: Rural migrant workers in China's service sector
The service industry is a major pillar of China's urban economy. Rural migrant workers form the backbone workforce in China's urban service sector. Despite much attention to the work and life of rural migrants in Chinese cities, urban employers' regulation and rural migrants' performance of emotional labour in the service sector remain understudied. Drawing on participant observation and in-depth interviews over eight years, we examine how urban …
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