Xiulan Zhang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xiulan Zhang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xiulan |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhang |
| SIGNATURE | ZHANG X |
| AFFILIATIONS | Beijing Normal University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9288-0767 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Converting Chinese fir plantations into mixed stands: Effects of density on soil organic carbon mineralization and its temperature sensitivity
Low-density mixed stands increased C fractions and SOC mineralization in topsoil. • The Q10 was higher in monoculture and mixed stands at low and high temperature, respectively. • Available phosphorus becomes increasingly important for SOC mineralization with temperature rises. • The labile C and available nitrogen were the primary factors regulated Q10 in topsoil and subsoil, respectively. • Plant density through substrate quality and microbial-…
Explainable machine learning framework to predict the risk of work-related neck and shoulder musculoskeletal disorders among healthcare professionals
Objective: This study aims to develop risk prediction models for neck and shoulder musculoskeletal disorders among healthcare professionals. Methods: A stratified sampling method was employed to select employees from medical institutions in Nanning City, yielding 617 samples. The Boruta algorithm was used for feature selection, and various models, including Tree-Based Models, Single Hidden-Layer Neural Network Models (MLP), Elastic Net Models (EN…
Regulation of soil organic carbon dynamics by microbial communities during reforestation of Chinese fir plantations after clear‐cutting
Reforestation after forest clear‐cutting is an effective measure to increase soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration; still, the soil C balance under reforestation and the role of microbial communities in that process remain to be determined. Samples of organic (0–2 cm) and mineral (2–10 cm) horizons were collected from the 7‐, 15‐, 20‐, 29‐, and 36‐year‐old forest stands of Chinese fir ( Cunninghamia lanceolata ) after plantation clear‐cutting i…
Services for Aging Persons in China: Spatial Variations in Supply and Demand
Analysis of Forty Years of Geographic Disparity in Liver Cancer Mortality and the Influence of Risk Factors
Regional disparities in cancer mortality rates are prevalent at all geographic scales. Area factors such as health conditions, behavior patterns, pollution, and socioeconomic status (SES) have significant impacts on cancer disparity. Efforts to determine the risk factors help to identify interventions that can lower disease burdens. In this study, we focus on liver cancer mortality (LCM), which is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths…
Who are Volunteers in Urban China
Although government-organized volunteering is common in China, the Chinese government has also sought to encourage the development of grassroots volunteer service organizations (VSOs) given the tremendous social service burden and the complexity of social governance. Motivated by the lack of systematic studies on volunteering in China, this study explores predictors of volunteering in urban China using data from the 2013 Survey on Philanthropic B…
Addressing antimicrobial resistance in China: Policy implementation in a complex context
The effectiveness of antibiotics in treating bacterial infections is decreasing in China because of the widespread development of resistant organisms. Although China has enacted a number of regulations to address this problem, but the impact is very limited. This paper investigates the implementation of these regulations through the lens of complex adaptive systems (CAS). It presents the findings from reviews of relevant policy documents and publ…
Leaders’ smiles reflect cultural differences in ideal affect
Cultures differ in the emotions they teach their members to value ("ideal affect"). We conducted 3 studies to examine whether leaders' smiles reflect these cultural differences in ideal affect. In Study 1, we compared the smiles of top-ranked American and Chinese government leaders, chief executive officers, and university presidents in their official photos. Consistent with findings that Americans value excitement and other high-arousal positive…
China has raised the tax on cigarettes: What's next
The Chinese government raised tobacco tax on 10th May 2015, 10 years after the ratification of the WHO Framework Convention on tobacco control. The increase in the resulting tax rate as a percentage of the retail price from 49% to 56% is still relatively low compared to the WHO-recommended benchmark, which is about 70% of the retail price. Therefore, ample room remains for the Chinese government to further increase the tax on cigarettes
Wanting to maximize the positive and minimize the negative: Implications for mixed affective experience in American and Chinese contexts
Previous studies have demonstrated that European Americans have fewer mixed affective experiences (i.e., are less likely to experience the bad with the good) compared with Chinese. In this article, we argue that these cultural differences are due to "ideal affect," or how people ideally want to feel. Specifically, we predict that people from individualistic cultures want to maximize positive and minimize negative affect more than people from coll…
Pathways to psychiatric care of patients from rural regions: A general-hospital-based study
BACKGROUND: Pathway studies highlight the help-seeking behaviours of patients with physical and mental illness. A number of these studies have been completed in other countries, but there have been few reports from China. Therefore, this study was planned to explore the characteristics of the help-seeking pathways of patients with mental illness from rural regions of China through the mental health professionals and treatment at the General Hospi…
Debt and depression among the Dibao population in northwestern China
BACKGROUND: With the rapid development of economy, depression disorder is not only a public health issue but also a socioeconomic problem and attracting more and more attention in China. AIMS: The target of this study is to examine the prevalence of depression and the related risk factors in the Dibao population in northwestern China. METHOD: A cross-sectional analysis in a random sample survey conducted in three northwestern Chinese cities in 20…
Introduction: China and International Development: Challenges and Opportunities
In parallel to its domestic economic boom, China has also been growing as an international actor and as a ‘Rising Power’ in global development. This introduction outlines the need for further understanding of China's own development experience, its increasing involvement in development activities in low? and middle?income countries, and its growing engagement in global governance structures. The articles highlighted contribute valuable expertise …
Wives' Relative Income and Marital Satisfaction among the Urban Chinese Population: Exploring Some Moderating Effects
In contemporary urban China, the employment of married women has led to wives making an economic contribution to the family in both absolute and relative terms. However, little is known about the effect of wives' relative income on marital satisfaction in the Chinese context. This study aims to address two key questions: (a) is wives' relative income associated with marital satisfaction in the Chinese population? (b) Is this association dependent…
Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Work-Family Balance Scale in an Urban Chinese Sample
The impact of the global economic slowdown on enterprises and employees in China
After the outbreak of the global economic slowdown, the export of products made in China, particularly the labour-intensive ones, has dramatically dropped. Drawing upon a questionnaire survey on 439 employees and 55 enterprises specialized in electronics, toys, furniture and textile and interviews with industrial associations and local governments in two coastal cities, Shenzhen and Wenzhou, we have a number of findings. First, the global economi…
Addressing vulnerability in an emerging economy: China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS)
China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) is the successor of the national scheme that existed through the 1970s. Developed in response to the decline in health care services following the 1978 economic reforms, NCMS was launched in the mid-2000s. Coverage is now nearly universal, through voluntary enrolment. The implementation framework allows local governments to make adjustments for regional peculiarities. NCMS is seen as a response to pov…
Health Service Access for Rural People Living with HIV/Aids in China: A Critical Evaluation
The increasingly serious HIV/AIDS epidemic creates a significant burden for the public health system; however, little attention has been paid to the issue of health service access in rural China. Based on a qualitative study of 34 Chinese rural People Living with HIVIAIDS (PLWHA) and 13 health providers, this study fills a gap by examining health service access from both the demand and supply-side. Utilizing access theory, this study explores the…
National and subnational HIV/Aids coordination: Are global health initiatives closing the gap between intent and practice
BACKGROUND: A coordinated response to HIV/AIDS remains one of the 'grand challenges' facing policymakers today. Global health initiatives (GHIs) have the potential both to facilitate and exacerbate coordination at the national and subnational level. Evidence of the effects of GHIs on coordination is beginning to emerge but has hitherto been limited to single-country studies and broad-brush reviews. To date, no study has provided a focused synthes…
Social Protection during Disasters: Evidence from the Wenchuan Earthquake
Using evidence from the Wenchuan earthquake (12 May 2008) in China, this article examines the impact of disaster on the functioning of China's social protection system. The article examines the social protection system and the recipients of social protection. It presents four main findings: (1) the impact of the disaster on the social protection system itself was considerable; (2) the system was able to cope fairly successfully with the enormous …
Women, Poverty, and the Epidemic in China: Case Studies on Rural People Living with HIV/Aids
Based on in-depth interviews with 110 People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), this qualitative study is a preliminary endeavor to delineate the socio-cultural scripts of rural PLWHA in China including their illness experience, everyday lives, and strategies of coping with stigma, poverty, and social barriers. This study documents the new wave of the “feminization of HIV/AIDS” in China. There is a gender difference of infection routes. Women were inf…
When marketisation and privatisation clash with socialist ideals: Educational inequality in Urban China
Family caregiving in the Pacific Rim: Results of a survey conducted in California, Shanghai and Beijing
This study compares the results of a survey conducted in California and China, specifically in the areas of Shanghai and Beijing, on family caregiving (N = 2200). Both descriptive and multivariate methods of analysis were used to examine similarities and differences in the ways in which primary caregivers and their families were impacted by caregiving. Significant differences were found in areas such as the proportion of male caregivers, the leng…
Timely Follow-up Among Multicultural Women With Abnormal Mammograms
The precede-proceed model is useful in delineating personal and structural factors that affect timely diagnosis
Population aging and the need for long term care: A comparison of the United States and the People's Republic of China
When marketisation and privatisation clash with socialist ideals: Educational inequality in Urban China
Wanting to maximize the positive and minimize the negative: Implications for mixed affective experience in American and Chinese contexts
Previous studies have demonstrated that European Americans have fewer mixed affective experiences (i.e., are less likely to experience the bad with the good) compared with Chinese. In this article, we argue that these cultural differences are due to "ideal affect," or how people ideally want to feel. Specifically, we predict that people from individualistic cultures want to maximize positive and minimize negative affect more than people from coll…
Psychological Dysfunction in Southeast Asian Refugees as Mediated by Sense of Coherence
Investigated Antonovky's (1979, 1987) construct of sense of coherence (i.e., an individual's belief that the world was comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) as the internal psychological mechanism mediating the effects of external stressors (generalized resistance deficits) and resources on psychological dysfunction (measured by depression, anxiety, and psychosocial dysfunction) in 2,234 Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, Hmong, and Chinese‐Vi…
Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Work-Family Balance Scale in an Urban Chinese Sample
Population aging and the need for long term care: A comparison of the United States and the People's Republic of China
Who are Volunteers in Urban China
Although government-organized volunteering is common in China, the Chinese government has also sought to encourage the development of grassroots volunteer service organizations (VSOs) given the tremendous social service burden and the complexity of social governance. Motivated by the lack of systematic studies on volunteering in China, this study explores predictors of volunteering in urban China using data from the 2013 Survey on Philanthropic B…
Addressing vulnerability in an emerging economy: China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS)
China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) is the successor of the national scheme that existed through the 1970s. Developed in response to the decline in health care services following the 1978 economic reforms, NCMS was launched in the mid-2000s. Coverage is now nearly universal, through voluntary enrolment. The implementation framework allows local governments to make adjustments for regional peculiarities. NCMS is seen as a response to pov…
Introduction: China and International Development: Challenges and Opportunities
In parallel to its domestic economic boom, China has also been growing as an international actor and as a ‘Rising Power’ in global development. This introduction outlines the need for further understanding of China's own development experience, its increasing involvement in development activities in low? and middle?income countries, and its growing engagement in global governance structures. The articles highlighted contribute valuable expertise …
Wives' Relative Income and Marital Satisfaction among the Urban Chinese Population: Exploring Some Moderating Effects
In contemporary urban China, the employment of married women has led to wives making an economic contribution to the family in both absolute and relative terms. However, little is known about the effect of wives' relative income on marital satisfaction in the Chinese context. This study aims to address two key questions: (a) is wives' relative income associated with marital satisfaction in the Chinese population? (b) Is this association dependent…
Social Protection during Disasters: Evidence from the Wenchuan Earthquake
Using evidence from the Wenchuan earthquake (12 May 2008) in China, this article examines the impact of disaster on the functioning of China's social protection system. The article examines the social protection system and the recipients of social protection. It presents four main findings: (1) the impact of the disaster on the social protection system itself was considerable; (2) the system was able to cope fairly successfully with the enormous …
Personality Structure of Young Chinese Adults: A Contrast of Residents in Taiwan and Rural and Urban China
This investigation compares and contrasts the personality make-up of young Chinese adults in Taiwan, urban and rural China. Utilizing the California Psycho logical Inventory, we assessed their degree of internality, norm-abiding tendency, and self-actualization. Given the presence of greater Western influence, opportunities and tolerance for deviation in Taiwan versus the PRC, and in urban versus rural China, it was hypothesized that Taiwan respo…
Psychological Dysfunction in Southeast Asian Refugees as Mediated by Sense of Coherence
Investigated Antonovky's (1979, 1987) construct of sense of coherence (i.e., an individual's belief that the world was comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) as the internal psychological mechanism mediating the effects of external stressors (generalized resistance deficits) and resources on psychological dysfunction (measured by depression, anxiety, and psychosocial dysfunction) in 2,234 Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, Hmong, and Chinese‐Vi…
Population aging and the need for long term care: A comparison of the United States and the People's Republic of China
Timely Follow-up Among Multicultural Women With Abnormal Mammograms
The precede-proceed model is useful in delineating personal and structural factors that affect timely diagnosis
Family caregiving in the Pacific Rim: Results of a survey conducted in California, Shanghai and Beijing
This study compares the results of a survey conducted in California and China, specifically in the areas of Shanghai and Beijing, on family caregiving (N = 2200). Both descriptive and multivariate methods of analysis were used to examine similarities and differences in the ways in which primary caregivers and their families were impacted by caregiving. Significant differences were found in areas such as the proportion of male caregivers, the leng…
When marketisation and privatisation clash with socialist ideals: Educational inequality in Urban China
National and subnational HIV/Aids coordination: Are global health initiatives closing the gap between intent and practice
BACKGROUND: A coordinated response to HIV/AIDS remains one of the 'grand challenges' facing policymakers today. Global health initiatives (GHIs) have the potential both to facilitate and exacerbate coordination at the national and subnational level. Evidence of the effects of GHIs on coordination is beginning to emerge but has hitherto been limited to single-country studies and broad-brush reviews. To date, no study has provided a focused synthes…
Social Protection during Disasters: Evidence from the Wenchuan Earthquake
Using evidence from the Wenchuan earthquake (12 May 2008) in China, this article examines the impact of disaster on the functioning of China's social protection system. The article examines the social protection system and the recipients of social protection. It presents four main findings: (1) the impact of the disaster on the social protection system itself was considerable; (2) the system was able to cope fairly successfully with the enormous …
Women, Poverty, and the Epidemic in China: Case Studies on Rural People Living with HIV/Aids
Based on in-depth interviews with 110 People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), this qualitative study is a preliminary endeavor to delineate the socio-cultural scripts of rural PLWHA in China including their illness experience, everyday lives, and strategies of coping with stigma, poverty, and social barriers. This study documents the new wave of the “feminization of HIV/AIDS” in China. There is a gender difference of infection routes. Women were inf…
The impact of the global economic slowdown on enterprises and employees in China
After the outbreak of the global economic slowdown, the export of products made in China, particularly the labour-intensive ones, has dramatically dropped. Drawing upon a questionnaire survey on 439 employees and 55 enterprises specialized in electronics, toys, furniture and textile and interviews with industrial associations and local governments in two coastal cities, Shenzhen and Wenzhou, we have a number of findings. First, the global economi…
Addressing vulnerability in an emerging economy: China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS)
China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) is the successor of the national scheme that existed through the 1970s. Developed in response to the decline in health care services following the 1978 economic reforms, NCMS was launched in the mid-2000s. Coverage is now nearly universal, through voluntary enrolment. The implementation framework allows local governments to make adjustments for regional peculiarities. NCMS is seen as a response to pov…
Health Service Access for Rural People Living with HIV/Aids in China: A Critical Evaluation
The increasingly serious HIV/AIDS epidemic creates a significant burden for the public health system; however, little attention has been paid to the issue of health service access in rural China. Based on a qualitative study of 34 Chinese rural People Living with HIVIAIDS (PLWHA) and 13 health providers, this study fills a gap by examining health service access from both the demand and supply-side. Utilizing access theory, this study explores the…
Wives' Relative Income and Marital Satisfaction among the Urban Chinese Population: Exploring Some Moderating Effects
In contemporary urban China, the employment of married women has led to wives making an economic contribution to the family in both absolute and relative terms. However, little is known about the effect of wives' relative income on marital satisfaction in the Chinese context. This study aims to address two key questions: (a) is wives' relative income associated with marital satisfaction in the Chinese population? (b) Is this association dependent…
Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Work-Family Balance Scale in an Urban Chinese Sample
Pathways to psychiatric care of patients from rural regions: A general-hospital-based study
BACKGROUND: Pathway studies highlight the help-seeking behaviours of patients with physical and mental illness. A number of these studies have been completed in other countries, but there have been few reports from China. Therefore, this study was planned to explore the characteristics of the help-seeking pathways of patients with mental illness from rural regions of China through the mental health professionals and treatment at the General Hospi…
Debt and depression among the Dibao population in northwestern China
BACKGROUND: With the rapid development of economy, depression disorder is not only a public health issue but also a socioeconomic problem and attracting more and more attention in China. AIMS: The target of this study is to examine the prevalence of depression and the related risk factors in the Dibao population in northwestern China. METHOD: A cross-sectional analysis in a random sample survey conducted in three northwestern Chinese cities in 20…
Introduction: China and International Development: Challenges and Opportunities
In parallel to its domestic economic boom, China has also been growing as an international actor and as a ‘Rising Power’ in global development. This introduction outlines the need for further understanding of China's own development experience, its increasing involvement in development activities in low? and middle?income countries, and its growing engagement in global governance structures. The articles highlighted contribute valuable expertise …
China has raised the tax on cigarettes: What's next
The Chinese government raised tobacco tax on 10th May 2015, 10 years after the ratification of the WHO Framework Convention on tobacco control. The increase in the resulting tax rate as a percentage of the retail price from 49% to 56% is still relatively low compared to the WHO-recommended benchmark, which is about 70% of the retail price. Therefore, ample room remains for the Chinese government to further increase the tax on cigarettes
Wanting to maximize the positive and minimize the negative: Implications for mixed affective experience in American and Chinese contexts
Previous studies have demonstrated that European Americans have fewer mixed affective experiences (i.e., are less likely to experience the bad with the good) compared with Chinese. In this article, we argue that these cultural differences are due to "ideal affect," or how people ideally want to feel. Specifically, we predict that people from individualistic cultures want to maximize positive and minimize negative affect more than people from coll…
Addressing antimicrobial resistance in China: Policy implementation in a complex context
The effectiveness of antibiotics in treating bacterial infections is decreasing in China because of the widespread development of resistant organisms. Although China has enacted a number of regulations to address this problem, but the impact is very limited. This paper investigates the implementation of these regulations through the lens of complex adaptive systems (CAS). It presents the findings from reviews of relevant policy documents and publ…
Leaders’ smiles reflect cultural differences in ideal affect
Cultures differ in the emotions they teach their members to value ("ideal affect"). We conducted 3 studies to examine whether leaders' smiles reflect these cultural differences in ideal affect. In Study 1, we compared the smiles of top-ranked American and Chinese government leaders, chief executive officers, and university presidents in their official photos. Consistent with findings that Americans value excitement and other high-arousal positive…
Who are Volunteers in Urban China
Although government-organized volunteering is common in China, the Chinese government has also sought to encourage the development of grassroots volunteer service organizations (VSOs) given the tremendous social service burden and the complexity of social governance. Motivated by the lack of systematic studies on volunteering in China, this study explores predictors of volunteering in urban China using data from the 2013 Survey on Philanthropic B…
Services for Aging Persons in China: Spatial Variations in Supply and Demand
Analysis of Forty Years of Geographic Disparity in Liver Cancer Mortality and the Influence of Risk Factors
Regional disparities in cancer mortality rates are prevalent at all geographic scales. Area factors such as health conditions, behavior patterns, pollution, and socioeconomic status (SES) have significant impacts on cancer disparity. Efforts to determine the risk factors help to identify interventions that can lower disease burdens. In this study, we focus on liver cancer mortality (LCM), which is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths…
Explainable machine learning framework to predict the risk of work-related neck and shoulder musculoskeletal disorders among healthcare professionals
Objective: This study aims to develop risk prediction models for neck and shoulder musculoskeletal disorders among healthcare professionals. Methods: A stratified sampling method was employed to select employees from medical institutions in Nanning City, yielding 617 samples. The Boruta algorithm was used for feature selection, and various models, including Tree-Based Models, Single Hidden-Layer Neural Network Models (MLP), Elastic Net Models (EN…
China (17 works) · Medicine (15 works) · Economics (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Geography (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Demography (6 works)