Man Xu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3772307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Man Xu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Man |
| FAMILY NAME | Xu |
| SIGNATURE | XU M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1653-8510 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Religion Affects Whether US Women Marry Early, Without Cohabiting or Having a Nonmarital Birth First
In recent US cohorts, premarital sex is ubiquitous, and cohabitation typically precedes marriage. Yet many religions discourage premarital sex, which implies disapproval of cohabitation or premarital birth. Using a discrete‐time event history, we assess how religious denomination, frequency of religious service attendance, and a rich set of controls affect which family‐forming transition women experienced first and how early. Marriage, cohabitati…
U.S. Women’s First Family-Forming Transitions to Cohabitation or Birth: Differences by Racial and Socioeconomic Disadvantage Challenge the Theory of the Second Demographic Transition
Which do U.S. women do first—cohabit, have a birth, or marry? At what age do they experience this first family-forming event? How do these patterns differ by race, socioeconomic background, and their intersections? We answer these questions using National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) panel data on U.S. White and Black women born 1980–1984 and discrete event history models that treat the first of cohabitation, birth, and marriage as …
From Academia to Action: Philosophical Practice as an Emerging Profession and Paradigm in Contemporary Society
Philosophical practice has emerged as a transformative discipline that bridges theoretical inquiry and everyday life. Originating in the late 20th century, the field integrates counselling, therapy, and other practical applications of philosophical insights to address existential and pragmatic challenges faced by individuals, groups, and organizations in contemporary society. This article examines the definition, historical evolution, theoretical…
“Privileged adult”: How relationship with parents influences adult's status consumption
How does grassland degradation affect soil enzyme activity and microbial nutrient limitation in saline‐alkaline meadow
Soil enzyme activity and its stoichiometry are excellent representatives of soil microorganisms' response to changing conditions, and act as a good indicator of microbial energy and nutrient demands. However, how soil enzyme activity and microbial nutrient limitation will be modified by grassland degradation is not well understood, especially in the saline‐alkaline meadow. Here, we presented how soil enzyme activity and microbial nutrient limitat…
Differences in resting-state brain networks and gray matter between Apoe ε2 and Apoe ε4 carriers in non-dementia elderly
These findings suggest that there are significant differences in brain function and structure between APOE ε2 carriers and APOE ε4 carriers, and these significant differences are closely related to their cognitive performance
Pollution Risk Prediction for Cadmium in Soil from an Abandoned Mine Based on Random Forest Model
It is highly uncertain as to the potential risk of toxic metal(loid)s in abandoned mine soil. In this study, random forest was used to predict the risk of cadmium pollution in the soils of an abandoned lead/zinc mine. The results showed that the random forest model is stable and precise for the pollution risk prediction of toxic metal(loid)s. The mean of Cd, Cu, Tl, Zn, and Pb was 6.02, 1.30, 1.18, 2.03, and 2.08 times higher than the soil backgr…
Internal or External Word-of-Mouth (WOM), Why Do Patients Choose Doctors on Online Medical Services (OMSs) Single Platform in China
(1) Background: Word-of-mouth (WOM) can influence patients' choice of doctors in online medical services (OMSs). Previous studies have explored the relationship between internal WOM in online healthcare communities (OHCs) and patients' choice of doctors. There is a lack of research on external WOM and position ranking in OMSs. (2) Methods: We develop an empirical model based on the data of 4435 doctors from a leading online healthcare community i…
The Making of Song Dynasty History: Sources and Narratives, 960–1279 CE, by Charles Hartman
Unlike most of his American peers who focus on the study of society and culture in middle-period China, Charles Hartman’s scholarly fame is established upon his commitment to institutional and political history, which has long been the academic strength of East Asian historians of the Song period. Scholarship on Song political history requires the extensive survey, careful reading and critical interpretation of voluminous and complicated primary …
Racial Differences in Time at Work Not Working
Racial differences in effort at work, if they exist, can potentially explain race-based wage/earnings disparities in the labor market. The authors estimate specifications of time spent on non-work activities at work by Black and White males and females with data from the American Time Use Survey. Estimates reveal that trivially small differences occur between non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic White males in time spent not working while on the j…
Determinants of Racial Disparities in Female Incarceration Rates, 2000–2018
In The Growth of Incarceration in the United States, the National Research Council documents the large and persistent racial disparities in imprisonment that accompanied the more than quadrupling of the U.S. incarceration rate since the 1980s. Largely unnoticed by policy makers and opinion leaders in recent years is an unprecedented decrease in the number of African American women incarcerated at the same time that the number of white women in pr…
Constructing the refugee: Comparison between newspaper coverage of the Syrian refugee crisis in Canada and the UK
The media play a key role in informing public opinion during refugee crises. Representations of refugees in the media shape public understanding of what a ‘refugee’ is and policy decisions over who to include or to exclude. Although extensive literature has examined representations of refugees in news media, few systematic comparative investigations look at discourses across types of immigration countries. In this article, the author compares new…
Foundation Giving and Economics Research Productivity at HBCUs: Empirical Evidence from the Koch Foundation
Existing research on funding disparities between historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and non-HBCUs primarily focuses on government funding and pays little attention to foundation giving. This paper helps to fill this gap by examining the effects of funding by the Charles Koch Foundation—a major funder of economics research in the USA—on the economics research productivity at HBCUs. Using data from the foundation’s tax forms, the …
Epitaphs Made Widely Available Funerary Biographies for Three Men from Luzhou: Liang: Jian (d. 1042), Wang Cheng (d. 1042), and Chen Hou (1074–1123)
Women in Ancient China, written by Bret Hinsch, 2018
The Economic Benefits of Reducing Racial Disparities in Health: The Case of Minnesota
This paper estimates the benefits of eliminating racial disparities in mortality rates and work weeks lost due to illness. Using data from the American Community Survey (2005−2007) and Minnesota vital statistics (2011−2015), we explore economic methodologies for estimating the costs of health disparities. The data reveal large racial disparities in both mortality and labor market non-participation arising from preventable diseases and illnesses. …
Ancestors, Spouses, and Descendants: The Transformation of Epitaph Writing in Song Luzhou
Ancestors, Spouses, and Descendants:The Transformation of Epitaph Writing in Song Luzhou Man Xu Introduction In contrast to the abundant scholarship on local society and local elites in South China during the Song dynasty, corresponding studies on North China have been largely unavailable because of the shortage of relevant sources. In recent years, 101 newly-discovered epitaphs from Luzhou 潞州,1 a peripheral region in north China, have begun to c…
Internal/External Frame of Reference Model
Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity: Gender and Social Change in China, 1000–1400 by Beverly Bossler (review)
Reviewed by: Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity: Gender and Social Change in China, 1000–1400 by Beverly Bossler Man Xu Beverly Bossler. Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity: Gender and Social Change in China, 1000–1400. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2012. Pp. IX+ 464. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN 978-0674066694. The year 2013 was an exciting one for Song historians in America. Among their fruit…
Music through the ages: Trends in musical engagement and preferences from adolescence through middle adulthood
Are there developmental trends in how individuals experience and engage with music? Data from 2 large cross-sectional studies involving more than a quarter of a million individuals were used to investigate age differences in musical attitudes and preferences from adolescence through middle age. Study 1 investigated age trends in musical engagement. Results indicated that (a) the degree of importance attributed to music declines with age but that …
Who Took the “×” out of Expectancy-Value Theory?: A Psychological Mystery, a Substantive-Methodological Synergy, and a Cross-National Generalization
Expectancy-value theory (EVT) is a dominant theory of human motivation. Historically, the Expectancy × Value interaction, in which motivation is high only if both expectancy and value are high, was central to EVT. However, the Expectancy × Value interaction mysteriously disappeared from published research more than 25 years ago. Using large representative samples of 15-year-olds ( N = 398,750) from 57 diverse countries, we attempted to solve this…
Nüxing wushi yu Songci
352 Reviews / Nan Nü 13 (2011) 348-368 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2011 DOI: 10.1163/156852611X602665 Tian Miao 䓘剿 . Nüxing wushi yu Songci ⤛鼠䈑ḳ冯⬳娆 (Women’s objects and Song lyrics). Beijing: Renmin chubanshe, 2008. 204 pp. RMB 17.00 ISBN 978- 7-01-007576-1. Nüxing wushi yu Songci is a revision of Tian Miao’s doctoral dissertation at Fudan University in 2008. Intrigued by the development of material culture, which gradually moved to the vangu…
Gender and Burial in Imperial China: An Investigation of Women's Space in Fujian Tombs of the Song Era (960-1279)
This paper examines how Song dynasty (960-1279) contemporaries viewed women's place in the afterlife. It analyzes archaeological reports on women's and men's tombs in Song Fujian as well as relevant writings by Song era Neo-Confucian scholars. Despite Neo-Confucians' strong emphasis on gender segregation among the living, both textual and material evidence show that the increasingly hardened gender hierarchy did not carry over into the afterlife.…
Music through the ages: Trends in musical engagement and preferences from adolescence through middle adulthood
Are there developmental trends in how individuals experience and engage with music? Data from 2 large cross-sectional studies involving more than a quarter of a million individuals were used to investigate age differences in musical attitudes and preferences from adolescence through middle age. Study 1 investigated age trends in musical engagement. Results indicated that (a) the degree of importance attributed to music declines with age but that …
Determinants of Racial Disparities in Female Incarceration Rates, 2000–2018
In The Growth of Incarceration in the United States, the National Research Council documents the large and persistent racial disparities in imprisonment that accompanied the more than quadrupling of the U.S. incarceration rate since the 1980s. Largely unnoticed by policy makers and opinion leaders in recent years is an unprecedented decrease in the number of African American women incarcerated at the same time that the number of white women in pr…
Constructing the refugee: Comparison between newspaper coverage of the Syrian refugee crisis in Canada and the UK
The media play a key role in informing public opinion during refugee crises. Representations of refugees in the media shape public understanding of what a ‘refugee’ is and policy decisions over who to include or to exclude. Although extensive literature has examined representations of refugees in news media, few systematic comparative investigations look at discourses across types of immigration countries. In this article, the author compares new…
Racial Differences in Time at Work Not Working
Racial differences in effort at work, if they exist, can potentially explain race-based wage/earnings disparities in the labor market. The authors estimate specifications of time spent on non-work activities at work by Black and White males and females with data from the American Time Use Survey. Estimates reveal that trivially small differences occur between non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic White males in time spent not working while on the j…
U.S. Women’s First Family-Forming Transitions to Cohabitation or Birth: Differences by Racial and Socioeconomic Disadvantage Challenge the Theory of the Second Demographic Transition
Which do U.S. women do first—cohabit, have a birth, or marry? At what age do they experience this first family-forming event? How do these patterns differ by race, socioeconomic background, and their intersections? We answer these questions using National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) panel data on U.S. White and Black women born 1980–1984 and discrete event history models that treat the first of cohabitation, birth, and marriage as …
From Academia to Action: Philosophical Practice as an Emerging Profession and Paradigm in Contemporary Society
Philosophical practice has emerged as a transformative discipline that bridges theoretical inquiry and everyday life. Originating in the late 20th century, the field integrates counselling, therapy, and other practical applications of philosophical insights to address existential and pragmatic challenges faced by individuals, groups, and organizations in contemporary society. This article examines the definition, historical evolution, theoretical…
Who Took the “×” out of Expectancy-Value Theory?: A Psychological Mystery, a Substantive-Methodological Synergy, and a Cross-National Generalization
Expectancy-value theory (EVT) is a dominant theory of human motivation. Historically, the Expectancy × Value interaction, in which motivation is high only if both expectancy and value are high, was central to EVT. However, the Expectancy × Value interaction mysteriously disappeared from published research more than 25 years ago. Using large representative samples of 15-year-olds ( N = 398,750) from 57 diverse countries, we attempted to solve this…
Nüxing wushi yu Songci
352 Reviews / Nan Nü 13 (2011) 348-368 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2011 DOI: 10.1163/156852611X602665 Tian Miao 䓘剿 . Nüxing wushi yu Songci ⤛鼠䈑ḳ冯⬳娆 (Women’s objects and Song lyrics). Beijing: Renmin chubanshe, 2008. 204 pp. RMB 17.00 ISBN 978- 7-01-007576-1. Nüxing wushi yu Songci is a revision of Tian Miao’s doctoral dissertation at Fudan University in 2008. Intrigued by the development of material culture, which gradually moved to the vangu…
Gender and Burial in Imperial China: An Investigation of Women's Space in Fujian Tombs of the Song Era (960-1279)
This paper examines how Song dynasty (960-1279) contemporaries viewed women's place in the afterlife. It analyzes archaeological reports on women's and men's tombs in Song Fujian as well as relevant writings by Song era Neo-Confucian scholars. Despite Neo-Confucians' strong emphasis on gender segregation among the living, both textual and material evidence show that the increasingly hardened gender hierarchy did not carry over into the afterlife.…
Music through the ages: Trends in musical engagement and preferences from adolescence through middle adulthood
Are there developmental trends in how individuals experience and engage with music? Data from 2 large cross-sectional studies involving more than a quarter of a million individuals were used to investigate age differences in musical attitudes and preferences from adolescence through middle age. Study 1 investigated age trends in musical engagement. Results indicated that (a) the degree of importance attributed to music declines with age but that …
Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity: Gender and Social Change in China, 1000–1400 by Beverly Bossler (review)
Reviewed by: Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity: Gender and Social Change in China, 1000–1400 by Beverly Bossler Man Xu Beverly Bossler. Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity: Gender and Social Change in China, 1000–1400. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2012. Pp. IX+ 464. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN 978-0674066694. The year 2013 was an exciting one for Song historians in America. Among their fruit…
Internal/External Frame of Reference Model
Ancestors, Spouses, and Descendants: The Transformation of Epitaph Writing in Song Luzhou
Ancestors, Spouses, and Descendants:The Transformation of Epitaph Writing in Song Luzhou Man Xu Introduction In contrast to the abundant scholarship on local society and local elites in South China during the Song dynasty, corresponding studies on North China have been largely unavailable because of the shortage of relevant sources. In recent years, 101 newly-discovered epitaphs from Luzhou 潞州,1 a peripheral region in north China, have begun to c…
Epitaphs Made Widely Available Funerary Biographies for Three Men from Luzhou: Liang: Jian (d. 1042), Wang Cheng (d. 1042), and Chen Hou (1074–1123)
Women in Ancient China, written by Bret Hinsch, 2018
The Economic Benefits of Reducing Racial Disparities in Health: The Case of Minnesota
This paper estimates the benefits of eliminating racial disparities in mortality rates and work weeks lost due to illness. Using data from the American Community Survey (2005−2007) and Minnesota vital statistics (2011−2015), we explore economic methodologies for estimating the costs of health disparities. The data reveal large racial disparities in both mortality and labor market non-participation arising from preventable diseases and illnesses. …
Foundation Giving and Economics Research Productivity at HBCUs: Empirical Evidence from the Koch Foundation
Existing research on funding disparities between historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and non-HBCUs primarily focuses on government funding and pays little attention to foundation giving. This paper helps to fill this gap by examining the effects of funding by the Charles Koch Foundation—a major funder of economics research in the USA—on the economics research productivity at HBCUs. Using data from the foundation’s tax forms, the …
Determinants of Racial Disparities in Female Incarceration Rates, 2000–2018
In The Growth of Incarceration in the United States, the National Research Council documents the large and persistent racial disparities in imprisonment that accompanied the more than quadrupling of the U.S. incarceration rate since the 1980s. Largely unnoticed by policy makers and opinion leaders in recent years is an unprecedented decrease in the number of African American women incarcerated at the same time that the number of white women in pr…
Constructing the refugee: Comparison between newspaper coverage of the Syrian refugee crisis in Canada and the UK
The media play a key role in informing public opinion during refugee crises. Representations of refugees in the media shape public understanding of what a ‘refugee’ is and policy decisions over who to include or to exclude. Although extensive literature has examined representations of refugees in news media, few systematic comparative investigations look at discourses across types of immigration countries. In this article, the author compares new…
Internal or External Word-of-Mouth (WOM), Why Do Patients Choose Doctors on Online Medical Services (OMSs) Single Platform in China
(1) Background: Word-of-mouth (WOM) can influence patients' choice of doctors in online medical services (OMSs). Previous studies have explored the relationship between internal WOM in online healthcare communities (OHCs) and patients' choice of doctors. There is a lack of research on external WOM and position ranking in OMSs. (2) Methods: We develop an empirical model based on the data of 4435 doctors from a leading online healthcare community i…
The Making of Song Dynasty History: Sources and Narratives, 960–1279 CE, by Charles Hartman
Unlike most of his American peers who focus on the study of society and culture in middle-period China, Charles Hartman’s scholarly fame is established upon his commitment to institutional and political history, which has long been the academic strength of East Asian historians of the Song period. Scholarship on Song political history requires the extensive survey, careful reading and critical interpretation of voluminous and complicated primary …
Racial Differences in Time at Work Not Working
Racial differences in effort at work, if they exist, can potentially explain race-based wage/earnings disparities in the labor market. The authors estimate specifications of time spent on non-work activities at work by Black and White males and females with data from the American Time Use Survey. Estimates reveal that trivially small differences occur between non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic White males in time spent not working while on the j…
How does grassland degradation affect soil enzyme activity and microbial nutrient limitation in saline‐alkaline meadow
Soil enzyme activity and its stoichiometry are excellent representatives of soil microorganisms' response to changing conditions, and act as a good indicator of microbial energy and nutrient demands. However, how soil enzyme activity and microbial nutrient limitation will be modified by grassland degradation is not well understood, especially in the saline‐alkaline meadow. Here, we presented how soil enzyme activity and microbial nutrient limitat…
Differences in resting-state brain networks and gray matter between Apoe ε2 and Apoe ε4 carriers in non-dementia elderly
These findings suggest that there are significant differences in brain function and structure between APOE ε2 carriers and APOE ε4 carriers, and these significant differences are closely related to their cognitive performance
Pollution Risk Prediction for Cadmium in Soil from an Abandoned Mine Based on Random Forest Model
It is highly uncertain as to the potential risk of toxic metal(loid)s in abandoned mine soil. In this study, random forest was used to predict the risk of cadmium pollution in the soils of an abandoned lead/zinc mine. The results showed that the random forest model is stable and precise for the pollution risk prediction of toxic metal(loid)s. The mean of Cd, Cu, Tl, Zn, and Pb was 6.02, 1.30, 1.18, 2.03, and 2.08 times higher than the soil backgr…
“Privileged adult”: How relationship with parents influences adult's status consumption
U.S. Women’s First Family-Forming Transitions to Cohabitation or Birth: Differences by Racial and Socioeconomic Disadvantage Challenge the Theory of the Second Demographic Transition
Which do U.S. women do first—cohabit, have a birth, or marry? At what age do they experience this first family-forming event? How do these patterns differ by race, socioeconomic background, and their intersections? We answer these questions using National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) panel data on U.S. White and Black women born 1980–1984 and discrete event history models that treat the first of cohabitation, birth, and marriage as …
From Academia to Action: Philosophical Practice as an Emerging Profession and Paradigm in Contemporary Society
Philosophical practice has emerged as a transformative discipline that bridges theoretical inquiry and everyday life. Originating in the late 20th century, the field integrates counselling, therapy, and other practical applications of philosophical insights to address existential and pragmatic challenges faced by individuals, groups, and organizations in contemporary society. This article examines the definition, historical evolution, theoretical…
Religion Affects Whether US Women Marry Early, Without Cohabiting or Having a Nonmarital Birth First
In recent US cohorts, premarital sex is ubiquitous, and cohabitation typically precedes marriage. Yet many religions discourage premarital sex, which implies disapproval of cohabitation or premarital birth. Using a discrete‐time event history, we assess how religious denomination, frequency of religious service attendance, and a rich set of controls affect which family‐forming transition women experienced first and how early. Marriage, cohabitati…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · History (8 works) · China (7 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Demography (5 works)