Qian Wang Livres

"Beautiful Country is the real deal. Heartrending, unvarnished, and powerfully courageous, this account of growing up undocumented in America will never leave you."--Gish Jen, author of The Resisters. "Ba Ba told me this and I in turn carried it in my heart: so long as we didn't stake claim to what wasn't ours--the things, our rooms, America, this beautiful country--we would be okay." An incandescent and heartrending memoir about Qian Julie Wang's five years living undocumented after immigrating with her parents from China to New York City in 1994. In Chinese the word for the United States, Mei Guo, translates directly to "beautiful country," but when seven-year-old Qian is plucked from her warm and happy childhood surrounded by extended family in China, she finds a world of crushing fear and poverty instead. Unable to speak English at first, Qian is isolated and disregarded, put into special education classes because she doesn't speak the language and humiliated by teachers and classmates when she struggles to pay attention because of hunger or exhaustion. She encounters racism, and people of other races, for the first time, shocked at where her family fits in comparison to their status as educated elites in China. After school she works shifts alongside her mother in Chinatown sweatshops. There is so much about Qian's new home that doesn't make sense, but the rules of survival are drilled into her head: If you see a policeman, you must run in the other direction. If anyone asks--or even if they don't--you tell them you were born here. Do as you're told or we could be separated forever. Understanding implicitly the toll this has taken on her parents, Qian tries desperately to cheer them up and mediate their increasingly heated arguments, certain that if she is good enough, she can hold the family together. In remarkable, unsentimental prose Wang channels her childhood perspective, illuminating the cruelty and indignity of America's immigration system, while also crafting a narrative of resilience from her family's small moments of joy: their first slice of pizza, "shopping days" when the family would unearth unlikely treasures in Brooklyn's trash, and the necessary escape she found in books at the local library. Searing and unforgettable, Beautiful Country is an essential book about the cost of making a home in a hostile land from an astonishing new talent"--Publisher's description

Focusing on the life histories of laid-off workers from the 1970s in China, this book examines the profound shifts in values experienced by this group amid significant social and economic transformations. Through the stories of three participants, it highlights their struggles to adapt from the era of Mao to the reforms of Deng and beyond. The work integrates photo elicitation with qualitative methodology, revealing the complex interplay between individual experiences and broader societal changes, particularly the tensions between collectivism and individualism, and traditional versus modern values.

The financial health of a firm is influenced by fluctuating macroeconomic factors, such as economic growth changes. This dependence between defaults can be modeled using standard reduced-form credit risk models with conditionally independent defaults. Credit contagion refers to the spread of financial distress from one entity to another, challenging the classical assumption that default probabilities rely solely on common factors. Existing contagion models can be categorized into types, with Jarrow & Yu's counterparty risk model and Schönbucher's frailty model as key representatives. Additionally, two original models are proposed: a correlated firm value model based on Credit Metric’s framework and a correlated firm value with jump model. In the correlated firm value model, asset values depend on both common and firm-specific factors, with tied firms defined as business partners within economic networks. This creates a factor model where asset values are interconnected. The correlated firm value with jump model introduces influence factors into a jump process. The study examines pricing effects from these contagion models, particularly for second-to-default basket credit derivatives and CDO prices, revealing differing pricing trends. Finally, the author suggests hedging strategies in the context of contagion.

In der Studie wird das chinesische Kündigungsschutzrecht dargestellt, das vor allem in dem am 1.1.2008 in Kraft getretenen Arbeitsvertragsgesetz geregelt ist. Durch diese Gesetzgebung ist der Bestandschutz zu Gunsten des Arbeitnehmers deutlich verstärkt worden. Insbesondere hat der Kündigungsschutz durch die Begrenzung der Befristungsmöglichkeit an Bedeutung gewonnen. Trotz bestehender Regelung ist das chinesische Kündigungsschutzrecht gegenüber dem deutschen in vieler Hinsicht noch unentwickelt. Das betrifft sowohl die Probleme bezüglich Anwendung und Auslegung einzelner Vorschriften, als auch die grundlegenden Gedanken. Daher wird versucht, offen gebliebene Fragen unter Rückgriff auf deutsche Erfahrungen zu klären und so praktischen Nutzen aus der rechtsvergleichenden Arbeit zu ziehen. Der Band richtet sich an alle, die an arbeitsrechtlichen Fragen interessiert oder im China-Geschäft tätig sind. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit verdienen die Ausführungen über die Kündigung wegen schwerwiegenden Verstoßes gegen die Arbeitsordnung, die Problematik der krankheitsbedingten Kündigung, die „Sozialauswahl“ bei einer Massenentlassung und die Pflicht zur Abfindungszahlung.