Beijing Foreign Studies University

Career Experiences of Special Education Teachers in China: Implications for Teacher Well-Being and Workforce Support

Special education teachers’ career experiences span entry pathways, role enactment, professional meaning and strain, and institutional support, yet these dimensions are often studied separately. This qualitative study examined how 19 full-time special education teachers understoo...

A Comparative Study of Lexical Inferencing During Text Reading: Evidence from Chinese–English–Japanese Trilinguals

Lexical inferencing (LIF) draws on multiple knowledge sources (KSs), but little is known about how the same multilingual readers report using these sources across different reading tasks. This exploratory study examined 31 Chinese–English–Japanese trilinguals who completed think-...

Leveraging Industrial Internet for supply chain resilience: the roles of capability pathways and supply chain dependence

Purpose Supply chains face increasing disruptions in today's volatile environment, necessitating enhanced resilience through digital transformation. This study aims to examine the relationship between Industrial Internet and supply chain resilience and to explore the mediating ro...

The discursive construction of China in US institutional translation (1979–2025)

Abstract This study examines how Interpret: China , a translation archive project hosted by the US-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, shapes what counts as China for policy-facing publics while presenting its work as enabling “objective understanding.” Drawing...

Sequencing thought into speech: Hippocampal functions in linguistic linearization

The hippocampus has traditionally been understood as a memory system central to episodic representation, spatial navigation, and relational binding. Recent findings, however, suggest that its functions may extend beyond memory to the organization of sequential information. This r...

Positioning GenAI in Academic Research Discourse: Layered Grammatical Patterns and the Limits of a Single Agency Gradient

ABSTRACT This study examines how generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is grammatically positioned in Discussion sections of GenAI‐related academic writing research. From 134 eligible articles, 50 were selected through year‐by‐topic stratified probability sampling, yielding...

Smart city policy and firm digitalization: evidence from MD&A disclosures

Purpose This study aims to examine whether smart city policies influence corporate digital transformation. Using China’s National Smart City Pilot Project as a quasi-natural experiment, we investigate if smart city designation affects firms’ digitalization levels as reflected in...

A PGSA approach to interactive pricing optimization: converting consumer costs into marketing value

Purpose This study reconceptualizes interactive pricing as a reciprocal and value co-creation process that sets personalized optimal prices to drive purchases and profit margins. We introduce Predictive Global Sensitivity Analysis (PGSA) as a method for real-time interactive pric...

Prevalence and network analysis of depressive, anxiety and cognitive symptoms among oldest-old population in China

The oldest-old people are prone to such psychological and mental risks as depression, anxiety, and cognitive dysfunction. Yet which specific symptom poses the biggest threat remains elusive, especially when the characteristics of a certain sample are considered. Using network ana...

The construction of royal charisma and de-accountability: the Thai monarchy under King Bhumibol (1948–1980)

This article examines how Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej constructed royal charisma and employed political practices prior to the Prem era to distance himself from political crises involving student movements, military governments, and episodes of state violence. It argues th...

Inter‐Set Blood‐Flow Restriction Increases Peripheral Physiological Stress While Preserving Repeated‐Sprint Mechanical Output in Trained Athletes

ABSTRACT Inter‐set blood‐flow restriction (BFR) may increase the physiological stimulus of repeated‐sprint exercise without compromising mechanical output, but evidence in trained athletes is limited. In a randomized crossover design, 26 national‐level male badminton players comp...