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The purpose of this article is twofold: 1) to analyse common career difficulties experienced by academic journal editors in China and explain their causes; and 2) to identify how stakeholders in Chinese scholarly publishing can support editors. Thirty-two academic journal editors were surveyed, and fourteen of those were subsequently interviewed. We found that a deficit of high-quality manuscripts, a large number of laborious tasks at work, limited opportunities for professional advancement, and low job satisfaction were the main career difficulties, of which the two most common were a deficit of high-quality manuscripts and low job satisfaction. The key causes of these difficulties were an unbalanced academic evaluation system that rewarded indexed over non-indexed journals and the marginal status of journal offices at their affiliated institutions. The forms of support most desired by respondents were recognition for their work, salary increases, greater opportunities for continued learning, easier job title promotion, and more scholarly communication with their peers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is twofold: a) to analyse the current situation of Chinese academic book exports from a publisher's perspective, including models, channels, motivation, and performance; b) to identify the challenges that Chinese scholarly publishers are facing and explain their causes. In all, fifteen publishers from state presses, local presses, and university presses were interviewed. Desk research supplemented the interview data. We found that co-publishing, copyright transfer, and physical book export are the main models and that publishers prefer co-publishing and copyright transfer to exporting actual books. Book fairs and copyright agents are still important channels for negotiating export deals. Applying for funding programs and achieving evaluative benchmarks are the principal motivators for publishers. Surprisingly, over half the publishers interviewed do not profit much from exportation. Nevertheless, supervising departments and chief managers still attach much importance to it. At present, Chinese scholarly publishers are confronted with the challenges of a quality gap, state subsidy substituting for a real market, and information asymmetry. Unreasonable systems of academic evaluation and quality control, state-owned property rights, limited qualified manpower, and rare cooperation are key causes of these challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Cathaysia Block is located in South China, along the western margin of the Pacific plate, and well known for its widespread granitoids and rich poly-metallic mineralization. Despite the numerous studies conducted in this region, some key questions are still in debate, which revolve around the detailed crustal architecture, the boundary between the western and eastern part of Cathaysia Block, and the geodynamic evolution and metallogenic settings in the Cathaysia Block. In this study, we have conducted a dense broad-band seismic observation in the Cathaysia Block, and obtained the fine crustal structure of it by using P-wave receiver functions and analyzing other geophysical and geological studies comprehensively. Our study has following findings: (1) the crust of the Cathaysia Block is ~31.5 km thick, thinner than that of the global continent, and is interpreted to have been thinned since the Late Mesozoic; (2) the Vp/Vs ratio of the Cathaysia Block is lower than that of the global continent, which implies there is no extensive underplating beneath the Cathaysia Block, or that the magma may be confined at bottom of the crust and formed a velocity gradient belt around Moho; (3) Zhenghe-Dapu fault is marked as the structural boundary between the western and eastern Cathaysia Block; (4) the western and eastern Cathaysia Block have different intra-crustal structures, petrochronology features and mineralization settings; (5) the subduction of the paleo-Pacific plate and the following roll-back could be responsible for the geodynamic evolution of the crustal deformation, as well as the widespread magmatism and mineralization. • Fine crustal structure of Cathaysia is obtained by new seismic survey. • Zhenghe-Dapu fault is the boundary between the east and west Cathaysia. • No extensive magmatic underplating beneath the Cathaysia Block. • Two-stage paleo-Pacific subduction led to the crustal structure of Cathaysia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]