Nguyen Truong To's Understanding of Japan's Meiji Reform by Nguyễn, Tiến Dũng

“…Like many countries in the East in the second half of the nineteenth century, Japan was under the growing pressure of aggression from the Western colonial powers. With the reform, modernization and self- strengthening of the country, Japan was the only country in the Northeast Asia region managed to defend its independence and national sovereignty. …”
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Competition, Contracts, and Creativity: Evidence from Novel Writing in a Platform Market by Yanhui Wu, Feng Zhu

“…These findings show that market competition spurs creative production when individuals are rewarded under performance-based incentive structures, but the involvement of a powerful gatekeeper in commercializing creative work may distort the relationship between producers’ efforts and market performance.…”
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