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Astor BK Realty Trust, Et Al. V. Shanda Games Limited, Et Al. 18-CV-02463
Case 1:18-cv-02463-ALC Document 1 Filed 03/19/18 Page 1 of 23 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ASTOR BK REALTY TRUST, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, Case No. _______________ Plaintiff, CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT vs. FOR VIOLATIONS OF SECTIONS 10(b), 14(a) AND 20(a) SHANDA GAMES LIMITED, YINGFENG OF THE SECURITIES ZHANG, LI YAO, LIJUN LIN, HENG WING EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 CHAN, YONG GUI, SHAOLIN LIANG, and DANIAN CHEN, JURY TRIAL DEMANDED Defendants. CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT Plaintiff Astor BK Realty Trust (“Plaintiff”), on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, by and through its attorneys, alleges the following upon information and belief, including investigation of counsel and review of publicly-available information, except as to those allegations pertaining to Plaintiff, which are alleged upon personal knowledge: NATURE OF THE ACTION 1. This is a class action brought by Plaintiff on behalf of itself and the other former ordinary stockholders and owners of American Depositary Shares (“ADS”) of Shanda Games Limited (“Shanda” or the “Company”) except Defendants (defined below) and their affiliates, against Shanda, Yingfeng Zhang (“Zhang”), Shanda’s Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of its board of directors, Li Yao (“Yao”), Shanda’s Chief Financial Officer and a Director, and the other members of Shanda’s board of directors (together with Zhang and Yao, the “Board” or the “Individual Defendants”) for their violations of Section 10(b), 14(a) and 20(a) of the Securities Case 1:18-cv-02463-ALC Document 1 Filed 03/19/18 Page 2 of 23 Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”), 15.U.S.C. -
Bloody Case That Started from a Parody: American Intellectual Property and the Pursuit of Democratic Ideals in Modern China
UCLA UCLA Entertainment Law Review Title The Bloody Case That Started From a Parody: American Intellectual Property and the Pursuit of Democratic Ideals in Modern China Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7p81r9cz Journal UCLA Entertainment Law Review, 16(2) ISSN 1073-2896 Authors Rogoyski, Robert S. Basin, Kenneth Publication Date 2009 DOI 10.5070/LR8162027126 Peer reviewed eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California The Bloody Case That Started From a Parody: American Intellectual Property and the Pursuit of Democratic Ideals in Modern China Robert S. Rogoyskil and Kenneth Basin2 I. INTRODUCTION .............................................. 238 II. TRANSFORMATIVE USES AND THEIR TREATMENT UNDER CHINESE AND U.S. LAW ................................... 239 A. Hu Ge and Clip Culture in Contemporary China .... 239 B. Treatment of The Steamed Bun Under Chinese Copy- right L aw ............................................ 241 C. Treatment of The Steamed Bun Under American Copyright Law ....................................... 244 III. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: AMERICAN POLICY VS. AMER- ICAN IDEALS ............................................... 245 A. American Foreign Policy: In Pursuit of Freedom ..... 245 B. American Intellectual Property Policy: In Pursuit of M oney ............................................... 249 1. 1980s and 1990s .................................. 249 2. R ecent Years .................................... 251 C. Black Letter Results of the Current American Strategy ............................................. -
Dokumentation Des COVID-19-Ausbruchs: Zeitleiste
Dokumentation des COVID-19-Ausbruchs: Zeitleiste JOURNALISMUS MEIN BERICHT https://web.archive.org/web/20210611015902/https://www.jenniferzengblog.com/home/2021/6/1 0/documentary-of-covid-19-outbreak-timeline (Anmerkung von Jennifer: Dieses Dokument enthält hauptsächlich chinesische Nachrichtenberichte über COVID-19, die zu Beginn des Ausbruchs (vom 1. Dezember bis 31. Januar) veröffentlicht wurden. Einige davon wurden von chinesischen Nachrichtenmedien und lokalen chinesischen Regierungen veröffentlicht Hinweise auf die mögliche Absicht der chinesischen Regierung, die Epidemie zum Schweigen zu bringen und zu vertuschen. Viele Artikel wurden später aus dem Internet gelöscht, aber eine Gruppe von Interessierten hat sie auf GitHub gespeichert. Sie organisieren die Archive in einer Zeitleiste mit dem Zweck, "zu bewahren". Geschichte, damit die Wahrheit im Laufe der Zeit nicht verborgen oder vergessen wird. Die ursprüngliche Zeitleiste ist auf Chinesisch. Dies ist eine englische Übersetzung, damit westliche Leser auch die Wahrheit hinter dem Covid-19-Ausbruch erfahren können. Dies ist ein übersetztes Dokument. Das Originaldokument ist in (Chinesisch): https://web.archive.org/web/20200419085730/https://github.com/Pratitya /COVID-19-timeline/blob/master/TIMELINE.md 1. Dezember 2019 · Der erste Einwohner von Wuhan hatte Symptome einer ungeklärten Lungenentzündung (nach der Diagnose war es zu diesem Zeitpunkt eine unbekannte Lungenentzündung mit unbekannter Ursache und kein Arzt gefunden und gemeldet). Laut Wu Wenxuan, Direktor der Intensivstation (ICU) des Jinyintan Krankenhauses, war der Patient ein Mann in den 70ern mit einem leichten Hirninfarkt und Alzheimer. Nachdem er krank wurde, wurde er in ein anderes Krankenhaus in Wuhan eingeliefert, aber als sich sein Zustand verschlechterte, wurde er am 29. Dezember in das Jinyintan-Krankenhaus verlegt. -
How the Health Rumor Misleads People's Perception in A
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Article How the Health Rumor Misleads People’s Perception in a Public Health Emergency: Lessons from a Purchase Craze during the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Liwei Zhang 1, Kelin Chen 2 , He Jiang 3 and Ji Zhao 4,* 1 School of Public Administration, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China; [email protected] 2 Institute of Urban Governance, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China; [email protected] 3 Department of Social Psychology, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China; [email protected] 4 School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +86-186-8676-2106 Received: 21 August 2020; Accepted: 29 September 2020; Published: 2 October 2020 Abstract: Health rumors often mislead people and cause adverse health behaviors. Especially during a public health emergency, health rumors may result in severe consequences for people’s health and risk governance. Insight into how these rumors form and harm people’s health behavior is critical for assisting people in establishing scientific health cognition and to enhance public health emergency responses. Using the case study with interview data of a salient purchase craze led by a health rumor during the COVID-19 outbreak in China, this article aimed to illustrate the process of how a piece of information becomes a health rumor. Furthermore, we identify factors that cause people to believe rumors and conduct behavior that leads to a purchase craze. Results show that a public misunderstanding of the unique psychology of uncertainty, cultural and social cognition, and conformity behavior jointly informs people’s beliefs in rumors and further causes purchase craze behavior. -
Coronavirus Brief
CAIXIN GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CORONAVIRUS BRIEF Feb. 07 Executive Summary The Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCov) outbreak has severely disrupted the Chinese economy since mid-January this year. Economists broadly agree that the shock should be temporary but will drag down economic growth for 2020. Caixin Global Intelligence (CGI) has compiled a brief covering the current status, timeline of events, and overview of economists’ expected potential impacts and responses. 1 2 Timeline Dec.08 First infection after virus breaks species barrier in Wuhan Wuhan health commission acknowledges "mysterious pneumonia" and alerts hospitals, in a Dec.30 memo later leaked to the public National Health Commission sends team of experts to Wuhan, led by prominent epidemiologist Dec.31 and pulmonologist Zhong Nanshan Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market closed; Wuhan police punishes eight doctors for "spreading Jan.01 rumors" about virus 41 patients in Wuhan confirmed to have contracted the virus, including 27 with direct exposure Jan.02 to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market Jan.07 Pathogen of unexplained viral pneumonia identified as a Novel Coronavirus Jan.09 First death Jan.10 Virus genome sequenced Jan.13 First confirmed case outside of China Jan.19 China confirms first cases outside of Wuhan Zhong Nanshan reveals person-to-person transmission; Premier Li Keqiang urges decisive Jan.20 efforts to control the epidemic Zhong Nanshan reveals person-to-person transmission; Premier Li Keqiang urges decisive Jan.20 efforts to control the epidemic Officials announce quarantine of Wuhan effective the next day; North Korea closes its border, Jan.22 the first country to do so; WHO holds first emergency meeting to determine if virus constitutes a "public health emergency of international concern" (PHEIC) First confirmed incidence of human transmission outside China; almost all cities in Hubei Jan.24 enforce quarantine Jan.25 U.S. -
Lessons from Dermatology About Inflammatory Responses in Covid‐19
Received: 2 May 2020 Revised: 14 May 2020 Accepted: 15 May 2020 DOI: 10.1002/rmv.2130 REVIEW Lessons from dermatology about inflammatory responses in Covid-19 Paulo Ricardo Criado1,2 | Carla Pagliari3 | Francisca Regina Oliveira Carneiro4 | Juarez Antonio Simões Quaresma4 1Dermatology Department, Centro Universitário Saúde ABC, Santo André, Brazil 2Dermatology Department, Faculdade de Medicina, Centro Universitário Saúde ABC, Santo André, Brazil 3Pathology Department, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de S~ao Paulo, S~ao Paulo, Brazil 4Center of Biological and Health Sciences, State University of Pará, Belém, Brazil Correspondence Professor Paulo Ricardo Criado MD, PhD, Summary Dermatology Department, Centro The SARS-Cov-2 is a single-stranded RNA virus composed of 16 non-structural pro- Universitário Saúde ABC, Rua Carneiro Leao~ 33 Vila Scarpelli, Santo André, SP 09050-430, teins (NSP 1-16) with specific roles in the replication of coronaviruses. NSP3 has the Brazil. property to block host innate immune response and to promote cytokine expression. Email: [email protected] NSP5 can inhibit interferon (IFN) signalling and NSP16 prevents MAD5 recognition, depressing the innate immunity. Dendritic cells, monocytes, and macrophages are the first cell lineage against viruses' infections. The IFN type I is the danger signal for the human body during this clinical setting. Protective immune responses to viral infec- tion are initiated by innate immune sensors that survey extracellular and intracellular space for foreign nucleic acids. In Covid-19 the pathogenesis is not yet fully under- stood, but viral and host factors seem to play a key role. Important points in severe Covid-19 are characterized by an upregulated innate immune response, hypercoagulopathy state, pulmonary tissue damage, neurological and/or gastrointes- tinal tract involvement, and fatal outcome in severe cases of macrophage activation syndrome, which produce a ‘cytokine storm’. -
Community Health Systems, Inc. 2018 Annual Meeting
April 5, 2018 DEAR FELLOW STOCKHOLDERS, I am pleased to announce the Community Health Systems, Inc. 2018 Annual Meeting. The attached Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders and Proxy Statement describe the business to be considered and voted on during that meeting. I encourage you to read the Proxy Statement carefully for more information. It is important that your shares be represented at the Annual Meeting. Whether or not you plan on attending the meeting, the Company would appreciate your efforts to vote your shares. Additional information on this process can be found in the Proxy Statement. I do not believe that communication begins and ends with the Annual Meeting. We look forward to a continuing dialogue with our stockholders in the future. Thank you for your investment in Community Health Systems, Inc. and your support. Sincerely, Wayne T. Smith Chairman and Chief Executive Officer COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS, INC. NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS Tuesday, May 15, 2018 8:00 a.m. (Central Time) Franklin Marriott Cool Springs, 700 Cool Springs Blvd., Franklin, Tennessee 37067 The Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Community Health Systems, Inc. will be held on Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at 8:00 a.m. (Central Time) at Franklin Marriott Cool Springs, 700 Cool Springs Blvd., Franklin, Tennessee 37067, to consider and act upon the following matters: 1. To elect ten (10) directors, each to serve for a term of one year to expire at the 2019 Annual Meeting of Stockholders; 2. To hold an advisory vote on executive compensation; 3. To approve the amendment and restatement of the Community Health Systems, Inc. -
United States District Court Southern District of New York
Case 1:18-cv-02463-ALC Document 25 Filed 08/13/18 Page 1 of 107 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Case No. 18-CV-02463 (ALC) CLASS ACTION IN RE SHANDA GAMES LIMITED LEAD PLAINTIFF’S CLASS ACTION SECURITIES LITIGATION COMPLAINT FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE FEDERAL SECURITIES LAWS Jury Trial Demanded Case 1:18-cv-02463-ALC Document 25 Filed 08/13/18 Page 2 of 107 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. NATURE OF THE ACTION ............................................................................................. 1 II. JURISDICTION AND VENUE ......................................................................................... 9 III. PARTIES AND OTHER KEY ACTORS ........................................................................ 10 A. Lead Plaintiff ........................................................................................................ 10 B. Defendants ............................................................................................................ 10 C. Shanda Interactive ................................................................................................. 13 D. Special Committee ................................................................................................ 13 E. Buyer Group.......................................................................................................... 13 IV. SUBSTANTIVE ALLEGATIONS .................................................................................. 15 A. Overview of Shanda’s Business........................................................................... -
Cultural Governance in Contemporary China: Popular Culture, Digital Technology, and the State
! ! ! ! CULTURAL GOVERNANCE IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA: POPULAR CULTURE, DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY, AND THE STATE BY LUZHOU LI DISSERTATION Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Communications and Media in the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015 Urbana, Illinois Doctoral Committee: Professor Emeritus John Nerone, Chair Assistant Professor Amanda Ciafone Professor Emeritus Dan Schiller Professor Kent Ono, University of Utah ii ABSTRACT This dissertation is a study of the historical formation and transformation of the Chinese online audiovisual industry under forces of strategic political calculations, expanding market relations, and growing social participation, and the cultural ramifications of this process, especially the kind of transformations digital technologies have wrought on the state-TV-station-centered mode of cultural production/distribution and regulatory apparatuses. Through this case, the project aims to theorize the changing mode of cultural governance of post-socialist regimes in the context of digital capitalism. Using mixed methods of documentary research, interviews with industry practitioners, participant observations of trade fairs/festivals, and critical discourse analyses of popular cultural texts, the study finds that the traditional broadcasting and the online video sectors are structured along two different political economic mechanisms. While the former is dominated by domestic capital and heavily regulated by state agencies, the latter is supported by transnational capital and less regulated. Digital technologies coupled with transnational capital thus generate new cultural flows, processes, and practices, which produces a heterogeneous and contested cultural sphere in the digital environment that substantially differs from the one created by traditional television. -
Generational Change in Chinese ICT Entrepreneurs and Their
IFEAMA SPSCP Vol.2 pp.17-24 IFEAMA All right reserved Generational Change in Chinese ICT Entrepreneurs and their Business Models: A Review of A. Saxenian’s Brain Circulation Model Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan Ryoji NAKAGAWA rnt20014@ir.ritsumei.ac.jp 1. Rapid Growth of Chinese ICT Industry When the Chinese government began its Reform and Opening Policy in 1978, Chinese GDP per capita was less than $400. In 1980, the number of telephone subscribers per 100 inhabitants in China was only 0.63, and in 1983 the development of machinery compatible with the IBM PC had only just started. Under a market-oriented and outward-looking policy, however, China achieved amazingly rapid and continuous economic development, so that its GDP per capita reached $3,678 in 2009. China has already become one of the biggest ICT manufacturing countries in the world. In 2008, of the world’s PCs, around 40%, or 136 million units, were made in China. As the PC factory of the world, China exported 80% of these, but 20% were sold to the Chinese market, which has also become one of the biggest markets in the world, around three times the size of the Japanese PC market. Lenovo, the top Chinese PC manufacturer, merged with IBM’s PC Division in 2005 and became the world’s third largest PC manufacturer (dropping to fourth, however, after the takeover of Gateway by Acer). As of June 2010, China has 805.3 million mobile phone subscribers, or around 16% of the world’s total and around eight times as many as Japan. -
Charles Zhang
In a little over 35 years China’s economy has been transformed Week in China from an inefficient backwater to the second largest in the world. If you want to understand how that happened, you need to understand the people who helped reshape the Chinese business landscape. china’s tycoons China’s Tycoons is a book about highly successful Chinese profiles of entrepreneurs. In 150 easy-to- digest profiles, we tell their stories: where they came from, how they started, the big break that earned them their first millions, and why they came to dominate their industries and make billions. These are tales of entrepreneurship, risk-taking and hard work that differ greatly from anything you’ll top business have read before. 150 leaders fourth Edition Week in China “THIS IS STILL THE ASIAN CENTURY AND CHINA IS STILL THE KEY PLAYER.” Peter Wong – Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive, Asia-Pacific, HSBC Does your bank really understand China Growth? With over 150 years of on-the-ground experience, HSBC has the depth of knowledge and expertise to help your business realise the opportunity. Tap into China’s potential at www.hsbc.com/rmb Issued by HSBC Holdings plc. Cyan 611469_6006571 HSBC 280.00 x 170.00 mm Magenta Yellow HSBC RMB Press Ads 280.00 x 170.00 mm Black xpath_unresolved Tom Fryer 16/06/2016 18:41 [email protected] ${Market} ${Revision Number} 0 Title Page.qxp_Layout 1 13/9/16 6:36 pm Page 1 china’s tycoons profiles of 150top business leaders fourth Edition Week in China 0 Welcome Note.FIN.qxp_Layout 1 13/9/16 3:10 pm Page 2 Week in China China’s Tycoons Foreword By Stuart Gulliver, Group Chief Executive, HSBC Holdings alking around the streets of Chengdu on a balmy evening in the mid-1980s, it quickly became apparent that the people of this city had an energy and drive Wthat jarred with the West’s perception of work and life in China. -
Chinese Engagement Abroad in the Scrap Business
China Perspectives 2020/4 | 2020 Facets of Global China Chinese Engagement Abroad in the Scrap Business Yvan Schulz Electronic version URL: https://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/11225 DOI: 10.4000/chinaperspectives.11225 ISSN: 1996-4617 Publisher Centre d'étude français sur la Chine contemporaine Printed version Date of publication: 1 December 2020 Number of pages: 49-57 ISSN: 2070-3449 Electronic reference Yvan Schulz, “Chinese Engagement Abroad in the Scrap Business”, China Perspectives [Online], 2020/4 | 2020, Online since 01 December 2020, connection on 02 July 2021. URL: http:// journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/11225 ; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/chinaperspectives. 11225 © All rights reserved Special feature china perspectives Chinese Engagement Abroad in the Scrap Business YVAN SCHULZ ABSTRACT: This paper explores the changing nature of Chinese engagement abroad in the scrap business. Based on primary sources and interviews conducted by the author, it identifies the factors that, at different times, led Chinese scrap dealers and recyclers to extend the scope of their professional activity beyond the borders of their home country. Drawing on recent scholarship in discard studies, the author argues that it is necessary to move beyond the environmental dumping narrative in order to better understand Chinese national policy and its implications. This narrative serves as the main official justification for the bans on imports of recyclable waste that the central government adopted in recent years. However, there is good reason to believe that, by adopting a highly restrictive stance on the international waste trade, the central government sought first and foremost to bolster the municipal solid waste management sector within China.