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Zhong, Cheng
Tse, Thomas Kwan-Choi
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Funding for this research was provided by:
The Youth Project of National Social Science Fund of China (CGA240270)
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Article History
Received: 27 October 2024
Accepted: 15 October 2025
First Online: 25 November 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All procedures related in this study that involve human participants were conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the Survey and Behavioral Research Ethics Committee of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, those of the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The Survey and Behavioral Research Ethics Committee of the Chinese University of Hong Kong approved the study [Reference No. SBRE-20-220] on December 3 rd , 2020. This study was conducted in mainland China, and the CUHK-related committee was fully informed. Because the research ethics committee of the CUHK had jurisdiction covering the research conducted in China, additional approval was not required for this study.
: The interview data were collected and recorded in Lake City (pseudo) during the period from December 2020 to January 2021. We obtained written informed consent from each of the research participants before each interview. All participants were fully informed of the research purpose, data utilization, and potential risks and were assured of complete anonymity throughout the study.
