There are tons and kilotons of interesting studies out there, most of them in .doc and .pdf formats. These are just a few of them.
Chinese language learning/ Chinese linguistics
Useful Web Sites for Teaching and Learning Chinese
Introduction to Pinyin
Temporal Reference in Mandarin Chinese
The morphology of Chinese: A linguistic and cognitive approach
A study on the learning and teaching of Hanzi
Do Classifier Categories Structure our Concepts?
The Chinese Aspect System and its Semantic Interpretation
The development of aspect marking in L1 and L2 Chinese
DEFINING AND AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING WORDS
IN CHINESE
COMMON NOUNS, CLASSIFIERS, AND QUANTIFICATION IN CHINESE
Economy / Business relations
Outlook on the Chinese Economy
The Chinese Renminbi:What’s Real, What’s Not
What Kind of Landing for the Chinese Economy?
Successfully Moving In and Setting Up Business in China
Other studies
Social Support and Migration Experiences: A Qualitative Study of Female Chinese Immigrants in Their First Year in Hong Kong.
Media during the Tiananmen Square Protests
New York's Chinatown
The mathematics of the Chinese Calendar
The Chinese Empire