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2. "Liberating the Small Devils": Red Guard Newspapers and Radical Publics, 1966–1968.
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Volland, Nicolai
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NEWSPAPERS ,CHINESE people ,PUBLIC sphere ,MODERN history ,CHINESE history - Abstract
Red Guard newspapers and pamphlets (wenge xiaobao) were a key source for early research on the Cultural Revolution, but they have rarely been analysed in their own right. How did these publications regard their status and function within the larger information ecosystem of the People's Republic, and what is their role in the history of the modern Chinese public sphere? This article focuses on a particular subset of Red Guard papers, namely those published by radical groups within the PRC's press and publication system. These newspapers critiqued the pre-Cultural Revolution press and reflected upon the possible futures of a new, revolutionary Chinese press. Short-lived as these experiments were, they constitute a test case to re-examine the functioning of the public in a decidedly "uncivil" polity. Ultimately, they point to the ambiguous potential of the public for both consensus and conflict, liberation and repression, which characterizes the press in 20th-century China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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3. Urban Regeneration under National Land Use Control: Guangdong's "Three-Old" Redevelopment Programme.
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Liu, Zhi, Huang, Zhiji, Yin, Zihan, and Zhang, Lixin
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LAND use ,URBAN renewal ,REAL property sales & prices ,URBAN history ,WORLD history ,FACTORIES ,URBANIZATION - Abstract
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- 2024
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4. Making Local Histories: The Authenticity and Credibility of County Gazetteers in Communist China.
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Yan, Fei and Xiao, Tongtian
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LOCAL history ,COMMUNISTS ,POLITICAL movements ,HISTORICAL analysis ,GOVERNMENT publications ,OBJECTIVITY in journalism ,SOCIAL comparison - Abstract
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- 2024
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5. The National New Area as an Infrastructure Space: Urbanization and the New Regime of Circulation in China.
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Oakes, Tim
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URBANIZATION ,URBAN growth ,CITIES & towns ,PUBLIC spaces - Abstract
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- 2023
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6. Suing the State: Relative Deprivation and Peasants' Resistance in Land Expropriation in China.
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Lu, Shenghua, Zhou, Xiang, Yao, Yuting, and Wang, Hui
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PROPERTY rights ,PEASANTS ,EMINENT domain ,STATE power ,POISSON regression ,SOCIAL stability - Abstract
Land expropriation, where peasants' property rights are encroached by the state, has been recognized as a primary source of social dissension in rural China. Since the end of the last century, the Administrative Litigation Law (ALL) has provided people with a legal weapon to defend themselves against violations by state power. Drawing on the theory of relative deprivation, this paper proposes that peasants are more likely to sue the state when they feel deprived. To examine this hypothesis, we first present a case study to depict the causal process and then use quantitative research to improve the external validity of our findings. We created a novel and unique database of prefecture-level administrative litigations and relative deprivation for Poisson regression analysis. The quantitative results prove that the more peasants feel relatively deprived, the more likely they are to sue the state. Furthermore, the positive effect of relative deprivation on administrative litigations has become more significant over time, implying peasants' growing awareness of legal resistance. This paper concludes that a critical step towards eliminating social inequity and maintaining social stability in rural China is to reduce the relative deprivation of peasants by, for example, allowing them to share in land value appreciation in the process of urbanization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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7. Underrepresented Outperformers: Female Legislators in the Chinese Congress.
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Feng, Xinrui, Hou, Yue, and Liu, Mingxing
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LEGISLATIVE bills ,LEGISLATORS ,FEMALES ,LEGISLATIVE voting - Abstract
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- 2024
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8. Producing Scientific Motherhood: State-led Neoliberal Modernization and Nannies' Subjectivity in Contemporary China.
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Su, Yihui and Ni, Anni
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COLLUSION ,MOTHERHOOD ,EMOTIONS ,EMOTION recognition ,NANNIES ,RURAL women ,NEOLIBERALISM ,SCIENTIFIC knowledge - Abstract
This paper uses the perspective of "state-led neoliberal modernization" to explore the collusion of the state and the market in the construction of scientific motherhood and its effect on rural nannies in China. It claims that the state and the market work together to shape rural nannies' modern subjectivity in the neoliberal economy through the commercial training programme of scientific motherhood. Based on a case study in Shanghai, this paper argues that the training for scientific motherhood attempts to transform rural women into modern care workers through two mechanisms: reconstructing recognition and mobilizing emotion. Rather than passively receiving the training, nannies use their agency to adjust the knowledge and practice of scientific motherhood to suit their complicated working situation. Their strategies include deploying scientific knowledge flexibly and instrumentally, practising self-restraint in limited intimacy, and paying attention to their own familial investment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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9. Who Believes Propaganda? Media Effects during the Anti-Japanese Protests in Beijing.
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Stockmann, Daniela
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MASS media ,MASS media & public opinion ,COMMERCIALIZATION ,MASS media influence ,COMMUNISM & mass media ,MASS media & propaganda ,MASS media censorship ,FREEDOM of the press ,CENSORSHIP ,PUBLIC opinion - Abstract
The Chinese media have undergone commercial liberalization during the reform era. Interviews with media practitioners reveal that media reform has brought about three different types of newspapers that differ with respect to their degree of commercial liberalization. Based on a natural experiment during the anti-Japanese protests in Beijing in 2005, this article shows that urban residents found more strongly commercialized newspapers more persuasive than less commercialized newspapers. Provided that the state can enforce press restrictions when needed, commercial liberalization promotes the ability of the state to influence public opinion through the means of the news media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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10. Campaign-style Personnel Management: Task Responsiveness and Selective Delocalization during China's Anti-corruption Crackdown, 2013–2020.
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Qian, Jingyuan and Tang, Feng
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PERSONNEL management ,CITIES & towns ,CHINESE history ,MODERN history ,CORRUPTION ,BIOLOGICAL divergence - Abstract
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- 2023
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11. Governmentality and Translation: Re-thinking the Cultural Politics of Lineage Landscapes in Contemporary Rural China.
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Chen, Ningning
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POLITICS & culture ,GOVERNMENTALITY ,LANDSCAPES ,LINEAGE ,TOMBS - Abstract
This paper explores the cultural politics of lineage landscapes in contemporary rural China. Drawing on a combined governmentality/translation approach and ethnographic fieldwork in rural Wenzhou, it examines how the state governs the production of lineage landscapes and how local lineages translate governmental technologies in complex ways. Empirical evidence reveals that the government develops diversified rationalities and modes of governance to direct the (re)construction of lineage landscapes. It is also found that local lineages are skilled at appropriating state discourses and practices as well as enrolling other (non-)human actors, thereby legitimizing their landscape projects of ancestral tombs and memorials. On the ground, they often displace state objectives with the production of their preferred landscape (for example, "chair" tombs). Respectful of ancestors, state agents sometimes turn a blind eye to local displacement; however, while encountering challenges from the higher-level government, they intensify regulation, but lineages still retain the capacity to negotiate with them. With sensitivity to the entanglement of diversified actors and their dynamic interactions, this paper underlines the multiplicity and contingency of state governance and societal responses. It also foregrounds the cultural politics of lineage landscapes as a process of translating governmental technologies characterized by continuous mobilization, displacement and negotiation in a heterogeneous network. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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12. Loyalty and Competence: The Political Selection of Local Cadres in China.
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Jia, Linan
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ALLEGIANCE ,LOYALTY - Abstract
Scholarly debate on the role of various contributing factors in cadre promotion yields conflicting evidence for different administrative levels in China, yet rarely has any quantitative evidence been presented for below the county level. This study explores the causal relationship between loyalty, competence and promotion at the township level. Based on an original dataset of local cadre training records, this paper utilizes cadres' training experience at Party schools and academic institutions to account for loyalty and competence at the local level. Using a rigorous data-preprocessing method – coarsened exact matching (CEM) – this paper explores the causal effects of cadre training on promotion. The empirical results show that Party school training significantly increases the probability of promotion for township-level cadres, while university training contributes to chances of promotion to a lesser but indispensable degree. Moreover, local cadres who are both Party school and university trained enjoy the best chances of promotion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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13. Low-carbon Frontier: Renewable Energy and the New Resource Boom in Western China.
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Harlan, Tyler
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RENEWABLE energy sources ,SUSTAINABLE development ,ENERGY infrastructure ,WATER power - Abstract
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- 2023
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14. The Making of Natural Infrastructure in China's Era of Ecological Civilization.
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Yeh, Emily T.
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CONSERVATION of natural resources ,VILLAGES ,ECOLOGICAL zones ,ECOSYSTEM services - Abstract
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- 2023
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15. Interlacing China and Taiwan: Tea Production, Chinese-language Education and the Territorial Politics of Re-Sinicization in the Northern Borderlands of Thailand.
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Hung, Po-Yi
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CHINA-Taiwan relations ,CHINESE people ,OVERSEAS Chinese ,DILEMMA ,BORDERLANDS ,CHINESE diaspora - Abstract
While most ethnic Chinese in northern Thailand are Thai citizens now, their everyday lives are a site where we can witness the political power entanglement of China, Taiwan and Thailand. With this in mind, this paper aims to look into the relationship between global China and overseas Chinese from the perspective of the ethnic Chinese in the northern borderlands of Thailand. The purpose is not just to disclose the multiplicity of global China in people's everyday lives, but also to complicate the picture of overseas Chinese as portrayed in top-down grand narratives about global China. I argue that the ongoing re-Sinicization in South-East Asia and the territorial geopolitics among China, Taiwan and Thailand have opened a conceptual space for the ethnic Chinese in northern Thailand to flexibly articulate themselves within the changing geopolitical economy. I use tea production and related Chinese-language education programmes, two separate but intertwined cases, to address these issues. By looking beyond the competition, conflict and dilemmas between China and Taiwan, I argue that Taiwan's previous engagement with agricultural transfer to Thailand and the rooting of pro-Taiwan identity and discourse in language education have paradoxically paved a way for China to stretch its influence into the everyday lives of the Chinese communities in the northern Thai borderlands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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16. Harden the Hardline, Soften the Softline: Unravelling China's Qiaoling -centred Diaspora Governance in Laos.
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Chen, Wanjing
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DIASPORA ,PATRIOTISM ,CIVIL service ,ALLEGIANCE ,PRESTIGE ,CAPITALISM - Abstract
Since the 1990s, the Chinese government has intensified efforts to control the political life of the diaspora by recruiting proxies, or qiaoling 侨领, from the extraterritorial population for community-based governance. This paper examines the efficacy of this co-optive strategy by investigating its ramifications in Lao Chinese business communities. Following a group of qiaoling in Vientiane through qualitative fieldwork, I reveal how these individuals are self-motivated to perform patriotism by the desire to earn symbolic recognition. Their fame and prestige as qiaoling are critical for their material accumulation in the often-fraudulent business of intermediation for Chinese bureaucrats and investors. As such, while contributing to realigning the political allegiance of the diaspora, qiaoling simultaneously reshape the ongoing expansion of Chinese capitalism in ways that diverge from Beijing's developmental agenda. This finding complicates the long-held imaginary of an autonomous state–diaspora synergy in post-socialist China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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17. Equality and Equity in Chinese Higher Education in the Post-massification Era: An Analysis Based on Chinese Scholarly Literature.
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Zha, Qiang, Bodenhorn, Terry, Burns, John P., and Palmer, Michael
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HIGHER education ,EDUCATIONAL equalization ,REGIONAL disparities in education ,EDUCATIONAL attainment ,EDUCATIONAL change - Abstract
This paper examines several research questions relating to equality and equity in Chinese higher education via an extended literature review, which in turn sheds light on evolving scholarly explorations into this theme. First, in the post-massification era, has the Chinese situation of equality and equity in higher education improved or deteriorated since the late 1990s? Second, what are the core issues with respect to equality and equity in Chinese higher education? Third, how have those core issues evolved or changed over time and what does the evolution indicate and entail? Methodologically, this paper uses a bibliometric analysis to detect the topical hotspots in scholarly literature and their changes over time. The study then investigates each of those topical terrains against their temporal contexts in order to gain insights into the core issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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18. Shifting Strategies: The Politics of Radical Change in Provincial Development Policy in China.
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Donaldson, John A. and Yang, Xiaotao
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CENTRAL-local government relations ,PROVINCES ,GOVERNMENT policy ,POVERTY reduction ,PRACTICAL politics - Abstract
Why do provincial governments change policy, even when those policies have proven successful? This paper explores a debate regarding the determinants of provincial policy choice and the degree of discretion provinces are permitted in this area. It does so by scrutinizing the shift in Guizhou's development policy from a poverty reduction orientation to a wholehearted pursuit of economic growth, urbanization and industrialization. In contrast to those who argue that central experience, prospects for promotion or local conditions are key factors explaining policy choice, the paper concludes that Guizhou's shift in policy had more to do with the backgrounds and experiences of top provincial leaders. The result has implications for our understanding of central–local relations and local government decision making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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19. "On the Centre–Periphery Borderline": Educational Studies on/in Mainland China in the Global Context.
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Wu, Hantian, Yang, Rui, and Li, Mei
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OVERSEAS Chinese ,LOCAL knowledge ,SEMI-structured interviews ,COLONIZATION ,RESEARCH personnel ,CONTENT analysis - Abstract
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- 2024
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20. Raising Dogs that Bite: How Pastoralists and Breeders Care for Tibetan Mastiffs.
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Zhou, Yufei
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TIBETANS ,DOGS ,DOG breeds ,CHINESE people ,DOG bites ,VALUE (Economics) ,SNAKEBITES ,PRICES - Abstract
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- 2023
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21. The Collapse of Nationalist China: How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China's Civil War.
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Tanner, Harold
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CITY dwellers ,CIVIL war ,FINANCIAL policy ,MONEY supply ,BUDGET deficits ,FISCAL policy ,EMPLOYEE morale - Abstract
"The Collapse of Nationalist China: How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China's Civil War" by Parks M. Coble is a book that revisits the reasons behind the Kuomintang's (KMT) defeat in China's civil war. Coble focuses on Chiang Kai-shek's fiscal policies, which led to hyperinflation and corruption, alienating the urban population and compromising the morale and combat effectiveness of the KMT's armies. The book draws on primary sources such as Chiang's diaries and the papers of KMT leaders T.V. Soong and H.H. Kung. Coble argues that Chiang's financial policy was a disaster, attributing it to his belief in the importance of a large army and his habit of covering budget deficits by increasing the money supply. The book also acknowledges the complexities of economic recovery in the aftermath of Japanese occupation and the legacy of colonialism. Overall, this concise and engaging reassessment of the KMT's defeat will be of interest to historians and accessible to students. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
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22. Sex Work and Stigma Management in China and Hong Kong: The Role of State Policy and NGO Advocacy.
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Choi, Susanne Y.P. and Lai, Ruby Y.S.
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SEX work ,SEX workers ,SEX industry ,NONGOVERNMENTAL organizations ,SOCIAL stigma ,ORGANIZATIONAL citizenship behavior ,INVOLUNTARY relocation - Abstract
This paper examines the impacts of state policies and NGO advocacy on female sex workers' identity and how they manage stigma. Comparing three groups of sex workers – those born and working in mainland China, those born and working in Hong Kong, and those born in mainland China who later migrated to Hong Kong and entered the sex industry – this paper suggests that differences in state policies on prostitution and the different degrees of visibility of NGOs campaigning for sex workers' rights are related to three strategies used by sex workers to construct a positive self-image to counteract the stigma they face: gendered obligation fulfilment, professional work and responsible citizenship. The paper illustrates that stigmatized-identity management involves complex relationships among individual interpretation, selection and mobilization of gender, work and citizenship scripts, which are contingent on structural features of the environment and may change during migration and relocation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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23. Incomplete Catching Up: Income among Yi, Manchu and Han People in Rural China, 2002–2018.
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Gustafsson, Björn A. and Zhang, Yudan
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INCOME ,INCOME inequality ,ETHNIC differences ,ETHNIC groups ,WAGE increases ,AGRICULTURE - Abstract
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- 2023
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24. Back to Cheap Labour? Increasing Employment and Wage Disparities in Contemporary China.
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Xia, Yiran, Friesen, Dimitris, Cohen, Nourya, Lu, Caijie, and Rozelle, Scott
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WAGE increases ,ECONOMIC conditions in China ,ECONOMIC change - Abstract
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- 2023
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25. Who Commands the Gun? Mobilization and Use of China's Armed Police.
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Wuthnow, Joel
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EMERGENCY management ,GOVERNMENT aid ,SOCIAL unrest ,POLICE ,MASS mobilization - Abstract
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- 2023
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26. China, Ethiopia and the Significance of the Belt and Road Initiative.
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Yan, Hairong and Sautman, Barry
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BELT & Road Initiative ,DEVELOPING countries ,CAPITAL movements - Abstract
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- 2024
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27. Taiwan and the "One-China Principle" in the Age of COVID-19: Assessing the Determinants and Limits of Chinese Influence.
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Kastner, Scott L., Wang, Guan, Pearson, Margaret M., Phillips-Alvarez, Laura, and Yinusa, Joseph
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CHINA-Taiwan relations ,COVID-19 pandemic ,COVID-19 ,CHINESE people ,ECONOMIC security ,ECONOMIC development - Abstract
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- 2022
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28. Educational Success in Transitional China: The Gaokao and Learning Capital in Elite Professional Service Firms.
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Ren, Ran
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PROFESSIONAL corporations ,LEARNING ability ,INFORMATION economy ,RATING of students ,SUCCESS - Abstract
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- 2022
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29. China's Water Governmentality and the Shaping of Hydrosocial Territories in the Lancang-Mekong Region.
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Wang, Raymond Yu, Liu, Xiaofeng, and Zhang, Wenya
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TRANSBOUNDARY waters ,GOVERNMENTALITY ,INTERNATIONALIZED territories ,SOCIAL integration ,EMPATHY ,SUSTAINABLE development ,GEOPOLITICS - Abstract
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- 2022
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30. Temporary Leaders and Stable Institutions: How Local Bureaucratic Entrepreneurs Institutionalize China's Low-Carbon Policy Experiments.
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Gong, Weila
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BUREAUCRACY ,BUSINESSPEOPLE ,CARBON offsetting ,RESOURCE mobilization ,GOVERNMENT policy on climate change ,FEDERAL government - Abstract
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- 2022
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31. Whither the Global in Chinese Higher Education? The Production of Space in China's "New Era" Universities.
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McDougall, James I., Bodenhorn, Terry, Burns, John P., and Palmer, Michael
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HIGHER education ,GLOBALIZATION ,SCHOOL administration ,CULTURAL studies ,SOCIAL interaction - Abstract
Since the 1990s, not only have China's universities become more in line with global standards but they now set them in some areas. This paper looks at how the production of space in Chinese higher education is employed in "new era" China to manage contested sites of globalization. From the spatial practice of scholarship to the representational spaces that map the educational bureaucracy, the production of space in Chinese higher education helps to organize social relations. This paper argues that the production of space in Chinese higher education is used to manage conflicts between global flows and localization as well as to serve national priorities. The paper contributes to ongoing discussions of the globalization of higher education and cultural studies of space and spatiality in contemporary China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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32. Can Grid Governance Fix the Party-state's Broken Windows? A Study of Stability Maintenance in Grassroots China.
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Xu, Jianhua and He, Siying
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RECONNAISSANCE operations ,POLITICAL stability ,INTELLIGENCE levels ,GRIDS (Cartography) ,SOCIAL control ,GRASSROOTS movements - Abstract
Grid governance has been developed by the Chinese party-state to collect intelligence at the grassroots level for the early pre-emption of what it defines as social instability. Using data collected from four months' participant observation and extensive interviews with personnel who work in the grid governance system in what we call W Street, a location in a second-tier city in southern China, this paper examines how China's grid governance is used for stability maintenance and how in practice the system has become alienated from its original purpose of social control. We find that grid governance is achieved mainly through three mechanisms: intelligence gathering, case coordination and real-time reporting for stability maintenance. We further reveal that while grid governance provides an important infrastructural power for intelligence gathering, the realization of this power could be hindered by contradictory logics among different levels of government. This research not only provides empirical data on how China's grid governance works in practice but also calls for a rethinking of the capacity of China's stability maintenance regime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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33. The Chinese Civil War and Implications for Borderland State Consolidation in Mainland South-East Asia.
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Han, Enze
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CHINESE Civil War, 1945-1949 ,EXTERNALITIES ,BORDERLANDS ,NATIONALISM - Abstract
Few studies on the legacies of the Chinese Civil War have examined its effects on state consolidation in the borderland area between China and mainland South-East Asia. This paper empirically examines the impact of the intrusion of the defeated Kuomingtang (KMT) into the borderland area between China, Burma and Thailand. In the People's Republic of China (PRC), the presence of the US-supported KMT across its Yunnan border increased the new communist government's threat perceptions. In response, Beijing used a carrot-and-stick approach towards consolidating its control by co-opting local elites while ruthlessly eliminating any opposition deemed to be in collusion with the KMT. In the case of Burma, the KMT presence posed a significant challenge to Burmese national territorial integrity and effectively led to the fragmentation of the Burmese Shan State. Finally, in Thailand, Bangkok collaborated with the Americans in support of the KMT to solidify its alliance relations. Later, Thailand used the KMT as a buffer force for its own border defence purposes against a perceived communist infiltration from the north. This paper contextualizes the spill-over effects of the Chinese Civil War in terms of the literature on how external threats can potentially facilitate state consolidation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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34. Deliberate Differentiation by the Chinese State: Outsourcing Responsibility for Governance.
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Sun, Taiyi
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CIVIL society ,AUTHORITARIANISM ,PUBLIC goods ,SOCIAL groups - Abstract
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- 2019
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35. Amending Chinese Copyright Law to Fulfil Obligations under the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for the Print Disabled.
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Li, Jingyi and Selvadurai, Niloufer
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COPYRIGHT ,PEOPLE with disabilities ,BRAILLE books ,LAW reform ,HUMAN rights - Abstract
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- 2019
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36. Non-suffering Work: China's Medical Interventions in South Sudan.
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Gong, Yidong
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HUMANITARIANISM ,INTERNATIONAL economic assistance ,NONGOVERNMENTAL organizations ,WORLD health ,COMMUNITY organization ,DIPLOMACY ,SUFFERING - Abstract
This paper explores China's mode of medical intervention in South Sudan and compares it with the medical humanitarianism and global health imaginaries and modes of intervention that characterize the activities of the wider international community, especially NGOs and faith-based organizations. In their provision of medical aid to South Sudan, organizations of the international community largely draw on a discourse of suffering and a framework of emergency response to humanitarian crises in post-conflict settings, which often translates into vertical programmes which involve direct governance of the South Sudanese population. In contrast, China's contemporary medical interventions in South Sudan are a mixture of health diplomacy, health infrastructure and development aid, an assemblage which can be understood as a "non-suffering" model of care and a loosely defined apparatus of biopolitics. However, the obvious gap between national goals and the daily experiences of individual Chinese doctors suggests that this will be an uneven process of "becoming." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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37. Towards Meritocratic Apartheid? Points Systems and Migrant Access to China's Urban Public Schools.
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Wan, Yi and Vickers, Edward
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URBAN schools ,CHILDREN of immigrants ,RURAL children ,PUBLIC schools ,URBAN growth - Abstract
This paper analyses rural migrant children's access to public schools in urban China, focusing on the implications of the recent introduction of points systems for apportioning school places. This approach, first piloted by Zhongshan city in Guangdong province from 2009, has steadily been extended nationwide. Here, we analyse the reasons for its spread and for divergence in its implementation in various urban districts. Notwithstanding rhetorical claims that points systems promote "fairness" or "equality" in the treatment of migrants, our analysis suggests that they maintain or even exacerbate the stratification of urban society, lending new legitimation to the hierarchical differentiation of entitlements. This is consistent with the aim of the 2014 "New national urbanization plan" to divert urban growth from megacities towards smaller cities. However, we argue that the use of points systems should also be seen in the context of an evolving bureaucratic-ideological project aimed at more rigorously monitoring and assessing China's entire population, invoking the logic of meritocracy for the purpose of control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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38. Who Not What: The Logic of China's Information Control Strategy.
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Gallagher, Mary and Miller, Blake
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INFORMATION resources management ,INTERNET censorship ,SOCIAL forces ,IDEOLOGY ,SOCIAL status ,SOCIAL control ,LOGIC - Abstract
In this paper, we examine how the Chinese state controls social media. While social media companies are responsible for censoring their platforms, they also selectively report certain users to the government. This article focuses on understanding the logic behind media platforms' decisions to report users or content to the government. We find that content is less relevant than commonly thought. Information control efforts often focus on who is posting rather than on what they are posting. The state permits open discussion and debate on social media while controlling and managing influential social forces that may challenge the party-state's hegemonic position. We build on Schurmann's "ideology and organization," emphasizing the Party's goals of embedding itself in all social structures and limiting the ability of non-Party individuals, networks or groups to carve out a separate space for leadership and social status. In the virtual public sphere, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues to apply these principles to co-opt, repress and limit the reach of influential non-Party "thought leaders." We find evidence to support this logic through qualitative and quantitative analysis of leaked censorship documents from a social media company and government documents on information control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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39. From Black to Blue Skies: Civil Society Perceptions of Air Pollution in Shanghai.
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Winter, Amanda K., Le, Huong, and Roberts, Simon
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AIR pollution ,AIR quality indexes ,CIVIL society ,PARTICIPATION - Abstract
This paper explores the perception and politics of air pollution in Shanghai. We present a qualitative case study based on a literature review of relevant policies and research on civil society and air pollution, in dialogue with air quality indexes and field research data. We engage with the concept of China's authoritarian environmentalism and the political context of ecological civilization. We find that discussions about air pollution are often placed in a frame that is both locally temporal (environment) and internationally developmentalist (economy). We raise questions from an example of three applications with different presentations of air quality index measures for the same time and place. This example and frame highlight the central role and connection between technology, data and evidence, and pollution visibility in the case of the perception of air pollution. Our findings then point to two gaps in authoritarian environmentalism research, revealing a need to better understand (1) the role of technology within this governance context, and (2) the tensions created from this non-participatory approach with ecological civilization, which calls for civil society participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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40. The Emergence of Mafia-like Business Systems in China.
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Rithmire, Meg and Chen, Hao
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ORGANIZED crime ,ECONOMIC elites ,MAFIA ,PRIVATE sector - Abstract
A large body of literature on state–business relations in China has examined the political role of capitalists and collusion between the state and the private sector. This paper contributes to that literature and understanding of the internal differentiation among China's business elites by documenting the emergence of a particular kind of large, non-state business group that we argue is more akin to a mafia system than any standard definition of a firm. Drawing on large-N descriptive data as well as deep ethnographic and documentary research, we argue that mafia-like business systems share organizational principles (plunder and obfuscation) and means of growth and survival (relations of mutual endangerment and manipulation of the financial system). Understanding the particular moral economy that underlies mafia-like business systems and their interactions with the state challenges methodological foundations of research on China's political economy and helps to explain recent conflict between high-profile business people and the state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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41. Using Mao to Package Criminal Justice Discourse in 21st-century China.
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Trevaskes, Susan
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CRIMINAL justice system ,SOCIAL stability ,SOCIAL conditions in China - Abstract
“Strike hard” anti-crime campaigns, “harmonious justice” and “stability maintenance” are the three key politically inspired agendas of crime control and punishment in 21st-century China. This paper is a study of how discourse has helped to package these agendas and to mobilize politico-legal functionaries into action. It examines discourse in the first weeks of the 2014 “people's war on terror” and the agendas of “harmonious justice” and “stability maintenance” in the Hu Jintao era. It finds that each has been rationalized and shaped by an understanding of the utility of punishment based on Mao's utilitarian dialectics. The political virtuosity of Mao's dialectics is that it can be adapted to suit any political situation. In understanding how Mao connects with criminal justice in China today, this paper identifies what is the “political” in “politico-legal” discourse in the fight against crime in the 21st century. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2016
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42. Gender Statistics and Local Governance in China: State Feminist versus Feminist Political Economy Approaches.
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Chen, Lanyan
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GENDER ,LOCAL government ,STATISTICS ,POLICY sciences ,CHINESE politics & government - Abstract
Gender statistics provide an essential tool to mainstream gender equality in policymaking through the recognition by government and the public of gender differences in all walks of life. One legacy of feminist movements since the 1990s has been a focus on the challenges women face to effect substantive equality with men. Based on the findings of a project carried out in three districts of Tianjin, this paper identifies a lack of gender statistics in China's statistical system and the resulting negative impacts on local policymaking. The findings point to weaknesses in the Chinese “state feminist” approach to gender statistics, mostly at the level of the central government. From a feminist political economy perspective, the paper argues, policymaking in China is a process built upon centralized statistical reporting systems that serve the senior governments more than local communities. Gender statistics have the potential to enhance local governance in China when policymaking becomes a site of contestation where community activists demand the use of statistics to assist policies that promote equality. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2016
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43. Infrastructural Thinking in China: A Research Agenda.
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Rippa, Alessandro and Oakes, Tim
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RESEARCH questions ,SCHOLARLY method ,CHINA studies ,INFRASTRUCTURE (Economics) ,SOCIAL processes ,ARCHAEOLOGICAL assemblages - Abstract
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- 2023
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44. Peace in the Shadow of Unrest: yinao and the State Response in China.
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Huang, Xian
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POLITICAL persecution ,HEALTH care reform ,HEALTH facilities ,PEACE ,PHYSICIAN-patient relations ,CHINA studies ,PSYCHOLOGICAL feedback - Abstract
Much research on contentious politics focuses on the origins and dynamics of contention or the impact of contention on policy change. Although some studies have delved into the state reactions to contention, relatively little is known about the outcome or effectiveness of state responses, especially in non-democratic settings. This paper attempts to fill this gap and to uncover the policy feedback effect in non-democratic settings by studying the Chinese state's repression of violent incidents targeted at healthcare personnel and facilities (yinao). I argue that without comprehensive healthcare reforms to tackle the root causes of yinao, state repression of yinao generates unintended adverse outcomes, causing the doctor–patient relationship to deteriorate. Using the difference-in-differences method with China Family Panel Studies data for 2014 and 2016, I find that the criminalization of yinao diminishes public trust in doctors and confidence in hospitals' competence and instead increases public concerns about the healthcare system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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45. The Regulatory Framework and Sustainable Development of China's Electricity Sector.
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Zhang, Yin-Fang
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ENERGY industries ,ELECTRICITY & the environment ,ENERGY policy ,ENVIRONMENTAL policy ,GREENHOUSE gases - Abstract
Both supply- and demand-oriented solutions are important in cleaning up the electricity sector. However, their successful deployment calls for the removal of various barriers. This paper looks at China's electricity industry, one of the world's largest emitters of greenhouse gases, by relating the regulatory framework to the environmental dimension of sustainable electricity development. It develops an analytical framework by drawing upon the literature on the deployment of supply- and demand-side solutions, regulatory governance, and environmental policy integration. The paper finds that, in China's electricity sector, environmental considerations are subordinate to economic and development goals in policymaking and enforcement. Under the current regulatory framework, regulatory policies/instruments are not conducive to removing barriers to the effective deployment of the solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2015
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46. Four Worlds of Welfare: Understanding Subnational Variation in Chinese Social Health Insurance.
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Huang, Xian
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HEALTH insurance ,SOCIAL conditions in China ,POLITICAL leadership ,AUTHORITARIANISM ,CHINESE politics & government - Abstract
China's social health insurance has expanded dramatically over the past decade. The increasing number of beneficiaries and benefits, however, has aggravated rather than mitigated regional disparities in health care. How can the regional variation in Chinese social health insurance be explained? This paper argues that the subnational variation in China's social health insurance results from the policy choices of central and local states. The central leadership, which is concerned about regime stability, delegates substantial discretionary authority to local state agents to accommodate diverse social needs and local circumstances. Local officials, who care about their political careers in the centralized personnel system, proactively design and implement social health insurance policy according to local situations such as fiscal resources and social risk. In specifying the rationale, conditions and patterns of regional variation in Chinese social health insurance, this paper addresses the general issue of how political leaders in an authoritarian regime respond to social needs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2015
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47. Building Up Alliances and Breaking Down the State Monopoly: The Rise of Non-Governmental Disaster Relief in China.
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Peng, Lin and Wu, Fengshi
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DISASTER relief ,NONGOVERNMENTAL organizations ,GOVERNMENT monopolies ,CIVIL society ,SOCIAL innovation ,SOCIAL support - Abstract
This paper explores the emergence of a highly networked and capable non-governmental organization (NGO) community in disaster relief in China. It provides a review of the growth of non-governmental actors in the relief field since the 2000s and examines the most important platforms and networks in the field, focusing on their strategies of maintaining a broad-based partnership, developing their own capacity, and enhancing overall inter-organizational connectivity. With an in-depth look at a successful joint non-governmental relief operation in Lushan in 2013, the paper also explicates how NGOs can break the state monopoly over disaster information management, public donations and relief operations. This research finds that during crisis times, non-governmental actors carry out relief missions effectively in parallel with state agencies. The rise of non-governmental disaster relief sheds light on one of many trajectories of civil society development in China where social autonomy is earned by innovation, public support and improved capacity. 摘要: 民间自发救灾在中国最近几年蓬勃发展起来, 已经开始形成具有专业化能力的社会组织网络。本研究首先回顾了二十一世纪以来民间力量和非政府组织参与救灾的发展历程, 详细分析最具代表性的平台和网络组织, 并且重点解释民间组织是如何维持广泛的伙伴关系, 如何促进跨组织的协调和联系来推动一个全国范围的具有集体认同的民间救灾共同体的形成。本研究还以 2013 年芦山地震救灾作为案例来解释不同的民间力量是如何通过有意识的组织建设和策略创新逐渐打破政府在灾情信息、社会捐助以及救灾管理方面的垄断地位, 开辟出一个同国家救灾体系平行、保持相对独立的民间救灾体系。不需要同政府发生直接对抗和冲突, 这个联动、高效和专业的民间救灾体系已经能够在某些方面替代国家的救灾功能, 甚至已经发展出一些不同于国家的救灾机制。通过这个案例, 本研究希望能够揭示中国公民社会发展的一种可能路径; 沿着这条路径, 公民社会有可能在既不全面被政权所压制, 也不必然会同国家正面冲突的情况下依靠公众的支持、创新和自我管治能力来发展社会自主性。 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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48. The Intermingling of State and Private Companies: Analysing Censorship of the 19th National Communist Party Congress on WeChat.
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Ruan, Lotus, Crete-Nishihata, Masashi, Knockel, Jeffrey, Xiong, Ruohan, and Dalek, Jakub
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PRIVATE companies ,COMMUNIST parties ,CENSORSHIP ,INFORMATION resources management ,KEYWORDS ,GOVERNMENT policy - Abstract
This paper examines the relationship between political events and information control on WeChat through a longitudinal analysis of keyword censorship related to China's 19th National Communist Party Congress (NCPC19). We use a novel method to track censorship on WeChat before, during and after the NCPC19 to probe the following questions. Does censorship change after an event is over? What roles do the government and private companies play in information control in China? Our findings show that the system of information control in China can trigger blunt reactions to political events. In addition to critical content around the Congress and leaders, WeChat also censored neutral and potentially positive references to government policies and ideological concepts. The decision making behind this censorship is a product of the interaction between the government, which influences actions through directives, and the companies, which ultimately implement controls on their platforms. While this system is effective in compelling companies to implement censorship, the intermingling of the state and private companies can lead to outcomes that may not align with government strategies. We call for a deeper understanding of the role of private companies in censorship and a more nuanced assessment of the government's capacity to control social media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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49. Changing Property-Rights Regimes: A Study of Rural Land Tenure in China.
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Brandt, Loren, Whiting, Susan H., Zhang, Linxiu, and Zhang, Tonglong
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PROPERTY rights ,LAND tenure ,LAND management ,REAL property acquisition ,HOUSEHOLDS - Abstract
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- 2017
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50. The Xinjiang Class: Multi-ethnic Encounters in an Eastern Coastal City.
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Yuan, Zhenjie, Qian, Junxi, and Zhu, Hong
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MINORITIES ,CULTURAL pluralism ,ETHNICITY ,UPWARD mobility (Social sciences) ,MINORITY students ,EDUCATION of minorities - Abstract
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- 2017
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