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Eldest Sons of the Republic: State-owned Enterprise Executive Management System with Chinese Characteristics | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core

The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · Sep 9

Ming-Hao Liu explores the CCP’s personnel control over central state-owned enterprise leaders from the Hu era to the Xi era. Through the dual-track system, the CCP aims to influence the career trajectories of SOE leaders & address conflicts of interest
doi.org/10.1017/S0305741025101136

Eldest Sons of the Republic: State-owned Enterprise Executive Management System with Chinese Characteristics

Policy Experimentation within Bureaucratic Power Networks: The “Police–Business Cooperation” Scheme in Urban China | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core

The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · Sep 9

New article by Huirong Chen and Yangxin Bian: How do local officials in China initiate and sustain policy experiments within a bureaucratic system that often obstructs innovation?
doi.org/10.1017/S030574102510115X

Policy Experimentation within Bureaucratic Power Networks: The “Police–Business Cooperation” Scheme in Urban China

Minimum Compliance in Local Policy Implementation in Contemporary China: The Case of Municipal Solid Waste Management | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core

The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · Sep 9

By analysing the eco-transformation of waste management through the framework of political steering theory, Victoria Zhou & Gunter Schubert present a nuanced avoidance strategy used by local governments to sidestep centrally mandated policies (Open Access)
doi.org/10.1017/S0305741025101148

Minimum Compliance in Local Policy Implementation in Contemporary China: The Case of Municipal Solid Waste Management

Rangeland Governance and Practices in Amdo Tibet, China: Legal Pluralism in Pastoral Communities | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core

The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · Sep 9

Through the lens of legal pluralism, Palden Tsering examines customary practices in Saga, a pastoral village in Amdo Tibet, where pastoralists develop rangeland practices to build wealth and gain access to rangeland and natural resources.
doi.org/10.1017/S0305741025100908

Rangeland Governance and Practices in Amdo Tibet, China: Legal Pluralism in Pastoral Communities

Parsing Factional Affiliations among Chinese Political Elites | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core

The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · Aug 7

New by Siyi Zhang, Lingna Zhong, Shu Keng and Baoqing Pang: "Parsing Factional Affiliations among Chinese Political Elites"

doi.org/10.1017/S0305741025100957

Parsing Factional Affiliations among Chinese Political Elites

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Gary Rawnsley @garydrawnsley.bsky.social · Aug 6

My review of Chen Jie's new edited volume, #Taiwan and the Cause of Democratization in #China: Inspiration and Support, has been published in @chinaquarterly.bsky.social. Spoiler - it's a good book! Follow this link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Pandemic Precarity: Labour Dispute Resolution for Overseas Chinese Workers during COVID-19 | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core

The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · Jul 31

In this article, @feiding418.bsky.social examines the impact of COVID-19 on labour governance and legal struggles faced by overseas Chinese workers.
doi.org/10.1017/S0305741025100970

Pandemic Precarity: Labour Dispute Resolution for Overseas Chinese Workers during COVID-19

Policy Experimentation Trapped in Tiao-driven Authoritarian Environmentalism: A Case Study of National Park Policy in China | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core

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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · Jul 31

Through a detailed examination of the North-East China Tiger and Leopard National Park, Pei Zhang and Jiacheng Zhao identify a hybrid policy style that combines authoritarian environmentalism with policy experimentation
doi.org/10.1017/S0305741025100945

Policy Experimentation Trapped in Tiao-driven Authoritarian Environmentalism: A Case Study of National Park Policy in China

Constructing Consent: How Grassroots Governments Reshape the State–Peasant Relationship in the Xi Era | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core

The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · Jul 3

Lei Yang, Yuanmin Sun & Changkun Cai explore grassroots officials' strategies to gain peasants’ consent to state policies and reconnect with them following the rural tax and fee reform in China in the 2000s
doi.org/10.1017/S0305741025100714

Constructing Consent: How Grassroots Governments Reshape the State–Peasant Relationship in the Xi Era

The Politics of Promotion in China’s Foreign Policy Bureaucracy | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core

The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · Jul 2

A warm welcome to Dr Yuka Kobayashi (SOAS) who is joining the CQ team as co-editor. We would also like to thank Tim Pringle, who is stepping down after eight years of service.

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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · Jul 2

Open Access: Analysing promotions in China’s Foreign Policy Bureaucracy, Tyler Jost & Yucong Li find that diplomats who spend a greater share of their careers in postings abroad are less likely to be promoted to higher ranks than diplomats who remain at home

doi.org/10.1017/S030...

The Politics of Promotion in China’s Foreign Policy Bureaucracy

Gender and Bureaucratic Overload in the Grassroots State: Work–Life Choices of Female Civil Servants in Rural China | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core

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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · Jul 2

Open Access; Qi Song, Ling Han and Chengpang Lee's study explores explores an emerging group within the Chinese bureaucratic system: grassroots female civil servants. It delves into the work and life choices faced by female civil servants in local governments.

doi.org/10.1017/S030...

Gender and Bureaucratic Overload in the Grassroots State: Work–Life Choices of Female Civil Servants in Rural China

Cultural Brokers: The Shaolin Temple Charity and China’s United Front Work | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core

The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · Jul 2

Open Access: Pin-Hsuan Wu, Wen-Hsuan Tsai and Hsin-Hsien Wang take the charitable activities of the Shaolin Temple as a case study for their analysis of the CCP's management of religion under Xi Jinping

doi.org/10.1017/S030...

Cultural Brokers: The Shaolin Temple Charity and China’s United Front Work

Biases about Chinese People in English Language Use: Stereotypes, Prejudice and Discrimination | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core

The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · Jun 23

New (OA) by Han-Wu-Shuang Bao and Peter Gries: "Biases about Chinese People in English Language Use: Stereotypes, Prejudice and Discrimination" #StopAsianHate #discrimination #socialComputing #NaturalLanguage
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Biases about Chinese People in English Language Use: Stereotypes, Prejudice and Discrimination

The Educational Outcomes of Children’s Migration Strategies | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core

The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · May 29

New online. Hanzhi Hu finds that, while permanent migration within China does not adversely affect children’s education, return and multiple migrations do. Inter-provincial migration is more harmful than intra-provincial migration, and the impact is greater for boys.
doi.org/10.1017/S030...

The Educational Outcomes of Children’s Migration Strategies

The Rise of the Chinese Judiciary and Its Limits: Administrative Litigation in the Reform Period | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core

The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · May 28

🔓Using a dataset of over 1.6 million judicial documents, Yuxia Zhang & John Zhuang Liu find evidence that the judiciary in China has become increasingly significant in checking the power of the government. They also examine the limits to this ascent in the face of politics.
doi.org/10.1017/S030...

The Rise of the Chinese Judiciary and Its Limits: Administrative Litigation in the Reform Period

Markets under Mao: Measuring Underground Activity in the Early PRC | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core

The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · May 20

Congratulations to ‪@dr-frost.bsky.social‬ (of
Copenhagen Business School) and Zeren Li (of NUSingapore) who have been awarded the 2024 Gordon White Prize for their article "Markets under Mao: Measuring Underground Activity in the Early PRC” (OA).
doi.org/10.1017/S030...

Markets under Mao: Measuring Underground Activity in the Early PRC - Volume 258

Aggressive Journalistic Questioning and China’s “Wolf Warrior Diplomacy” | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core

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Hai Yang @haiyang-um.bsky.social · May 15

Delighted to have a new article, co-authored with Lize Yang, published in @chinaquarterly.bsky.social

We examine how aggressive journalistic questioning may have fueled the rise of China's "wolf warrior diplomacy". The article is open access. Feel free to dive in! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Aggressive Journalistic Questioning and China’s “Wolf Warrior Diplomacy”

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Mechanical Responsiveness: China’s Online Petition System | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core

The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · May 15

Jieren Hu, Xuan Gong and Yun Zhao explore how, under pressure from their superiors, local officials 'performatively' handle grievances and disputes raised through the new CCP digital petition platform. #网上信访
doi.org/10.1017/S030...

Mechanical Responsiveness: China’s Online Petition System

Public Perceptions of Intergenerational Mobility in China | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core

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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · Apr 23

Feng Yang, Airan Liu and Wangyang Li's research finds Chinese citizens often overestimate the likelihood of equal opportunities for children from families with differing educational backgrounds, but there are signs of emerging pessimism.#代际流动
doi.org/10.1017/S030...

Public Perceptions of Intergenerational Mobility in China

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Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University @harvardusjapan.bsky.social · Mar 25

Read "Remembering Li Keqiang: Policy Divergence in Zhongnanhai and Its Economic Consequences," by Asei Ito
(2023-24), Jaehwan Lim, and Hongyong Zhang, in the latest @chinaquarterly.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/S030...

Adaptive Governance at Work: How Chinese State Actors Respond to Overseas Pushback on the Belt and Road Initiative | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core

The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · Apr 11

🔓Based on fieldwork in Kenya, Ethiopia, Zambia and China between 2014 and 2023, Hangwei Li and Yuan Wang analyse how Chinese state companies and governments react to international resistance to the Belt and Road Initiative #BRI

doi.org/10.1017/S0305741025000025

Adaptive Governance at Work: How Chinese State Actors Respond to Overseas Pushback on the Belt and Road Initiative

Switching Diplomatic Recognition Between Taiwan and China: Economic and Social Impact Edited by Chien-Huei Wu. London and New York: Routledge, 2024. xii + 240 pp. £101.00 (hbk). ISBN 9781032442860 | T...

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Gary Rawnsley @garydrawnsley.bsky.social · Mar 27

My review of Switching Diplomatic Recognition Between Taiwan and China: Economic and Social Impact edited by Chien-Huei Wu (Routledge, 2024) is published by The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social

Switching Diplomatic Recognition Between Taiwan and China: Economic and Social Impact Edited by Chien-Huei Wu. London and New York: Routledge, 2024. xii + 240 pp. £101.00 (hbk). ISBN 9781032442860

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Little to Lose: Exit Options and Attitudes towards Automation in Chinese Manufacturing | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core

The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · Mar 10

🔓 @nicolewu.bsky.social and Zhongwei Sun's research uses qualitative and quantitative data to explore workers' responses and exit options in the face of increasing automation in manufacturing, finding greater anxiety amongst local workers than migrants. #机器换人.
doi.org/10.1017/S030...

Little to Lose: Exit Options and Attitudes towards Automation in Chinese Manufacturing