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The leading scholarly journal in its field, covering all aspects of contemporary China, including Taiwan

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 04/06/2026
Tomorrow at #BISA2026 - Meet Yuka Kobayashi of The China Quarterly at the Cambridge University Press display, 10:30-11:30am Friday the 5th of June 2026 cc @chinaquarterly.bsky.social
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
If you're at #BISA2026 please come and meet Yuka Kobayashi, co- editor of The China Quarterly. 10.30 am, Cambridge University Press stand.
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Congratulations to Matthew Noellert and Xiangning Li who have been awarded the 2025 Gordon White Prize for their article "Internal Migration and the Continuity of Local Elites in North China, 1949–1965” (OA). doi.org/10.1017/S030...
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Internal Migration and the Continuity of Local Elites in North China, 1949–1965 | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Internal Migration and the Continuity of Local Elites in North China, 1949–1965 - Volume 261
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Good to see the 1971 seminal article "On Photographs" by CQ founder Rod MacFarquhar cited here.
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Daina Chiba @dainachiba.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Excited to share our new open-access article in @chinaquarterly.bsky.social. With Meng U Ieong and Jiying Jiang, we examine legislative dynamics in Macau's Legislative Assembly. doi.org/10.1017/S030...
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Legislative Politics under “One Country, Two Systems”: Evidence from Macau, 2013–2021 | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Legislative Politics under “One Country, Two Systems”: Evidence from Macau, 2013–2021
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Joseph Torigian @josephtorigian.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
A big thanks to Chris Mittelstaedt for writing this very thoughtful review of Party's Interests for @chinaquarterly.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu · 21/10/2025
In TAIWAN LIVES, Niki J. P. Alsford "has given Taiwan something many contested entities still lack: a history told from within," writes Mitchell Gallagher in a review for China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social. Read the full review:
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Taiwan Lives: A Social and Political History Niki J. P. Alsford. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2024. 302 pp. $35.00 (pbk). ISBN 9780295752167 | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Taiwan Lives: A Social and Political History Niki J. P. Alsford. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2024. 302 pp. $35.00 (pbk). ISBN 9780295752167
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
New: Huan He examines how downward delegation initiatives by the Chinese party-state could undermine everyday contention governance in China doi.org/10.1017/S0305741025101264
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Engagement without Resolution: How Downward Delegation Initiatives Could Undermine Everyday Contention Governance in China | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Engagement without Resolution: How Downward Delegation Initiatives Could Undermine Everyday Contention Governance in China
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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
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Eldest Sons of the Republic: State-owned Enterprise Executive Management System with Chinese Characteristics | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Eldest Sons of the Republic: State-owned Enterprise Executive Management System with Chinese Characteristics
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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
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Policy Experimentation within Bureaucratic Power Networks: The “Police–Business Cooperation” Scheme in Urban China | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Policy Experimentation within Bureaucratic Power Networks: The “Police–Business Cooperation” Scheme in Urban China
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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
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Minimum Compliance in Local Policy Implementation in Contemporary China: The Case of Municipal Solid Waste Management | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Minimum Compliance in Local Policy Implementation in Contemporary China: The Case of Municipal Solid Waste Management
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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
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Rangeland Governance and Practices in Amdo Tibet, China: Legal Pluralism in Pastoral Communities | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Rangeland Governance and Practices in Amdo Tibet, China: Legal Pluralism in Pastoral Communities
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
New by Siyi Zhang, Lingna Zhong, Shu Keng and Baoqing Pang: "Parsing Factional Affiliations among Chinese Political Elites" doi.org/10.1017/S0305741025100957
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Parsing Factional Affiliations among Chinese Political Elites | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Parsing Factional Affiliations among Chinese Political Elites
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Gary Rawnsley @garydrawnsley.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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...
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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
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Pandemic Precarity: Labour Dispute Resolution for Overseas Chinese Workers during COVID-19 | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Pandemic Precarity: Labour Dispute Resolution for Overseas Chinese Workers during COVID-19
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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
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Policy Experimentation Trapped in Tiao-driven Authoritarian Environmentalism: A Case Study of National Park Policy in China | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Policy Experimentation Trapped in Tiao-driven Authoritarian Environmentalism: A Case Study of National Park Policy in China
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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
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Constructing Consent: How Grassroots Governments Reshape the State–Peasant Relationship in the Xi Era | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Constructing Consent: How Grassroots Governments Reshape the State–Peasant Relationship in the Xi Era
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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 · 02/07/2025
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...
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The Politics of Promotion in China’s Foreign Policy Bureaucracy | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
The Politics of Promotion in China’s Foreign Policy Bureaucracy
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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...
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Gender and Bureaucratic Overload in the Grassroots State: Work–Life Choices of Female Civil Servants in Rural China | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Gender and Bureaucratic Overload in the Grassroots State: Work–Life Choices of Female Civil Servants in Rural China
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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...
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Cultural Brokers: The Shaolin Temple Charity and China’s United Front Work | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Cultural Brokers: The Shaolin Temple Charity and China’s United Front Work
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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 doi.org/10.1017/S030...
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Biases about Chinese People in English Language Use: Stereotypes, Prejudice and Discrimination | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Biases about Chinese People in English Language Use: Stereotypes, Prejudice and Discrimination
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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...
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The Educational Outcomes of Children’s Migration Strategies | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
The Educational Outcomes of Children’s Migration Strategies
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
🔓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...
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The Rise of the Chinese Judiciary and Its Limits: Administrative Litigation in the Reform Period | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
The Rise of the Chinese Judiciary and Its Limits: Administrative Litigation in the Reform Period
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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...
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Markets under Mao: Measuring Underground Activity in the Early PRC | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Markets under Mao: Measuring Underground Activity in the Early PRC - Volume 258
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Hai Yang @haiyang-um.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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...
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Aggressive Journalistic Questioning and China’s “Wolf Warrior Diplomacy” | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Aggressive Journalistic Questioning and China’s “Wolf Warrior Diplomacy”
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
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...
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Mechanical Responsiveness: China’s Online Petition System | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Mechanical Responsiveness: China’s Online Petition System
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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...
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Public Perceptions of Intergenerational Mobility in China | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Public Perceptions of Intergenerational Mobility in China
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Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University @harvardusjapan.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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...
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Remembering Li Keqiang: Policy Divergence in Zhongnanhai and Its Economic Consequences | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Remembering Li Keqiang: Policy Divergence in Zhongnanhai and Its Economic Consequences
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
🔓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
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Adaptive Governance at Work: How Chinese State Actors Respond to Overseas Pushback on the Belt and Road Initiative | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Adaptive Governance at Work: How Chinese State Actors Respond to Overseas Pushback on the Belt and Road Initiative
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Gary Rawnsley @garydrawnsley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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
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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...
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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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
🔓 @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...
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Little to Lose: Exit Options and Attitudes towards Automation in Chinese Manufacturing | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Little to Lose: Exit Options and Attitudes towards Automation in Chinese Manufacturing
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
🔓New online, Asei Ito, Jaehwan Lim & Hongyong Zhang use machine learning to explore convergences and divergences between the economic policy orientations of Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang #李克强 doi.org/10.1017/S030...
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Remembering Li Keqiang: Policy Divergence in Zhongnanhai and Its Economic Consequences | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Remembering Li Keqiang: Policy Divergence in Zhongnanhai and Its Economic Consequences
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
New: Chris K.K. Tan & Miao Li explore "cancel culture" in China, through the case of #BL fiction featuring the idol Xiao Zhan 肖战 , which allegedly led to the banning of fan fiction website AO3, and a subsequent backlash against him. doi.org/10.1017/S030...
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Digital Fandoms and the 227 Incident: A Case of “Cancel Culture with Chinese Characteristics” | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Digital Fandoms and the 227 Incident: A Case of “Cancel Culture with Chinese Characteristics”
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
🔓 Eyck Freymann & Calvin Heng analyse PRC strategies to counter financial wars with the US, namely partial RMB internationalization: keeping the capital account tightly regulated while encouraging trade partners to sign up for RMB settlement platforms. doi.org/10.1017/S0305741025000037
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The Logic of Partial RMB Internationalization: PRC Perspectives on “Financial War” | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
The Logic of Partial RMB Internationalization: PRC Perspectives on “Financial War”
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Gary Rawnsley @garydrawnsley.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Delighted that my review of Translation, Disinformation, and Wuhan Diary: Anatomy of a Transpacific Cyber Campaign by @bairuiwen.bsky.social is now available via @chinaquarterly.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Translation, Disinformation, and Wuhan Diary: Anatomy of a Transpacific Cyber Campaign Michael Berry. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. xv + 232 pp. £24.99 (pbk). ISBN 9783031168581 | The China Quarterl...
Translation, Disinformation, and Wuhan Diary: Anatomy of a Transpacific Cyber Campaign Michael Berry. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. xv + 232 pp. £24.99 (pbk). ISBN 9783031168581
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
New: Han Tao on "Credit Data, Banks, 'Packaging Agencies' and the Promise of Digital Lending to Small Businesses in China" doi.org/10.1017/S030...
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Credit Data, Banks, “Packaging Agencies” and the Promise of Digital Lending to Small Businesses in China | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Credit Data, Banks, “Packaging Agencies” and the Promise of Digital Lending to Small Businesses in China
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Analysing 1,761 editorials about the US published between 2003–2022 in People's Daily, @chriscarothers.bsky.social & Joshua B. Freedman investigate CCP messaging about the US in the contemporary era. doi.org/10.1017/S0305741024001528
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America the Failure? Critical Narratives of the United States in Chinese State Media | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
America the Failure? Critical Narratives of the United States in Chinese State Media
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Using the scandal surrounding Jackson Lee (易烊千玺) as a case study, Jian Xu & Ling Yang examine what happens when state-endorsed celebrities are caught up in a scandal. doi.org/10.1017/S0305741024001589
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Celebrity Public Relations in China: Power, Politics and Pop Propaganda | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Celebrity Public Relations in China: Power, Politics and Pop Propaganda
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
New online: Zhou Zhou, Yangxuan Zhou, Meng Yuan and Anni Tang assess how the Chinese state's anti-corruption measures have affected public perception of local government performance since 2012. #反腐败努力 doi.org/10.1017/S030574102400167X
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Anti-corruption Efforts, Corruption Perception and Public Evaluation of Local Governments in China | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Anti-corruption Efforts, Corruption Perception and Public Evaluation of Local Governments in China
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Our December issue is now out and free to access for two weeks. Enjoy! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Felix Wiebrecht @felixwiebrecht.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
🚨New Publication! 🚨 This is a special one for me because it’s in @chinaquarterly.bsky.social but also because it looks at the key question that motivated me to do a PhD in the first place! What’s the point of having authoritarian institutions that by design cannot constrain? A short 🧵
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
New (OA) @felixwiebrecht.bsky.social analyses how government departments respond to suggestions from provincial People's Political Consultative Conferences, finding that inclusive institutions in #China can provide a forum for expertise to inform policy-making. doi.org/10.1017/S030...
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Expertise and Responsiveness in People's Political Consultative Conferences | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Expertise and Responsiveness in People's Political Consultative Conferences
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
A reminder that the deadline is coming up this Friday (13th) for submitting proposals to participate in our Symposium on Knowledge Production in mid-June 2025. See below for details. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The Politics of Knowledge Production about China
The Politics of Knowledge Production about China
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
🔓Franziska Fröhlich explores the soft side of "environmental authoritarianism", analysing the eco-civilization discourse on food & eating found in policy documents and guidebooks that aim to help consumers support the state's goal of an ecological civilization. doi.org/10.1017/S030...
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Food Consumption, Eco-civilization and Environmental Authoritarianism in China | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Food Consumption, Eco-civilization and Environmental Authoritarianism in China
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Drawing on data gathered from qualitative interviews with Chinese students, Zhe Wang & Xuerui Hu explore the international higher education fever gripping China's middle-class families #China #HigherEducation doi.org/10.1017/S030...
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The Normative Biography: International Higher Education Fever among China's Middle-class Families | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
The Normative Biography: International Higher Education Fever among China's Middle-class Families
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