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  • 1 - Introduction

  • Xiaoshuo Hou, Skidmore College, New York
  • Book:
    Young and Restless in China
    Published online:
    02 November 2024
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    05 December 2024, pp 1-21

  • Summary

    This chapter explores the connection between informality, migration, and precarity and how urban villages are formed in China. It discusses the contribution of the book and the fieldwork methods and introduces the readers to the structure of the book.

China's State-Owned Enterprises
  • Leadership, Reform, and Internationalization
  • Wendy Leutert
  • Published online:
    04 December 2024
    Print publication:
    21 November 2024
  • Why do Chinese state-owned enterprises routinely respond to central-level goals and policies in different ways, and why do their reform trajectories often vary significantly across firms and over time? This book introduces a leadership approach to studying the politics, process, and outcomes of economic reform in China's public sector. Using a series of in-depth case studies, Wendy Leutert analyses the exercise and effects of leadership in Chinese state-owned enterprises. She uncovers the 'intra-organizational politics of reform': the daily dynamics of cooperation and conflict between leaders and their subordinates inside public-sector organizations. She also identifies common tactics that Chinese state-owned enterprise leaders use to execute their agendas and ways their subordinates respond. Updating and expanding existing knowledge, this book highlights the growing global consequences of leadership in Chinese state-owned enterprises and why leadership remains vital for understanding China today.
State and Sub-State Nationalism in Southeast Asia

State and Sub-State Nationalism in Southeast Asia
  • Jacques Bertrand
  • Published online:
    04 December 2024
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    09 January 2025
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  • Nationalism is a political phenomenon with deep roots in Southeast Asia. Yet, state attempts to create homogenous nations met with resistance. This Element focuses on understanding the rise and subsequent ebbing of sub-state nationalist mobilization in response to state nationalism. Two factors allowed sub-state nationalist movements to be formed and persist: first, state nationalisms that were insufficiently inclusive; second, the state's use of authoritarian tools to implement its nationalist agenda. But Southeast Asian states were able to reduce sub-state nationalist mobilization when they changed their policies to meet two conditions: i) some degree of explicit recognition of the distinctiveness of groups; ii) institutional flexibility toward regional/local territorial units to accommodate a high degree of group self-governance. The Element focuses on four states in the region – namely Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Myanmar.

  • The Normative Biography: International Higher Education Fever among China's Middle-class Families

  • Zhe Wang, Xuerui Hu
  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly , First View
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    02 December 2024, pp. 1-16
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  • This paper explores the international higher education (IHE) fever gripping China's middle-class families. Drawing on data gathered from 69 qualitative interviews with Chinese middle-class international students whose education is financially supported by their families, the paper points out that the desire for IHE is influenced by the pursuit of the “normative biography,” a term conceptualized by the authors to refer to the societal expectations that prescribe the specific life milestones and sequences that young middle-class adults should follow on their life trajectories. IHE is perceived as an important pathway to help such young adults meet these social expectations. Moreover, parental support for IHE is not only an educational investment but also assists offspring in conforming to the normative biography. This paper enriches the understanding of how educational practices are influenced by broader sociocultural contexts in contemporary China.

The Adaptability of the Chinese Communist Party

The Adaptability of the Chinese Communist Party
  • Martin K. Dimitrov
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    01 December 2024
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    02 January 2025
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  • The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) celebrated its one-hundredth birthday in 2021. Its durability poses a twofold question: How has the party survived thus far? And is its survival formula sustainable in the future? This Element argues that the CCP has displayed a continuous capacity for adaptation, most recently in response to the 1989 Tiananmen protests and the collapse of communism in Europe. As the CCP evaluated the lessons of 1989, it identified four threats to single-party rule: economic stagnation; socioeconomic discontent; ideological subversion; and political pluralism. These threats have led to adaptive responses: allowing more private activity; expansion of the social safety net; promotion of indigenous cultural production; and rival incorporation into the party. Although these responses have enabled the CCP to survive thus far, each is reaching its limit. As adaptation stagnates, the strategy has been to increase repression, which creates doubt about the ongoing viability of single-party rule.

  • CQY volume 260 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly / Volume 260 / December 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 December 2024, pp. f1-f5
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    December 2024
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  • Books Received

  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly / Volume 260 / December 2024
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    19 December 2024, pp. 1138-1140
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    December 2024
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  • Acknowledgements

  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly / Volume 260 / December 2024
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    19 December 2024, pp. 1141-1142
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    December 2024
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  • CQY volume 260 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly / Volume 260 / December 2024
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    19 December 2024, pp. b1-b3
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    December 2024
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East Asian International Relations
  • Evolution and Social Construction
  • Ming Wan
  • Published online:
    28 November 2024
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    19 December 2024
  • Through the outline of a coherent theoretical foundation for understanding East Asian international relations, this textbook offers a fresh, analytical approach, including applications of evolutionary theory that differ from and contextualize the prevailing theories currently offered for studies of East Asia. It provides an extensive coverage of ancient world order and European imperialism preceding contemporary themes of security, economic development, money and finance, regionalism, the US-China rivalry, and democracy versus autocracy. Demonstrating systemically how facts and theories are constructed, and how these are bound by evolutionary constraints, students gain a realistic view of knowledge production and the mindset and tools to participate actively in determining which facts and theories are more acceptable than alternatives. Feature boxes, discussion questions, exercises, and recommended readings are incorporated into each chapter to encourage active learning. A vital new resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in political science, international relations, and Asian studies.
Meritocracy or Patronage?

Meritocracy or Patronage?
  • Political Foundations of China's Economic Transition
  • Fubing Su, Ran Tao
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    28 November 2024
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    05 December 2024
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  • This study interrogates the theoretical and empirical validities of two dominant theories about Chinese state in the post-Mao period. The authors argue that the meritocratic view has under-theorized the innate contradiction between officials' personal competence and political loyalty. In order to survive political struggles, political leaders need to rely on patronage networks to recruit followers and solidify trust, often at the expense of official competence. The popular view also misrepresents China's cadre assessment system in several important ways. The authors supplement this theoretical and anecdotal evidence with a systematic study of provincial level officials between 1978 and 2020. Contrary to the meritocratic view, leaders' economic performance does not increase their promotion chances. Work ties with central leaders, on the other hand, have provided provincial officials with advantage in promotion. This study contributes to general theories of autocratic state and inform the debate about autocratic growth in the political economy literature.

  • 3 - Enterprise Reforms since 1978

  • Wendy Leutert, Indiana University, Bloomington
  • Book:
    China's State-Owned Enterprises
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    04 December 2024
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    21 November 2024, pp 38-70

  • Summary

    Chapter 3 surveys enterprise reforms in China since the late 1970s to highlight evolving constraints and space for leadership in SOEs. It examines five periods: emergence and decline of “dual track” economic reform (1978–91), establishment of a socialist market economy (1992–94), retrenchment of state ownership in the “commanding heights” (1995–2001), internationalization and consolidation of the state sector (2002–12), and combination of limited economic liberalization with increased political control (2013 to present). Since the late 1970s, SOE leaders have transitioned from managing production to determining how to restructure their firms, managing state-owned capital, and expanding in both domestic and international markets. Although the overall trend has been toward expanded space for leadership, the current Xi Jinping administration has tightened political and commercial control.

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