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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.

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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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October 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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New: Huan He examines how downward delegation initiatives by the Chinese party-state could undermine everyday contention governance in China

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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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September 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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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 | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Eldest Sons of the Republic: State-owned Enterprise Executive Management System with Chinese Characteristics
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September 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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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 | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Policy Experimentation within Bureaucratic Power Networks: The “Police–Business Cooperation” Scheme in Urban China
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September 9, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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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 | 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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September 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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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 | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Rangeland Governance and Practices in Amdo Tibet, China: Legal Pluralism in Pastoral Communities
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September 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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New by Siyi Zhang, Lingna Zhong, Shu Keng and Baoqing Pang: "Parsing Factional Affiliations among Chinese Political Elites"

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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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August 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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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...
August 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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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 | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Pandemic Precarity: Labour Dispute Resolution for Overseas Chinese Workers during COVID-19
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July 31, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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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 | 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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July 31, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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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 China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Constructing Consent: How Grassroots Governments Reshape the State–Peasant Relationship in the Xi Era
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July 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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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.
July 2, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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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

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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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July 2, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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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.

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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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July 2, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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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

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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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July 2, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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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 China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Biases about Chinese People in English Language Use: Stereotypes, Prejudice and Discrimination
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June 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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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.
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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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May 29, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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🔓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.
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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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May 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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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).
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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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May 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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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” | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Aggressive Journalistic Questioning and China’s “Wolf Warrior Diplomacy”
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May 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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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
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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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May 15, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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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
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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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April 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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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...
March 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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🔓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 | 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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April 11, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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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 | 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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March 27, 2025 at 9:32 AM