China Scholarship Digest

Journal articles from July and August 2021

Hey everyone, we’ve significantly expanded the number of sources for the scholarship digest. Given the amount of content and timeliness, from the next issue we will be sending out the digest monthly (instead of quarterly as originally planned).

If there are sources missing that you’d like to see included in the digest, please email me (you can reply to this email) and we can add them. Thanks.

-Adam

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China Scholarship Digest is a monthly published list of new China-related academic research.

Issue: 2021 July & August

• Articles published: July and August 2021

• Sources¹ scanned: 47 journals

• Content: 112 articles from 28 journals

• Download raw data (.csv)

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Chinese Studies

Journal of Contemporary China

• Rising Cohabitation and Chinese Modernity: Flexible Intimacy and Persistent Marriage

• Party Building in an Unlikely Place? The Adaptive Presence of the Chinese Communist Party in the Non-governmental Organizations (NGO)

• China’s Health Silk Road in the Middle East and North Africa Amidst COVID-19 and a Contested World Order

• What Do We See When Looking at China’s Engagements in Africa? An Analysis of Mainstream Academic Perspectives

• A Cultural Theory of Chinese Foreign Policy

• Public Opinion Backlash Against China’s International Expansion

• Riders on the Storm: Amplified Platform Precarity and the Impact of COVID-19 on Online Food-delivery Drivers in China

• Triadic Interaction and Collective Bargaining of Autoworkers in South China

• Probing NGO–community Interactions through Village Cadres and Principal–agent Relationships: Local Effects on the Operation of NGO Projects in Rural China

• Identity Negotiation and Segregated Integration of African-Chinese Mixed-race Children in Guangzhou, China

• The US–China Rivalry in the Emerging Bipolar World: Hostility, Alignment, and Power Balance

• In the Eyes of the Beholder: How China and the U.S. See Each Other

• Changing Attitudes toward China in Taiwan and Hong Kong in the Xi Jinping Era

• The Politics of Policy Reformulation: Implementing Social Policy in Provincial China

China Quarterly

• Missionaries of the Party: Work-team Participation and Intellectual Incorporation

• Party Building as Institutional Bricolage: Asserting Authority at the Business Frontier

• The Chinese Communist Party's Nervous System: Affective Governance from Mao to Xi

• In the Realm of Comrades? Scattered Thoughts Occasioned by the Centenary of the Founding of the Chinese Communist Party, 1921–2021

• “Patchy Patriarchy” and the Shifting Fortunes of the CCP's Promise of Gender Equality since 1921

• Picking Places and People: Centralizing Provincial Governance in China

• The Emergence of Mafia-like Business Systems in China

• From Black to Blue Skies: Civil Society Perceptions of Air Pollution in Shanghai

• How China's Wildlife Trade Legislation Permits Commercial Trade in Protected Wild Animal Species

Modern China

• The Social Science of Practice Approach to the Study of China’s Development: A Methodological Discussion

China Information

• COVID-19 nationalism and the visual construction of sovereignty during China’s coronavirus crisis

• The politics of care during COVID-19: The visibility of anti-virus measures in Wuhan

• Inside the Wuhan cabin hospital: Contending narratives during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Asian Studies

Journal of Contemporary Asia

• Exploring Biographical Ties among Party and State Leaders in China: A Social Network Analysis

• Reflections on Conducting Fieldwork under Digital Surveillance: Investigating Labour Politics in China’s Tech Industry

Asian Studies Review

• Resisting Foreign Hostility in China’s English-language News Media during the COVID-19 Crisis

• The Chineseness of Urban Cultural Policy in Taiwan

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History

Chinese Studies in History

• The Kangxi Court’s “tribute lion” and Lodovico Buglio’s On Lions

• Women in the chase: Sports, empire, and gender in Shanghai, 1860–1945

• The symbolic world of cattle: Issues in the advertising, consumption, and production of beef in Taiwan (1895–1937)

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International Affairs

International Organization

• Chinese Power and the State-Owned Enterprise

Third World Quarterly

• Rethinking China–Taiwan relations as a yin–yang imbalance: political healing by Taiwanese Buddhist organisations

Geopolitics

• Mapping Chinese Diplomacy: Relational Contradictions and Spatial Tensions

• The ‘Pivot to the East‘ and China in Russian Discourse

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

• A frame analysis of political-media discourse on the Belt and Road Initiative: evidence from China, Australia, India, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States

• Overseas economic interest perspective in foreign policy—a case study of China

• China’s infinite transition and its limits: Economic, military and political dimensions

Australian Journal of International Affairs

• Handling COVID-19 with big data in China: increasing ‘governance capacity’ or ‘function creep’?

Asian Security

• Japan’s responses to China’s rise: Soft balancing in Southeast Asia

• Beyond Mahanianism: the evolution of China’s policy discussion on sea power development

Review of International Political Economy

• How Chinese firms approach investment risk: strong leaders, cancellation, and pushback

Pacific Review

• Propaganda beyond state borders: the deployment of symbolic resources to mobilize political support among the Chinese diaspora

• Japan’s strategic response to China’s geo-economic presence: quality infrastructure as a diplomatic tool

• Seeking shelter in the anthropocene: challenges and opportunities for Taiwan

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Politics

Journal of Chinese Governance

• Temporal changes in sectoral carbon productivity and corresponding driving factors: implications for carbon governance in Zhejiang province

• Public participation in China: the case for environmental enforcement

• The emergence of Chinese high- and new-technology companies in the global arena: challenges and opportunities for governance innovation

• Industrial citizenship, workplace deliberation and participatory management in China: the deliberative polling experiment in a private firm

• Industrial ecology and local citizenship of migrant children in urban China

• What does sustainability demand? An institutionalist analysis with applications to China

• Research on big data-driven public services in China: a visualized bibliometric analysis

• Measuring the political cost of environmental problems (PCEP): a scale development and validation

• The career characteristics of China’s prefectural environmental protection bureau heads with implication for the environmental governance

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Society & Culture

Global Media and China

• Investigating deception and the impacts on online game players’ choice in China

• Language choices as audience design strategies in Chinese multilingual speakers’ Wechat posts

• Uncovering the low-profile #MeToo movement: Towards a discursive politics of empowerment on Chinese social media

Media, Culture & Society

• Representing the victorious past: Chinese revolutionary TV drama between propaganda and marketization

• How propagames work as a part of digital authoritarianism: an analysis of a popular Chinese propagame

Chinese Sociological Review

• Instrumental voting under authoritarianism: evidence from Chinese village elections

• Leveraging machine learning methods to estimate heterogeneous effects: father absence in China as an example

• Gendered housework under China’s privatization: the evolving role of parents

Chinese Journal of Communication

• Embedded data activism: the institutionalization of a grassroots environmental data initiative in China

• When scientific literacy meets nationalism: Exploring the underlying factors in the Chinese public’s belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories

• Access to user data stored by organizations—divides surrounding information security professionals in Chinese IT organizations

• Feeling the 2019 Hong Kong anti-ELAB movement: emotion and affect on the Lennon Walls

• Investigating the role of professional disruption in Chinese journalists’ embrace of public relations: a social identity perspective

• Zoning China: Online video, popular culture, and the state

• Internet addiction among cyberkids in China: Risk factors and intervention strategies

Social Sciences in China

• Farmers Are Growing Further and Further from the Land: Land Transfer and the Practice of Three Rights Separation in China

• Early Chinese Village Patterns in Terms of the Origin of Civilization in China

• Women’s Political Status and the Sex Ratio at Birth: An Empirical Study Based on 1950-2020 County-Level Data

• The Growth Paths and Mechanisms of Chinese Private Enterprise

• Constructive Journalism in China: Research and Practice

• Recontextualizing Constructive Journalism in Contemporary China: A Comparative and Intercultural Perspective

• The Constructive Role of the Press in China: A Historical Perspective

International Journal of Cultural Policy

• Can the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor help Beijing Win Pakistanis’ hearts and minds? Reviewing higher education as an instrument of Chinese soft power in Pakistan

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Economics

Chinese Economic Studies

• Does Political Risk Matter for China's Trade with ASEAN and MENA Countries? A Belt Road Initiative Perspective

• Do COVID-19 Epidemic Explains the Dynamic Conditional Correlation between China’s Stock Market Index and International Stock Market Indices?

• China’s Infrastructure Investment to the Belt and Road: The Case of the China-Indochina Peninsula Economic Corridor

• Research on Innovation in Business and Management about China and Latin America: Bibliometric Insights Using Google Scholar, Dimensions and Microsoft Academic

China Economic Journal

• Overcoming the middle-income trap: International experiences and China’s choice

• The EU—China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: Lessons Learnt for Indonesia

Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies

• The two faces of FDI in environmental performance: a meta-analysis of empirical evidence in China

• Gengzi reflections: how did Chinese culture evolve in the last 180 years

• Boosting economic growth through energy in Africa: the role of Chinese investment and institutional quality

• Herding behavior in Hong Kong stock market during the COVID-19 period: a systematic detection approach

• Adaptation, innovation, and industrialization: the impact of Chinese investments on skill development in the Zambian and Malawian cotton sectors

• Connection issues: a study on the limitations of knowledge transfer in Huawei’s African training centres

• The role of law in Chinese value chains

Asia Pacific Business Review

• Enhancing online–merge–offline (OMO) marketing effectiveness and sustainability – Tao and shared value perspectives: examples from China

• The mediating role of harmony in effective leadership in China: from a Confucianism perspective

Economic and Political Studies

• The potential of energy cooperation between China and Australia under the Belt and Road Initiative

• Let’s play tic-tac-toe: Confucius Institutes versus American Cultural Centres

• China’s soft power and US public opinion

Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy

• Food delivery application user segmentation in the mobile marketing world in China

• Cultural heterogeneity, acquisition experience and the performance of Chinese cross-border acquisitions

• The persistence of Chinese monopoly in Indonesia's salt business and marginalisation of local salt farmers

• Growth or innovation? The impacts analysis of FDI on performance of China’s high-tech zones

• The impact of Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment on the comparative advantage of the Belt and Road countries

• Like parents, like children? Intergenerational poverty transmission in China

• The modern service industry agglomeration and tourism efficiency in China: regional difference and influencing mechanism

• Foreign direct investment effects on the distribution of regional industrial value-added in China

• Strongmen politics and investment flows: China’s investments in Malaysia and the Philippines

1. Source selection is base on a combination of China-relevance, journal focus, and h5-index metrics. Here is the full list:

China Journal, Journal of Contemporary China, China Quarterly, Modern China, China Information, China: An International Journal, Twentieth-Century China, China Review, Journal of Modern Chinese History, Asia Policy, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Asian Studies Review, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Chinese Studies in History, Chinese Historical Review, Journal of Economic History, International Organization, Third World Quarterly, Geopolitics, Survival, European Journal of International Relations, Journal of Strategic Studies, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Australian Journal of International Affairs, Asian Security, Security Studies, RUSI Journal, Review of International Political Economy, Defence and Peace Economics, Pacific Review, Contemporary Security Policy, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Chinese Governance, Political Communication, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Global Media and China, Media, Culture & Society, Chinese Sociological Review, Chinese Journal of Communication, Social Sciences in China, International Journal of Cultural Policy, Chinese Economic Studies, China Economic Journal, Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, Asia Pacific Business Review, Economic and Political Studies, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy.