China Scholarship Digest

Journal articles from October 2021

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

Issue: October 2021

• Articles published in October 2021

• Sources scanned: 54 journals

• Content: 40 articles from 21 journals

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Chinese Studies

Journal of Contemporary China

• The Crackdown on Rights-Advocacy NGOs in Xi’s China: Politicizing the Law and Legalizing the Repression*

• China and Authoritarian Collaboration

• China’s International Talent Policy (ITP): The Changes and Driving Forces, 1978-2020

• A Rational Policy Design or Contingent Historical Creation? Considering the Emergence of China’s Distributed Solar Power Generation Regime

• Censorship in the Semi-Private Domain: A Theory of Cross-Domain Variation and Evidence from WeChat

• A Question of Human Rights or Human Left? – the ‘People’s War against COVID-19’ under the ‘Gridded Management’ System in China

China Quarterly

• On the Informal Rules of the Chinese Communist Party

• The Paradigm Shift in the Disciplining of Village Cadres in China: From Mao to Xi

• The Political Economy of China's Dramatically Improved Coal Safety Record

Modern China

• The National Supervision Commission: A “Subaltern History”

China Information

• Humour and TikTok memes during the 2020 pandemic lockdown: Tensions of gender and care faced by Chinese mothers working from home

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Asian Studies

Contemporary Southeast Asia

• China's Role in the Cambodian People's Party's Quest for Legitimacy

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History

Journal of Economic History

• Malthus Goes to China: The Effect of “Positive Checks” on Grain Market Development, 1736–1910

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International Affairs

Asian Security

• China engages the Arctic: a great power in a regime complex

Security Studies

• Barking Without Biting: Understanding Chinese Media Campaigns During Foreign Policy Disputes

International Relations of the Asia-Pacific

• A critique of Chinese diplomatic modernization narratives: reinterpreting shifts in Qing foreign affairs institutions in the early 1860s from the Qing perspective

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Politics

Journal of Politics

• FDI, Unmet Expectations, and the Prospects of Political Leaders:  Evidence from Chinese Investment in Africa

• What Makes Anticorruption Punishment Popular? Individual-Level Evidence from China

Journal of Chinese Governance

• The three legal dimensions of China’s big data governance

• An early assessment of the County Medical Community reform in China: a case study of Zhejiang province

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Society & Culture

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

• Southeast Asian Chinese engage a rising China: business associations, institutionalised transnationalism, and the networked state

• Forever foreign? Is there a future for Chinese people in Africa?

• Divergent experiences and patterns of integration: contemporary Chinese immigrants in metropolitan Los Angeles, USA

• Riding on the waves of transformation in the Asia-Pacific: Chinese migration to Australia since the late 1980s

• A hierarchy of aspirations within a field of educational possibilities: the futures of Chinese immigrants in Luxembourg

Global Media and China

• Collectivism and Altruistic Behavior: A Third-Person Effect Study of COVID-19 News Among Wuhan Residents

Media, Culture & Society

• Responses to health risk and suffering: ‘China’ in the Italian media discourses during the early stage of the Covid-19 pandemic

Chinese Sociological Review

• Between reality and perception: the mediating effects of mass media on public opinion toward China

• Rainbow parents and the familial model of tongzhi (LGBT) activism in contemporary China

Chinese Journal of Communication

• How political disagreements undermine intrafamily communication: the case of the anti-extradition bill movement in Hong Kong

International Journal of Cultural Policy

• The ‘commodified’ colonial past in small cities: shifting heritage-making from nation-building to city branding in South Korea and Taiwan

• South Korea’s intangible cultural heritage claims and China’s ontological security

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Economics

Chinese Economic Studies

• Health Insurance Coverage of Migrant Workers in China

China Economic Journal

• One year after COVID: the challenges and outlook of Chinese micro-and-small enterprises

• China trade with belt and road countries: the role and impact of institutions

• Wage payments and fixed capital investment in imperfect financial and labor markets: the case of China

Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies

• Directional change for handling tick-to-tick data

• Leaders, institutions and people during Covid-19 : Secret of Asian success

• Economic agglomeration and product quality upgrading: evidence from China

Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy

• Party alternation and fiscal performance—evidence from Taiwan’s local government

• Impact of homestead housing on the allocation of financial assets of Chinese rural households

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Full list of sources scanned:

The 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 Affairs, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Third World Quarterly, Geopolitics, Survival, European Journal of International Relations, Journal of Strategic Studies, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, International Studies Review, Chinese Journal of International Politics, 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, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Journal of Democracy, Journal of Politics, 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.