{"title":"Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942–1953 Xiaofei Kang. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. xix + 288 pp. £71.00 (hbk). ISBN 9780197654477","authors":"Chang-tai Hung","doi":"10.1017/s030574102300156x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s030574102300156x","url":null,"abstract":"Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942–1953 Xiaofei Kang. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. xix + 288 pp. £71.00 (hbk). ISBN 9780197654477","PeriodicalId":223807,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135635366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Credit: The Warring States of China's Emerging Data Empire Vincent Brussee. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 204 pp. €39.99 (pbk). ISBN 9789819921898","authors":"Marianne von Blomberg","doi":"10.1017/s0305741023001595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741023001595","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":223807,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135634969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy Lin Zhang. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. xvi + 312 pp. £25.00 (pbk). ISBN 9780231195317","authors":"Jenny Chan","doi":"10.1017/s0305741023001558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741023001558","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":223807,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135636440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hongbin Li, Lingsheng Meng, Yanyan Xiong, Sinclair L. Cook
{"title":"Job Preferences and Outcomes for China's College Graduates","authors":"Hongbin Li, Lingsheng Meng, Yanyan Xiong, Sinclair L. Cook","doi":"10.1017/s0305741023001510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741023001510","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Despite private enterprises dominating China's labour market, college-educated workers are still highly concentrated in the state sector. Using data from the Chinese College Student Survey, we find that 64 per cent of students in the sample expressed a strong preference for state sector employment. We also identify several factors associated with receiving job offers from the state sector, including being male, holding urban hukou status, being a member of the CCP, performing well on standardized tests, attending elite universities and having higher household income or high-status parental backgrounds. These findings suggest that despite China's economic transition, the private sector may still struggle to attract highly educated workers.","PeriodicalId":223807,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135635465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sinophone Utopias: Exploring Futures Beyond the China Dream Andrea Riemenschnitter, Jessica Imbach and Justyna Jaguscik (eds.). Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2023. 484 pp. $129.00 (hbk). ISBN 9781621966463","authors":"Sara Landa","doi":"10.1017/s0305741023001613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741023001613","url":null,"abstract":"Sinophone Utopias: Exploring Futures Beyond the China Dream Andrea Riemenschnitter, Jessica Imbach and Justyna Jaguscik (eds.). Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2023. 484 pp. $129.00 (hbk). ISBN 9781621966463","PeriodicalId":223807,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"11 11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135634380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shifting Sands: Landscape, Memory, and Commodities in China's Contemporary Borderlands Xiaoxuan Lu. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2023. 344 pp. $50.00 (hbk). ISBN 9781477327555","authors":"Franck Billé","doi":"10.1017/s0305741023001546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741023001546","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":223807,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135636447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Social Visibility to Political Invisibility: The School in Nationalist Taiwan as Fulcrum for an Evolving World Ethos Allen Chun. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 291 pp. £109.99 (hbk). ISBN 9789819920174","authors":"Edward Vickers","doi":"10.1017/s0305741023001637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741023001637","url":null,"abstract":"From Social Visibility to Political Invisibility: The School in Nationalist Taiwan as Fulcrum for an Evolving World Ethos Allen Chun. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 291 pp. £109.99 (hbk). ISBN 9789819920174","PeriodicalId":223807,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"10 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135868945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Australia's China Odyssey: From Euphoria to Fear James Curran. Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2022. 305 pp, $34.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781742237152","authors":"Yi Wang","doi":"10.1017/s0305741023001443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741023001443","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":223807,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"12 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135869127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Organizing Dots and Lines: Eastern Hui and the Adaptation of the CCP's Nationalities Work in the Revolutionary Era","authors":"Aaron Nathan Glasserman","doi":"10.1017/s0305741023001522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741023001522","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Although ethnic governance in the People's Republic of China is often portrayed as a matter of controlling “minority nationalities” in the country's frontier regions, the ethnic affairs bureaucracy operates in every province. The origins of “nationalities work” as a discrete domain of governance can be traced to the Chinese Communist Party's efforts to mobilize scattered Hui communities in the eastern provinces of Shandong and Hebei in the 1930s–1940s. Thanks to the initiative of Hui Communists, local Party leaders came to understand that Hui were not simply scattered but interconnected. They adapted and replicated organizational methods to exploit Hui networks for gathering intelligence, smuggling goods and penetrating enemy-controlled cities. This history offers an instructive case of adaptive governance in the revolutionary period and the role of ethnic minority cadres in policy entrepreneurship. It also underscores the importance of the Party's experience in eastern China in the study of Chinese ethnic policy.","PeriodicalId":223807,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"371 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135871855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Multilevel Politics of Government–Business Collaboration in China's Rural Poverty Alleviation","authors":"Lu Liu, Yahua Wang","doi":"10.1017/s0305741023001479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741023001479","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Collaboration between local governments and businesses for poverty reduction has not yet been fully explored in China. Based on an in-depth investigation of two counties during the Targeted Poverty Alleviation campaign, this study proposes a multilayered and relational approach to understanding how different levels of officials collaborate with business to reduce poverty. Elite bureaucrats at the county and township levels prefer a growth-oriented strategy for attracting large-scale enterprises to make investment. Their coalition with businesses has created profits and employment but also hindered authentic participation of small- and medium-sized businesses and villagers in their selected villages. In contrast, in villages that were not prioritized by elite bureaucrats, local officials could utilize their discretion and indigenous resources to exploit development opportunities and support small- and medium-sized businesses to reach poor villagers. This study unpacks China's multilevel system to understand the various forms of government–business collaboration and their implications for rural poverty reduction.","PeriodicalId":223807,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135729893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}