Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies最新文献

{"title":"Democratic institutions against the background of China’s economic development: the change in the delegate composition of the Yangzhou municipal people’s congress","authors":"Tomoki Kamo","doi":"10.1080/24761028.2020.1860188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24761028.2020.1860188","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This research examines the impact that China’s economic development has had on the political system that shapes the CCP-led single-party regime. In pursuit of this inquiry, this research focuses on the delegate composition in the people’s congress – China’s democratic institution. Previous research argues that China’s democratic institutions contribute to the stability of the single-party regime. However, when considering political functions of those democratic institutions, it does not give sufficient consideration to the possibility that the system itself and its political functions might change over the time. By analyzing 20-year materials of five consecutive terms from 1998 to 2018 on the delegates to the people’s congress of Yangzhou city in Jiangsu province, this research observes the changes in the delegate composition.","PeriodicalId":37218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"91 - 107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/24761028.2020.1860188","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48358981","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":"Trade, security, and authoritarianism: domestic politics of foreign policy making in China","authors":"H. Takeuchi","doi":"10.1080/24761028.2020.1847416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24761028.2020.1847416","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Could trade bring security and stability to international relations? China has become one of the most important players in the global economy without being democratized. In this article, I present a game-theoretic model in which an authoritarian state would behave more cooperatively in international relations if internationalists are empowered vis-à-vis hardliners in domestic politics. Reformists and internationalists are likely partners. The reformists have a strong incentive to use the free trade agreements’ (FTAs) stipulating domestic regulations as external pressure to advance structural reforms: they see intra-industry trade, enhanced by global value chains (GVCs), as a means to achieve sustainable economic growth. This article breaks down the broader claim that FTAs regulating GVCs-based intra-industry trade are connected to regional security in two steps: first, FTAs empower the reformist-internationalist coalition; and second, the empowered reformist internationalists make the state’s behavior more cooperative in the international sphere. The model’s equilibrium outcome implies that the FTAs that require the signatories to be committed to domestic economic reforms will promote international cooperation and strengthen regional security by empowering people who favor reform and internationalism in each state’s domestic politics. This means, if an authoritarian state is involved in the global economy and benefits from international economic transactions, like China does, then concluding and spreading FTAs requiring domestic economic reforms would be more effective policy to bring security and stability than promoting democratic transitions.","PeriodicalId":37218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"202 - 225"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/24761028.2020.1847416","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48660569","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":"Change in Taiwan policy under Xi Jinping administration: an internalized policy-making process","authors":"Xuan He","doi":"10.1080/24761028.2020.1853313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24761028.2020.1853313","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT After the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) gained power in 2016, the cross-strait communication channels were gradually closed. The mainland’s Taiwan policy was changed, resulting in an internalization of the policy-making process. This paper manifests the internalization through the case study of the “31 Preferential Policies for Taiwan” launched in 2018. This new Taiwan policy originated from the local governments’ initiative to establish local policy pools that are partially transformed into the new Taiwan policy, hence the implementation nationwide. The local track of central leaders, which is a key variable, significantly influences the policy-making process.","PeriodicalId":37218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"144 - 156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/24761028.2020.1853313","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45459240","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":"Legalization of the Chinese Communist Party’s Governance over Hong Kong","authors":"Naito Hiroko","doi":"10.1080/24761028.2020.1847417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24761028.2020.1847417","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The conflict between Mainland China and Hong Kong regarding the issue of how much autonomy Hong Kong would retain is becoming increasingly intense, especially after the Occupy Central Movement arose in 2014. This paper focuses on the “rule of law” policy under Xi’s government and analyzes how and why the CCP’s rule over Hong Kong was strengthened. Although Xi promotes the “rule of law,” it is different from the one in democracy. This paper, first, outlining the characteristics of the “rule of law” during Xi Jinping’s era and explaining the differences between the rule of law in democracy and the one in China. Second analysis is revealing the personal affairs and organizational structure of the party apparatus to see the linkage of the “rule of law” policy under Xi’s government with the CCP’s control over Hong Kong, and third is examining the reflection and rhetoric of the CCP’s “rule of law” governance over Hong Kong based on the politicians’ discourses. This paper reveals that the “rule of law” with Chinese characteristics implies standardizing the law, centralizing the power, and stabilizing society. The CCP has continually claimed to be “Governing Hong Kong according to Law” but the CCP would only accept the “rule of law” with these characteristics and, of course, without democratization.","PeriodicalId":37218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"157 - 174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/24761028.2020.1847417","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47705902","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":"China’s economic statecraft: the use of economic power in an interdependent world","authors":"Vida Mačikėnaitė","doi":"10.1080/24761028.2020.1848381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24761028.2020.1848381","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to observe how China’s exercise of economic statecraft changed with the growth of its economic power. While there is a widely accepted consensus that the distribution of economic capabilities has changed in favor of China over the recent decades, it still needs to be examined what effect this has had on China’s actual bargaining behavior within that new power structure. The analysis is built on the framework of complex interdependence, arguing that the expansion of China’s economic capabilities has led to greater levels of interdependence with other countries and has also tilted the power asymmetries in favor of China. The analysis operationalizes the change in China’s exercise of economic statecraft, i.e., the use of economic tools in pursuit of national objectives abroad, as a foreign policy change and observes the quantitative change (how intensively the same economic tools were utilized), the qualitative change (what means specifically were employed) and the change in goals (what national objectives these economic means were aimed at achieving). The analysis demonstrates that China used the same economic tools more intensively as a result of higher capacity. Also, it turned to unilateral economic sanctions more often since 2007. Further, China embraced multilateralism in the exercise of its economic statecraft under the current leadership. The paper concludes that in the interdependent world, a very inertial process of power asymmetry shift to China’s favor has started and China is likely to be increasingly able to translate its economic power into actual influence.","PeriodicalId":37218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"108 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/24761028.2020.1848381","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48038863","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":"Nihon Senryoka no Chugoku Musurimu: Kahoku oyobi Monkyo niokeru Minzoku Seisaku to Jyoshi Kyoiku [Muslims in China under Japanese occupation: The ethnic minority policy and women’s education in the North China and Mongol military governments]","authors":"Bing Zhang","doi":"10.1080/24761028.2020.1742456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24761028.2020.1742456","url":null,"abstract":"This book is the first treatise that examines the conditions of Chinese Muslims in the Japan-occupied China. It focuses on the Muslim strategy that was systematically implemented by the Japanese ar...","PeriodicalId":37218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"243 - 245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/24761028.2020.1742456","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60141918","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":"People’s will or the central government’s plan? The shape of contemporary Chinese local governance","authors":"Yiran Liu","doi":"10.1080/24761028.2020.1744290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24761028.2020.1744290","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the wake of 18th and 19th CPC Central Committees’ reforms on “social governance,” this paper will explore subsequent developments in local governance in China. This is an appropriate focus because earlier research has largely tended to overlook the different ways that local governments behave in balancing the requirements of upper-level, national government with the needs and will of society. By using interviews and participant observation to examine the case of Xicheng District Beijing, this paper finds that, when local government faces pressure from central government, it tends to downplay consideration of the people’s voice and instead it uses monetary compensation to appease people’s anger at not being listened to. However, when local government is afforded more freedom, it is more likely to try and address people’s needs and demands and reconcile these with central government’s plan, so as to balance the needs of the two. The analysis of the post-2012 reforms identifies three Project Types to illustrate different approaches to local governance. Owing to government’s dominant role, Types One and Two are more akin to what empowerment theory dubs “collaborative betterment.” In contrast, Type Three projects give local communities far greater say in determining policy priorities and implementation methods. For this reason, they broadly resonate with the notion of “collaborative empowerment,” although ultimately government remains a veto-player. A further key finding is that local governance is not only shaped by the central government’s plan, nor the demands of society, but to a significant degree, by the mediating role of local government officials.","PeriodicalId":37218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"226 - 242"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/24761028.2020.1744290","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45215543","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":"Japan’s policy on North Korea: four motives and three factors","authors":"Shunji Hiraiwa","doi":"10.1080/24761028.2020.1762300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24761028.2020.1762300","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Background The central model of Japan’s North Korea policy has been maintained consistently despite repeated changes in the government from the Liberal Democratic Party to the Democratic Party and back again.Purpose: This paper summarizes Japan’s policy concerning North Korea after the Cold War, examines the structure of this policy, and, based on this structure, analyzes Japan’s current policy regarding North Korea. The analysis then turns to the future.Main Argument: Normalizing relations between Japan and North Korea may be the primary goal of Japan’s policy, but the following four motives can also be identified. First, for Japan, the normalization of relations with North Korea is significant as a remaining postwar process. The second motive involves responses to security issues. Third, there is the issue of the safety of Japanese lives. Fourth, Japan’s economic opportunities in North Korea must be considered. Japan has sought ties with North Korea with these four motives, which will remain unchanged in the future. However, Japan does not aim to normalize relations with North Korea without restrictions, and Japan’s policy concerning North Korea is bound by the following three factors. The first factor is the international environment. Second, Japan–North Korea relations are constrained by the attitude of South Korea. Third, Japan’s domestic politics also determine Japan’s North Korea policy.Conclusion: While the four motives will remain the same for Japan, these three factors determine Japan’s attitude toward North Korea, all three of which are pushing for Japan to negotiate with North Korea. He central model of Japan’s North Korea policy has been maintained consistently despite repeated changes in the government from the Liberal Democratic Party to the Democratic Party and back again. This paper summarizes Japan’s policy concerning North Korea after the Cold War, examines the structure of this policy, and, based on this structure, analyzes Japan’s current policy regarding North Korea. The analysis then turns to the future. Normalizing relations between Japan and North Korea may be the primary goal of Japan’s policy, but the following four motives can also be identified. First, for Japan, the normalization of relations with North Korea is significant as a remaining postwar process. The second motive involves responses to security issues. Third, there is the issue of the safety of Japanese lives. Fourth, Japan’s economic opportunities in North Korea must be considered. Japan has sought ties with North Korea with these four motives, which will remain unchanged in the future. However, Japan does not aim to normalize relations with North Korea without restrictions, and Japan’s policy concerning North Korea is bound by the following three factors. The first factor is the international environment. Second, Japan–North Korea relations are constrained by the attitude of South Korea. Third, Japan’s domestic politics also determine Japan’s Nort","PeriodicalId":37218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"1 - 17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/24761028.2020.1762300","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47687667","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 middle income trap from a China and ASEAN perspective","authors":"K. Ohno","doi":"10.1080/24761028.2020.1726554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24761028.2020.1726554","url":null,"abstract":"There are many ways to discuss the essence of economic development associated with industrialization, technology catch-up, and innovation. The key question is why some societies move up rapidly to ...","PeriodicalId":37218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"83 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/24761028.2020.1726554","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49241774","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":"Militants, criminals, and warlords: the challenge of local governance in an age of disorder","authors":"S. Kiba","doi":"10.1080/24761028.2020.1726598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24761028.2020.1726598","url":null,"abstract":"It is widely accepted that nonstate actors contribute to the successful maintenance and development of the sovereign state. Indeed, the World Bank’s discourse on good governance and social accounta...","PeriodicalId":37218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"86 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/24761028.2020.1726598","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45341077","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}