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Book Review: Memories of Tiananmen: Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989–2019 by Francis L. F. Lee and Joseph M. Chan 书评:《天安门的记忆:1989-2019年香港集体记忆的政治与过程》，作者:李宗盛和陈若夫

IF 2.1 3区社会学

China Information Pub Date : 2022-10-21 DOI: 10.1177/0920203X221130402b

J. Béja

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Corrigendum to Book Review: Dictatorship by Degrees: Xi Jinping in China by Steven P. Feldman

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China Information Pub Date : 2022-10-21 DOI: 10.1177/0920203x221130404

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Book Review: Isolating the Enemy: Diplomatic Strategy in China and the United States, 1953–1956 by Tao Wang 书评：《孤立敌人：中美外交战略，1953-1956》，陶望著

IF 2.1 3区社会学

China Information Pub Date : 2022-10-21 DOI: 10.1177/0920203x221130402a

S. Levine

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Book Review: The Art of Useless: Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China by Calvin Hui 书评:《无用的艺术:当代中国的时尚、媒体与消费文化》，许嘉文著

IF 2.1 3区社会学

China Information Pub Date : 2022-10-21 DOI: 10.1177/0920203X221130402e

Sara Liao

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Transnational labour contractor regime in the China–Myanmar borderland: Mitigating hyper-precarity in the sugar cane cutting industry 中缅边境的跨国劳务承包制度:减轻甘蔗采伐业的极度不稳定

IF 2.1 3区社会学

China Information Pub Date : 2022-10-06 DOI: 10.1177/0920203X221126847

Yueping Wang, Tianlong You, Tian Yang

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Mediation and grassroots policing in China: Conflict resolution or social control? 调解与中国基层警务：冲突解决还是社会控制？

IF 2.1 3区社会学

China Information Pub Date : 2022-09-19 DOI: 10.1177/0920203X221121716

Lingxiao Zhou

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Mobility–ethnicity nexus in the China–North Korea borderland of Yanbian: Migration infrastructure and multi-directional flows 延边中朝边境地区的流动性-种族关系：移民基础设施和多向流动

IF 2.1 3区社会学

China Information Pub Date : 2022-08-09 DOI: 10.1177/0920203X221118201

Shiwei Chen

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The avant-gardism of socially engaged art in contemporary China: Aestheticizing everyday lives at the Yangdeng Art Cooperatives 当代中国社会参与艺术的先锋主义——杨登艺术合作社日常生活的审美化

IF 2.1 3区社会学

China Information Pub Date : 2022-07-06 DOI: 10.1177/0920203X221109403

Yanhua Zhou

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Negotiating identity by transnational Chinese students during COVID-19. 新冠肺炎期间跨国中国学生的身份认同谈判

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China Information Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/0920203X211065013

Avital Binah-Pollak, Shiran Yuan

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Digital activism and collective mourning by Chinese netizens during COVID-19. COVID-19 期间中国网民的数字行动主义和集体哀悼。

IF 2.3 3区社会学

China Information Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/0920203X211054172

Xun Cao, Runxi Zeng, Richard Evans

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