{"title":"China's Rise as an Advanced Technological Society and the Rise of Digital Orientalism.","authors":"Josef Gregory Mahoney","doi":"10.1007/s11366-022-09817-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-022-09817-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As China has risen as an advanced technological society, a new type of Orientalism-Digital Orientalism-has likewise emerged. Using historical materialism, this paper details these developments, including China's change from a civilization-state to modern nation-state and its transition from a technical state to an advanced technological society, closing the technology gap that had left it vulnerable to foreign aggression and continued forms of international dominance and hegemony. It reviews and develops theories associated with technological societies, and how these relate to technophobia generally and the rise of Sino(techno)phobia specifically. It then theorizes three distinct but overlapping trends or themes in Orientalist depictions of China over the past two centuries: 1) 'classical' Orientalism, first theorized by Edward Said; 2) 'Sinological Orientalism,' described by Daniel Vukovich; and now 3), 'Digital Orientalism,' which was first introduced by Maximilian Mayer. This paper develops analyses associated primarily with the third theme, investigating contemporary developments in the context of China as a rising power and how scholars and other nations have responded in turn. It argues that China appears to have surpassed others now as a technological society, including the US, with China's response to COVID-19 as a clear example, and with clear implications for China's national advancement and global position vis-à-vis the United States particularly.</p>","PeriodicalId":46205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Political Science","volume":"28 1","pages":"1-24"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9194893/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10748897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Bringing Home the Bacon”: Distributive Politics in China’s National People’s Congress","authors":"Chuan-hsi Chen","doi":"10.1007/s11366-022-09842-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-022-09842-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Political Science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45423742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kerry E. Ratigan, Local Politics and Social Policy in China: Let Some Get Healthy First","authors":"Xianguo Huang","doi":"10.1007/s11366-022-09843-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-022-09843-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Political Science","volume":"1 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45814313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jiwei Qian, The Political Economy of Making and Implementing Social Policy in China","authors":"Kerry Ratigan","doi":"10.1007/s11366-022-09841-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-022-09841-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Political Science","volume":"28 1","pages":"183 - 184"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48151660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The CCP, Campaign Governance and COVID-19: Evidence from Shanghai.","authors":"Xuan Qin, Catherine Owen","doi":"10.1007/s11366-022-09838-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11366-022-09838-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper examines Shanghai's grassroots COVID-19 management as a lens to explore the role of local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organisations in public policy implementation in China. We bring together literature on the Party-state relationship with literature on 'routine' and 'mobilizational' governance to construct a framework that conceptualises the CCP as the central actor in implementing public policy through campaigns. We distinguish 9 governance techniques deployed by the CCP in grassroots COVID management, which we illustrate with evidence from 37 semi-structured interviews conducted in summer 2021 with secretaries and directors from local Residents' Committees, government officials mobilised to assist with pandemic management, representatives from property management companies and Party-Mass Service Centres, as well as volunteers and residents. We demonstrate that, although Party-led policy implementation elicits comprehensive compliance, it places significant pressure on the system of grassroots governance.</p>","PeriodicalId":46205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Political Science","volume":" ","pages":"1-26"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9686254/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35254394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Viewing Persistent Individual Complainants in China Through the Lens of Everyday Politics","authors":"Xiaowei Gui, Xiaochang Yang","doi":"10.1007/s11366-022-09839-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-022-09839-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Political Science","volume":"28 1","pages":"209 - 229"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44392821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can Debunked Conspiracy Theories Change Radicalized Views? Evidence from Racial Prejudice and Anti-China Sentiment Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic.","authors":"Tianyang Liu, Tianru Guan, Randong Yuan","doi":"10.1007/s11366-022-09832-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11366-022-09832-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With the advent of the 'age of conspiracism', the harmfulness of conspiratorial narratives and mindsets on individuals' mentalities, on social relations, and on democracy, has been widely researched by political scientists and psychologists. One known negative effect of conspiracy theories is the escalation toward political radicalism. This study goes beyond the exploration of mechanisms underpinning the relationship between conspiracy theory and radicalization to focus on possible approaches to mitigating them. This study sheds light on the role of counter-conspiracy approaches in the process of deradicalization, adopting the case study of anti-China sentiment and racial prejudice amid the Covid-19 pandemic, through conducting an experiment (<i>N</i> = 300). The results suggest that, during critical events such as the Covid-19 pandemic, exposure to countermeasures to conspiracist information can reduce individual acceptance of radicalism. We investigated two methods of countering conspiracy theory, and found that: (1) a content-targeted 'inoculation' approach to countering conspiracy theory can prevent the intensification of radicalization, but does not produce a significant deradicalization effect; and (2) an audience-focused 'disenchantment' method can enable cognitive deradicalization, effectively reducing the perception of competitive victimhood, and of real and symbolic threats. This study is one of the first attempts to address causality between deradicalization and countermeasures to conspiracy theories in the US-China relations.</p>","PeriodicalId":46205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Political Science","volume":" ","pages":"1-33"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9520097/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33501243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rana Mitter, China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism","authors":"Jiarui Wu","doi":"10.1007/s11366-022-09837-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-022-09837-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Political Science","volume":"28 1","pages":"185 - 186"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48917489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Political Economy of State Sector Restructuring in China: Cross-Provincial Evidence 2008–2017","authors":"Kasper Ingeman Beck","doi":"10.1007/s11366-022-09835-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-022-09835-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Political Science","volume":"28 1","pages":"273 - 299"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46809675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Haiying Liu, Zhiqun Zhang, Yu Wang, Chunhong Zhang, Di-fan Wang
{"title":"Testing the Correlation between Eco-environmental Performance and Provincial Official Promotion in China","authors":"Haiying Liu, Zhiqun Zhang, Yu Wang, Chunhong Zhang, Di-fan Wang","doi":"10.1007/s11366-022-09834-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-022-09834-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Political Science","volume":"28 1","pages":"375 - 399"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46349573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}