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Institutionalization within Revolutionary Crisis: The Chinese Communist Party’s Radio Communications and Reconnaissance, 1933–1936 革命危机中的制度化：中国共产党的无线电通讯与侦察，1933-1936 年

IF 1 4区社会学

Modern China Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI: 10.1177/00977004241265285

Zhongtian Han

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Speaking with Devils: Sino-European Vernaculars and Translingual Communication before the Treaty Ports 与魔鬼对话：条约口岸前的中欧白话文与跨语言交流

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Modern China Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI: 10.1177/00977004241259078

Carl Kubler

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Going Local: Policy Intellectuals’ Adaptive Strategies under Xi Jinping 走向本土：习近平领导下政策知识分子的适应策略

IF 1 4区社会学

Modern China Pub Date : 2024-07-23 DOI: 10.1177/00977004241259079

Yoel Kornreich

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Cross-Boundary Subsumption: Toward a Political Economy of Platform Labor 跨界消费：走向平台劳动的政治经济学

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Modern China Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/00977004241256295

Hao Qi, Zhongjin Li

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Natural Embeddedness, Place Attachment, and Local Opposition to Developmental Projects: A Polanyian Analysis of the Origins of Preemptive Environmental Protests in China 自然嵌入性、地方依恋和地方对发展项目的反对：对中国先发制人的环境抗议起源的波兰尼分析

IF 1 4区社会学

Modern China Pub Date : 2024-05-21 DOI: 10.1177/00977004241254042

Jian Lu

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Unsung Heroine: Wang Ruqi, the 1950 Marriage Law, and State-Legal Feminism 无名英雄：王汝骐、1950 年《婚姻法》和国家法律女性主义

IF 1 4区社会学

Modern China Pub Date : 2024-04-25 DOI: 10.1177/00977004241247296

Shangyang Li, Qiliang He

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Fifty Years of Modern China: An International Journal of History and Social Science 现代中国五十年国际历史与社会科学杂志

IF 1 4区社会学

Modern China Pub Date : 2024-04-20 DOI: 10.1177/00977004241247275

Philip C. C. Huang, Kathryn Bernhardt

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Transitional Frictions: Intimate Ties, Grassroots Bureaucracy, and Family Reunion in Post-Mao China, 1975–1985 过渡摩擦：1975-1985年后毛泽东时代中国的亲密关系、基层官僚机构和家庭团聚

IF 1 4区社会学

Modern China Pub Date : 2024-03-26 DOI: 10.1177/00977004241240050

Yanjie Huang

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Constrained Power Expansion: China’s Procuratorial Reforms within and beyond Criminal Justice 受制约的权力扩张：中国刑事司法内外的检察改革

IF 1 4区社会学

Modern China Pub Date : 2024-03-07 DOI: 10.1177/00977004241232874

Wanqiang Wu, Xifen Lin

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The Rise in Cesarean Births and the Technocratic Medicalization of Childbirth in Late-Reform China 改革晚期中国剖宫产率的上升和分娩的技术官僚医疗化

IF 1 4区社会学

Modern China Pub Date : 2024-02-20 DOI: 10.1177/00977004241231474

Gonçalo D. Santos, Jun Zhang

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