{"title":"“Doing the Work of Science”: Tibetan Environmentalists and the Changing Dynamics of Ecological Conservation in China","authors":"Tsering Bum","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000614","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In the context of China's “Constructing ecological civilization” initiative, Tibetan environmentalists are proactively incorporating ecological science into their wildlife conservation efforts. This ethnographic study explores the logics, rationales and motivations behind this approach among Tibetans in Qinghai province. The article contends that Tibetan environmentalists adopt ecological science to gain legibility in the eyes of both the state and the wider environmental conservation community, thereby enhancing their political legitimacy and social recognition. On one hand, this practice counters the stigmatizing narratives that depict Tibetan pastoralists as backward. By embracing scientific discourses and practices, they challenge such derogatory views and position themselves as forward-thinking conservationists. On the other hand, this strategy indirectly preserves the traditional knowledge of pastoralists. Through their involvement with ecological science, they merge traditional insights with scientific methodologies, ensuring the protection of their cultural heritage while adapting to the sociopolitical landscape of contemporary conservation dynamics in China.","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"73 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140968135","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":"How Do Toothless Tigers Bite? Extra-institutional Governance and Internet Censorship by Local Governments in China","authors":"Tony Huiquan Zhang, Jianhua Xu, Jinjin Liu","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000602","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 China has constructed a rigorous state apparatus to control its online social content. To date, research has largely focused on the central government's cyber control, but the less studied local cyberspace administrative forces are also important. Our fieldwork and interviews at a county-level cyberspace administration office (CAO) in east China reveal that the local CAO had been rendered a “toothless tiger” with insufficient technology, power and labour. However, it has made up for these deficiencies by utilizing systems such as outsourced surveillance, organized mass reporting and personnel secondment. We contend that these practices, which we label “extra-institutional governance” (EIG), emerge when bureaucracies with limited resources face external pressures. The findings shed light on how censorship machines operate in local governments in China and reveal the general dynamics of how bureaucratic organizations adapt to environmental pressures.","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"13 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140968894","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 Governance of Chinese Charitable Trusts Hui Jing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 350 pp. £95.00 (hbk). ISBN 9781009327909","authors":"M. Sidel","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000705","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"121 39","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140985348","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":"Directed Digital Dissidence in Autocracies: How China Wins Online Jason Gainous, Rongbin Han, Andrew W. MacDonald and Kevin M. Wagner. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 184 pp. £30.00 (pbk). ISBN 9780197680391","authors":"Christian Göbel","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000663","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":" 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140994724","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":"How to Make a Mao Suit: Clothing the People of Communist China, 1949–1976 Antonia Finnane. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 376 pp. £25.99 (pbk). ISBN 9781009359993","authors":"Peidong Sun","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000717","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":" 23","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140996021","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":"Questioning the Chinese Model: Oppositional Political Novels in Early Twenty-First Century China Zhansui Yu. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. 266 pp. $70.00 (hbk). ISBN 9781487544348","authors":"Peng Hai","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000584","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":" 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140995109","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 China Record: An Assessment of the People's Republic Fei-Ling Wang. New York: State University of New York Press, 2023. 410 pp. $99.00 (hbk). ISBN 9781438492261","authors":"Kerry Brown","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000638","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":" 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140998567","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":"Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future Ian Johnson. London: Penguin, 2023. 400 pp. £25.00. ISBN 9780241524947","authors":"Michel Bonnin","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000626","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":" 48","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141000662","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 Cadres to Managers: The Double-hundred Action Programme and China's State-owned Enterprise Reform","authors":"Chengpang Lee, Ruiyu Zhang","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000481","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Reforming China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) is a complex endeavour. Among recent initiatives, the double-hundred action (DHA) programme stands out for its ambition, especially in its aim to revamp corporate governance structures and management systems. A notable change is that top executive positions are now open to a wider and more diverse candidate pool and are no longer restricted to Party cadres. Based on fieldwork and interviews at a DHA-selected enterprise, this paper explores the DHA's impact on SOE functioning and governance. Our research reveals unanimous support among top executives for the policy, despite stringent performance appraisals and limitations on future promotion opportunities. The policy has significantly transformed recruitment, performance evaluation and remuneration within the enterprise under study. However, although top executive recruitment is no longer tied to Party membership, the Party still exerts its influence through key appointments on the board of directors.","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":" 29","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140999403","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":"Revolutionary Becomings: Documentary Media in Twentieth-Century China Ying Qian. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. xiii + 305 pp. $35.00; £30.00 (pbk). ISBN 9780231204477","authors":"Luke Robinson","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000535","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":" 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140998922","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}