{"title":"Dualist Land Regime, the Hukou System and the Welfare of Migrant Workers in Chinese Cities","authors":"Z. Ruan","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000304","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Why is China's household registration system so resilient, and why are migrant workers consistently excluded from equal urban welfare? By disaggregating the hukou and land components of the rural–urban dualist regime, this article argues that dualist land ownership, formalized in China's 1982 Constitution, perpetuates the hukou system and unequal welfare rights. On the one hand, dualist land ownership results in an abundance of low-cost, informal housing in urban villages. This reduces the cost of short-term labour reproduction and diminishes migrants’ demands for state-defined urban rights. On the other hand, dualist land ownership enables local governments to amass significant revenues from land sales. The prominence of land-based revenues prompts local governments to link urban welfare rights with formal property ownership and residency, obstructing substantive reforms to the hukou system. For comparison, this article highlights Vietnam, a communist country with a unitary land ownership system, which has made greater strides in reforming its household registration system.","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"52 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140237515","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":"Africans in China, Western/White Supremacy and the Ambivalence of Chinese Racial Identity","authors":"Binxin Zhang","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000286","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article seeks to provide further insights into understanding the construction of Chinese identity by bringing the West/white into the picture of Afro-Sino racial relationships. It contends that the Chinese have internalized Western/white superiority through a long historical process, starting with the Western invasion in the 19th century and continuing with the construction of the contemporary historical narrative of the “century of humiliation.” This internalization and its ramifications can be observed in Chinese public discourses as well as diplomatic practices. Together with Western/white superiority, the Chinese also adopted a social Darwinist, competitive world view, using Western modernity as the yardstick by which to rank different peoples and societies in a racial hierarchy. Chinese racism against Africans is thus a projection of a harsh self-judgement. Unlike white supremacy in Western racial thinking, “Chinese supremacy” is often coupled with an inferiority complex.","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"119 13","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140238093","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":"Factional-Ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics: To the Left or to the Right? Olivia Cheung. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. xvi + 190 pp. €117.00 (hbk). ISBN 9789463720298","authors":"Patricia M. Thornton","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000250","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"2016 32","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140246173","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 Master in Bondage: Factory Workers in China, 1949–2019 Huaiyin Li. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023, 333 pp. $32.00 (pbk). ISBN 9781503635289","authors":"Bill Taylor","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000225","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"39 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140248145","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":"Law and Political Economy in China: The Role of Law in Corporate Governance and Market Growth Tamar Groswald Ozery. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 252 pp. $125.00 (hbk). ISBN 9781009158244","authors":"Virginia Harper Ho","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000249","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"19 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140251020","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 Party Family: Revolutionary Attachments and the Gendered Origins of State Power in China Kimberley Ens Manning. New York: Cornell University Press, 2023. 402 pp. $36.96 (pbk). ISBN 9781501771415","authors":"Tani Barlow","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000110","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"35 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140260376","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":"Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global Ambitions Zongyuan Zoe Liu. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023. 276 pp. €40.95; £37.95 (hbk). ISBN 9780674271913","authors":"Andreas Fuchs","doi":"10.1017/s030574102400016x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s030574102400016x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"88 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140426580","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":"An Ecological History of Modern China Stevan Harrell. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2023. 582 pp. $29.99; £35.00 (pbk). ISBN 9780295751719","authors":"K. Swancutt","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000201","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"31 13","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140429501","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":"Hong Kong Crime Films: Criminal Realism, Censorship and Society, 1947–1986 Kristof Van den Troost. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024. 257 pp. £85.00 (hbk). ISBN 9781399521765","authors":"Karen Fang","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000158","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140429565","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":"Home Beyond the House: Transformation of Life, Place, and Tradition in Rural China Wei Zhao. London and New York: Routledge, 2023. 350 pp. £120.00 (hbk). ISBN 9781032280158","authors":"Geng Li","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000171","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"127 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140429322","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}