{"title":"Intangible Cultural Heritage and Tourism in China: A Critical Approach Junjie Su. Bristol: Channel View Publications, 2023. 232 pp. $149.95 (hbk). ISBN 9781845418632","authors":"Xiaobo Su","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000195","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"39 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140432043","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":"Cold Rivals: The New Era of US–China Strategic Competition Evan S. Medeiros (ed.). Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2023. 320 pp. $36.95 (pbk). ISBN 9781647123598","authors":"Joshua Eisenman","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000134","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"30 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140436515","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":"Modified Bodies, Material Selves: Beauty Ideals in Post-Reform Shanghai Julie E. Starr. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2023. 228 pp. $32.00 (pbk). ISBN 9780295751757","authors":"Susan Brownell","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000122","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"11 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140435841","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":"Atomized Incorporation: Chinese Workers and the Aftermath of China's Rise Sungmin Rho. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xii + 200 pp. £85.00 (hbk). ISBN 9781009161206","authors":"Manfred Elfstrom","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000146","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"21 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140437290","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":"Beyond Citizenship: Literacy and Personhood in Everyday China, 1900–1945 Di Luo. Leiden: Brill, 2022. 282 pp. €160.50 (hbk). ISBN 9789004524736","authors":"Lena Henningsen","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000183","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"25 S1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140437562","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":"Time Matters in Cross-Strait Relations: Tsai Ing-wen and Taiwan's Future","authors":"Jonathan Sullivan","doi":"10.1017/s0305741023001649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741023001649","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this article, I examine the ROC president's discursive response to PRC efforts to limit Taiwan's future possibilities and undermine confidence in Taiwan's future. I argue that the capacity to imagine the future, and perceiving agency to affect future outcomes, is crucial for national resilience. Since Taiwan is routinely exposed to factors known to cause reduced self-efficacy and morale – uncertainty, threat, marginalization, restricted agency, circumscribed action repertoires – it is crucial that Taiwanese people have a meaningful sense of “what are we striving for?” and confidence that they have the agency to realize these aspirations. The article sets out an empirical examination of discursive constructions of the future as a vector for enhancing cohesion and resolve in Taiwanese society. Foregrounding a novel dimension in the study of Taiwan, the article contributes both an interpretivist account of President Tsai Ing-wen's discourse and opens a new avenue for research on the largely neglected issue of futurity in cross-Strait relations.","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"50 36","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139961572","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":"People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity David O'Brien and Melissa Shani Brown. Singapore: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022. xv + 353 pp. £109.99 (hbk). ISBN 9789811937750","authors":"Darren Byler","doi":"10.1017/s030574102400002x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s030574102400002x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"305 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139835366","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":"People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity David O'Brien and Melissa Shani Brown. Singapore: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022. xv + 353 pp. £109.99 (hbk). ISBN 9789811937750","authors":"Darren Byler","doi":"10.1017/s030574102400002x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s030574102400002x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"50 33","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139775554","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":"Policy Learning in Governing Complex Technologies: The Pendulum Swing of China's Central Government","authors":"Ziying Jiang, Kaidong Feng","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000109","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 As an emerging science and technology (EST), stem cell therapy presents a highly dynamic and complex landscape, posing significant challenges for the Chinese central government and requiring substantial policy learning. Delving into the realm beyond the traditional literature on Chinese government's policy learning, which primarily focuses on conventional policy areas and local government experiments, this article examines how the technical and interest complexities, along with the fragmented authoritarian structure of central departments, influence policy learning in the field of stem cell therapy. The findings reveal a recurring pendulum swing pattern, wherein top decision makers direct central departments to engage in multiple rounds of policy swings, navigating between developmental objectives and regulatory objectives.","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"47 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139779150","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":"Policy Learning in Governing Complex Technologies: The Pendulum Swing of China's Central Government","authors":"Ziying Jiang, Kaidong Feng","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000109","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 As an emerging science and technology (EST), stem cell therapy presents a highly dynamic and complex landscape, posing significant challenges for the Chinese central government and requiring substantial policy learning. Delving into the realm beyond the traditional literature on Chinese government's policy learning, which primarily focuses on conventional policy areas and local government experiments, this article examines how the technical and interest complexities, along with the fragmented authoritarian structure of central departments, influence policy learning in the field of stem cell therapy. The findings reveal a recurring pendulum swing pattern, wherein top decision makers direct central departments to engage in multiple rounds of policy swings, navigating between developmental objectives and regulatory objectives.","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"587 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139839025","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}