{"title":"A Chinese Rebel Beyond the Great Wall: The Cultural Revolution and Ethnic Pogrom in Inner Mongolia T.J. Cheng, Uradyn E. Bulag and Mark Selden. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2023. 410 pp. $99.00 (hbk). ISBN 9780226826844","authors":"Morris Rossabi","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000079","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139852176","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":"Administrative Litigation in China: Assessing the Chief Officials’ Appearance System","authors":"Tianhao Chen, Wei Xu, Xiaohong Yu","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000018","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The Chief Officials’ Appearance System (COAS), introduced in 2015, requires government leaders to appear in court and explain their actions. Unlike other post-2014 legal reforms aimed at reducing political influence in administrative litigation, the COAS uniquely actively involves political officials. This approach is based on the belief that increased participation will help officials to gain a better understanding of public concerns and improve administrative litigation quality. However, few studies have examined the system's effectiveness, and existing research relies on anecdotal evidence with limited analysis. To address this gap, we conducted a systematic empirical inquiry using 1,551 administrative litigation cases filed in a Beijing local court and extensive field research in 12 other provinces. Contrary to official expectations, we found the system reproduced the administrative grievances it was tasked with resolving. Moreover, when chief officials appear in court, administrative litigation is characterized by a renewed triad of apathetic state agencies, increasingly agitated plaintiffs and strategically empowered courts.","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139850851","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":"Contemporary Queer Chinese Art Edited by Hongwei Bao, Diyi Mergenthaler and Jamie J. Zhao. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. 248 pp. £85.00 (hbk). ISBN 9781350333512","authors":"Maximilian Leopold Langefeld","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"70 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139851794","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 Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era Emily H. C. Chua. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2023. 186 pp. $24.95 (pbk). ISBN 9780472055951","authors":"Rongbin Han","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000067","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":" 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139791597","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":"Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China Lynette H. Ong. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 263 pp. £22.99 (pbk). ISBN 9780197628775","authors":"Jianhua Xu","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000092","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":" 18","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139792911","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":"Administrative Litigation in China: Assessing the Chief Officials’ Appearance System","authors":"Tianhao Chen, Wei Xu, Xiaohong Yu","doi":"10.1017/s0305741024000018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741024000018","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The Chief Officials’ Appearance System (COAS), introduced in 2015, requires government leaders to appear in court and explain their actions. Unlike other post-2014 legal reforms aimed at reducing political influence in administrative litigation, the COAS uniquely actively involves political officials. This approach is based on the belief that increased participation will help officials to gain a better understanding of public concerns and improve administrative litigation quality. However, few studies have examined the system's effectiveness, and existing research relies on anecdotal evidence with limited analysis. To address this gap, we conducted a systematic empirical inquiry using 1,551 administrative litigation cases filed in a Beijing local court and extensive field research in 12 other provinces. Contrary to official expectations, we found the system reproduced the administrative grievances it was tasked with resolving. Moreover, when chief officials appear in court, administrative litigation is characterized by a renewed triad of apathetic state agencies, increasingly agitated plaintiffs and strategically empowered courts.","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":" 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139791187","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 Sounds of Mandarin: Learning to Speak a National Language in China and Taiwan, 1913–1960 Janet Y. Chen. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 412 pp. $35.00 (pbk). ISBN 9780231209038","authors":"Uluğ Kuzuoğlu","doi":"10.1017/s0305741023001911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741023001911","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"4 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139440125","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":"Covert Colonialism: Governance, Surveillance and Political Culture in British Hong Kong, c. 1966–97 Florence Mok. Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 2023. 296 pp. £85.00 (hbk). ISBN 9781526158192","authors":"Michael Ng","doi":"10.1017/s0305741023001935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741023001935","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"91 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139440239","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":"Religion and Trust in Hong Kong","authors":"Yongshun Cai, Sin Yu Hung","doi":"10.1017/s0305741023001844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741023001844","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Affiliation with different religions can have different effects on practitioners’ trust in state institutions and in social actors. Based on a survey of 3,740 residents in Hong Kong in 2021, we examine the relationship between religious affiliation and believers’ trust in the political authorities in Beijing and Hong Kong and in civil actors in the city. We find that affiliation with traditional Chinese religions and Eastern religions has a positive and significant effect on believers’ trust in the political authorities, whereas belief in Western religions does not have such an effect. Affiliation with Western religions, however, has a stronger positive and significant effect on interpersonal trust and on tolerance for unconventional behaviour. These findings shed light on the interaction between the government and religious groups in Hong Kong after 1997.","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"6 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139439990","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":"Do Chinese Citizens Conceal Opposition to the CCP in Surveys? Evidence from Two Experiments","authors":"E. Carter, B. Carter, Stephen Schick","doi":"10.1017/s0305741023001819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741023001819","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Most public opinion research in China uses direct questions to measure support for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and government policies. These direct question surveys routinely find that over 90 per cent of Chinese citizens support the government. From this, scholars conclude that the CCP enjoys genuine legitimacy. In this paper, we present results from two survey experiments in contemporary China that make clear that citizens conceal their opposition to the CCP for fear of repression. When respondents are asked directly, we find, like other scholars, approval ratings for the CCP that exceed 90 per cent. When respondents are asked in the form of list experiments, which confer a greater sense of anonymity, CCP support hovers between 50 per cent and 70 per cent. This represents an upper bound, however, since list experiments may not fully mitigate incentives for preference falsification. The list experiments also suggest that fear of government repression discourages some 40 per cent of Chinese citizens from participating in anti-regime protests. Most broadly, this paper suggests that scholars should stop using direct question surveys to measure political opinions in China.","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"39 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139441321","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}