{"title":"China's Energy Security in the Twenty-First Century: The Role of Global Governance and Climate Change Kaho Yu. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2023. 127 pp. $70.00 (hbk). ISBN 9789888805631","authors":"Erica Downs","doi":"10.1017/s0305741023001881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741023001881","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"5 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139439578","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":"Justice after Mao: The Politics of Historical Truth in the People's Republic of China Daniel Leese and Amanda Shuman (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 357 pp. $130.00 (hbk). ISBN 9781009261296","authors":"Yifan Shi","doi":"10.1017/s0305741023001947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741023001947","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"55 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139441820","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":"Ruling the Stage: Social and Cultural History of Opera in Sichuan from the Qing to the People's Republic of China Igor Iwo Chabrowski. Leiden: Brill, 2022. xii + 361 pp. €122.96 (hbk). ISBN 9789004519381","authors":"Jonathan P. J. Stock","doi":"10.1017/s0305741023001741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741023001741","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"125 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139244516","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":"Great Power Strategies: The United States, China and Japan Quansheng Zhao. London and New York: Routledge, 2022. 310 pp. £38.99; $42.36 (pbk). ISBN 9781032287867","authors":"Andrea Ghiselli","doi":"10.1017/s0305741023001704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741023001704","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"41 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139246740","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":"Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao Joseph Torigian. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022, 316 pp. $50.00 (hbk). ISBN 9780300254235","authors":"Victor Shih","doi":"10.1017/s030574102300173x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s030574102300173x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"285 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139249448","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 Crowdfunding to Crowd Mobilization: The Impact of Digital Philanthropy on Grassroots Organizations and Local Politics in China","authors":"Ling Han, Chengpang Lee, Qi Song","doi":"10.1017/s0305741023001662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741023001662","url":null,"abstract":"The recent emergence of online crowdfunding campaigns has transformed the charitable landscape in China. This paper examines the participation of one county-level grassroots nonprofit organization (SW) in Tencent's 99 Giving Day to reveal a paradox of organizational success in online crowdfunding, namely that local nonprofits have to wage corresponding offline campaigns with the support of the local government, and thus must co-evolve with local politics. While the online charitable campaign played a crucial role in the founding and professionalization of SW, the successful campaign was soon co-opted by the local government as a source of welfare soft-budgeting and performance management. To ensure the ongoing success of the three-day campaign, the online crowdfunding was transformed into a large-scale offline mobilization. We find that although crowdfunding creates new opportunities for rural grassroots organizations, these organizations must balance dual pressures from both the platform and the local government to successfully crowdfund online.","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139266922","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":"Fandom Culture as a Catalyst for Propaganda","authors":"Shouzhi Xia","doi":"10.1017/s0305741023001650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741023001650","url":null,"abstract":"Through computational-assisted analysis of the Weibo corpus of the Chinese Communist Youth League (CYL) spanning from 2013 to 2020, this paper unveils the strategic utilization of fandom culture by the CYL, the youth wing of the ruling party, in its nationalistic propaganda on the internet. Specifically, the CYL deliberately associates with the pop idols of the younger generation on Weibo, harnessing their influence to promote nationalistic content that encompasses both “pride-oriented” and “hostility-oriented” themes. Subsequent analysis reveals a greater propensity for nationalistic content to generate audience response compared to other types of content, particularly when endorsed by these pop idols. This research enriches our understanding of the CYL's propaganda efforts and contributes to the burgeoning scholarship on “soft propaganda” in China.","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"9 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139273985","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":"Improbable Diplomats: How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade US–China Relations Pete Millwood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xvi + 336 pp. £47.99; $59.99 (hbk). ISBN 9781108837439 Yue Du – CORRIGENDUM","authors":"Yue Du","doi":"10.1017/s0305741023001601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741023001601","url":null,"abstract":"Amidst rising tensions between the United States and the People ’ s Republic of China, Pete Millwood ’ s new book is a timely contribution that reminds us about the challenges the two countries faced and the successes they made in managing their engagement in the past. Like many other scholarly works, Millwood ’ s book focuses on the formative years of US – PRC relations in the 1970s. This book distinguishes itself from mainstream diplomatic history, however, by looking beyond “ great men ” and concentrating on non-state actors and “ people-to-people ” exchanges outside formal diplomacy. The main source base is the archives of two US non-governmental organizations: the National Committee on United States – China Relations (NCUSCR) and the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People ’ s Republic of China (CSCPRC). The author complements these newly available documents with records drawn from nearly 20 archives from across the United States and China. He argues that cultural and scientific exchange visits between Americans and Chinese before the normalization of US – PRC relations not only recon-nected these two peoples but also exerted a powerful influence on the diplomatic relationship between the two governments. This book reveals how formal diplomacy conducted by Mao, Zhou, Nixon and Kissinger, and informal ones by athletes, artists and scholars were deeply connected and mutually constitutive. The six chapters in the main body of the book are preceded by a chapter-long prologue that examines the patterns","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"10 2","pages":"1129 - 1130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139272382","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 Anti-colonial Nationalism during the Chinese Language Campaign","authors":"Justin Chun-ting Ho","doi":"10.1017/s0305741023001534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741023001534","url":null,"abstract":"The study of Hong Kong identity has traditionally been positioned in a local–national dichotomy, where Hong Kong identity is viewed primarily as a local identity while the label of national identity is reserved for identification with the Chinese nation. Hong Kong nationalism, on the other hand, is generally considered a new phenomenon, the study of which has focused predominantly on the political activities in the post-handover period. Drawing on Partha Chatterjee's theory of anti-colonial nationalism, this paper seeks to broaden the understanding of Hong Kong nationalism by examining the nationalistic sentiments manifested during the Chinese language campaign (1964–1971). This paper draws on archival materials to shed light on the presence of anti-colonial nationalism in colonial Hong Kong, an aspect often overlooked or considered a mere extension of Chinese nationalism from mainland China. This paper also discusses the distinctions between anti-colonial nationalism in Hong Kong and Chinese nationalism, highlighting the intricate nature of the concept of Chineseness.","PeriodicalId":509032,"journal":{"name":"The China Quarterly","volume":"E-30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139274034","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}