{"title":"Migration and children in China: a review and future research agenda","authors":"Zai Liang, Wenli Li","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2021.1908823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2021.1908823","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This review essay synthesizes recent literature on the issue of parental migration and children. In particular, we highlight the contributions of six papers published in October 2020 of this journal and other relevant studies. To advance the field, we also take the first steps to suggest a future research agenda. The new research agenda includes a comparative perspective, attention to long-term consequences of migration for children, and some innovative methodological approaches.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"53 1","pages":"312 - 331"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21620555.2021.1908823","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44688601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Earnings returns to tertiary education in urban China, 1988–2008*","authors":"H. Ye","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2021.1891528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2021.1891528","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Employing eight data sets from national surveys conducted between 1988 and 2008, I examine earnings returns over time to tertiary education relative to upper secondary education in urban China. A trend of an increasing college premium is found. However, this trend reversed after the mid-2000s, when the cohort of college graduates who were affected by the dramatic expansion of higher education after 1999 entered the labor market. The increasing share of employment in the market sector contributes to the increasing college premium, while the relative oversupply of graduates from tertiary education lower earnings returns to university or above education.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"53 1","pages":"359 - 381"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21620555.2021.1891528","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43392060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What enables the “meritocratic power” of a college degree? Changing labor market outcomes of first-generation college graduates in post-revolution China","authors":"Haojun Dong, Xiaoguang Fan","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2021.1888080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2021.1888080","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Taking advantage of changes in college admissions and the labor market in post-revolution China, this study sheds light on the institutional conditions under which a college degree may “equalize” the influence of family educational background on labor market outcomes. We examine differences in the first job’s occupational attainment and economic returns between first-generation, second-generation, and non-college graduates. We compare birth cohorts with distinctive experiences, some of whom entered college through political recommendation while others did so through objective examination, and some of whom attained their first job through state assignment while others did so through market matching. We find that a college degree only equalized occupational attainment in cohort 1980–1992, who experienced expanded test-based admissions and a developed labor market. Within-occupation economic returns were equalized in cohort 1966–1979, who experienced test-based admissions and yet an underdeveloped labor market, but appeared to be unequal again in cohort 1980–1992, echoing rising social inequality.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"53 1","pages":"382 - 408"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21620555.2021.1888080","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45416057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hukou stratification, class structure, and earnings in transitional China","authors":"Q. Wu, M. Wallace","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2021.1878019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2021.1878019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The massive economic transformation in China has triggered a vigorous scholarly debate on whether the persistent power of the state or the increasing market liberalization is the main driving force of inequality. In this article, we attempt to understand this debate through the lens of two coexisting stratification systems––the longstanding hukou (household registration) system and an emerging class structure. Using data from the Chinese General Social Survey from 2008 to 2015, we develop new typologies for hukou stratification and class structure and examine their relative contributions in determining workers’ earnings. We further investigate differences in their effects between the Inland and Coastal regions. We find that class ranks ahead of education and hukou as the strongest determinant of earnings in China as a whole. Regionally, hukou and class are strong determinants of earnings, but hukou has a relatively stronger effect in Inland China. The findings shed light on the changing stratification dynamics in transitional China and contribute to the literature on the market transition debate.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"53 1","pages":"223 - 253"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21620555.2021.1878019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45195463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding the consequence of higher educational expansion in China: a double-treatment perspective","authors":"Maocan Guo","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2021.1873124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2021.1873124","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article adopts a double-treatment perspective to understand the consequences of higher educational expansion in China. Since the expansion has changed the school population and enabled only a certain group of individuals to enter college, simply doing a before-and-after comparison of the labor market returns to college would be problematic. To overcome such methodological challenges, this article uses a ranking-and-sorting method to determine individuals truly affected by the expansion policy, or the “compliers” in the local average treatment effect framework, and proposes a difference-in-differences approach to identify the policy effect on the labor market returns to college education. Drawing data from the 1996 Life History and Social Change survey and the 2005–2015 waves of the Chinese General Social Survey, the article describes the characteristics of the “compliers” along the process of China’s higher educational expansion. It shows that the 1999 expansion policy has mainly favored females, urban children, singletons, and those with advantaged class backgrounds during the college transition process.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"53 1","pages":"333 - 358"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21620555.2021.1873124","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43744596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stratifying lifestyle and social class in urban China","authors":"Langyi Tian, Aurélie A. Boucher","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2021.1872017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2021.1872017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study adopts Bourdieu’s relational analytical strategy to investigate the relation between lifestyle and social stratification in the Chinese urban population. Multiple correspondence analysis and clustering illuminate a typology of four lifestyles: (1) disengagement from consumer culture, (2) self-restrained consumption of highbrow products, (3) preference for intellectualized and ephemeral leisure activities, and (4) economically and culturally well-established consumer-buyers. A multinomial logistics regression validates the association of lifestyle with cultural and economic capital. Capital structure seems less influential in China than in Western European societies, while generation emerges as a unique differentiator under rapid social transformation.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"53 1","pages":"186 - 221"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21620555.2021.1872017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44237133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Chinese conception of rights: a latent class analysis of Chinese college students","authors":"Kai Lin, Xiaofei Lai, I. Sun, Aaron Fichtelberg","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2021.1871728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2021.1871728","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Elizabeth Perry and other theorists argued that a strong centralized government, as well as limited individual freedoms in China, had historically been legitimated by the state’s effective provision of economic security and prosperity to the people and that this moral economy still informed the Chinese conception of rights. This study empirically examined Perry’s notion of the Chinese conception of rights by analyzing survey data collected from over 1,100 college students across three provinces in China. The results of the Latent Class Analysis and the posterior regression analyses lent moderate support to Perry’s argument while revealing increasingly diversifying conceptions of rights among Chinese college students, including a stronger endorsement of civil and political liberties among those from certain demographic and socioeconomic backgrounds. These findings caution hasty characterizations of political development in China: while the traditional Chinese conception of rights remains dominant, Chinese legal and political consciousness is indeed changing, at its own pace, among the educated, younger generation.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"53 1","pages":"169 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21620555.2021.1871728","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43638872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The global, the local, and the Chinese: vying cultures in Taiwan","authors":"Ming-Chang Tsai","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2021.1871729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2021.1871729","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The global, Taiwan’s and Chinese cultures have been vying for support from people in today’s Taiwan. This paper attempts to evaluate the glocalization hypothesis by way of an explanation. Using recent data collected in 2018 by the Taiwan Social Change Survey, it is found that acceptance of Chinese culture is high, despite the political tension across the Taiwan Strait. In contrast, global culture is least well received. Regression estimation of the influence of global exposure (measured by border crossing, transnational networking and consumption of foreign food) on support for the three cultures provides only weak supporting evidence. In contrast, ethnic origin plays a key role when it comes to accepting Taiwanese or Chinese culture.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"53 1","pages":"473 - 495"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21620555.2021.1871729","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47350005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Traditional and Socialist Work-Unit Communities to Commercial Housing: The Association between Neighborhood Types and Adult Health in Urban China.","authors":"Lei Lei, Zhiyong Lin","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2021.1890010","DOIUrl":"10.1080/21620555.2021.1890010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The urban structure in China has been transformed profoundly through rounds of economic reforms. Over the past 60 years, various types of neighborhoods have emerged at different stages of economic and social transition. Formed and organized in different ways, these neighborhoods provide distinct economic, social, and physical environments to residents. However, little is known about the link between neighborhood types and the health of residents in urban China. Using longitudinal data from the China Labor-Force Dynamics Survey (2012-2014), we estimate multilevel regression models to predict self-rated health (SRH) while controlling for a lagged measure of SRH. Results show that living in traditional communities in old districts and work-unit compounds for state-owned enterprises is associated with better SRH among older adults (≥50 years old) compared with living in other types of neighborhoods, such as commercial-housing communities and migrant enclaves. Neighborhood types do not matter for the health of younger adults (< 50 years old). Neighborhood water quality and distance to facilities are associated with SRH for older adults but do not account for the relationships between neighborhood types and SRH.</p>","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"53 3","pages":"254-284"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8412143/pdf/nihms-1691066.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39386203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"China’s economic development history and Xi Jinping’s “China dream:” an overview with personal reflections","authors":"M. Whyte","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2020.1833321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2020.1833321","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Since Xi Jinping became leader of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012, he has promoted the goal of realizing the “China dream,” which centers on the effort to sustain rapid economic growth so that China can join or even surpass the rich countries of the world. Given the slowing of economic growth even before the 2020 coronavirus epidemic, debate has arisen about whether China can achieve this ambitious goal. This paper recounts the author’s personal experiences thinking about the history of China’s efforts since the Qing Dynasty to develop economically in order to ponder the issues in this debate. This overview leads to the conclusion that China’s dramatic and surprising acceleration of economic growth in the decades after 1978 was driven by circumstances and forces that no longer work in China’s favor, and that the nation now faces several serious problems that could make realization of Xi’s China dream problematic.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"53 1","pages":"115 - 134"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21620555.2020.1833321","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44489780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}