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{"title":"Citizens of Two Kingdoms: Civil Society and Christian Religion in Greater China ed. by Shun-hing Chan and Jonathan W. Johnson (review)","authors":"Zhixi Wang","doi":"10.1163/9789004459373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004459373","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84778,"journal":{"name":"Free China review","volume":"21 1","pages":"195 - 198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73198993","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":"Can Hong Kong Exceptionalism Last? Dilemmas of Governance and Public Administration over Five Decades, 1970s–2020 by Anthony B. L. Cheung (review)","authors":"P. Cheung","doi":"10.1108/pap-12-2021-0064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/pap-12-2021-0064","url":null,"abstract":"PurposeThe purpose of this book launch speech is to introduce the book I author, Can Hong Kong exceptionalism last? Dilemmas of governance and public administration over five decades 1970s-2020 (2021). The book critically reviews the governance and public administration from 1970s to 2020, identifying strengths and capabilities as well as constraints and dilemmas.Design/methodology/approachThe book is based on my decades of academic observations and personal political experience by interpreting and re-interpreting the Hong Kong journey, with reflections on past assumptions and raising new questions.FindingsThis book identifies five exceptional aspects: (a) Under British rule Hong Kong was governed as an atypical colony; (b) It was one of the Four Little Dragons as part of the East Asian Miracle; (c) In the 1990s, it was one of the regional pioneers in public sector reform; (d) The unique constitutional status of post-1997 Hong Kong as a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China; (e) After reunification, the SAR government, though only semi-democratic, is checked by balancing and monitoring mechanisms no less vigorous than some developed democracies. It also examines various governance problems faced in the post-1997 period.Originality/valueHong Kong is again in times of uncertainty and volatility. The city has entered a ‘second transition’ after 2020, and it is undergoing a bigger test than in 1997. After reviewing the past, I opine in the book that Hong Kong has to identify its niche areas, not only in economics. It needs a paradigm shift in how it relates to the Mainland within ‘One Country’ and how it relates to the world as a global metropolis.","PeriodicalId":84778,"journal":{"name":"Free China review","volume":"35 1","pages":"353 - 357"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82922195","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":"Rethinking Global Civil Society in an Era of a Rising China","authors":"Reza Hasmath, Jennifer Y. J. Hsu","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3222747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3222747","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The concept of global civil society arose out of a language, culture and definition influenced by mainstream Western political philosophy and discourse, and the behavior of Western NGOs that proliferated in the latter part of the 20th century. The recent rise of Chinese social organizations internationally—which were born, developed, and prospered in a domestic authoritarian institutional environment with varying values and norms than their Western counterparts—suggests a rethink of how global civil society is conceived. Namely, as Chinese social organizations internationalize, they ultimately export to host nations their best/worst practices, modes of operation, organizational behavior, and values and norms. This article looks at the experiences of Chinese social organizations domestically and abroad, and discerns how their actions and behavior potentially confirm, modify, and/or reject the contemporary conceptual understanding of global civil society.","PeriodicalId":84778,"journal":{"name":"Free China review","volume":"57 1","pages":"221 - 246"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84595981","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":"Judicialization of the Chinese Constitution Revisited: Empirical Evidence from Court Data","authors":"Daniel Sprick","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3333958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3333958","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The repeal of Qi Yuling v. Chen Xiaoqi in 2008 seemed to bring an official end to China’s judicialization of its constitution. The application of the Chinese constitution has since been banned from judicial practice, although legal disputes that entail constitutional arguments nevertheless continue to be argued before the courts. This article is based on a study of more than 900 court cases heard between 2014 and 2016 in which judges referred to the constitution for their legal reasoning. The cases were retrieved from the China Judgements Online database. In the article, I demonstrate the mechanism and effects of this low-key constitutional jurisprudence in three case groups depicting different understandings of the constitution at the local level.","PeriodicalId":84778,"journal":{"name":"Free China review","volume":"45 1 1","pages":"41 - 67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77801591","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":"China's War Reporters: The Legacy of Resistance against Japan by (review)","authors":"S. Mao","doi":"10.5860/choice.191482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.191482","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84778,"journal":{"name":"Free China review","volume":"82 1","pages":"169 - 171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84381752","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":"Preventing Protest One Person at a Time: Psychological Coercion and Relational Repression in China*","authors":"K. O’Brien, Yanhua Deng","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3028364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3028364","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Using riot police to break up a big demonstration is a familiar occurrence in many parts of the world, including China. But all protest control does not involve the use of force, nor is repression always directed at large groups of people assembled in one location. Some repression rests on psychological rather than physical coercion and is aimed at individuals, often in their homes or nearby. This type of repression may be carried out by people with only a loose connection to the state's coercive apparatus, such as relatives, friends, or neighbors of the target who work for the government or receive benefits from it. \"Relational repression\" is labor intensive and a sign of a high-capacity state that uses multiple levers to suppress contention, but has limited reach and remains insecure about its ability to maintain social stability. It builds on Maoist and dynastic techniques of control and aims to extend state penetration into a marketized society whose members have increasingly emancipated themselves from direct dependence on the government. Relational repression often alienates both the agents of repression and their targets. But it can, at times, be effective in demobilizing resistance or preventing a person from taking part in protest.","PeriodicalId":84778,"journal":{"name":"Free China review","volume":"86 1","pages":"179 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74605490","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 China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy by Daniel A. Bell (review)","authors":"Bogdan J. Góralczyk","doi":"10.5860/choice.193253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.193253","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84778,"journal":{"name":"Free China review","volume":"5 1","pages":"197 - 200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88265221","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":"China’s Relations with the Gulf Cooperation Council States: Multilevel Diplomacy in a Divided Arab World","authors":"J. Cheng","doi":"10.1142/9789813221116_0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813221116_0010","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines China’s relations with the Gulf Cooperation Council states. China’s interests in the Gulf region have been evolving; and in the 21st century they cover geopolitical interests, economic and trade interests, energy security interests, and nontraditional security interests. China’s approach is multilevel: it maintains diplomatic relations with individual GCC states; it has initiated formal mechanisms of regular regional forums; it engages in people-to-people diplomacy through student exchanges and the setting up of Confucius Institutes in various GCC states; it maintains dialogues with other major powers; and it participates in important multilateral conferences on regional affairs. This article assesses China’s performance in this multilevel diplomacy that demands close coordination between the various levels of foreign policy making and policy implementation, and the maintenance of a delicate balance in the complex major power competition and regional rivalries in a divided Arab world. In line with China’s Arab-world experts who often examine the strategic configuration in the Gulf region within a framework of five periods, China’s Gulf policy is analyzed in the following stages: (1) 1958–1967, (2) 1967–1971, (3) 1971–1979, (4) 1979–1990, (5) 1990–2001, and (6) 2001–present. Major emphasis is placed on developments in recent years.","PeriodicalId":84778,"journal":{"name":"Free China review","volume":"23 1","pages":"35 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87783899","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":"Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics by Li Chen (review)","authors":"Guanhong Chen","doi":"10.5860/choice.196692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.196692","url":null,"abstract":"This book, published by Columbia University Press in December 2015, investigates how the dominant images of China or Chinese law were created and how and why they acquired extraordinary and lasting power in the context of Sino-Western encounters from approximately the 1740s through the 1840s. By studying a series of pivotal moments of Sino-Western contact and conflict during this period that culminated in the famous First Opium War, I examine the formation and transformation of Western knowledge and perception of Chinese law and society over time. I argue that the resulting Western discourse of China or Chinese law was not only central to many of the disputes that structured the trajectory of Sino-Western relations but also a key site at which the cultural or national boundaries were constructed or negotiated.Unlike many earlier studies, this book concentrates on the century-long period of Sino-Western, especially Sino-British, encounters before 1840, a formative century that has profoundly shaped modern Sino-Western relations but has received only scant attention among scholars of China since the 1930s. Moreover, instead of studying this period as a diplomatic, intellectual, or literary history, this book provides an integrative, critical analysis of the archival, popular, intellectual, and political dimensions of the Sino-Western encounter to historicize the processes of knowledge production and transcultural boundary making in the age of empire. A central concern of the study is to find out whether such a multidimensional interdisciplinary study may shed new light on the history of Sino-Western contact or other transimperial encounters.This book does not seek to offer a comprehensive coverage of this period. Rather, by using a combination of case studies and selected themes and events to slice through history temporally and spatially, it hopes to illustrate the complex power dynamics in the contact zones of empire that have created some of the still influential ideas of Sino-Western difference, identities, and modernities at a time when these ideas remained seriously underdeveloped, contradictory, or contested. This book builds on critical scholarship in multiple disciplines to explore the intersection of the discourse of Chinese law and society, Euroamerican modern transformation, and imperial ideology and practice.The five substantive chapters of this book will be organized around the interrelated archival, intellectual, popular, and official domains of the production, circulation, consumption, and codification of the knowledge of Chinese law mostly from the 1740s to the 1840s. It begins by examining the imperial archives of Sino-Western legal disputes to reinterpret the origins of foreign extraterritoriality in Chapter 1 before moving on to explore how such disputes led to the production of Western knowledge of Chinese law and society in the next chapter. Chapter 3 then analyzes the reception and multifaceted influence of such knowledge on ","PeriodicalId":84778,"journal":{"name":"Free China review","volume":"77 1","pages":"172 - 175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82359869","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":"My Experience Researching Poverty over the Past 35 Years","authors":"N. Chow","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv2n7q0f.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2n7q0f.9","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to give an overview of changing public perceptions of poverty and attitudes towards the causes of poverty based on my research experience on poverty over the past 35 years. The discussion further explains how and why changing public perceptions of poverty exist in Hong Kong, and discusses the underlying values of Hong Kong’s welfare provisions for tackling poverty.","PeriodicalId":84778,"journal":{"name":"Free China review","volume":"49 1","pages":"21 - 9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89791266","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}