China Perspectives

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Platform Labour and Contingent Agency in China	18
Political Consumerism in Hong Kong: China’s Economic Intervention, Identity Politics, or Political Participation?	13
The Aid-Contracting Nexus: The Role of The International Contracting Industry in China’s Overseas Development Engagements	12
Reinventing Confucian Education in Contemporary China: New Ethnographic Explorations	10
Confucian Education and Utopianism: The Classics-reading Movement and its Potential for Social Change	8
A Difficult Integration of Authenticity and Intangible Cultural Heritage? The Case of Yunnan, China	7
Parents as Critical Individuals: Confucian Education Revival from the Perspective of Chinese Individualisation	6
Convivial Agriculture: Evolving Food and Farming Activism in South China	6
“A New Job after Retirement”: Negotiating Grandparenting and Intergenerational Relationships in Urban China	6
Bordering Work and Personal Life: Using “the Multiplication of Labour” to Understand Ethnic Performers’ Work in Southwest China	6
Establishing the National Immigration Administration: Change and Continuity in China’s Immigration Reforms	6
From Peasant to Elite: Reshaping Agriculture in Gansu Province	5
Radicalisation, Exhaustion, and Networked Movement in Abeyance: Hong Kong University Students’ Localist Identification after the Umbrella Movement	5
How to Read the Analects Eight Hours a Day: The Variety of Dujing (Reading Classics) Experiences amid the Confucian Revival	5
Trust and the Smart City: The Hong Kong Paradox	5
Common, Luxury, and Fake Commodities: Intangible Cultural Heritage Markets in China	5
Reclaiming the New, Remaking the Local: Shenzhen at 40	5
Covid-19 Care Circuits: The Chinese Transnational State, Its Diaspora, and Beyond	4
The Chinese Trade Union Goes Abroad: Evidence from Cambodia	4
Smart City Development in Hong Kong: An Ethical Analysis	4
Turning Indigenous Sacred Sites into Intangible Heritage: Authority Figures and Ritual Appropriation in Inner Mongolia	3
Chinese Workers and Their “Linguistic Labour”: Philippine Online Gambling and Zambian Onsite Casinos	3
The 996 Working Pattern in Chinese Internet Firms: How Hegemonic Despotism Promotes Long Working Hours for Employees	2
Ruination and the Production of Space in Contemporary China	2
China’s Internal Migrants: Processes of Categorisation and Analytical Issues	2

Editorial – Precarity, Platforms, and Agency: The Multiplication of Chinese Labour	2
A New Professional Ethos: E-commerce and Business Culture in a County of Rural Northern China	2
Jiaohua, an Educational Practice in the “Confucian” Company	2
Qiaoxiang 2.0: The People’s Republic of China and Diaspora Governance at the Local Level	2
From Zhiqing to “Mothers of Tongzhi Children”: Linkages	2
Back to the Land “Peasant-entrepreneurs”: The New Actors of Chinese Peasant Agroecology	2
BARNETT, Robert, Benno WEINER, and Françoise ROBIN (eds.). 2020. Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History under Mao Retold. Essays and Primary Documents	1
SZABLEWICZ, Marcella. 2020. Mapping Digital Game Culture in China: From Internet Addicts to Esports Athletes. London: Palgrave Macmillan.	1
Strong Village Leadership vs. Government Investment: Reflections on a Community Reconstruction Case in Southwest China	1
Revisiting Deliberative Governance: The Case of Land Transactions in Rural China	1
“Our Generation”: The Making of Collective Identifications in China and Taiwan	1
The Yellow Leaves of a Building: Urban Exploration in China and the Cooling Plan Photography Project	1
Conflict Management through Controlled Elections: “Harmonising Interventions” by Party Work Teams in Chinese Village Elections	1
Social Mobility, Migratory Vocations, and the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association	1
Protesting with Text and Image: Four Publications on the 2019 Pro-democracy Movement from Hong Kong Civil Society	1
The Republic of China’s Fantasy Frontier: Shifting Portrayals of Mongolia in the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission	1
Visibility in Dilemma: Institutional Work in the Regulatory Practices of Protestant Churches in Wenzhou, China	1
Engendering Transnational Space: China as a High-capacity Diaspora State and Chinese Diasporic Populations	1
BYLER, Darren. 2022. Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City. Durham: Duke University Press.	1
Trust and the Smart City	1
Entexted Heritage: Calligraphy and the (Re)Making of a Tradition in Contemporary China	1
The Effects of the Internet on Well-being Among Older Adults Ageing in Place: The Roles of Subjective Income and Social Trust	1
Yugong Yishan: Myth, Utopia, and Community in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art	1
The Forming of E-platform-driven Flexible Specialisation: How E-commerce Platforms Have Changed China’s Garment Industry Supply Chains and Labour Relations	1
Making Christianity Chinese: Sinicization Outside State Narratives	1
DING, Iza. 2022. The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.	1
Beyond the Overlooked Rural Narrative in Chinese Migrant Worker Literature: On Liang Hong’s and Sun Huifen’s w	1
Onstage: Exhibiting Intangible Cultural Heritage in China	1
The Politics of Naming: The Online Carnival in China	1
Generational Consciousness and Political Mobilisation of Youth in Taiwan	1
Reconnecting to the Great Civilisation: The Strategy of Revitalising the Hakka Unicorn Dance in Hong Kong’s Hang Hau through the Intangible Cultural Heritage System	1
Precarious Employment, Pension Participation, and Retirement Deferment in China	0
Border as Dispositif: Sovereignty, Discipline, and Governmentality at the China-Kazakhstan Border	0
Sonic Plurality in Multicultural Taiwan	0
HEURTEBISE, Jean-Yves. 2020. Orientalisme, occidentalisme et universalisme : histoire et méthode des représentations croisées entre mondes européens et chinois (Orientalism, Occidentalism, and Univers	0
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GOLD, Thomas, and Sebastian VEG (eds.). 2020. Sunflowers and Umbrellas: Social Movements, Expressive Practices, and Political Culture in Taiwan and	0
MA, Xiao. 2022. Localized Bargaining: The Political Economy of China’s High-speed Railway Program. Oxford: Oxford University Press.	0
Exploring the Cross-cultural Journey of Tibetan Medicine in Modern China: A Case Study in Rebgong	0
Judicial Responses to Politically Sensitive Cases in an Authoritarian Setting: The Case of Hong Kong	0
China’s Online Xinfang Channel: Absorbing Grievances through Institutionalisation	0
A Supplement to Heilmann’s “Experimentation Under Hierarchy”: The Politics of Chinese Industrial Innovation	0
Foreword	0
KOROLEV, Alexander. 2022. China-Russia Strategic Alignment in International Politics. Amsterdam:	0
CHU, Yiu-Wai. 2023. Hong Kong Pop Culture in the 1980s: A Decade of Splendour. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press	0
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SONG, Mingwei. 2023. Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction. New York: Columbia University Press	0
Listening to New China: The Art-Tune Records Company, Cultural Propaganda, and Music Transplantation in Early Cold War Hong Kong (1950s-1960s)	0
HSU, Szu‑chien, Kellee S. TSAI, and Chun‑chih CHANG (eds.). 2021.	0
GERTH, Karl. 2020. Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China’s Communist Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.	0

CHU, Yiu-Wai Stephen. 2022. Main Melody Films: Hong Kong Directors in Mainland China. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.	0
TSIMONIS, Konstantinos. 2021. The Chinese Communist Youth League: Juniority and Responsiveness in a Party Youth Organization. Amsterdam: Amste	0
PAN, Darcy. 2020. Doing Labor Activism in South China: The Complicity of Uncertainty. London: Routledge.	0
CHANG, Jing Jing. 2019. Screening Communities: Negotiating Narratives of Empire, Nation, and the Cold War in Hong Kong Cinema. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.	0
McGRATH, Jason. 2022. Chinese Film: Realism and Convention from the Silent Era to the Digital Age. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.	0
In the Midst of Rubble, Bordering the Wasteland: Landscapes of Ruins and Childhood Experiences in China	0
From Social Management to Mobilisation: The Evolving Grid Management System in Shenzhen	0
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Reciprocity and Mediation Between the State and Society: An Overview of Chinese Business Associations in Chile	0
ZHOU, Chenshu. 2021. Cinema Off Screen: Moviegoing in Socialist China. Berkeley: University of California Press.	0
JAKIMÓW, Malgorzata. 2021. China’s Citizenship Challenge: Labour NGOs and the Struggle for Migrant Workers’ Rights. Manchester: Manchester Univers	0
DIAMANT, Neil J. 2022. Useful Bullshit: Constitutions in Chinese Politics and Society. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.	0
Afterword	0
Editorial – China Perspectives, 30 Years of Academic Publication on Contemporary China	0
Translocating Trajectories, Transnational Mobilities: The Cross-border Migration and Livelihoods of Hmong in the Tri-state Area Between China, Vietnam, and Laos	0
Revolutionary Appropriation of Disability in Socialist Chinese Literature and Film	0
Embarrassing Martial Arts: Masters Passing on the “Real Things” and Local Valuation in Shanxi	0
CHow, Yiu Fai. 2019. Caring in Times of Precarity: A Study of Single Women Doing Creative Work in Shanghai. Camden: P	0
Editorial – Hong Kong in the 2020s: Reset amidst Challenges	0
Varying Discourse and Use of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Shaanxi Huaxian Shadow Puppets	0
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LOUZON, Victor. 2023. L’étreinte de la patrie. Décolonisation, sortie de guerre et violence à Taiwan, 1947. Paris: Éditions de l’EHESS.	0
Ruinated Futurity: The “Dongbei Renaissance,” Literature, and Memory in the Digital Age	0
Sin and Punishment: The Art of Churches’ Domination and the Resistance of Apostates	0
ALPERMANN, Björn. 2022. Le Xinjiang. La Chine et les Ouïghours. Würzburg: Würzburg University Press.	0
XUE, Qiuli Charlie, and Guanghui DING (eds.). 2022. Exporting Chinese Architecture: History, Issues and “One Belt One Road.”	0
The “Ethnic” Restaurant:Migration, Ethnicity, and Food Authenticity in Shanghai	0
The Transformation of Professional Values in Chinese Investigative Journalism	0
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BRUCKERMANN, Charlotte. 2019. Claiming Homes: Confronting Domicide in Rural China. New York: Berghahn Books.	0
SANTOS, Gonçalo. 2021. Chinese Village Life Today: Building Families in an Age of Transition. Seattle: University of Washington Press.	0
Performing “Bifurcated Homelands”: Touring the Chinese Diasporas in Bangkok and Singapore, 1945-1960s	0
HILLENBRAND, Margaret. 2023. On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China. New York: Columbia University Press	0
Editorial - Cultural Values in the Making: Governing through Intangible Heritage	0
THIREAU, Isabelle. 2020. Des lieux en commun. Une ethnographie des rassemblements publics en Chine (Places in Common: An Ethnography of Public Gatherings in China). Paris : éditions EHESS.	0
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“New Migrant” Organisations and the Chinese Diaspora State(s) in the Twenty-first Century: The Case of Japan	0
SIU, Kaxton. 2020. Chinese Migrant Workers and Employer Domination: Comparisons with Hong Kong and Vietnam. London: Palgrave Macmillan	0
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SUN, Ken Chih-Yan. 2021. Time and Migration: How Long-term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.	0
Playing with Fire: How Engagement with Illicit Economies Shapes the Survival and Resilience of Ethnic Armed Organisations in the China-Myanmar Borderlands	0
Qualitative Inquiry into the Meanings of Higher Education:Implications for Developments in Education and Social Integration in Hong Kong in the Post-Covid-19 Period	0
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Bricks of the Future: The Making and Unmaking of a New Beijing	0
Ageing in Place in China: Small facilities, Community-family Care Integration, and Governmental Coordination	0
Digitalising Chinese New Year Red Packets: Changing Practices and Meanings	0
Dealing With the Absence of Absentee Voting: Transnational Electoral Mobilisation in Taiwan’s 2020 Presidential Elections	0
FINNANE, Antonia. 2023. How to Make a Mao Suit: Clothing the People of Communist China, 1949-1976. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press	0
LU, Xiaoxuan. 2023. Shifting Sands: Landscape, Memory, and Commodities in China’s Contemporary Borderlands. Austin: University of Texas Pres	0
LIU, Huwy-min Lucia. 2023. Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.	0
LIN, Jean Yen-Chun. 2023. A Spark in the Smokestacks: Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-class Communities. New York: Columbia Univers	0
Deconstructing “Youth without Regrets”: State Power, Collective Memory, and the Formation of a Popular Narrative on the Educated Youth Generation	0
VANDENABEELE, Valérie. 2019. La société d’après : politique sinotibétaine et écologie au Yunnan (Society Post-Pudacuo: Sino-Tibetan politics and ecology in Yunnan). Paris: Presses universitaires de Pa	0
Understanding Smart Energy Transitions as a New Source of Distrust:The Perspectives of Hong Kong Citizens on the Risks of Regional Intercity Energy Collaboration in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Great	0
LEE, Ching Kwan and Ming SLING, (eds.). 2019. Take Back Our Future: An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement. Ithaca, NY: Corn	0
From “Concealment” to “Deconcealment”: Lay Knowledge and Its Generation Mechanism for Issues of Environmental Risk in China	0
Ruins, Ruination, and Fieldwork Photography	0
Yunnan, Tibet, and the Northwestern Grassland:Representations of China’s Ethnic Frontiers in the 1980s	0
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HONG FINCHER, Leta. 2023. Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China (fully updated 10	0
CAPDEVILLE-Zeng, Catherine, and Delphine ORTIS (eds.). 2018. Les institutions de l’amour. Cour, amour, mari	0
Future Imperfect: Using the Future to Critique the Present	0
SMITH, Nick R. 2021. The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization of Rural China. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.	0
Making the Future with the Nonhuman:Shenzhen, the Greater Bay, and “Made in China Intelligently”	0
The Shaping of “New Gentry” Discourse in the Context of China’s Rural Revitalisation and Heritage Conservation Strategy	0
WANG, Canglong. 2023. The Rise of Confucian Citizens in China: Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Explorations. London: Routledge	0
LING, Minhua. 2019. The Inconvenient Generation: Migrant Youth Coming of Age on Shanghai’s Edge. Stanford: Stanford University Press.	0
Unequal Inscriptions of the Hungry Ghosts (Yulan) Festival Celebrations as Intangible Cultural Heritage in Hong Kong	0
AHLERS, Anna L., Mette HALSKOV HANSEN, and Rune SVARVERUD. 2020. The Great Smog of China: A Short Event History of Air Pollution. New York: Columbia University Press.	0
MULLANEY, Thomas. 2024. The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age. Cambridge: MIT Press.	0
Steering the Belt and Road’s Energy Mix: A Steering Theory Perspective on Chinese Energy Investments in Pakistan and Indonesia	0
FELDMAN, Steven P. 2023. Xi Jinping’s Anti-corruption Campaign: The Politics of Revenge. London: Routledge.	0
Making Christianity Chinese: Sinicization Outside State Narratives	0
Questioning Cultural Exemplarity: Two Decades of Intangible Heritage Practices	0
Social Networks and Ethnonational Hinges in Hong Kong:A Relational Approach to Ethnonational Identification	0
LAMPTON, David M., Selina HO, and Cheng-chwee KUIK. 2020. Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia. Berkeley: University	0
Chinese Engagement Abroad in the Scrap Business	0
BONINO, Michele, Francesca GOVERNA, Maria Paola REPELLINO, and Angelo SAMPIERI (eds.). 2019. The City after Chinese New Towns: Spaces and Imaginaries from Contemporary Urban China.	0
CHAN, Jenny, Mark SELDEN, and Pun NGAI. 2020. Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China’s Workers. Chicago: Haymarket Books.	0
Regulating Urban Companion Dogs in China During Covid-19: When Pandemic Meets Panic	0

YAPP, Hentyle. 2021. Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic. Durham: Duke University Press.	0
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KECK, Frédéric. 2020. Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts. Durham: Duke University Press.	0
DeMARE, Brian. 2022. Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman: Echoes of Counterrevolution from New China. Stanford: Stanford University Press.	0
HSIAU, A-chin. 2021. Politics and Cultural Nativism in 1970s Taiwan: Youth, Narrative, Nationalism. New York: Columbia University Press.	0
ZHU, Qian. 2022. River-sand Mining: An Ethnography of Resource Conflict in China. Leiden: Brill.	0
The Paradox of Exchange: Institutional Asymmetry and the Limitations of Religious United Front Work across the Taiwan Strait	0
Eisenman, Joshua. 2018. Red China's Green Revolution:	0
Family Structure and Subjective Well-being of Older Adults in China: Impacts of Grandparent Coresidence, Grandparenting, and Family Support	0
MANNING, Kimberley. 2023. The Party Family: Revolutionary Attachments and the Gendered Origins of State Power in China. Ithaca: Cornell Univer	0
CABESTAN, Jean-Pierre. 2021. Demain la Chine: guerre ou paix? (China tomorrow: war or peace?) Paris: Gallimard.	0
LIN, Jacqueline Zhenru. 2024. Making National Heroes: The Exemplarist Production of Masculinities in Contemporary China. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press	0
ZEE, Jerry C. 2022. Continent in Dust: Experiments in a Chinese Weather System. Berkeley: Univer	0
FITZGERALD, John. 2022. Cadre Country: How China Became the Chinese Communist Party. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press.	0
Mainstreams, Mavericks, Misfits, and Amphibians: On the Mainstreaming, Platformisation, and Re-conventionalisation	0
Exploring Differences in Trends Between Private and Subsidised Housing Prices in Hong Kong	0
LIU, Xiaoyuan. 2020. To the End of Revolution: The Chinese Communist Party and Tibet, 1949-1959. New York: Columbia University Press.	0
FANG, Qiang, and Xiaobing LI (eds). 2019. Corruption and Anticorruption in Modern China. Lanham: Lexington Books.	0
Between Governance and the Governed: Navigating China’s Borderlands in a Challenging Era	0
Editorial – Negotiating Agrarian Futures in China: Capital, Collectives, and Communities	0
SUMMERS, Tim. 2021. China’s Hong Kong: The Politics of a Global City. 2nd ed. Newcastle: Agenda Publishing.	0
How the Social Imaginary Gives Rise to Co-action:Contradictory Values and Intangible Cultural Heritage Consensus in Beijing’s Jingxi Fanhui	0
Ageing in Place in China: Small Facilities, Community-family Care Integration, and Governmental Coordination	0
TRÉMON, Anne-Christine. 2022. Diaspora Space-time: Transformations of a Chinese Emigrant Community. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.	0
Higher Education Expansion and Earnings Premium: A Comparative Study of Two Systems in China	0
PLÜMMER, Franziska. 2022. Rethinking Authority in China’s Border Regime. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.	0
Jentayu. 2022. Special Issue No. 5 : Hong Kong. Andert-et-Condon: Jentayu.	0
Hong Kong’s Place Branding from 1997 to 2024:From Self-assurance to Aching Attempts to Come Back	0
Good Girls and the Good Earth: Shi Lu’s Peasant Women and Socialist Allegory in the Early PRC	0
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Resisting Modernity and Indigenising the Future: Living with Pollution and Climate Change in a Sacred Landscape in Southwest China	0
Chinese Worker’s Livelihood Strategies: A Zhejiang Case Study in the Garment Industry	0
Editorial - Global China’s Borderlands: Contemporary Characteristics in a Historical Trajectory	0
Covid-19 Prevention at the Grassroots Level: Experiences, Perspectives, and Responses in Rural Kham, Eastern Tibet, China	0
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Provision and Utilisation of Community Care Services in Beijing, China	0
Legitimacy, Organisational Capacity, and Church Growth in Rural China: 1978-2018	0
LI, Jie. 2020. Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era. Durham: Duke University Press.	0
Practice Models of Rural China’s Ageing in Place: From the Perspective of Multiple Collaborative Governance	0
GAFFRIC, Gwennaël. 2019. La Littérature à l’ère de l’Anthropocène : une étude écocritique autour des œuvres de l’écrivain taïwanais Wu Ming-yi (Literature in the Anthropocene Era: An Ecocritic	0
Hong Kong in the 2020s: Reset amidst Challenges	0
Editorial – Global China Beyond the Belt and Road Initiative	0
“Beijing Dama Have Something to Say”: Group Identification and Online Collective Action among Re	0
SU, Junjie. 2023. Intangible Cultural Heritage and Tourism in China: A Critical Approach. Bristol and Jackson: Channel View Publication	0
Covid-19 Prevention at the Grassroots Level: Experiences, Perspectives, and Responses in Rural Kham, Eastern Tibet, China	0
CHIU, Stephen W. K., and Kaxton Y. K. SIU. 2022. Hong Kong Society: High-definition Stories beyond the Spectacle of East-meets-West. London: Palgrave Macmillan.	0
Interrogating Futurity in Contemporary China:Towards Plural Horizons of Political Imagination	0
ANDREAS, Joel. 2019. Disenfranchised: The Rise and Fall of Industrial Citizenship in China. Oxford: Oxford University Press.	0
HOMOLA, Stéphanie. 2023. The Art of Fate Calculation: Practicing Divination in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng. New York: Berghahn Books.	0
“Rappers React to Covid-19”: What the Mobilisation of Chinese Rappers Teaches Us about Artistic Engagement in Times of Crisis	0
Reconnecting Spatialities in Uninhabited Industrial Spaces: Ruination and Sense of Place in a Coal Town (Datong, Shanxi	0