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China Scholarship Digest #5

• Articles published in November 2021
• Sources scanned: 65 journals
• Content: 74 articles from 25 sources

Chinese Studies

Journal of Contemporary China

• Institutional Escape and Embeddedness in the Cross-border Production Networks: Relocation of Chinese Electronics Small and Medium-sized Enterprises to Vietnam
• From Defensive toward Offensive Realism: Strategic Competition and Continuities in the United States’ China Policy
• Poor and Lazy: Understanding Middle-class Perceptions of Poverty in China
• Controlling the Mine? Assessing China's Emergence as a Minerals Super Power
• Post-Tiananmen Chinese Liberal Intellectuals’ Political Uses of Confucian Tradition and Chinese History
• A Unique Path of Political Development: The Confucian Dialectic of Domestic and International Interaction in the History of the Communist Party of China

China Quarterly

• Decoding Political Trust in China: A Machine Learning Analysis
• Towards Meritocratic Apartheid? Points Systems and Migrant Access to China's Urban Public Schools
• Bureaucratic Shirking in China: Is Sanction-based Accountability a Cure?
• The Anti-Bureaucratic Ghost in China's Bureaucratic Machine
• Party All the Time: The CCP in Comparative and Historical Perspective

China Information

• Localism in Internet governance: The rise of China's provincial web

Asian Studies

Asia Policy

• “The History of Medicine and Public Health in Hong Kong”

Asian Studies Review

• Deifying Communist Soldiers: The Coastal Defence Culture and the Continuation of Apotheosis in Contemporary China

History

Chinese Studies in History

• The South China School: A case in historical anthropology—Editor’s introduction
• Structural processes in local societies and cultures: A dialogue between historiography and anthropology in Pearl River Delta studies
• Anping temples and ritual traditions
• A village story and a country’s history: The case of Zhanglin and the methodology of traditional rural sociology
• Folding and stretching of the historical processes—The existence and transformation of she (territorial shrine) and their significance in the studies of Chinese history
• On the history and historiography of the “South China School”

International Affairs

International Affairs

• Emerging illiberal norms: Russia and China as promoters of internet content control
• The great decoupling: China, America and the struggle for technological supremacy
• Germany's relations with the United States and China from a strategic triangle perspective

Third World Quarterly

• Has Xi Jinping made China’s political system more resilient and enduring?
• The prospects of cross-class alliances in former bureaucratic development societies: comparing Taiwan and Burkina Faso

Survival

• Euro-Atlantic Security and the China Nexus
• China Looks at the Korean Peninsula: The ‘Two Transitions’

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

• The New Triangular Relationship between the US, China, and Latin America: The Case of Trade in the Autoparts-Automobile Global Value Chain (2000–2019)

Chinese Journal of International Politics

• The Political Logic of Status Competition: Leaders, Status Tradeoffs, and Beijing’s Vietnam Policy, 1949–1965

Review of International Political Economy

• A ‘race to the bottom’ or variegated work regimes? Industrial relocation, the changing migrant labor regime, and worker agency in China’s electronics industry

Politics

Journal of Politics

• Information Control and Public Support for Social Credit Systems in China
• Private Returns to Public Investment: Political Career Incentives and Infrastructure Investment in China

Journal of Chinese Governance

• Management compensation and corporate governance reform in China

Political Communication

• State as Salesman: International Economic Engagement and Foreign News Coverage in China

Society & Culture

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

• Working and dwelling in a global city: going-out, public worlds, and the intimate lives of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong
• Chinese immigrant entrepreneurship in the United States: temporal and spatial dimensions
• Scale-mediated marginalisation of Myanmar jewellers in China during the live-streaming trade era
• Re-constructing reverse family remittances: the case of new Chinese immigrant families in New Zealand

Chinese Sociological Review

• Property in whose name? Intrahousehold bargaining over homeownership in China

Economics

Chinese Economic Studies

• Health Services Use and Expenditures among Middle-Aged and Elderly Residents with Hypertension Comorbidity: A Longitudinal Study in Jiangsu Province, China
• Stock Payment, State Ownership and Innovation Performance in China’s Pharmaceutical M&As
• The Impacts of Depression and Chronic Diseases on the Health of Older Adults in China: Evidence in a System Equations Framework
• Health and Healthcare in China: An Editorial Introduction

China Economic Journal

• Is China market socialist? Comparing Western theory to Eastern practice
• The elderly’s health capacity to work in China

Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies

• Market economy and China’s “common prosperity” campaign
• Bequest motives and the Chinese household saving puzzle
• Chinese FDI and impacts on technology transfer, linkages, and learning in Africa: evidence from the field

China & World Economy

• The Impacts of COVID-19 on Migrants, Remittances, and Poverty in China: A Microsimulation Analysis
• Changing Chinese Diets to Achieve a Win–Win Solution for Health and the Environment
• The Impact of COVID-19 on the Dietary Diversity of Children and Adolescents: Evidence from a Rural/Urban Panel Study
• Who Lost Most Wages and Household Income during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poor Rural China?
• Epidemics, Convergence, and Common Prosperity: Evidence from China
• The Impacts of Trade Restrictions on World Agricultural Price Volatility during the COVID-19 Pandemic

China Economic Review

• Measuring the provincial supply of higher education institutions in China
• Fiscal stress and the formation of zombie firms: Evidence from China
• Mobile payment and Chinese rural household consumption
• Intergenerational education transmission in China: The gender dimension
• Deflating China's nominal GDP: 2004–2018
• “The better you feel, the harder you fall”: Health perception biases and mental health among Chinese adults during the COVID-19 pandemic

Asia Pacific Business Review

• The influence of flexible work arrangements on innovative employee behaviour in China: a perspective of person-job fit
• Exploitative leadership and employee innovative behaviour in China: a moderated mediation framework

Journal of Asian Economics

• The heterogeneous effects of employment-based pension policies on employment: Evidence from urban China
• The asymmetric effects of oil price changes on China’s exports: New evidence from a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag model

Economic and Political Studies

• A decade of RMB internationalisation

Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy

• Fiscal decentralization and interregional Capital misallocation: evidence from China
• Economic policy uncertainty and firm performance: evidence from China

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