The China Journal
Volume 78, Issue 2, Jul 2017
1. Title: Farmers’ Cooperatives in China: A Typology of Fraud and Failure.
Authors:Zhanping Hu; Qian Forrest Zhang; Donaldson, John A.
Abstract:Since the 1990s, agricultural cooperatives—particularly what China calls Farmers’ Specialized Cooperatives—have experienced rapid expansion in China. After more than two decades of growth and policy support, what is the overall performance of the ever-increasing numbers of these cooperatives? We visited 50 cooperatives across the country, most of which had officially been lauded as successful, to make a first-hand evaluation of their overall status and performance. We argue that, judging by either international or Chinese standards, the vast majority of these agricultural cooperatives are not authentic and fail to deliver expected benefits to smallholders. We categorize them into five types: genuine cooperatives, shell cooperatives, de facto private agribusinesses, decooperativized cooperatives, and failed cooperatives. Four barriers impede the long-term prospects of authentic cooperatives: social differentiation, lack of trust, unpredictable markets, and poor policy design and implementation.
2. Title:Hukou Reform and Land Politics in China: Rise of a Tripartite Alliance.
Authors:Shaohua Zhan.
Abstract:This article calls attention to the role of capital, large capital in particular, in recent reforms to China’s system of household registration (hukou). It argues that a tripartite alliance between agrarian capital, urban capital, and local governments arose in the first decade of this century and has become a major force driving locally initiated hukou reforms. The main goal of reform has been to facilitate the transfer of land rights from rural residents so that rural land could be used to generate profits and government revenue. While rural residents are compensated for the loss of land rights, many face increasing insecurity in their livelihoods. The article is based on an extensive survey of local policy documents and a case study of Chengdu Municipality in Sichuan Province.
3.Title:China’s Invisible Crisis: Cognitive Delays among Rural Toddlers and the Absence of Modern Parenting.
Authors:Ai Yue; Yaojiang Shi; Renfu Luo; Jamie Chen; Garth, James; Zhang, Jimmy; Medina, Alexis; Kotb, Sarah; Rozelle, Scott.
Abstract:This article explores the problem of cognitive delays among toddlers in rural China and the role of their caregivers in producing low levels of cognition (i.e., low IQ). According to the results of a well-tested international scale of child development, the Bayley Scales of Infant Development (BSID), cognitive delays are alarmingly common, and nearly half the toddlers in our sample score an IQ of less than 84 on the BSID test (more than one standard deviation below the mean). In analyzing the source of this, we find that poor parenting—for example, not reading to, singing with, or engaging in stimulating play with one’s children—is closely associated with these delays. Even though mothers (as opposed to grandmother caregivers), and especially more educated mothers, are more likely to follow good parenting practices, quality parenting is rare overall. We seek to find out why so many young children appear to be neglected when it comes to modern parenting practices. We empirically rule out the hypotheses that caregivers discriminate according to their child’s gender; that the number of children in a given household is associated with the quality of parenting; or that caregivers living in relative poverty parent differently than their wealthier counterparts. According to the qualitative component of our study, we also find that inadequate parenting does not stem from parental indifference. Parents and grandparents obviously love their children and want them to succeed in life. Instead, the barriers appear to be primarily a lack of time and an absence of knowledge about the importance of good parenting practices. As a result, when they grow up, these children may not possess the levels of cognition needed to thrive in China’s increasingly high-skill-based economy. Overall, our findings suggest that China may be facing a national crisis due to inadequate rural early childhood development.
4. Title:The Enduring Challenges for Collective Lobbying: The Case of China’s Elite Universities.
Authors:Jane Liang.
Abstract:During four decades of economic reforms, research universities have become China’s new national symbol of intellectual prowess. The government has been strategizing and pouring in resources to strengthen their global competitiveness. Despite expanded opportunities, universities have continued to operate within the confines of a tight regulatory regime. Based on interviews with university leaders and executives, this article focuses on China’s first-of-its-kind university advocacy coalition known as “C9” and investigates how the leading Chinese research universities align their interests and act collectively vis-à-vis the central state to influence policies of crucial importance to their operations. It sheds light on how collective lobbying works in the university sector and on its limitations in the Chinese political context and examines the key factors that shape the interactions among universities, the outcomes of collective lobbying, and the political implications.
5. Title:Eliminating Spiritual Pollution: A Genealogy of Closed Political Thought in China’s Era of Opening.
Authors:Carrico, Kevin.
Abstract:Most histories have analyzed China’s 1983 Campaign to Eliminate Spiritual Pollution through the lens of elite politics. This article proposes a new interpretation of “spiritual pollution,” drawing upon anthropological theories of taboo and pollution to reinterpret the campaign’s role in reform-era culture and identity construction. The early reform era was a time of collapsing social borders that erased the obsessively delineated identities of the previous decades. Within this context, I reinterpret the struggle against spiritual pollution as an attempt to employ taboos to reinstate schematic boundaries in a world suddenly in flux. This process of post-Maoist boundary building particularly focused upon the distinction between “East” and “West,” as well as the distinction between the economic and political realms. The results of the campaign can still be seen today: the construction of a pure official identity based in overcoming Mao-era economic taboos alongside the perpetuation of political and cultural taboos.
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6. Title:The Dictator’s Dilemma: The Chinese Communist Party’s Strategy for Survival.
Authors:Harding, Harry.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “The Dictator's Dilemma: The Chinese Communist Party's Strategy for Survival,” by Bruce J. Dickson.
7. Title:Populist Authoritarianism: Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability.
Authors: McCormick, Barrett.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Populist Authoritarianism: Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability,” byWenfang Tang.
8. Title:The Perfect Dictatorship: China in the Twenty-First Century.
Authors:Carrico, Kevin.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “The Perfect Dictatorship: China in the 21st Century,” byStein Ringen.
9. Title:China’s Governance Model: Flexibility and Durability of Pragmatic Authoritarianism.
Authors: White III, Lynn T.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “China's Governance Model: Flexibility and Durability of Pragmatic Authoritarianism,” byHongyi Lai.
10. Title:China in the Era of Xi Jinping: Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges.
Authors: Lam, Willy.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “China in the Era of Xi Jinping: Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges,” byRobert S. Ross and Jo Inge Bekkevold.
11. Title:China’s Future.
Authors:Chan, Gerald.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “China's Future,” byDavid Shambaugh.
12. Title:Forecasting China’s Future: Dominance or Collapse?
Authors:Donaldson, John A.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Forecasting China's Future: Dominance or Collapse?” byRoger Irvine.
13. Title:The People’s Liberation Army and Contingency Planning in China.
Authors: Buszynski, Leszek.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “The People's Liberation Army and contingency planning in China,” byAndrew Scobell and Arthur S. Ding.
14. Title:The South China Sea: A Crucible of Regional Cooperation or Conflict- Making Sovereignty Claims?
Authors: Rosenberg, David.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “The South China Sea: A Crucible of Regional Cooperation or Conflict-making Sovereignty Claims?” byC. J. Jenner and Tran Truong Thuy.
15.Title:China’s Crisis Behavior: Political Survival and Foreign Policy after the Cold War.
Authors: Chan, Steve.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “China's Crisis Behavior: Political Survival and Foreign Policy after the Cold War,” byKai He.
16. Title:Rethinking the Triangle: Washington-Beijing-Taipei.
Authors: Garver, John.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Rethinking the Triangle: Washington-Beijing-Taipei,” byBrantly Womack and Yufan Hao.
17. Title:Trading with the Enemy: The Making of US Export Control Policy toward the People’s Republic of China.
Authors: Zixiang (Alex) Tan
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Trading with the Enemy: The Making of US Export Control Policy toward the People's Republic of China,” byHugo Meijer.
18. Title:The Geopolitics of Red Oil: Constructing the China Threat through Energy Security.
Authors: Kun-Chin Lin.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “The Geopolitics of Red Oil: Constructing the China threat through energy security,” byAndrew Stephen Campion.
19. Title:Sino-US Energy Triangles: Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony.
Authors: Delman, Jørgen
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Sino-U.S. Energy Triangles: Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony,” byDavid Zweig and Yufan Hao.
20. Title:The Diplomacy of Migration: Transnational Lives and the Making of U.S.-Chinese Relations in the Cold War/Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War.
Authors:Pál, Nyíri.
Abstract:The article reviews these books “The Diplomacy of Migration: Transnational Lives and the Making of U.S.-Chinese Relations in the Cold War,” byMeredith Oyen and “Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War,” by Laura Madokoro.
21. Title:Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World.
Authors: Garver, John.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World,” byJeremy Friedman.
22. Title:The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China.
Authors: Hassid, Jonathan.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China,” byJacques Delisle and Avery Goldstein.
23. Title:The Internet and New Social Formation in China: Fandom Publics in the Making.
Authors:Jian Xu
Abstract:The article reviews the book “The Internet and New Social Formation in China: Fandom Publics in the Making,” byWeiyu Zhang.
24. Title:Confucianism in Contemporary Chinese Politics: An Actionable Account of Authoritarian Political Culture.
Authors: Makeham, John.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Confucianism in Contemporary Chinese Politics: An Actionable Account of Authoritarian Political Culture,” byShanruo Ning Zhang.
25. Title:Recovering Buddhism in Modern China.
Authors: Laliberté, André.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Recovering Buddhism in Modern China,” byJan Kiely and J. Brooks Jessup.
26. Title:Social Attitudes in Contemporary China.
Authors:Fairbrother, Gregory P.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Social Attitudes in Contemporary China,” byChen Yu and Fang Wei.
27. Title:Occupational Hazards: Sex, Business, and HIV in Post-Mao China.
Authors: Louie, Kam.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Occupational Hazards: Sex, Business, and HIV in Post-Mao China,” byElanah Uretsky.
28. Title:Stigma: An Ethnography of Mental Illness and HIV/AIDS in China.
Authors: Jing Jun
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Stigma: An Ethnography of Mental Illness and HIV/AIDS in China,” byJinhua Guo.
29. Title:Back from the Dead: Wrongful Convictions and Criminal Justice in China.
Authors:Bakken, Børge.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Back from the Dead: Wrongful Convictions and Criminal Justice in China,” byJiahong He.
30. Title:Family Life in China.
Authors: Davis, Deborah.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Family Life in China,” byWilliam R. Jankowiak and Robert L. Moore.
31. Title:Children in China, by Orna Naftali. Cambridge: Polity.
Authors: Donald, Stephanie Hemelryk.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Children in China,” byOrna Naftali.
32. Title:China’s Hidden Children: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy.
Authors:Goodkind, Daniel.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “China's Hidden Children: Abandonment, Adoption & the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy,” byKay Ann Johnson.
33. Title:Fragile Elite: The Dilemmas of China’s Top University Students.
Authors: Rosen, Stanley.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Fragile Elite: The Dilemmas of China's Top University Students,” bySusanne Bregnbaek.
34. Title:Tongzhi Living: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China.
Authors: Hird, Derek.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Tongzhi Living: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China,” byTiantian Zheng.
35. Title:Force and Contention in Contemporary China: Memory and Resistance in the Long Shadow of the Catastrophic Past.
Authors:Huaiyin Li
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Force and Contention in Contemporary China: Memory and Resistance in the Long Shadow of the Catastrophic Past,” by Ralph A. Thaxton Jr.
36. Title:China’s Agrarian Transition: Peasants, Property, and Politics.
Authors: Qian Forrest Zhang
Abstract:The article reviews the book “China's Agrarian Transition: Peasants, Property, and Politics,” byRené Trappel.
37. Title:Migrant Labor in China.
Authors: Chunyun Li
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Migrant Labor in China,” byPun Ngai.
38. Title:China at Work: A Labour Process Perspective on the Transformation of Work and Employment in China.
Authors:Franceschini, Ivan.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “China at Work: A Labour Process Perspective on the Transformation of Work and Employment in China,” byMingwei Liu and Chris Smith.
39. Title:Understanding China’s Urbanization: The Great Demographic, Spatial, Economic, and Social Transformation.
Authors: Chan, Roger C. K.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Understanding China's Urbanization: The Great Demographic, Spatial, Economic, and Social Transformation,”byLiz Zhang and Richard LeGates.
40. Title:The Economics of Air Pollution in China: Achieving Better and Cleaner Growth.
Authors: Rawski, Thomas G.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “The Economics of Air Pollution in China: Achieving Better and Cleaner Growth,”byJun Ma.
41. Title:Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons: Firms and the Political Economy of China’s Technological Development.
Authors:Tylecote, Andrew.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons: Firms and the Political Economy of China's Technological Development,”byDouglas B. Fuller.
42. Title:Reforging the Central Bank: The Top-Level Design of the Chinese Financial System in the New Normal.
Authors: Plekhanov, Dmitriy.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Reforging the Central Bank: The Top-Level Design of the Chinese Financial System in the New Normal,”byHaiqing Deng and XI Chen.
43. Title:Tibetan Environmentalists in China: The King of Dzi.
Authors: Pirie, Fernanda.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Tibetan Environmentalists in China: The King of Dzi,”byLiu Jianqiang and Ian Rowen.
44. Title:Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang: Unrest in China’s West.
Authors:Ma Rong
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang: Unrest in China's West,”byGray Tuttle.
45. Title:China’s Forgotten People: Xinjiang, Terror, and the Chinese State.
Authors: Grose, Timothy A.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “China’s Forgotten People: Xinjiang, Terror and the Chinese State,”byNick Holdstock.
46. Title:Oil and Water: Being Han in Xinjiang.
Authors:Schluessel, Eric T.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Oil and Water: Being Han in Xinjiang,”byTom Cliff.
47. Title:Building New China, Colonizing Kokonor: Resettlement to Qinghai in the 1950s.
Authors: Hillman, Ben.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Building New China, Colonizing Kokonor: Resettlement to Qinghai in the 1950s,”byGregory Rohlf.
48. Title:Foreigners under Mao: Western Lives in China.
Authors: Beverley Hooper
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Foreigners under Mao: Western Lives in China, 1949–1976,”byBeverley Hooper.
49. Title:Revolution and Its Narratives: China’s Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries.
Authors:Larson, Wendy.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Revolution and Its Narratives: China's Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries, 1949-1966,”byXiang Cai and Rebecca E. Karl.
50. Title:The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China.
Authors: Andreas, Joel.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China,”byGuobin Yang.
51. Title:Hong Kong in the Cold War.
Authors:Cheng, Joseph Yu-shek.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Hong Kong in the Cold War,”byPriscilla Roberts and John Carroll.
52. Title:Media Power in Hong Kong: Hyper-marketized Media and Cultural Resistance.
Authors: Lee, Paul S. N.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Media Power in Hong Kong: Hyper-marketized Media and Cultural Resistance,”byCharles Chi-wai Cheung.
53. Title:Democratization in Hong Kong—and China?
Authors: So, Alvin Y.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Democratization in Hong Kong--and China?”byLynn T. White III.
54. Title:The Peasant Movement and Land Reform in Taiwan, 1924–1951.
Authors:You, Jong-sung.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “The Peasant Movement and Land Reform in Taiwan, 1924-1951,”byShi-Shan Henry Tsai.
55. Title:Taiwan’s Democracy Challenged: The Chen Shui-bian Years.
Authors:Wu, Chung-li.
Abstract:The article reviews the book “Taiwan's Democracy Challenged: The Chen Shui-bian Years,”byChu, Yun-han, and Larry Diamond.
56. Title:Environmental Governance in Taiwan: A New Generation of Activists and Stakeholders.