The China Journal
Volume 75, Issue 1, Jan 2016
1. Title: Milestones in the History of the Universities Service Centre for China Studies
Authors: Vogel, Ezra F.
Abstract: The article focuses on the milestones in the history of Universities Service Centre (USC) for China studies dealing with it's activities over the past five decades. The article talks about the founding of the USC in 1949 and the contribution of Senator Joseph McCarthy, sociologist Franz Schurmann, and historian John Fairbank in the activities of USC. It is reported that Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC) and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) promoted China studies.
2. Title: China's Dormant and Active Social Volcanoes
Authors: King Whyte, Martin.
Abstract: China's leaders often claim that the rising tide of mass protests in recent years is primarily driven by popular anger over the widening gap between rich and poor. However, in a series of national surveys that I helped direct, it becomes clear the average Chinese citizen is less angry about current income gaps than citizens in many other societies. There also is no clear increase in such anger over time (despite a sustained rise in income inequality). The primary drivers of popular anger lie elsewhere--primarily in power inequalities, manifested in abuses of power, official corruption, bureaucrats who fail to protect the public from harm, mistreatment by those in authority, and inability to obtain redress when mistreated. China's leaders have done an impressive job in recent years of addressing poverty and material inequality, thus keeping the distributive injustice social volcano dormant. However, they have so far been unwilling or unable to make fundamental reforms to address procedural injustices. Unless they can provide Chinese citizens with more effective protections from the arbitrariness and abuses of entrenched power, a shared sense of injustice will persist, and this active volcano will continue to smolder, with the potential to erupt and threaten Party rule.
3. Title: China's Local Governance in Perspective: Instruments of Central Government Control
Authors: Jae Ho Chung.
Abstract: With the world's largest population and fourth largest territory, China's size renders it difficult to govern. The degree to which the Communist Party has for years prioritized the task of "maintaining stability" (weiwen) is a key testimony to the potential fragility of the regime. A principal question that logically follows is: what keeps the regime from falling apart? This article surveys a range of instruments that the central government has deployed both historically and today in efforts to govern China's centrifugal localities. Seven dimensions of control--ideological-normative, institutional, resource-allocative, personnel management, administrative monitoring, powers over key local sectors, and military force--are examined to assess the center's adaptive capacity in local governance.
4. Title: In the Name of the Public: Environmental Protest and the Changing Landscape of Popular Contention in China
Authors: Steinhardt, H. Christoph; Fengshi Wu.
Abstract: Since the mid-2000s, China has experienced a wave of large environmental protests against major economic development projects. Based on both interviews and documentary sources, this article examines four prominent cases and identifies four innovations in China's popular politics: broadened protest constituencies, mobilization for public goods, a proactive strategy to prevent government projects, and a mutual reinforcement of street mobilization and policy advocacy. These new traits of popular resistance have also begun to appear outside of the environmental arena. The way was paved for these innovations by transformations in the public sphere, a relative decrease in the risk of protest participation, and development of the environmental NGO sector. Although the new repertoire of contention appears in only some of China's abundant protests, it is becoming more widespread and in some cases influences government policy. Recent environmental protests may well stand at the forefront of broader changes in the landscape of Chinese sociopolitical activism and contentious politics.
5. Title: Comparing Mao to Stalin
Authors: Bianco, Lucien.
Abstract: The Greek historian Plutarch famously compared over 40 illustrious Greek and Roman men. This article merely compares two tyrants--Stalin and Mao. Whereas Alexander and Caesar, or Demosthenes and Cicero, lived centuries apart, Stalin and Mao were contemporaries. Rather than recalling their uneasy relationship, this study evaluates and compares three aspects of their performance and misdeeds. As Stalin and Mao were responsible for the deaths of more of their own people than the average tyrant, the study first compares their cruelty and argues that Mao was much less cruel and, second, much less efficient and prone to pursue mutually contradictory aims. Third, he proved more faithful to revolutionary ideals. Two periods during their rule, the Great Terror (1937-38) and the Cultural Revolution, are recalled in order to illustrate the points under discussion.
6. Title: Rebellion of the Cadres: The 1967 Implosion of the Chinese Party-State
Authors: Walder, Andrew G.
Abstract: Accounts of the tumultuous initial phase of the Cultural Revolution portray party-state cadres primarily as targets of a popular insurgency. Cadres in Party and government organs in fact were themselves in widespread rebellion against their superiors after October 1966, and rebel cadres were a major force in the national wave of power seizures that destroyed the civilian state in early 1967. The rebellion was a form of bureaucratic politics in a setting characterized by rapidly shifting signals and high uncertainty, in which the rebels' motives were generated after the onset of the Cultural Revolution. Cadres played a central role in the destruction of the political institutions to which their vested interests were inextricably linked.
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7. Title: Modernity and the Chinese Moral Crisis
Authors: Kipnis, Andrew B.
Abstract: The article reviews these books “Moral China in the Age of Reform,” by Jiwei Ci and “The Stranger and the Chinese Moral Imagination,” by Haiyan Lee.
8. Title: China's War with Japan 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival
Authors: Barnes, Nicole Elizabeth.
Abstract: The article reviews the book “China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival,” by Rana Mitter.
9. Title: Negotiating China's Destiny in World War II
Authors: Garver, John W.
Abstract: The article reviews the book “Negotiating China's Destiny in World War II,” by Hans van de Ven and Diana Lary.
10. Title: China's War Reporters: The Legacy of Resistance against Japan
Authors: Chang-tai Hung.
Abstract: The article reviews the book “China's War Reporters: The Legacy of Resistance against Japan,” by Parks M. Coble.
11. Title: China under Mao: A Revolution Derailed
Authors: MacFarquhar, Roderick.
Abstract: The article reviews the book “China under Mao: A Revolution Derailed,” by Andrew G. Walder.
12. Title: Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union
Authors: Ash, Bob.
Abstract: The article reviews the book “Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union,” by Felix Wemheuer.
13. Title: China's Borders: Settlements and Conflicts: Selected Papers
Authors: Hyer, Eric.
Abstract: The article reviews the book “China's Borders: Settlements and Conflicts,” by Neville Maxwell.
14. Title: Harmonious Intervention: China's Quest for Relational Security
Authors: Carlson, Allen.
Abstract: The article reviews the book “Harmonious Intervention: China's Quest for Relational Security,” by Chiung-chiu Huang and Chih-Yu Shih.
15. Title: China's Regional Relations: Evolving Foreign Policy Dynamics
Authors: Bachman, David.
Abstract: The article reviews the book “China's Regional Relations: Evolving Foreign Policy Dynamics,” by Mark Beeson and Fujian Li.
16. Title: The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia's New Geopolitics
Authors: Garver, John W.
Abstract: The article reviews the book “The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia's New Geopolitics,” by Andrew Small.
17. Title: China's Japan Policy: Adjusting to New Challenges
Authors: King, Amy.
Abstract: The article reviews the book “China's Japan Policy: Adjusting to New Challenges,” by Joseph Yu-Shek Cheng.
18. Title: Bridging Troubled Waters: China, Japan, and Maritime Order in the East China Sea
Authors: Boutilier, James.
Abstract: The article reviews the book “Bridging Troubled Waters: China, Japan, and Maritime Order in the East China Sea,” by James Manicom.
19. Title: China-Africa Relations in an Era of Great Transformations
Authors: Yoon Jung Park
Abstract: The article reviews the book “CHINA-Africa Relations in an Era of Great Transformations,” by Li Xing and Abdulkadir Osman Farah.
20. Title: China's Diplomacy in Eastern and Southern Africa.
Authors: Manning, Kimberley Ens.
Abstract: The article reviews the book “China's Diplomacy in Eastern and Southern Africa,” by Seifudein Adem.
21. Title: Fire on the Water: China, America, and the Future of the Pacific
Authors: You Ji
Abstract: The article reviews the book “Fire on the Water: China, America, and the Future of the Pacific,” by Robert Haddick.
22. Title: China and Europe in 21st Century Global Politics: Partnership, Competition or Co-evolution
Authors: Algieri, Franco.
Abstract: The article reviews the book “China and Europe in 21st Century Global Politics: Partnership, Competition or Co-Evolution,” by Frauke Austermann and Xiaoguang Wang.
23. Title: China and the United Nations: Chinese UN Policy in the Areas of Peace and Development in the Era of Hu Jintao
Authors: Chan, Gerald.
Abstract: The article reviews the book “China and the United Nations: Chinese UN Policy in the Areas of Peace and Development in the Era of Hu Jintao,” by Janka Oertel.
24. Title: China and Cybersecurity: Espionage, Strategy, and Politics in the Digital Domain
Authors: Austin, Greg
Abstract: The article reviews the book “China and Cybersecurity: Espionage, Strategy, and Politics in the Digital Domain,” by Jon R. Lindsay and Tai Ming Cheung.
25. Title: China's New Governing Party Paradigm: Political Renewal and the Pursuit of National Rejuvenation
Authors: Zhiyue Bo.
Abstract: The article reviews the book “China's New Governing Party Paradigm: Political Renewal and the Pursuit of National Rejuvenation” by Timothy R. Heath.
26. Title: Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping: Renaissance, Reform, or Regression?
Authors: Fewsmith, Joseph.
Abstract: The article reviews the book “Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping: Renaissance, Reform, or Retrogression?” by Willy Wo-Lap Lam.
27. Title: Superpower, China? Historicizing Beijing's New Narratives of Leadership and East Asia's Response Thereto
Authors: Brown, Kerry.
Abstract: The article reviews the book “Superpower, China?: Historicizing Beijing's New Narratives of Leadership and East Asia's Response Thereto,” by Niv Horesh and Hyun Jin Kim.
28. Title: China's Futures: PRC Elites Debate Economics, Politics, and Foreign Policy
Authors: Shambaugh, David.
Abstract: The article reviews the book “China's Futures: PRC Elites Debate Economics, Politics, and Foreign Policy,” by Daniel Lynch.
29. Title: Politics and Traditional Culture: The Political Use of Traditions in Contemporary China
Authors: Kositz, Bryce.
Abstract: The article reviews the book “Politics and Traditional Culture: The Political Use of Traditions in Contemporary China,” by Janette Jiawen Ai.
30. Title: Class in Contemporary China
Authors: Dickson, Bruce.
Abstract: The article reviews the book “Class in Contemporary China,” by David S. G. Goodman.
31. Title: Working Class Formation in Taiwan: Fractured Solidarity in State-Owned Enterprises, 1945-2012.
Authors: So, Alvin Y.
Abstract: The article reviews the book “Working Class Formation in Taiwan: Fractured Solidarity in State-Owned Enterprises, 1945-2012,” by M. Ho.
32. Title: Chinese Workers in Comparative Perspective
Authors: ten Brink, Tobias.
Abstract: The article reviews the book “Chinese Workers in Comparative Perspective,” by Anita Chan.
33. Title: Inside China's Automobile Factories: The Politics of Labor and Worker Resistance
Authors: Lüthje, Boy.
Abstract: The article reviews the book “Inside China's Automobile Factories: The Politics of Labor and Worker Resistance,” by Lu Zhang.
34. Title: Social Ties, Resources and Migrant Labor in Contemporary China: From Peasants to Protestors
Authors: Friedman, Eli.
Abstract: The article reviews the book “Social Ties, Resources, and Migrant Labor Contention in Contemporary China: From Peasants to Protesters,” by Jeffrey Becker.
35. Title: Labor Activists and the New Working Class in China: Strike Leaders' Struggles
Authors: Chan, Anita.
Abstract: The article reviews the book” Labor Activists and the New Working Class in China: Strike Leaders' Struggles,” by P. Leung.
36. Title: The New Middle Class in China: Consumption, Politics and the Market Economy
Authors: Hsiao, Hsin-Huang Michael.
Abstract: The article reviews the book” The New Middle Class in China: Consumption, Politics and the Market Economy,” by E. Tsang.
37. Title: Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China
Authors: Ellerman, Mei-Ling.
Abstract: The article reviews the book” Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China,” by Leta Hong Fincher.
38. Title: Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China
Authors: Xueping Zhong.
Abstract: The article reviews the book” Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China,” by Geng Song and Derek Hird.
39. Title: Sex in China
Authors: Tiantian Zheng
Abstract: The article reviews the book” Sex in China,” by Elaine Jeffreys.
40. Title: Ordinary Ethics in China
Authors: Fong, Vanessa L.
Abstract: The article reviews the book” Ordinary Ethics in China,” by Charles Stafford.
41. Title: Patronage and Power: Local State Networks and Party-State Resilience in Rural China
Authors: Shue, Vivienne.
Abstract: The article reviews the book” Patronage and Power: Local State Networks and Party-State Resilience in Rural China,” by Ben Hillman.
42. Title: Village in the City
Authors: Him Chung
Abstract: The article reviews the book” Village in the City: Asian Variations of Urbanisms of Inclusion,” by Kelly Shannon and Bruno De Meulder.
43. Title: Port-City Interplays in China
Authors: Ng, Adolf K. Y.
Abstract: The article reviews the book” Port-City Interplays in China,” by James Jixian Wang.
44. Title: Shanghai Future: Modernity Remade
Authors: Roskam, Cole.
Abstract: The article reviews the book” Shanghai Future: Modernity Remade,” by Anna Greenspan.
45. Title: Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis
Authors: Shuge Wei
Abstract: The article reviews the book” Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis,” by Julie Sze.
46. Title: Cities and Stability: Urbanization, Redistribution, and Regime Survival in China/Urban China: Toward Efficient, Inclusive, and Sustainable Urbanization
Authors: Whiting, Susan H.
Abstract: The article reviews the book “Cities and Stability: Urbanization, Redistribution, and Regime Survival in China,” by Jeremy Wallace and “Urban China: Toward Efficient, Inclusive, and Sustainable Urbanization,” by The World Bank.
47. Title: The Judicial System and Reformin Post-Mao China: Stumbling towards Justice