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Allies of the State Xufeng Zhu, “Government Advisors or Public
Advocates? Roles of Think Tanks in China from the Perspective of Regional
Variations”, The China Quarterly,
Vol. 207 (September 2011), pp. 668-686.
The author uses data involving 301 think tanks in 25 provinces of
China to suggest that connections with the government and the knowledge
capacity of the respective regions are the main determinants in acting as
either advisors or advocates.
Available for purchase at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8385810&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0305741011000701. Jie Chen and Bruce J. Dickson, Allies of the State: China’s Private
Entrepreneurs and Democratic Change, Harvard University Press (Cambridge,
MA and London), 2010. The authors
completed a survey of 2,000 business elites in China and concluded that in
general they were offered a deal in “not rocking the boat”, or otherwise
learned not to bite the hand that feeds it.
The book is available for purchase from online sellers. Feng Chen, “Trade Unions and the
Quadripartite Interactions in Strike Settlement in China”, The China Quarterly, Vol. 201 (March
2010), pp. 104-124. The author suggests
that labour relations in China are characterised by a quadripartite structure
since strikes are always launched by unorganised workers, with trade unions
playing a mediating role not only between workers and the government but also
between workers and employers. Downloads may be purchased at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7398272&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0305741009991093 Bruce J. Dickson, “Integrating Wealth and
Power in China The Communist Party’s Embrace of the Private Sector”, The China Quarterly, Vol. 192
(December 2007), pp. 827-854.
Downloads may be purchased at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?iid=1587448. Jie Chen and
Bruce J. Dickson, “Allies of the State: Democratic Support and Regime Support
among China’s Private Entrepreneurs”, The
China Quarterly, Vol. 196 (December 2008), pp. 780-804. Downloads may be purchased at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?iid=3310956. Cheng Li,
“China’s New Think Tanks: Where
Officials, Entrepreneurs and Scholars Interact”, China Leadership Monitor No. 29, Spring 2009 from the Hoover
Institution. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/clm/issues/52971792.html. Barry Naughton, “SASAC and Rising Corporate Power in China”, China Leadership Monitor No. 24, Spring 2008, from the Hoover Institution. SASAC is State Asset Supervision and Administration Commission and is charged with the responsibility of regulating (“managing”) the large state-owned enterprises in China. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/clm/issues/16610761.html. |
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The Party System *Collected
articles in The Economist, 17 – 31 March 2012: Banyan, “Rewriting the Rules”, 31 March
2012. The political battle following Bo
Xilai’s demise will define China’s future.
Available at: http://www.economist.com/node/21551508/. No author cited, “Where Bo Goes”, 23 March
2012. The article gives a commentary
on newspaper articles and blogs in China in reference to Bo Xilai and his
followers. Available at: http://www.economist.com/blogs/analects/2012/03/interpreting-purge. No author cited, “The Sacking of Bo Xilai”, 17 March
2012. The downfall of Bo is examined
as an example of factional squabbles of a few men in Beijing are fought out
across the whole nation. Available at:
http://www.economist.com/node/21550309. No author cited, “Bo Bo Black Sheep”, 17 March
2012. The article highlights some of the
lesser known details of Bo’s dismissal, including the fact that his successor
as party chief of Chongqing has a degree in economics from Kim Il Sung
University in Pyongyang. Available at:
http://www.economist.com/node/21550325. *T P, “The
National People’s Congress: What Worries Grandpa Wen”, The Economist,
14 March 2012. The author considers
possible reasons for Wen’s recent reminders of the importance of China’s
political reform Available at: http://www.economist.com/blogs/analects/2012/03/national-peoples-congress-0?fsrc=nlw%7Cnewe%7C3-15-2012%7Cpolitics_this_week. A similar commentary from Michael Wines,
“In China, A Rare View of infighting by Leaders”, The New York Times, 15 March 2012. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/world/asia/infighting-by-chinese-leaders-on-display.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120316. *No author
cited, “NPC Reform Reflects Vote of Confidence”, People’s Daily, 11
March 2012. New
proposals to change the proportion of deputies to the National People’s
Congress (NPC) who are members of the Communist Party of China or are
government officials were discussed at the latest NPC. Available at: http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90780/7754363.html *Andrew
Higgins, “Chinese Communist Part Frets Over a New Threat: A Book by an Aged
Communist”, The Washington Post, 8 March 2012. Du Guang, a
retired professor at the Central Party School, which serves as a think tank
as well as ideological boot camp for China’s ruling Communist Party wrote a
book of essays does not ridicule the party or call for its overthrow but
dissects its theoretical gobbledygook and traces how far it has drifted from
its early ideals. The book’s title: Getting
Back to Democracy. Available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/chinese-communist-party-frets-over-a-new-threat-a-book-by-an-aged-communist/2012/03/06/gIQAm8iXyR_story.html. *Dan Levin, “China’s Top Party School”, Foreign Policy, 6
March 2012. As
China moves away from traditional communist dogma toward a state-managed
capitalist economy and its ensuing social complexities, the Party School has
become a laboratory for testing new methods and foreign strategies and
deciphering how they can be incorporated into official policy and instructed
to the rising stars of the Communist Party. Available at: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/03/06/china_s_top_party_school?page=0,0. *Tania
Branigan, “Xi Jinging: A ‘Princeling” with a Big Personality”, The Guardian,
13 February 2012. The author comments
on the extent to which China’s heir apparent represents a generational as
well as a social shift. Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/13/xi-jinping-china-economic-reforms. *Keith B.
Richburg, “China Confirms Its Official Stayed One Day at US Consulate”, The
Washington Post, 10 February 2012.
China’s Foreign Ministry confirmed that Wang
Lijun, vice mayor Chongqing, spent one day at the U.S. Consulate in nearby
Chengdu and that he is now under official investigation in an episode with potential bearing on
China’s upcoming leadership transition. Available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-confirms-its-official-stayed-one-day-at-us-consulate/2012/02/09/gIQAZjDm1Q_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines. Cheng Li,
“China’s Midterm Jockeying: Gearing Up for 2012 – Part Five: Party
Apparatchiks”, China Leadership Monitor, 2011, No. 35
(September). The essay assesses the
career paths, factional identities and political status of the top 56 Party
apparatchiks, and gives special attention to the recent tightening of media
control and the return of old-fashioned Maoist propaganda. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/china-leadership-monitor/article/93656. Alice L.
Miller, “The Politburo Standing Committee under Hu Jintao”, China
Leadership Monitor, 2011, No. 35 (September). The author suggests that the current
structure of the Chinese Communist Party, which is intended to promote
collective decision-making on the basis of informed deliberation and
consensus and to reinforce stable oligarchic rule, is likely to constrain
Hu’s successor, presumed to be Xi Jinping, from substantially reshaping these
intentions. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/china-leadership-monitor/article/93646. Michael
Wines, “Photos From China Offer Scant Clues to a Succession”, The New York
Times, 14 October 2011. The
article focuses on the speculation over the likely outcome of the annual
plenum of the Communist Party’s Central Committee later this month. Available
at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/world/asia/chinas-coming-leadership-change-leaves-analysts-guessing.html. Joseph Cheng. “China:
Little to No Political Reform”, East Asia Forum, 11 October 2011. The author suggests that the real danger for the fifth-generation leadership is that
while it may detect a need to initiate reform it will not have the political
resolve and support to overcome the resistance. Available at: http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2011/10/11/china-little-to-no-political-reform/. Keith B.
Richburg, “China Sees Surge of Independent Candidates”, The Washington
Post, 9 September 2011. The author
reports an increase in the number of ordinary citizens who are challenging
the Communist Party’s grip on local people’s congresses. Available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/china-sees-surge-of-independent-candidates/2011/09/07/gIQAc7tNEK_story.html. Kerry
Brown, “Chinese Leadership: The Challenge in 2012”, East Asia Forum,
10 July 2011. The author summarises
briefly the previous transition in China’s leadership and suggests that in
the next decade the issues will not be about the first battle – to build GDP
– but about the conflicts that have come after that to deal with the issues
China will face as it progresses towards a middle-income status country. Available at: http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2011/07/10/chinese-leadership-the-challenge-in-2012/. Wieland Wagner, “A New Communist Career Build on the Past”, Spiegel Online, 12 May 2011. The article examines the rising path to
leadership of Bo Xilai, currently the mayor of Chongqing, and comments on his
recipe for popular success. Available
at: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,761770,00.html. Gregory T.
Chin, “Innovation and Preservation: Remaking China’s National Leadership
Training System”, The China Quarterly, Vol. 205 (April 2011). The article considers in detail the
reorganisation of China’s national leadership training system and analyses
the reforms as an integral element of the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts
to adapt its institutions to a rapidly changing environment. Available for purchase at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8243492&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0305741010001372. David Barboza, “China Leader Encourages Criticism of
Government”, The New York Times, 26
January 2011. The author comments on
the recent practice of Wen Jiabao to encourage citizens to criticise the
government and press their cases for social justice. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/27/world/asia/27china.html?ref=world. Edward Wong and Jonathan Ansfield, “China Grooming Deft
Politician as Next Leader”, The New
York Times, 23 January 2011. The
authors give a concise account of the political grooming Xi Jinping, who is
currently China’s vice presiden and is expected to become president next
year. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/world/asia/24leader.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2. Andrew Higgins, “In China, a Sometimes Opaque Divide Between
Power of Party and State”, The
Washington Post, 16 January 2011.
In anticipation of the forthcoming Washington visit of Hu Jintao, the
author describes the increased diffusion of authority within the Chinese
Communist Party and considers its possible effects on US-Chinese bilateral
discussions. Available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/15/AR2011011504028.html?wpisrc=nl_headline Xiaoling Zhang, “From Totalitarianism to Hegemony: The
Reconfiguration of the Party-State and the Transformation of Chinese
Communication”, Journal of Contemporary
China, Vol. 20, No. 68 (January 2011), pp. 103-115. The author seeks an answer to the question:
how do media professionals bargain with the state for more autonomy? Downloads may be purchased at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a930898598~frm=abslink. Richard McGregor,
“5 Myths About the Chinese Communist Party”, Foreign Policy, January/February 2011. Available at: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/01/02/5_myths_about_the_chinese_communist_party. Keith B. Richburg,
“Rising Leader Xi Jinping's Family Suffered in
Chinese Power Struggles”, The
Washington Post, 24 October 2010.
Journalist Richburg interviewed Chinese historians to provide a
picture of the contrast between Xi Jinping’s background as a “princeling”,
having descended from a privileged family, and “tuanpai” such as Hu Jingtao and Wen
Jiabao, who came from humbler backgrounds.
Available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/23/AR2010102304093.html?hpid=topnews. Cheng Li, “China’s
Midterm Jockeying: Gearing Up for 2012 (Part 4: Top Leaders of Major
State-Owned Enterprises)”, China
Leadership Monitor, 2011, No. 34 (February). The author examines the extent to which
younger, business-savvy, politically connected and globally minded Chinese
CEOs have become a new source of leadership within the Party. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/china-leadership-monitor/article/68001 Alice L. Miller,
“The 18th Central Committee Politburo: A Quixotic, Foolhardy, Rashly
Speculative, but Nonetheless Ruthlessly Reasoned Projection”, China Leadership Monitor No. 33, June
2010. This article projects what the
18th Central Committee leadership may look like based on the logic of
institutionalisation. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/china-leadership-monitor/article/35461. Cheng Li, “China’s
Midterm Jockeying: Gearing Up for 2012 – Part 3: Military Leaders”, China Leadership Monitor No. 33, June
2010. The author uses an in-dept
analysis to examine the growing belief that current circumstances among the
top leaders in China will enhance the military’s influence and power in the
years to come. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/china-leadership-monitor/article/35466. Joseph Fewsmith,
“Bo Xilai Takes On Organised Crime”, China Leadership Monitor No. 32 (Spring 2010) from the Hoover Institution. The author highlights current speculation
about a possible rivalry between Bo Xilai, who is the son of senior political
leader Bo Yibo, and Wang Yang, who has no special family backgoround, by
reporting on the recent activities of the former. Available at: http://media.hoover.org/documents/CLM32JF.pdf. Alice L. Miller,
“Who Does Xi Jinping Know and How Does He Know Them?” China Leadership
Monitor No. 32 (Spring 2010) from
the Hoover Institution. The author
examines the group of China’s leaders who have worked with Xi Jinping over
his career of 25 years as a provincial leader with a view to assessing who
might be associated with him if he succeeds Hu Jingtao as China’s top
leader. Available at: http://media.hoover.org/documents/CLM32AM.pdf. Victor Shih, Wei
Shan and Mingxiang Liu, “Gauging the Elite Political Equilibrium in the
CCP: A Quantitative Approach Using
Biographical Data”, The China Quarterly,
Vol. 201 (March 2010), pp. 201-103. Using biographies of all Central
Committee members from 1921 to 2007, the authors derive a measure of the
factional strength of the top CCP leaders for the purpose of determining the
extent to which one man could have dominated the Party. Downloads may be purchased at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7398260&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0305741009991081. He Junzhi,
“Independent Candidates in China’s Local People’s Congresses: A Typology”, Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 19, No. 64, (March 2010),
pp. 311-333. The author shows that the
development of independent candidates forms a realistic power locus in
China's LPC elections, and to a large extent provides way of evaluating the
change in China’s authoritarian regime in the absence of opposition
parties. Downloads may be purchased
at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a919582653. Cheng Li, “China’s Midterm Jockeying Gearing Up for 2012 - Part 1:
Provincial Chiefs”, China Leadership
Monitor No. 31 (Winter 2010) from the Hoover Institution. The author notes that the Politburo and its
Standing Committee will be repopulated in 2012 with a large number of new
faces and then sheds light on the questions of succession by studying 62
provincial Party secretaries and governors, some of whom are likely to be
among China’s decision-makers in the near future. Available at: http://media.hoover.org/documents/CLM31CL.pdf. Cheng Li, “China’s Midterm Jockeying: Gearing Up for 2012 – Part 2: Cabinet
Ministers”, China Leadership Monitor
No.32, (Spring 2010) from the Hoover Institution. Continuing the report on the reshuffling of
political posts in 2012, Cheng Li focuses on the possible post-Wen State
Council. Available at: http://media.hoover.org/documents/CLM32CL.pdf. Alice L. Miller, “The
Preparation of Li Keqiang”, China
Leadership Monitor No. 31 (Winter 2010) from the Hoover Institution. The author considered the possibility that
the appointment of Xi Jinping to the Party’s military decision-making body
indicated that Hu Jintao was maneuvering to have Li Kiqiang succeed him as
the Party General Secretary rather than Xi, but she concluded that Xi remains
Hu’s heir apparent and Li continues to prepare to succeed Wen Jiabao as
premier. Available at: http://media.hoover.org/documents/CLM31AM.pdf Frank N. Pieke, “Marketisation, Centralisation and
Globalisation of Cadre Training in Contemporary China”, The China Quarterly, Vol. 200 (December
2009), pp. 953-971. This article shows
that the task of strengthening the ideological and profession training of
cadres entails much more than the upgrading of existing institutions. Downloads may be purchased at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=6865420&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0305741009990579. Alan P L Liu,
“Rebirth and Secularisation of the Central Party School in China, The China Journal, No. 62 (July 2009),
pp. 105-107. The author examines the
recent reduction of social exclusivity of the CPS, as well as its curriculum
and ideological diversity, and considers the new requirement for
cadre-trainees to research practical problems in Chinese society. .
Information about the journal is available at: http://rspas.anu.edu.au/ccc/home.htm. Information about
the journal is available at: http://rspas.anu.edu.au/ccc/home.htm Cheng Li, “The
Chinese Communist Party: Recruiting and Controlling the New Elites”, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, Vol. 8, No. 3 (2009). Available online at. http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/59/59 Anne-Marie Brady
and Wang Juntao, “China’s Strengthened New Order and the Role of Propaganda”,
Journal of Contemporary China, Vol.
18, Issue 62 (November 2009), pp. 767-788.
Downloads may be purchased at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g916765323 David Shambaugh, “Training China’s Political Elite: The Party
School System”, The China Quarterly, Vol. 196 (December
2008) pp. 827-844. Downloads may be
purchased at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?iid=3310956. Bruce Gilley and
Heike Holbig, “The Debate on Party Legitimacy in China: A Mixed
Quantitative/Qualitative Analysis”, Journal
of Contemporary China, Vol. 18, Issue 50 (March 2009), pp. 339-358). Downloads may be purchased at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g908174333. Melanie Manion,
“When Communist Party Candidates Can Lose, Who Wins? Assessing the Role of
Local People’s Congresses in the Selection of Leaders in China”, The China Quarterly, Vol. 195
(September 2008), pp. 607-630.
Downloads may be purchased at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?iid=2189820. Cheng Li, “Ethnic
Minority Elites in China’s Party-State Leadership: An Empirical Assessment, China Leadership Monitor No. 25, Summer 2008, from the Hoover
Institution. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/clm/issues/20102379.html. Cheng Li, “Intra-Party Democracy in
China: Should We Take It Seriously?” China Leadership Monitor No. 30, Fall 2009, from the Hoover Institution. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/clm/issues/70522952.html. Stig Thøgersen,
“Frontline Soldiers of the CCP: The Selection of China’s Township Leaders”, The China Quarterly, Vol. 194 (June
2008), pp. 414-423. Downloads may be purchased
at:http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?iid=1905300. Alice L. Miller,
“China’s New Party Leadership”, China
Leadership Monitor No. 23,
Winter 2008, from the Hoover
Institution. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/clm/issues/14128727.html. Alice L. Miller,
“The Case of Xi Jinping and the Mysterious Succession”, China Leadership Monitor No.
30, Fall 2009, from the Hoover
Institution. Note the companion
article by James Mulvenon below.
Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/clm/issues/70522272.html. James Mulvenon,
“The Best Laid Plans: Xi Jinping and the CMC Vice-Chairmanship that Didn’t
Happen”, China Leadership Monitor No. 30, Fall 2009, from the Hoover Institution. Note the companion article by Alice Miller
above. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/clm/issues/70522442.html. Joseph Fewsmith, “A
New Upsurge in Political Reform?—Maybe”, China
Leadership Monitor No. 24,
Spring 2008, from the Hoover
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Democratic Institutions Baogang He, “Giving the People a Voice?
Experiments with Consultative Authoritarian Institutions in China”, Journal of Contemporary China, Vol.
19, No. 66 (September 2010), pp. 675-692.
The author argues that authoritarian rule in China is now permeated by
a wide variety of consultative and deliberative practices that stabilise and
strengthen the authoritative rule and used to case studies to present both
potentials and limitations. Downloads
are available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10670564.2010.485404. Yang Yao, “A Chinese Way of
Democratisation?” China: An
International Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2 (September 2010), pp. 330-345. The author seeks answers to two questions:
(1) why has open demand for democratisation not
followed China’s economic progress, and (2) is China indeed creating an
enduring form of authoritarianism that beats the conventional logic of social
and political transformations.
Available by subscription at: http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/china/v008/8.2.yao.pdf. Christopher Marsh
and Zhifeng Zhong, “Chinese Views on Church and State”, Journal of Church and State, Vol. 52, No. 1 (June 2010), pp.
34-49. The authors suggest that in a
country like China, recovering from decades of authoritarian rule, one must
measure liberalisation by the type of intervention the state take into the
realm of religion, not by whether or not it intervenes in the first
place. Available at: http://jcs.oxfordjournals.org/content/52/1/34.extract Andrew Mertha, “‘Fragmented
Authoritarianism 2.0: Political Pluralisation in the Chinese Policy Process”,
The China Quarterly, Vol. 200 (December
2009), pp. 995-1012. The author
suggests that although China remains authoritarian, it is nevertheless
responsive to the increasingly diverse demands of Chinese society. Downloads may be purchased at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=D3117693B6477F1F8A4DBA1C17D3CA57.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=6865444. John L. Thornton,
“Long Time Coming: The Prospects for Democracy in China”, Foreign Affairs, January/February
2008. Downloads may be purchased at: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/63041/john-l.../long-time-coming. Cong Riyun,
“Nationalism and Democratisation in Contemporary China”, Journal of Contemporary China,
Vol. 18, Issue 62 (November 2009), pp. 831-848. Downloads may be purchased at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g916765323. Kevin J. O’Brien
and Rongbin Han, “Path to Democracy? Assessing Village Elections in China”, Journal of Contemporary China, Vol.
18, Issue 60 (June 2009), pp. 359-378.
Downloads may be purchased at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g911408249. Melanie Manion,
“How to Assess Village Elections in China”, Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 18, Issue 60 (June 2009), pp.
379-383. Downloads may be purchased
at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g911408249. Gunter Schubert,
“Studying ‘Democratic’ Governance in Contemporary China: Looking at the Village is Not Enough”, Journal of Contemporary China. Vol.
18, Issue 60 (June 2009), pp. 385-390.
Downloads may be purchased at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g911408249. Björn Alpermann,
“Institutionalising Village Governance in China”, Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 18, Issue 60, (June 2009),
pp. 397-409. Downloads may be
purchased at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g911408249. Qingshan Tan,
“Building Democratic Infrastructure: Village Electoral Institutions”, Journal of Contemporary China, Vol.
18, Issue 60 (June 2009), pp, 411-420.
Downloads may be purchased at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g911408249. *Edmund S. K. Fung, “The Idea of Freedom in
Modern China Revisited: Plural Conceptions and Dual Responsibilities”, Modern
China, Vol. 32, No. 4 (October 2006), pp. 453-482. The article
approaches the issue of the primacy of collective interests over individual
interests in 20th century China by developing the notion of dual
responsibilities, or the dualism between the sanctity of personal liberty and
the public morality of service to society and state. Downloads are available for purchase at: http://mcx.sagepub.com/content/32/4/453.full.pdf+html. |
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Public Sector Policies and Reforms Jonathan Mirsky,
“How Deng Did It”, a review of the book Deng
Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, by Ezra F. Vogel (The Belknap
Press/Harvard University Press 2011), The
New York Times, 24 October 2011.
Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/books/review/deng-xiaoping-and-the-transformation-of-china-by-ezra-f-vogel-book-review.html?ref=world. Graeme Smith, “The
Hollow State: Rural Governance in China”, The
China Quarterly, Vol. 203 (September 2010), pp. 601-618. The article examines the process of
rationalising and streamlining rural township governments, giving special
attention to the pressures on these governments from above as well as below,
and the resulting weakening of their capacity to deliver services. Available for purchase at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7907518&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0305741010000615. Jiefen Li,
“Administrative Monopoly, Market Economy and Social Justice: An Anatomy of the
Taxi Monopoly in Beijing:, China: An
International Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2 (September 2010), pp. 282-308. The author concludes from this case study
that only when administrative monopoly is eliminated in China will
anti-monopoly actions against other monopolistic behaviour be justified and
meaningful. Available by subscription
at: http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/china/v008/8.2.li.pdf. Joseph Fewsmith,
“Institutional Reforms in Xian’an”, China
Leadership Monitor No. 33, June 2010.
The author reported on the success of Song Yaping, the Party secretary
appointed to Xian’an district of Hubei Province in 2000, when drastic
measures were introduced to reduce the size of the cadre force and
restructure local government, though the reforms remain controversial. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/china-leadership-monitor/article/35456. John P. Burns and
Wang Xiaoqi, “Civil Service Reform in China: Impacts on Civil Servants’
Behaviour”, The China Quarterly, Vol. 201 (March 2010), pp.
58-78. The authors conclude that civil
service reform was undermined by clashes with other policies that were implemented at the
same time and by a failure to address elements of organisational culture that
have rewarded various forms of illegal behaviour, such as corruption.
Downloads may be purchased at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7398248&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S030574100999107X. Xueguang Zhou, “The
Institutional Logic of Collusion among Local Governments in China”, Modern China, Vol. 36, No. 1 (January
2010), pp. 47-78. The author argues
that collusion among local governments, though informal,
is generated and perpetuated by the institutional logic of the Chinese
bureaucracy, results from organisational adaptation to its environment, and
hence acquires legitimacy and becomes highly institutionalised. Downloads may be purchased at: http://mcx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/36/1/47. Christine Wong,
“Rebuilding Government for the 21st Century: Can China Incrementally Reform
the Public Sector”, The China Quarterly,
Vol. 200 (December 2009), pp. 929-952.
This article argues that the reactive,
incremental retrenchment of the Chinese government in the 1980s and 1990s,
combined with inadequate finance, had broken the intergovernmental fiscal
system and created large distortions in the incentive structure facing
government agencies and public institutions (shiye danwei). Until the
intergovernmental fiscal system is repaired and incentives are fundamentally
reformed for the public sector, the top-down program to redirect China's
development and build a service-oriented government will have limited
effect. Downloads may be purchased at:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=6865408&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0305741009990567
. Working paper version is available
at: http://www.bicc.ac.uk/Portals/12/Wong%20paper%2012.pdf. Mingxing Liu, Juan
Wang, Ran Tao and Rachel Murphy, “The Political Economy of Earmarked
Transfers in a State-Designated Poor Country in Western China: Central
Policies and Local Responses”, The
China Quarterly, Vol. 200
(December 2009, pp. 273-994. The
authors evaluate the impact of increased fiscal transfers and more stringent
regulations on the use of earmarked funds, both of which were initiated by
the Chinese government in 2002 in order to improve the effectiveness of redistributive
policies. Downloads may be purchased
at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=6865432&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0305741009990580. Fan Gang and Wing
Thye Woo, “The Parallel Partial Progression (PPP) Approach to Institutional
Transformation in Transition Economics”, Modern
China, Vol. 35, No. 4 (July 2009), pp. 352-369. The authors suggest that China’s gradualist
approach to economic reform was characterised by the desire to optimise
economic coherence rather than the more commonly-held view that the Chinese
authorities sought to optimise the policy sequence. Downloads may be purchased at: http://mcx.sagepub.com/content/35/4/352.full.pdf+html. Graeme Smith,
“Political Machinations in a Rural County”, The China Journal, No. 62 (July 2009), pp. 29-61. The paper examines the way in which both
higher-level and local governments in China redeploy available resources and
make use of time-tested political practices and norms in order to respond to
immediate practical dilemmas.
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Protests and Other Popular Action *Tania Branigan, “Chinese Villages Clash with
Police in Land-Grab Protests”, The
Guardian, 3 April 2012. Available
at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/03/chinese-police-land-grab-protests. *Dr Liu Yu, Jin Jiaman, Yu Hua and Wang Hui,
“China’s Challenges: Political Change, Pollution and Protest”, The Guardian, 18 March 2012. Leading commentators outline the problems –
and opportunities – ahead for Beijing.
Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/18/china-challenges-next-generation. *Philip Wen, “Can Wukan’s Experiment Change China?”, The Age, 3 March 2012. A glimpse of a
different side of China is on show in the tiny coastal village of Wukan where
democracy is apparently in full swing. Available at: http://www.theage.com.au/world/can-wukans-experiment-change-china-20120302-1u8id.html. *Raymond Zhou and Tian Xuefei, “Village Rides a Wave of Change”, China Daily, 21 February 2012. A riverside community found renewed hope in
a rejuvenated ecosystem following the loss of farmland. Available at: http://www2.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-02/21/content_14654962.htm. Ho-fung Hung, “Confucianism and Political Dissent in China”, East Asia Forum, 26 July 2011. The author suggests that the
escalating popular violence against local authorities and humble petition to
the central government in the last two decades should be understood in light
of this longstanding Confucianist conception of authority, and the growing
social unrest will not necessarily destabilise the authoritarian status quo.
.Available at: http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2011/07/26/confucianism-and-political-dissent-in-china/ Graham Smith, “The Hollow State: Rural Governance In China”, The China
Quarterly, Vol. 203 (September 2010), pp. 601-615. While the aim of local government reform was to transform
extractive township governments into “service-oriented” agencies, this
article finds that the current logic of rural governance has produced
township governments which are squeezed from above and below. Downloads may be purchased at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?iid=7907494, Benjamin van Rooij, “The People vs. Pollution: Understanding Citizen Action Against Pollution in China”, Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 19, No. 63 (January 2010), pp. 55-77. This paper analyses public activism by studying how citizens identify the necessity to initiate action against pollution and by investigating the obstacles they meet when attempting to take action. Downloads may be purchased at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a918907731. Lianjiang Li and Kevin J. O’Brien, “Protest Leadership in Rural China”,
The China Quarterly, Vol. 193
(March 2008), pp. 1-23. Downloads may
be purchased at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?iid=1809132. Elaine Jeffreys, “Exposing Police Corruption and
Malfeasance: China’s Virgin Prostitute Cases”, The China Journal, No. 63 (Jan 2010), pp. 127-151. The author examines media coverage of the
“virgin female whoremonger case” with a view to evaluating the belief that “"China's
media have become increasingly critical in their news coverage, exposing
alleged wrongdoing, criticising officials for failure to address injustice,
and influencing both the outcome of individual disputes and the
interpretation of existing legislation.
Information
about the journal is available at: http://rspas.anu.edu.au/ccc/home.htm. Kevin J. O’Brien,
editor, Popular Protects in China,
Harvard University Press, 2008.
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Hu Jintao’s Concepts and Campaigns James Mulvenon,
“Party-Military Coordination of the Yushu Earthquake Response”, China Leadership Monitor No. 33, June
2010. The paper analyses Beijing’s
response to the Yushu earthquake in searching for insights about the
relations between the Party and China’s military as well as progress in
natural disaster relief operations that comprise one of Hu Jingao’s “new
historic missions”. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/china-leadership-monitor/article/35446. Mathieu Duchâtel
and François Godement,
“China’s Politics under Hu Jintao”, Journal
of Current Chinese Affairs,
Vol. 8, No. 3 (2009). Available online
at: http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/58/58. Heike Holbig,
‘Remaking the CCP’s Ideology: Determinants, Progress and Limits under Hu
Jintao, Journal of Current Chinese
Affairs, Vol. 8, No. 3 (2009).
Available online at: http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/60/60. Jean-Pierre
Cabestan, “China’s Foreign- and Security-policy Decision-making
Processes under Hu Jintao”, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, Vol. 8, No. 3
(2009). Available online at: http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/61/61. Alice L. Miller,
“Hu Jintao and the PLA Brass”, China
Leadership Monitor No. 21,
Spring 2007, from the Hoover
Institution. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/clm/issues/8535287.html. Alice L. Miller,
“Leadership Presses Party Unity in Time of Economic Stress”, China Leadership Monitor No. 28, Spring 2009, from the Hoover Institution. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/clm/issues/44613442.html. James Mulvenon, “Hu
Jintao and ‘Core Values of Military Personnel’”, China Leadership Monitor No.
28, Spring 2009, from the Hoover
Institution. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/clm/issues/44612967.html. |
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Xi Jinping and Possible Changes in
Concepts and Campaigns *Tania Branigan, “Xi Jinping:
A ‘Princeling’ with a Big Personality”, The
Guardian, 13 February 2012. The
article begins with the statement: “His name is becoming more
familiar but his face is still unknown to most and his opinions and
intentions are an enigma”. Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/13/xi-jinping-china-economic-reforms. |
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Liberalism and Civil Society Andrew Jacobs,
“Chirps and Cheers: China’s Crickets Clash”, The New York Times, 5 November 2011. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/world/asia/chirps-and-cheers-chinas-crickets-clash-and-bets-are-made.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha22. |
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