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Pleased to review Oriana Skylar Mastro's new book, "Upstart: How China Became a Great Power," in The China Quarterly. It's a fantastic book and an important contribution to the literature on China studies. It was a pleasure to review! cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Now online and open access, Naubahar Sharif and Athar Mansoor evaluate debates about the CPEC, the largest bilateral arrangement under China’s Belt and Road Initiative. #BRI HKUST IEMS doi.org/10.1017/S03057…

📅 May at SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies is packed with exciting events! Stay tuned for more information, and please do join us!

Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola Susan Greenhalgh. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 354 pp. $25.00 (pbk) ISBN 9780226834733 | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/42BwXcN

Delighted to have a new article, co-authored with Lize Yang, published The China Quarterly. We examine how aggressive journalistic questioning may have fueled the emergence of China's "wolf warrior diplomacy". The article is open access. Feel free to dive in! cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Jieren Hu, Xuan Gong and Yun Zhao explore how, under pressure from their superiors, local officials 'performatively' handle grievances and disputes raised through the new CCP digital petition platform. #网上信访 doi.org/10.1017/S03057…

Congratulations to Adam Frost (of Copenhagen Business School) , and Zeren LI (of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy NUS) who have been awarded the 2024 Gordon White Prize for their article "Markets under Mao: Measuring Underground Activity in the Early PRC” (OA). doi.org/10.1017/S03057…

Honored to share the 2024 Gordon White Prize with Adam Frost for our article “Markets under Mao: Measuring Underground Activity in the Early PRC” (OA). Thanks to @ChinaQuarterly for the recognition!

🔓Using a dataset of over 1.6 million judicial documents, Yuxia Zhang & John Liu find compelling evidence that the judiciary in China has become increasingly significant in checking the power of the government, especially local government. #行政诉讼 doi.org/10.1017/S03057…

New online. Hanzhi Hu finds that, while permanent migration does not adversely affect children’s education, return and multiple migrations do. Inter-provincial migration is more harmful than intra-provincial migration, and the impact is greater for boys. doi.org/10.1017/S03057…

Out now, a special issue on village politics in Indonesia, guest edited by Ed Aspinall, Ward Berenschot, Arie Ruhyanto & Amalinda Savirani. tandfonline.com/toc/rsou20/33/1

New article by Muhammad Ichsan, Oliver Pye, Wiko Saputra & Irfan Bakhtiar explains how successive Indonesian governments have promoted the development of domestic palm oil-based biofuels. doi.org/10.1080/096782…

🔓New by Han-Wu-Shuang Bao and Peter Gries: "Biases about Chinese People in English Language Use: Stereotypes, Prejudice and Discrimination" #StopAsianHate #discrimination #SocialComputing #NaturalLanguage doi.org/10.1017/S03057…

🔓Pin-Hsuan Wu, Wen-Hsuan Tsai and Hsin-Hsien Wang take the charitable activities of the Shaolin Temple as a case study for their analysis of the CCP's management of religion under Xi Jinping doi.org/10.1017/S03057…

🔓Qi Song, Ling Han and Chengpang Lee's study explores explores an emerging group within the Chinese bureaucratic system: grassroots female civil servants. It delves into the work and life choices faced by female civil servants in local governments. doi.org/10.1017/S03057…

🔓Analysing promotions in China’s Foreign Policy Bureaucracy, Tyler Jost & Yucong Li find that diplomats who spend a greater share of their careers in postings abroad are less likely to be promoted to higher ranks than diplomats who remain at home doi.org/10.1017/S03057…

A warm welcome to Dr Yuka Kobayashi (SOAS) who is joining the CQ team as co-editor. We would also like to thank Tim Pringle, who is stepping down after eight years of service.

Lei Yang, Yuanmin Sun & Changkun Cai explore grassroots officials' strategies to gain peasants’ consent to state policies and reconnect with them following the rural tax and fee reform in China in the 2000s doi.org/10.1017/S03057…

Through a detailed examination of the North-East China Tiger and Leopard National Park, Pei Zhang and Jiacheng Zhao identify a hybrid policy style that combines authoritarian environmentalism with policy experimentation doi.org/10.1017/S03057…

In this article, Ding Fei examines the impact of COVID-19 on labour governance and legal struggles faced by overseas Chinese workers. doi.org/10.1017/S03057…