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Engendering Transnational Space: China as a High-capacity Diaspora State and Chinese Diasporic Populations

Mette Thunø is Associate Professor in China studies, Department of Global Studies, China Section, Jens Chr. Skousvej 5, DK-8000, Aarhus University, Denmark (mettethunoe@cas.au.dk). This special…

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Dealing With the Absence of Absentee Voting: Transnational Electoral Mobilisation in Taiwan’s 2020 Presidential Elections

Julia Marinaccio is a comparative political scientist who studied China studies and political science in Vienna and Taipei. Currently, she works as a postdoctoral researcher…

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CHIU, Stephen W. K., and Kaxton Y. K. SIU. 2022. Hong Kong Society: High-definition Stories beyond the Spectacle of East-meets-West. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

While Hong Kong has always garnered international attention, especially in recent years when protests seemingly paralysed the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), Stephen W….

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GERTH, Karl. 2020. Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China’s Communist Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

The third book in what is a very intriguing trilogy exploring consumerism in China over the decades, Karl Gerth’s Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China’s…

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Sonic Plurality in Multicultural Taiwan

  JONES, Andrew. 2020. Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. TSAI, Eva, Tung-hung HO, and Miaoju JIAN…

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Conflict Management through Controlled Elections: “Harmonising Interventions” by Party Work Teams in Chinese Village Elections

After the “Organic Law of the Village Committee of the People’s Republic of China” was promulgated in 1987, elections to posts within the Village Committee…

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A Supplement to Heilmann’s “Experimentation Under Hierarchy”: The Politics of Chinese Industrial Innovation in the Xi Era

Introduction The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) policymaking and implementation processes are often opaque, as is the process of policy innovation and diffusion. Some scholars have…

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Understanding Smart Energy Transitions as a New Source of Distrust: The Perspectives of Hong Kong Citizens on the Risks of Regional Intercity Energy Collaboration in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA)

Darren Man-wai Cheung, Daphne Ngar-yin Mah, Alice Siu, Benjamin C. McLellan, Shinya Wakao Victor Wai Yin Lam, and Glenn Hin-fan Lee Darren Man-wai Cheung is…

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Smart City Development in Hong Kong: An Ethical Analysis

Introduction Many cities in advanced economies have embraced the “smart city” agenda. Hong Kong is no exception. Smart cities are “cities using technological solutions to…

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Éditorial – Trust and the Smart City

Hong Kong, consistently ranked as one of the world’s leading smart cities, is undergoing a period of disruptive change.[1] While still shaped fundamentally by the…

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