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The Politics of Naming: The Online Carnival in China

Introduction With the technological and economic development of the Internet, a rich and varied Internet culture emerged in China. One of the most prominent online…

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ANDREAS, Joel. 2019. Disenfranchised: The Rise and Fall of Industrial Citizenship in China. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Disenfranchised: The Rise and Fall of Industrial Citizenship in China asks “why the twentieth-century Communist project to rule out class distinctions failed” (p. vii). By bringing…

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Parents as critical individuals: Revival of Confucian education from the perspective of Chinese individualisation

Introduction Understanding the Confucian revival in contemporary China entails clarifying the conditions of modernity that have materialised in present-day Chinese society. Since the early twentieth…

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GOLD, Thomas, and Sebastian VEG (eds.). 2020. Sunflowers and Umbrellas: Social Movements, Expressive Practices, and Political Culture in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Sunflowers and Umbrellas: Social Movements, Expressive Practices, and Political Culture in Taiwan and Hong Kong is a fascinating collection of essays edited by Thomas Gold…

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Editorial – “Our Generation”: The Making of Collective Identifications in China and Taiwan

This special feature of China Perspectives tackles the important topic of generational identities and the original forms of collective actions they give way to across…

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Editorial – “Our Generation”: The Making of Collective Identifications in China and Taiwan

This special feature of China Perspectives tackles the important topic of generational identities and the original forms of collective actions they give way to across…

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Deconstructing “Youth without Regrets”: State Power, Collective Memory, and the Formation of a Popular Narrative on the Educated Youth Generation

On the morning of 27 January 2004, a bus left Chengdu and headed towards Chongqing along the Chengyu highway. Wang was on that bus, both…

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Generational Consciousness and Political Mobilisation of Youth in Taiwan

Introduction The Taiwanese media is full of commentaries and analyses that have gradually made evident the existence of a young generation separated from their elders…

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A New Professional Ethos: E-commerce and Business Culture in a County of Rural Northern China

This article explores the role of online retailing in shaping business culture in rural China. Scholars have long characterised Chinese business culture in terms of…

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“A New Job after Retirement”: Negotiating Grandparenting and Intergenerational Relationships in Urban China

Introduction In 2020, the story of a 56-year-old woman who went on a solo road trip in China went viral online.[1] Escaping from an unhappy…

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