SPECIAL FEATURE Cultural Values in the Making: Governing through Intangible Heritage

SPECIAL FEATURE Negotiating Agrarian Futures in China

SPECIAL FEATURE Agency Beyond Precarity: Platforms and the Multiplication of Labour Regimes in China

SPECIAL FEATURE Facets of Global China

SPECIAL FEATURE Re-Envisioning Gender in China: (De)Legitimizing Gazes

SPECIAL FEATURE Sinophone Musical Worlds (2): The Politics of Chineseness

SPECIAL FEATURE Sights and Sounds of the Cold War in Socialist China and Beyond

SPECIAL FEATURE (Re)imagining Chinese Spaces in Urban Africa. Dialogues across the Built and the Lived

This special feature of China Perspectives offers an original insight on music as part of the Sinophone studies. By crisscrossing different disciplines, territories, and musical objets, the first volume of this project helps grasp the complex circulation of sounds, affects, and identities in these contemporary societies.

Mass and grassroots organisations are not part of the official political structure of the Chinese Party-state, yet they have been operating as key actors serving the interests of the Party-state while interacting with ordinary citizens in various ways since the early years of the PRC. By studying these organisation’s intermediary status and role in the XXIst century, this special issue of China Perspectives reveals their importance in the political system – as mediators, social service providers, administrative staff – and analyses recent reforms of these organisations under the Xi government.