Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.4000/chinaperspectives.15699
Kerry Brown
{"title":"FELDMAN, Steven P. 2023. Xi Jinping’s Anti-corruption Campaign: The Politics of Revenge. London: Routledge.","authors":"Kerry Brown","doi":"10.4000/chinaperspectives.15699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/chinaperspectives.15699","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46173,"journal":{"name":"China Perspectives","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135640263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.4000/chinaperspectives.15653
Justine Rochot
{"title":"SUN, Ken Chih-Yan. 2021. Time and Migration: How Long-term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.","authors":"Justine Rochot","doi":"10.4000/chinaperspectives.15653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/chinaperspectives.15653","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46173,"journal":{"name":"China Perspectives","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135640431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.4000/chinaperspectives.15600
Shiufai Wong
{"title":"Ageing in Place in China: Small Facilities, Community-family Care Integration, and Governmental Coordination","authors":"Shiufai Wong","doi":"10.4000/chinaperspectives.15600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/chinaperspectives.15600","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46173,"journal":{"name":"China Perspectives","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135640266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article analyses present-day Chinese business associations in Chile in terms of their different territorial origins and types of membership, how leadership is created, and how the associations relate to the Chinese and Chilean states and their respective societies. We propose that (1) new forms of cohesion are putting tension on traditional connections between territorial relationships and areas of origin; (2) monetary and symbolic debts connect individuals and institutions, creating and legitimising leaders; and (3) Chinese business associations in Chile develop mechanisms for mediating the interests of their members, Chinese state policies, and accommodation within the Chilean social and political structure.
{"title":"Reciprocity and Mediation Between the State and Society: An Overview of Chinese Business Associations in Chile","authors":"Jorge Moraga, Alejandro Garcés, Adrián Saavedra, Rodrigo Manríquez, Qingjun Wu","doi":"10.4000/chinaperspectives.15840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/chinaperspectives.15840","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses present-day Chinese business associations in Chile in terms of their different territorial origins and types of membership, how leadership is created, and how the associations relate to the Chinese and Chilean states and their respective societies. We propose that (1) new forms of cohesion are putting tension on traditional connections between territorial relationships and areas of origin; (2) monetary and symbolic debts connect individuals and institutions, creating and legitimising leaders; and (3) Chinese business associations in Chile develop mechanisms for mediating the interests of their members, Chinese state policies, and accommodation within the Chilean social and political structure.","PeriodicalId":46173,"journal":{"name":"China Perspectives","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135640418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.4000/chinaperspectives.15775
Mengtong Chen, Yuanyuan Fu
Two generations of investigative journalists are mixed together in Chinese editorial boards: those who started before 2010 and those who came after. The former contributed to the rise of investigative journalism in commercial media outlets in the 1990s and 2000s, and the latter have experienced the economic crisis of the traditional outlets and neo-authoritarianism since the rise to power of Xi Jinping. Interviews with 29 investigative journalists show that a transformation of professional values has occurred in the under 35 generation compared to their peers over 35, as the media ecosystem itself transformed in the 2010s. Changes in the journalists’ academic training and social origin have also contributed to this transformation of values, which ultimately serves Xi Jinping’s long-term authoritarian political agenda.
{"title":"Family Structure and Subjective Well-being of Older Adults in China: Impacts of Grandparent Coresidence, Grandparenting, and Family Support","authors":"Mengtong Chen, Yuanyuan Fu","doi":"10.4000/chinaperspectives.15775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/chinaperspectives.15775","url":null,"abstract":"Two generations of investigative journalists are mixed together in Chinese editorial boards: those who started before 2010 and those who came after. The former contributed to the rise of investigative journalism in commercial media outlets in the 1990s and 2000s, and the latter have experienced the economic crisis of the traditional outlets and neo-authoritarianism since the rise to power of Xi Jinping. Interviews with 29 investigative journalists show that a transformation of professional values has occurred in the under 35 generation compared to their peers over 35, as the media ecosystem itself transformed in the 2010s. Changes in the journalists’ academic training and social origin have also contributed to this transformation of values, which ultimately serves Xi Jinping’s long-term authoritarian political agenda.","PeriodicalId":46173,"journal":{"name":"China Perspectives","volume":"187 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135640589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.4000/chinaperspectives.15708
Yanxia Zhang, Chuanhong Zhang
China’s large-scale rural-urban migration and the ageing of its rural population has intensified the challenges of traditional family care. However, the majority of its rural elderly are reluctant to leave the village acquaintance society even after they are too old or sick to take care of themselves, and ageing in the village community is their primary choice. While various practice models of ageing in place (AIP) supported by the local government and communities have emerged in some pioneering areas of rural China, the existing literature has provided very little comparative analysis on these practice models. Based on firsthand data collected from field studies in rural Jiangsu, East China, this article compares and analyses three main AIP practice models, i.e., home-based care funded by the government and provided by volunteers, day care provided by community care centres, and institutional care provided by village-based “happiness homes” and senior apartments. The roles and operational mechanisms of the government, social organisations, market, and local community in promoting AIP in rural areas are discussed from a perspective of multiple collaborative governance. Moreover, effective partnership between different stakeholders for further development of AIP in rural China for the construction of rural age-friendly communities with improved socialised elder care facilities and systems is discussed. The research has significant implications for the promotion of AIP worldwide.
{"title":"Practice Models of Rural China’s Ageing in Place: From the Perspective of Multiple Collaborative Governance","authors":"Yanxia Zhang, Chuanhong Zhang","doi":"10.4000/chinaperspectives.15708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/chinaperspectives.15708","url":null,"abstract":"China’s large-scale rural-urban migration and the ageing of its rural population has intensified the challenges of traditional family care. However, the majority of its rural elderly are reluctant to leave the village acquaintance society even after they are too old or sick to take care of themselves, and ageing in the village community is their primary choice. While various practice models of ageing in place (AIP) supported by the local government and communities have emerged in some pioneering areas of rural China, the existing literature has provided very little comparative analysis on these practice models. Based on firsthand data collected from field studies in rural Jiangsu, East China, this article compares and analyses three main AIP practice models, i.e., home-based care funded by the government and provided by volunteers, day care provided by community care centres, and institutional care provided by village-based “happiness homes” and senior apartments. The roles and operational mechanisms of the government, social organisations, market, and local community in promoting AIP in rural areas are discussed from a perspective of multiple collaborative governance. Moreover, effective partnership between different stakeholders for further development of AIP in rural China for the construction of rural age-friendly communities with improved socialised elder care facilities and systems is discussed. The research has significant implications for the promotion of AIP worldwide.","PeriodicalId":46173,"journal":{"name":"China Perspectives","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135640598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.4000/chinaperspectives.15903
Nolwenn Salmon
{"title":"AHLERS, Anna L., Mette HALSKOV HANSEN, and Rune SVARVERUD. 2020. The Great Smog of China: A Short Event History of Air Pollution. New York: Columbia University Press.","authors":"Nolwenn Salmon","doi":"10.4000/chinaperspectives.15903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/chinaperspectives.15903","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46173,"journal":{"name":"China Perspectives","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135640255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.4000/chinaperspectives.15909
Nathalie Bittinger
{"title":"McGRATH, Jason. 2022. Chinese Film: Realism and Convention from the Silent Era to the Digital Age. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.","authors":"Nathalie Bittinger","doi":"10.4000/chinaperspectives.15909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/chinaperspectives.15909","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46173,"journal":{"name":"China Perspectives","volume":"188 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135640267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.4000/chinaperspectives.15719
Yang Cheng, Ruiqing Guang, Xinxin Sun, David Phillips, Mark Rosenberg
“Ageing in place” is the preferred choice for the majority of older persons in China, and community care services support them in living in their homes as long as possible. Based on statistics, interview data, and policy documents, this study analyses the provision and utilisation of community care facilities in Beijing by conducting spatial and qualitative analysis based on structuration theory. The mapping and spatial analysis reveal spatial inequity in the allocation of community care facilities in Beijing, which increased from 494 in 2017 to 1,201 in 2020. Communities in suburban areas, where the older population is growing the fastest, have poorer spatial accessibility to community care services than those located in the central city. Qualitative analysis based on interviews with 28 older residents in six communities, and six managers and staff members of community care facilities, revealed high demands for community care services including daily life support, emotional support, and healthcare services, with low utilisation of the services and many challenges for service provision. Poor perception and evaluation of the services by older persons result in low utilisation of the services. Financial difficulties in service provision and limited support from the government are the major challenges reported by the managers. Strategies have also been developed to meet these challenges by the older persons and managers. Text analysis of policy documents shows the development of regulations and policies on the construction, support, and quality management of the community care system. The complex dynamics of interaction between structure and agency in resource allocation and daily practice of service delivery shapes the provision and utilisation of community care services as a relatively new mode for aged care in China. The findings support understanding the challenges of community care service provision and utilisation from a health geography perspective. Joint efforts from local governments, communities, the private sector, and older residents are needed to support ageing in place in Beijing.
{"title":"Provision and Utilisation of Community Care Services in Beijing, China","authors":"Yang Cheng, Ruiqing Guang, Xinxin Sun, David Phillips, Mark Rosenberg","doi":"10.4000/chinaperspectives.15719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/chinaperspectives.15719","url":null,"abstract":"“Ageing in place” is the preferred choice for the majority of older persons in China, and community care services support them in living in their homes as long as possible. Based on statistics, interview data, and policy documents, this study analyses the provision and utilisation of community care facilities in Beijing by conducting spatial and qualitative analysis based on structuration theory. The mapping and spatial analysis reveal spatial inequity in the allocation of community care facilities in Beijing, which increased from 494 in 2017 to 1,201 in 2020. Communities in suburban areas, where the older population is growing the fastest, have poorer spatial accessibility to community care services than those located in the central city. Qualitative analysis based on interviews with 28 older residents in six communities, and six managers and staff members of community care facilities, revealed high demands for community care services including daily life support, emotional support, and healthcare services, with low utilisation of the services and many challenges for service provision. Poor perception and evaluation of the services by older persons result in low utilisation of the services. Financial difficulties in service provision and limited support from the government are the major challenges reported by the managers. Strategies have also been developed to meet these challenges by the older persons and managers. Text analysis of policy documents shows the development of regulations and policies on the construction, support, and quality management of the community care system. The complex dynamics of interaction between structure and agency in resource allocation and daily practice of service delivery shapes the provision and utilisation of community care services as a relatively new mode for aged care in China. The findings support understanding the challenges of community care service provision and utilisation from a health geography perspective. Joint efforts from local governments, communities, the private sector, and older residents are needed to support ageing in place in Beijing.","PeriodicalId":46173,"journal":{"name":"China Perspectives","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135640753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}