Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.4000/chinaperspectives.15773
Jiansong Zheng, Tao Zhang
The rapid construction of electronic infrastructure in China has accelerated and promoted the application of the Internet, which improves the quality of life of older adults especially when they choose to age in place. However, it remains unclear how the Internet impacts the well-being of older adults, particularly in China. Based on China Family Panel Studies over the four periods of 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2020, panel models and mediation analysis were employed to explore the effects of two dimensions of the Internet, including internet perceptions (perceived importance of the Internet for information retrieval) and internet use, on the well-being of older adults in China. The results showed that (1) the internet perceptions of older adults significantly and positively predicted their subjective well-being; (2) the higher levels of older adults’ internet perceptions were related to the higher degrees of their subjective income and social trust, which in turn promoted their subjective well-being; (3) older adults’ internet use significantly improved their subjective well-being; (4) older netizens with lower levels of subjective income tended to have higher levels of subjective well-being, while social trust did not play a mediating role in the association between internet use and subjective well-being among China’s older adults. The internet perceptions and internet use of older adults exhibited consistent positive effects on their well-being, but there are differences in their mediating mechanisms. Therefore, it is necessary to transform digital services into more age-friendly modules and optimise the internet environment for older adults.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.4000/chinaperspectives.15895
Tik-sang Liu
The Hakka unicorn dance, with reference to mythical animals in the great Chinese tradition, was developed by the Hakka people in Guangdong for religious and societal purposes. This dancing tradition was brought by Hakka migrants to Hong Kong in the eighteenth century. Most Hakka villages established their own unicorn dance troupes to serve the needs of their local village communities. Since the 1960s, however, this local tradition has been under the threat of vanishing due to the loss of young players and the rapid urbanisation process. With the Hakka unicorn dance in Hang Hau, Hong Kong, being named as an item on the Chinese national list of intangible cultural heritage in 2014, an opportunity to conserve the unicorn dance became available to the villagers. In the process of revitalisation, the Hakka villagers emphasised the authentic cultural meanings of their unicorn dance and defined their tradition as an inherently Chinese one that aligned with the national framework.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.4000/chinaperspectives.15869
Xiaojing Zheng, Zitong Qiu
The 996 working pattern has increasingly become one of the most salient employment problems among Chinese internet firms, yet existing research still provides very little insight into what really causes employees to work on a 996 or even 007 schedule. In this article, the authors highlight a rearticulation of hegemonic despotism to account for the 996 working pattern in internet firms. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork in six China-based internet firms, the authors determine that the most prominent and coercive mechanism behind the 996 working pattern is that of informal-flexible-allied despotism, which generates the cumulative effects of high risk of job loss and permanent unemployment. The complementary hegemonic mechanisms that rely on normative control and career identification provide explanations for employee compliance and willingness to keep striving. This article is among the first to examine the 996 working pattern in China. It also contributes to labour process analysis by providing an updated version of hegemonic despotism for understanding the contemporary workplace. Moreover, this study has practical implications in enabling beneficial changes to the 996 working pattern.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.4000/chinaperspectives.15241
Alain Peter
{"title":"The Transformation of Professional Values in Chinese Investigative Journalism","authors":"Alain Peter","doi":"10.4000/chinaperspectives.15241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/chinaperspectives.15241","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46173,"journal":{"name":"China Perspectives","volume":"81 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73579832","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 : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.4000/chinaperspectives.14919
Junmin Liu
{"title":"TRÉMON, Anne-Christine. 2022. Diaspora Space-time: Transformations of a Chinese Emigrant Community. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.","authors":"Junmin Liu","doi":"10.4000/chinaperspectives.14919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/chinaperspectives.14919","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46173,"journal":{"name":"China Perspectives","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90680169","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 : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.4000/chinaperspectives.15315
Yujing Zhu, Yun-shiuan Chen
{"title":"Visibility in Dilemma: Institutional Work in the Regulatory Practices of Protestant Churches in Wenzhou, China","authors":"Yujing Zhu, Yun-shiuan Chen","doi":"10.4000/chinaperspectives.15315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/chinaperspectives.15315","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46173,"journal":{"name":"China Perspectives","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73591995","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 : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.4000/chinaperspectives.15146
Elena Meyer-Clement
{"title":"SMITH, Nick R. 2021. The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization of Rural China. Minneapolis: Unive","authors":"Elena Meyer-Clement","doi":"10.4000/chinaperspectives.15146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/chinaperspectives.15146","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46173,"journal":{"name":"China Perspectives","volume":"356 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84886734","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 : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.4000/chinaperspectives.15256
Shuang Tan, Xiaonan Wang, Xuehua Lan
{"title":"From “Concealment” to “Deconcealment”: Lay Knowledge and Its Generation Mechanism for Issues of Environmental Risk in China","authors":"Shuang Tan, Xiaonan Wang, Xuehua Lan","doi":"10.4000/chinaperspectives.15256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/chinaperspectives.15256","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46173,"journal":{"name":"China Perspectives","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78480326","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}
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