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Network diversity and educational attainment: a case study in China

This qualitative study looked at network diversity and educational attainment. In the summer of 2008, in-depth interviews were conducted with 30 undergraduate students from two of the most prestigious universi...

Authors: Ka Yi Fung

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2015 2:12

Content type: Research

Published on: 14 October 2015
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Family involvement, firm size, and performance of private-owned enterprises

The debate over the effect of “family involvement” on the performance of private enterprises has existed for a long time. However, most previous research ignored the organizational characteristics. In this pap...

Authors: Lulu Li and Bin Zhu

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2015 2:11

Content type: Research

Published on: 24 September 2015
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Policy entrepreneur and social policy innovation in China

Fostering policy innovation at the local level and spreading the successful practice have been pervasive features of policy making in postreform China. The existing literature explains why the local government...

Authors: Yapeng Zhu and Diwen Xiao

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2015 2:10

Content type: Research

Published on: 24 September 2015
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Household changes in contemporary China: an analysis based on the four recent censuses

This paper analyzed China’s household changes based on data from China’s past four censuses of 1982, 1990, 2000, and 2010. The data showed that there was a rapid increase in the number of family households, a ...

Authors: Zhan Hu and Xizhe Peng

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2015 2:9

Content type: Research

Published on: 21 September 2015
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Capital with beliefs—a study of charitable donations of private business owners in Wenzhou, China

Borrowing Weber’s dual-interest model and “switchman” hypothesis, this study uses survey data to analyze the internal driving force and diversity in the charitable giving behaviors of private business owners f...

Authors: Yi Zhou and Anning Hu

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2015 2:8

Content type: Research

Published on: 7 September 2015
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Can the strategy of “mediate first” reduce collective labor disputes?—An empirical test based on province-level panel data from 1999 to 2011

In China, the transformation of economy and the reform of the labor system since the 1980s have seen a large number of collective labor disputes, yet the scale and intensity of these disputes have been effecti...

Authors: Wenjia Zhuang

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2015 2:7

Content type: Research

Published on: 29 August 2015
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The informal power configuration of local government and economic development policy in China

The spatial variation of local economic policies in Zhejiang province from the 1950s to 1990s can be traced back to the communist revolution prior to 1949. We argue that the revolutionary history shaped the in...

Authors: Mingxing Liu, Dong Zhang, Tao Qian and Qi Zhang

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2015 2:6

Content type: Research

Published on: 6 August 2015
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"Selective firming" of the self-boundary: social movements and the reshaping of the state-individual relationship during China’s transformation: A case study of a collective litigation caused by demolition in City B

Urbanization since the 1990s causes considerable social conflicts in China. From a positive perspective, the conflicts can be regarded as an active reshaping of state-individual relationships initiated by the ...

Authors: Yunqing Shi

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2015 2:5

Content type: Research

Published on: 24 June 2015
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“Full-time wife” and the change of gender order in the Chinese City

Work and family are the most critical of the contested terrains that determine the status of women in the gender order, the differing pattern of inequality between men and women. “Full-time wife” is a relative...

Authors: Ying Fang and Alan Walker

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2015 2:4

Content type: Research

Published on: 18 June 2015
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A third type of job search behavior: the use of the formal-informal joint channel in matching individual qualifications with hiring requirements in urban China

This study highlights the necessity of distinguishing the use of the formal-informal joint channel from the sole reliance on either the formal or informal job search channel. I first used interview data collec...

Authors: Jing Shen

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2015 2:3

Content type: Research

Published on: 5 June 2015
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Sibling sex composition, intrahousehold resource allocation, and educational attainment in China

Studies have found that the decline of the fertility rate, which reduces the number of siblings, is an important factor in narrowing the gender gap in education. However, given the number of children, sex comp...

Authors: Lei Zheng

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2015 2:2

Content type: Research

Published on: 17 April 2015
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The impact of children on divorce risk

Based on the data of the first wave of the Chinese Family Panel Study in 2010, this paper studies the relationship of divorce risk and four variables related to children in China: premarital births and number,...

Authors: Qi Xu, Jianning Yu and Zeqi Qiu

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2015 2:1

Content type: Research

Published on: 17 April 2015
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The causal mechanism of migration behaviors of African immigrants in Guangzhou: from the perspective of cumulative causation theory

This study tests international migration theory, especially cumulative causation theory, by looking into the causal mechanisms of international migration behavior among African immigrants in China by using the...

Authors: Yucheng Liang

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2014 1:2

Content type: Research

Published on: 31 October 2014
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The expansion of higher education admissions and the gender equalization of higher education opportunity: an empirical study based on Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS2008) data

After the expansion of higher education admissions (hereafter ‘The Expansion’) beginning in 1999, the distribution of higher education opportunities has gradually become equalized between genders. Utilizing da...

Authors: Zhaoshu Zhang and Qi Chen

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2014 1:1

Content type: Research

Published on: 31 October 2014
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Articles

Network diversity and educational attainment: a case study in China

Family involvement, firm size, and performance of private-owned enterprises

Policy entrepreneur and social policy innovation in China

Household changes in contemporary China: an analysis based on the four recent censuses

Capital with beliefs—a study of charitable donations of private business owners in Wenzhou, China

Can the strategy of “mediate first” reduce collective labor disputes?—An empirical test based on province-level panel data from 1999 to 2011

The informal power configuration of local government and economic development policy in China

"Selective firming" of the self-boundary: social movements and the reshaping of the state-individual relationship during China’s transformation: A case study of a collective litigation caused by demolition in City B

“Full-time wife” and the change of gender order in the Chinese City

A third type of job search behavior: the use of the formal-informal joint channel in matching individual qualifications with hiring requirements in urban China

Sibling sex composition, intrahousehold resource allocation, and educational attainment in China

The impact of children on divorce risk

The causal mechanism of migration behaviors of African immigrants in Guangzhou: from the perspective of cumulative causation theory

The expansion of higher education admissions and the gender equalization of higher education opportunity: an empirical study based on Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS2008) data

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