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Fluctuating policy implementation and problems in grassroots governance

Both passive and campaign-style implementations of public policies are utilized in China. The alternation of the two types of implementations causes public policies to fluctuate. This article conducts a detail...

Authors: Jiajian Chen and Qiongwen Zhang

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2016 3:7

Content type: Research

Published on: 11 May 2016
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The reform of the medical welfare system and health equity for the elderly in China: a study in Zhejiang

Health equity is the basic theory of universal health insurance and the objective of reform of the medical welfare system. Based on health equity theory with the perspective of giving priority to disadvantaged...

Authors: Xiaoting Liu and Hung Wong

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2016 3:6

Content type: Research

Published on: 10 May 2016
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A study of the influential factors for health inequality

Using a national dataset, this study investigates the inequalities in physical functional status, depressive symptoms, and self-rated health among groups of people with different socioeconomic status (SES) thr...

Authors: Kaishan Jiao

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2016 3:5

Content type: Research

Published on: 21 April 2016
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Can overseas migrants develop sustained entrepreneurship? Multiple case studies of Wenzhou migrants in Italy

This study focuses on Wenzhou migrants and explains the developmental path of overseas migrants’ sustained entrepreneurship. It also analyzes how migrant entrepreneurs fit into the Italian culture to improve a...

Authors: Yili Zhang and Min Zhang

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2016 3:4

Content type: Research

Published on: 18 January 2016
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The impact of Chinese political efficacy and political participation on their trust in the police

In English literature, the study of the public’s evaluation of the police has been increasing in the past 10 years. Although the existing literature has talked about the influence of political participation on...

Authors: Rong Hu

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2016 3:3

Content type: Research

Published on: 13 January 2016
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The changing relationship between the Chinese urban medical profession and the state since the republican period: the perspective of the sociology of professions

The relationship between professions and the state is one of the most important issues in the sociology of professions. Using the analysis framework of the corporate-clinical autonomy dynamic relationship, thi...

Authors: Zelin Yao

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2016 3:2

Content type: Research

Published on: 12 January 2016
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Personal resources, family factors, and remarriage: an analysis based on CFPS2010 data

Based on China Family Panel Studies (CFPS2010) data, this paper adopts the method of event history analysis to explore the cultural logic and impact factors behind remarriage in China. The results show that an...

Authors: Dasong Peng

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2016 3:1

Content type: Research

Published on: 6 January 2016
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From capital to habitus: class differentiation of family educational patterns in urban China

Based on Bourdieu’s concepts of “capital” and “habitus” in his class theory, this paper examines the differentiation of capital investment and parenting habitus on children’s education between the Chinese urba...

Authors: Yanbi Hong and Yandong Zhao

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2015 2:18

Content type: Research

Published on: 17 December 2015
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Organization size and economic stratification in urban China: 1996–2006

A well-documented finding in social stratification research is that employees in larger work organizations earn more than those in smaller ones. This research first extends the institutional context of this to...

Authors: Jun Li

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2015 2:17

Content type: Research

Published on: 3 December 2015
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The institutional environment and the performance of private enterprises: population ecology and the institutional school revisited

Combining the perspectives of population ecology and the institutional school, this article examines the influence of private sector development on the performances of private enterprises in different province...

Authors: Zongshi Chen and Lu Zheng

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2015 2:16

Content type: Research

Published on: 28 November 2015
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Innovative public goods production and organizational form selection: a case study of the Wenzhou Private Lending Service Center

This article discusses innovative public goods production and organizational form selection based on a case study of the Wenzhou Private Lending Service Center, which was founded during Wenzhou’s comprehensive...

Authors: Jinglin Xiang and Xiang Zhang

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2015 2:15

Content type: Research

Published on: 26 November 2015
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Discordance between subjective and objective social status in contemporary China

This study investigates the divergence between subjective and objective social status in contemporary China, using the unique data assembled from 10 waves of nationally representative surveys from 2003 to 2012...

Authors: Yunsong Chen and Xiaoguang Fan

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2015 2:14

Content type: Research

Published on: 26 November 2015
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“Status projection”—a study of the foundation of independent directors among China’s listed companies

A key issue for a state in transition when a new institution is imported into its domestic economic field is the relationship between the process dynamics of the formation of the new institution and the corres...

Authors: Linzhuo Li

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2015 2:13

Content type: Research

Published on: 5 November 2015
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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

Fluctuating policy implementation and problems in grassroots governance

The reform of the medical welfare system and health equity for the elderly in China: a study in Zhejiang

A study of the influential factors for health inequality

Can overseas migrants develop sustained entrepreneurship? Multiple case studies of Wenzhou migrants in Italy

The impact of Chinese political efficacy and political participation on their trust in the police

The changing relationship between the Chinese urban medical profession and the state since the republican period: the perspective of the sociology of professions

Personal resources, family factors, and remarriage: an analysis based on CFPS2010 data

From capital to habitus: class differentiation of family educational patterns in urban China

Organization size and economic stratification in urban China: 1996–2006

The institutional environment and the performance of private enterprises: population ecology and the institutional school revisited

Innovative public goods production and organizational form selection: a case study of the Wenzhou Private Lending Service Center

Discordance between subjective and objective social status in contemporary China

“Status projection”—a study of the foundation of independent directors among China’s listed companies

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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