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In the process of rapid urbanization, the Chinese have seen the disappearance of a large number of villages and the emergence of ‘village-turned-community’. Many peasants move into newly built communities and ...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:7
Scholars generally agree that family socioeconomic status significantly influences student engagement and motivation in school learning. Yet, teachers are key adults who play an equally important role in deter...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:6
This study investigates the impacts of human capital, family capital, and community capital on Chinese seniors’ leisure satisfaction. One thousand seniors living in five Chinese cities participated in this qua...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:5
This article examines the medical policy discourse of the Communist Party of China (CPC) between 1940 and 1950 that witnessed the preliminary achievement of the policy of cooperation between Chinese and Wester...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:4
This paper analyzes the influence of land endowment possessed by the rural household on education decisions under the condition of insufficient rural land circulation and rural labor transfer. Results show tha...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:3
Fitting multivariate models to the China Private Enterprises Survey (2006) data, this article reveals the differentiation of state-business relationship as a function of a private enterprise’s economic capital...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:2
In this paper, we investigate the formative mechanism of the Easterlin paradox in China using 2010 Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) data. By establishing a multi-factor, multi-level dynamic framework, we u...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:1
The paper proposes two theoretical hypotheses about how collective social capital is constructed based on the operation of individual social capital in Chinese context: the logic of particularist guanxi operation...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2018 5:18
Based on the Theory of Rational Addiction (TORA), this paper uses the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data to identify the correlation between income and preference for spicy foods. Results show that ...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2018 5:17
Using data from a recent survey of Chinese college students, this study examines the contextual factors associated with young adults’ preferences for marriage and parenthood. The analyses demonstrate that fema...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2018 5:16
In this editorial for the Thematic Series: Cultural Sociology and China, we discuss the global growth of cultural sociology as a sociological sub-discipline, its current state and future prospects in mainland ...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2018 5:15
This paper explores the effect of marital power distribution and the spousal relationship on family intergenerational support to older parents using CGSS2006 data. The findings include the following: (1) the m...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2018 5:14
Education is a lasting process. Academic performance in primary education plays a crucial role in obtaining further educational opportunities. Thus, it is necessary to examine how family background affects chi...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2018 5:13
With the development of the market economy in China, does the effect of the original socialist institutional arrangements on social inequality fade? We examine this issue by considering the effect of people’s ...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2018 5:12
With cases collected from long-term fieldwork on two ethnic groups of China, the Flora-belt Dai and the Ao Yao, this paper analyzes predominant definitions of “ritual.” It discusses such issues as ritual’s tec...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2018 5:11
Based on pooled data drawn from a representative Taiwan Social Change Survey dataset, this article analyzes the pattern of transmission of religious belief from parents to adult children in Taiwan from 1999 to...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2018 5:10
As a relatively recent academic discipline, international relations engage with ethnography in specific ways, especially since its ethnographic turn starting in the mid-1990s. Conceived as a methodology that m...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2018 5:9
Anthropologists have adopted different approaches in order to analyze discourses in ritual context. This paper, based on long-term field investigations, aims to discuss the Na’s Daba rituals from the angle of ...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2018 5:8
How do collective identities gain salience in the workplace? How are new “capitals” created in the process? To answer these question, this study examines the confrontation of two distinctly positioned socio-ec...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2018 5:7
Elaborating on the analytical framework of governance, this paper discusses three aspects of governance including the approach of how NGOs achieve subject legitimacy in environmental-governance participation, ...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2018 5:6
With both the terms “rite of passage” and “ritual” facing difficulties as analytic concepts, we have no way to differentiate between common behavior, rite of passage, and ritual in a strict sense until today. ...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2018 5:5
Compulsory education systems usually specify a cutoff date regulating the precise age for entry into primary school. Existing literature from the USA and Europe has demonstrated that children born just before ...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2018 5:4
Existing research points out that social relations are crucial in governing employment relations and eliciting commitment but fails to clarify how they work in different contexts. Using an employer-employee ne...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2018 5:3
Researchers of the Chinese bureaucracy generally believe that policy promotion depends on the power of the party committees because they have absolute authority in China. This intuitive argument, however, lack...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2018 5:2
Young people have been perceived as a group that benefits most directly from China’s education aspirations and modernization campaign. Given their high social and spatial mobility related to education and care...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2018 5:1
This article employs data from the 2013 China Social Survey to analyse class differences in propensities to consume in contemporary China. Results suggest that the average propensity to consume (i.e. APC) amon...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2017 4:21
Based on diversified intergenerational living arrangements in urban China, this paper studies the characterization and formation mechanism of intergenerational family relationships in the Chinese society. The ...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2017 4:20
Few readers notice that in a celebrated essay, Goffman, in a footnote, acknowledges the Chinese source of his concept of face. Around the time that Goffman published “On Face-work,” Merton urged that theory de...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2017 4:19
Drawing upon the concept of culture as a “tool kit” from which social actors draw pragmatically, this paper explores the relationship between cultural definitions of good mothering and breastfeeding among midd...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2017 4:18
Received wisdom views political humor, viz. egao, in the Chinese cyber public sphere as a form of resistance. This study creates and tests a framework that best conceptualizes how different functions of egao a...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2017 4:17
Within cross-border marriages, foreign brides’ economic contributions to their families are often underestimated due to the fact that they are always believed to be passport and economic “dependents.” However,...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2017 4:16
Although sociological insights into the relationship between consumption and class are mostly borne out by current research in the Chinese context, it is important to consider the implications of applying such...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2017 4:15
The objectives of this study are to investigate (1) whether subjective well-being (SWB) measures in surveys on China are interchangeable and (2) whether these measures work together as a construct. To accompli...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2017 4:14
By using qualitative data collected in three representative Chinese cities and quantitative data from a countrywide survey, in this study, we synthesized the conventionally competing arguments from the state-c...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2017 4:13
Economists have used the mechanism of interjurisdictional competition to explain how decentralization affects the degree of property rights protection. This fails however to account for another significant que...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2017 4:12
Interethnic marriage is a key field in ethnic relations study. A high level of interethnic marriage only occurs in a multiethnic society in which the political system, economic structure, laws, and cultural en...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2017 4:11
The phenomenon of ken lao embodies the structural tension and intergenerational ambivalence in transitional Chinese families. Two kinds of families in Shanghai that rely on parents are compared, including attitud...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2017 4:10
Since the implementation of China’s one-child family planning policy in 1980, the fertility culture and governmental institutions have become two important factors that determine women’s fertility selection. I...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2017 4:9
Although it is commonly believed that immigration leads to a high crime rate, this relationship is far from conclusive. This paper contributes to this line of research by exploring the case of China, a country...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2017 4:8
In 2000, the Chinese government initiated a campaign to develop Western China and reduce local and regional inequality. Privatisation has been a central component of the campaign. This article studies the rela...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2017 4:7
Interfirm networks are one of the core modes of corporate governance. However, its formation mechanism is not clearly and adequately delineated. This article highlights the significance of property rights to t...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2017 4:6
Contributing to contemporary studies on knowledge workers, this paper aims to conceptualize the four critical challenges for editors in the Chinese publishing industry under the framework of political economy....
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2017 4:5
Based on basic organizational theories, this paper revisits studies about intergovernmental relationships in China and proposes a systematic explanation framework from the perspective of the allocation mechani...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2017 4:4
This study aims to explore the impact of social resources within the workplace on individuals' income level among Chinese urban residents, using data provided by JSNET2009. To adequately address the endogeneit...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2017 4:3
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Gender and gender ideology have gained increasing attention from researchers in contemporary social sciences. In recent years, some research evidence also indicates that children can affect parents’ social val...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2017 4:1
Using data from the 2010 China Family Panel Study and county- and industry-level statistics, we estimate cross-classified multilevel models to examine the determinants of the income gap among Chinese workers. ...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2016 3:28
This article explores young Chinese women’s attitudes to and practices of filial piety in northern China. It applies the concept of ‘family practices’ and ‘displaying family’ to the Chinese context through the...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2016 3:27
In the transnational and digital era, the Internet plays an important role in the postmigration lives of many older migrants. This article explores how Internet use contributes to the quality of life of older ...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2016 3:26
This article brings together two different approaches in the new economic sociology—structural embeddedness and cultural embeddedness—to understand the transformation and development of a market. Markets are c...
Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2016 3:25
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