Journal of Current Chinese Affairs - China aktuell

1999 - 2017

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Volume 46, issue 3, 2017

Dancing to China’s Tune: Understanding the Impacts of a Rising China through the Political-Ecology Framework pp. 3-32

May Tan-Mullins

Repository Africa in the Evolving “Chinese Century”: The Uneven Sino–Nigerian Water Conservation Partnership pp. 33-52

Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran

Nuclear (Geo)Political Ecologies: A Hybrid Geography of Chinese Investment in Namibia’s Uranium Sector pp. 53-83

Meredith J. DeBoom

Regionalism, Identity, and Hydropower Dams: The Chinese-Built Lower Sesan 2 Dam in Cambodia pp. 85-118

Oliver Hensengerth

China Came, China Built, China Left?: The Sarawakian Experience with Chinese Dam Building pp. 119-158

Shun Deng Fam

Volume 46, issue 2, 2017

Editorial pp. 3-6

Kerry Brown and Georg Strüver

Tackling Chinese Upgrading Through Experimentalism and Pragmatism: The Case of China’s Wind Turbine Industry pp. 7-39

Julia Kirch Kirkegaard

An Unlikely Champion of Global Finance: Why Is China Exceeding International Banking Standards? pp. 41-79

Peter Knaack

Student-to-Student Diplomacy: Chinese International Students as a Soft-Power Tool pp. 81-109

Ane Bislev

Constraints on the Soft Power Efforts of Authoritarian States: The Case of the 2015 Military Parade in Beijing pp. 111-134

Camilla T. N. Sørensen

Chinese Human Rights Guidance on Minerals Sourcing: Building Soft Power pp. 135-154

Karin Buhmann

Moving Beyond “China in Africa”: Insights from Zambian Immigration Data pp. 155-174

Hannah Postel

Volume 46, issue 1, 2017

The Shadow of China over Taiwan’s Democracy pp. 3-9

Sabrina Habich-Sobiegalla and Stefan Fleischauer

Cross-Strait Relations and Regional Integration: A Review of the Ma Ying-jeou Era (2008–2016) pp. 11-35

Tung-chieh Tsai and Tony Tai-ting Liu

Chinese Investment in Taiwan: A Challenge or an Opportunity for Taiwan? pp. 37-59

Chun-yi Lee and Ming-xi Yin

Look, the World is Watching How We Treat Migrants! The Making of the Anti-Trafficking Legislation during the Ma Administration pp. 61-99

Isabelle Cheng and Lara Momesso

Curriculum Reform and the Teaching of History in High Schools during the Ma Ying-jeou Presidency pp. 101-130

Vladimir Stolojan

Taiwan’s Millennial Generation: Interests in Polity and Party Politics pp. 131-166

Ryan Brading

Anti-Japanese Sentiment among Chinese University Students: The Influence of Contemporary Nationalist Propaganda pp. 167-185

Min Zhou and Hanning Wang

Getting the Numbers Right on China’s Actual Overseas Investment: The Case of the Netherlands pp. 187-209

Piter de Jong and Mark J. Greeven

Volume 45, issue 3, 2016

New Concerns, More Cooperation? How Non-Traditional Security Issues Affect Sino–Indian Relations pp. 3-30

Sebastian Biba

Sino–Indian Economic Ties since 1988: Progress, Problems, and Prospects for Future Development pp. 31-71

Jingdong Yuan

The Role of China and India in the G20 and BRICS: Commonalities or Competitive Behaviour? pp. 73-106

Andrew F. Cooper and Asif B. Farooq

Antipiracy and Unusual Coalitions in the Indian Ocean Region: China’s Changing Role and Confidence Building with India pp. 107-137

Olivia Gippner

Buddhism in Current China–India Diplomacy pp. 139-174

David Scott

Training Responsible Journalists in China: Guiding Domestic Opinion, Gaining Foreign Audiences pp. 175-200

Laura Dombernowsky

The Political Economy of Organisational Violence in Chinese Industry pp. 201-230

Huisheng Shou and Gary S. Green

Volume 45, issue 2, 2016

The Margins and the Marginalised: Social Policy, Labour Migration, and Ethnic Identity in Contemporary China pp. 3-27

Armin Müller

Urban Social Assistance in China: Transnational Diffusion and National Interpretation pp. 29-51

Tao Liu and Li Sun

Hukou and Health Insurance Coverage for Migrant Workers pp. 53-82

Armin Müller

The Emergence of Informal Institutions among Internal Migrants in Urban China pp. 83-112

Rumin Luo

The Establishment of China’s New Type Rural Social Insurance Pension: A Process Perspective pp. 113-147

Matthias Stepan and Quan Lu

Marginalisation at China’s Multi-Ethnic Frontier: The Mongols of Henan Mongolian Autonomous County in Qinghai Province pp. 149-182

Ute Wallenböck

The Evolution of China’s Pay Inequality from 1987 to 2012 pp. 183-217

Wenjie Zhang

Volume 45, issue 1, 2016

Editorial pp. 3

Patrick Köllner

New Villages, Old Problems? Exploring Policy Implementation in a Rapidly Changing Chinese Countryside pp. 5-10

Trappel Rene

Premium Collection and the Problem of Voluntary Enrolment in China's New Rural Cooperative Medical System pp. 11-41

Armin Müller

Testing the Spaces of Discretion: School Personnel as Implementers of Minority-Language Policy in China pp. 43-74

Hans-Christian Schnack

The Brink of Poverty: Implementation of a Social Assistance Programme in Rural China pp. 75-108

Lena Kuhn, Stephan Brosig and Linxiu Zhang

The Great Urban Leap? On the Local Political Economy of Rural Urbanisation in China pp. 109-139

Elena Meyer-Clement

“In Accordance with Local Conditions”: Policy Design and Implementation of Agrarian Change Policies in Rural China pp. 141-168

René Trappel

The Paradox of Middle-Class Attitudes in China: Democracy, Social Stability, and Reform pp. 169-190

Ying Miao

Volume 44, issue 4, 2015

Ten Years After – A Personal Note pp. 3-6

Karsten Giese

Africans in Guangzhou pp. 7-15

Gordon Mathews

The Social Construction of Guangzhou as a Translocal Trading Place pp. 17-47

Angelo Gilles

Healthcare-Seeking Practices of African and Rural-to-Urban Migrants in Guangzhou pp. 49-81

Tabea Bork-Hüffer

Landscapes of Aspiration in Guangzhou’s African Music Scene: Beyond the Trading Narrative pp. 83-115

Roberto Castillo

African Logistics Agents and Middlemen as Cultural Brokers in Guangzhou pp. 117-144

Gordon Mathews

The Currency of Historicity in Hong Kong: Deconstructing Nostalgia through Soy Milk pp. 145-175

Catherine S. Chan

New Bottle, Old Wine: China’s Governance of Hong Kong in View of Its Policies in the Restive Borderlands pp. 177-209

Bill Chou

Volume 44, issue 3, 2015

The Anthropology of Chinese Transnational Educational Migration pp. 3-14

Anders Sybrandt Hansen and Stig Thøgersen

When the Hong Kong Dream Meets the Anti-Mainlandisation Discourse: Mainland Chinese Students in Hong Kong pp. 15-47

Cora Lingling Xu

The Temporal Experience of Chinese Students Abroad and the Present Human Condition pp. 49-77

Anders Sybrandt Hansen

Overthrowing the First Mountain: Chinese Student-Migrants and the Geography of Power pp. 79-102

Anni Kajanus

“I will change things in my own small way”: Chinese Overseas Students, “Western” Values, and Institutional Reform pp. 103-124

Stig Thøgersen

“Unseeing” Chinese Students in Japan: Understanding Educationally Channelled Migrant Experiences pp. 125-154

Jamie Coates

“Creating a Home away from Home”: Chinese Undergraduate Student Enclaves in US Higher Education pp. 155-181

Yajing Chen and Heidi Ross

Engagement and Reflexivity: Approaches to Chinese–Japanese Political Relations by Chinese Students in Japan pp. 183-212

Herby Lai

Volume 44, issue 2, 2015

Stability Maintenance and Chinese Media: Beyond Political Communication? pp. 3-15

Jonathan Hassid and Wanning Sun

From Poisonous Weeds to Endangered Species: Shenghuo TV, Media Ecology and Stability Maintenance pp. 17-37

Wanning Sun

China’s Responsiveness to Internet Opinion: A Double-Edged Sword pp. 39-68

Jonathan Hassid

Winning Hearts and Minds? Cadres as Microbloggers in China pp. 69-103

Ashley Esarey

Manufacturing Consent in Cyberspace: China’s “Fifty-Cent Army” pp. 105-134

Rongbin Han

Regulation with Chinese Characteristics: Deciphering Banking Regulation in China pp. 135-166

Orhan Hilmi Yazar

Volume 44, issue 1, 2015

Introduction: Adaptation and Learning among Chinese Actors in Africa pp. 3-8

Karsten Giese

Chinese Adaptations: African Agency, Fragmented Community and Social Capital Creation in Ghana pp. 9-41

Katy N. Lam

In the Shadow of the States: The Informalities of Chinese Petty Entrepreneurship in Nigeria pp. 75-105

Allen Hai Xiao

Non-Interference 2.0: China’s Evolving Foreign Policy towards a Changing Africa pp. 107-139

Richard Aidoo and Steve Hess

Running Out of Time? The Evolution of Taiwan’s Relations in Africa pp. 141-161

Timothy Steven Rich and Vasabjit Banerjee

Invisible Body and the Predicaments of Existence in an Urbanizing China pp. 163–197

Meiqin Wang

Of Other Spaces? Hybrid Forms of Chinese Engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 43-73

Romain Dittgen