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Technology, creativity and the media in engineering China’s future (2014)
Journal Article
Sullivan, J. (2014). Technology, creativity and the media in engineering China’s future. New Media and Society, 16(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444813519408

Political, economic and intellectual elites in China have for some time been in the grip of ‘futurology’ as they reflect on thirty years’ of extraordinary economic development and ask ‘what next’? China has a dream, in fact it has many visions of wha... Read More about Technology, creativity and the media in engineering China’s future.

Examining "The end of revolution": a foretaste of Wang Hui’s thought (2014)
Journal Article
Horesh, N., & Sullivan, J. (2014). Examining "The end of revolution": a foretaste of Wang Hui’s thought. China Report, 50(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/0009445514523647

Wang Hui is a significant contemporary Chinese thinker and a key representative of Chinese New Left thought. This article provides a critical review of some of the themes that emerge from Wang’s The End of Revolution as a means of situating his posit... Read More about Examining "The end of revolution": a foretaste of Wang Hui’s thought.

Migration from China to the EU: the challenge within Europe (2014)
Book Chapter
Wu, B., & Latham, K. (2014). Migration from China to the EU: the challenge within Europe. In K. Brown (Ed.), China and the EU in context: insights for business and investors. Palgrave Macmillan

At the beginning of the 21st Century, we have witnessed a rapid growth in Chinese immigration to the European Union (EU), which has had a profound impact on local Chinese communities in various ways. This chapter aims to reveal the latest development... Read More about Migration from China to the EU: the challenge within Europe.

Inequality, human capital, and innovation: China's remaining big problems (2014)
Journal Article
Wu, D., Wu, Z., Wang, J., & Zhao, Z. (2014). Inequality, human capital, and innovation: China's remaining big problems. International Journal of Economics and Business Modeling, 5(1),

The purpose of this paper is to analyse China’s current problems in inequality and compensation of employees, and their impact on human capital accumulation and innovation, which is one of key factors influencing the sustainable economic growth in Ch... Read More about Inequality, human capital, and innovation: China's remaining big problems.

The universal values of science and China’s Nobel Prize pursuit (2014)
Journal Article
Cao, C. (2014). The universal values of science and China’s Nobel Prize pursuit. Minerva, 52(2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-014-9249-y

China does not seem to believe the existence of universally acknowledged values in science and fails to promote the observation of such values that also should be applied to every member of the scientific community and at all times. Or, there is a se... Read More about The universal values of science and China’s Nobel Prize pursuit.

Housing development and urbanisation in China (2014)
Journal Article
Yao, S., Luo, D., & Wang, J. (2014). Housing development and urbanisation in China. World Economy, 37(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.12105

Rapid urbanisation and rising income have led to a strong demand for housing in urban China. However, housing development has been distorted by speculation, income inequality and lack of government support for low-cost houses. In recent years, house... Read More about Housing development and urbanisation in China.

Has China displaced the outward investments of OECD countries? (2014)
Journal Article
Yao, S., & Wang, P. (2014). Has China displaced the outward investments of OECD countries?. China Economic Review, 28, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2013.11.002

As China has rapidly emerged as one of the world's largest investors abroad, there has been a hectic debate in the literature on whether its emergence as a major foreign investor may have undermined the importance of western industrialised economies,... Read More about Has China displaced the outward investments of OECD countries?.

The effect of the state sector on wage inequality in urban China: 1988–2007 (2014)
Journal Article
Xia, Q., Song, L., Li, S., & Appleton, S. (2014). The effect of the state sector on wage inequality in urban China: 1988–2007. Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 12(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2013.875282

This paper examines the effect of the public sector and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on wage inequality in urban China using China Household Income Project data. It applies quantile regression analysis, the Machado and Mata decomposition to investi... Read More about The effect of the state sector on wage inequality in urban China: 1988–2007.

Collaborative socially responsible practices for improving the position of Chinese workers in global supply chains (2014)
Journal Article
Hofman, P. S., Wu, B., & Liu, K. (2014). Collaborative socially responsible practices for improving the position of Chinese workers in global supply chains. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 43(4),

In this paper we evaluate three projects with the participation of 40 supplier firms in several Chinese coastal provinces representing multi-stakeholder efforts to provide alternative channels through which workers can voice their concerns. The suppl... Read More about Collaborative socially responsible practices for improving the position of Chinese workers in global supply chains.

Is my rival’s rival a friend? Popular third-party perceptions of territorial disputes in East Asia (2014)
Journal Article
Horesh, N., Kim, H. J., Mauch, P., & Sullivan, J. (2014). Is my rival’s rival a friend? Popular third-party perceptions of territorial disputes in East Asia. Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 32(1),

This article examines how China's rise and increasing tensions with Japan are portrayed by South Korean bloggers. The deterioration in relations between China and Japan over the last two years generally projects onto the ways and means by which China... Read More about Is my rival’s rival a friend? Popular third-party perceptions of territorial disputes in East Asia.

Chinese student migration and integration in the UK: an exploration of links to and engagement with local communities in Nottingham (2014)
Journal Article
Wu, B. (2014). Chinese student migration and integration in the UK: an exploration of links to and engagement with local communities in Nottingham

The unprecedented growth in the number of Chinese students in the last decade or so has raised challenging issues about their integration on campus and in the wider community. Many questions arise regarding the impact of Chinese student migration and... Read More about Chinese student migration and integration in the UK: an exploration of links to and engagement with local communities in Nottingham.

Bringing class back in: class consciousness and solidarity among Chinese migrant workers in Italy and the UK (2014)
Journal Article
Wu, B., & Liu, H. (2014). Bringing class back in: class consciousness and solidarity among Chinese migrant workers in Italy and the UK. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 37(8), https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2012.715660

The growing literature on international migration has a tendency to emphasize homogenous elements such as shared ethnic background, social network and cultural similarities in shaping immigrants' identity. We argue that this underestimates the differ... Read More about Bringing class back in: class consciousness and solidarity among Chinese migrant workers in Italy and the UK.

From being privileged to being localized?: Taiwanese businessmen in China (2013)
Book Chapter
Lee, C. (2013). From being privileged to being localized?: Taiwanese businessmen in China. In K. Chiu, D. Fell, & P. Lin (Eds.), Migration to and from Taiwan Strait. Routledge

Taiwanese businesses have invested in China for almost three decades. Political questions have always been the most sensitive issue for Taiwanese businesspeople (Taishang) in China. The most popular saying among them is, ‘Businesspeople only talk abo... Read More about From being privileged to being localized?: Taiwanese businessmen in China.

How ready is China for a China-style world order? China's state media discourse under construction (2013)
Journal Article
Zhang, X. (2013). How ready is China for a China-style world order? China's state media discourse under construction. Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies, 34(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/02560054.2013.834834

What exactly is the China-style world order that Chinese officials and intellectual elites have recently been talking about, and how ready is China for it? An examination and analysis of discourses on ‘Africa Live’ on CCTV Africa, the first overseas... Read More about How ready is China for a China-style world order? China's state media discourse under construction.

Domestic Bureaucratic Politics and Chinese Foreign Policy (2013)
Journal Article
Lai, H., & Kang, S. (2014). Domestic Bureaucratic Politics and Chinese Foreign Policy. Journal of Contemporary China, 23(86), 294-313. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2013.832531

One of the outstanding features of China's domestic politics is the prominence of the bureaucracy in the policy-making process. Arguably, bureaucracy is the next major player in the policy-making process in China after the top leaders. In this articl... Read More about Domestic Bureaucratic Politics and Chinese Foreign Policy.

A new era for studies on cross-Strait relations: introduction (2013)
Journal Article
Lee, C. (2013). A new era for studies on cross-Strait relations: introduction. China Information, 27(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/0920203X12471606

After more than half a century’s separation, interaction between China and Taiwan has increased and has progressively changed from a politico-economic interaction to a more civic interaction. Scholars working on cross-Strait relations have recently b... Read More about A new era for studies on cross-Strait relations: introduction.

China’s Weibo: Is faster different? (2013)
Journal Article
Sullivan, J. (2014). China’s Weibo: Is faster different?. New Media and Society, 16(1), 24-37. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444812472966

The popularization of microblogging in China represents a new challenge to the state's regime of information control. The speed with which information is diffused in the microblogosphere has helped netizens to publicize and express their discontent w... Read More about China’s Weibo: Is faster different?.