Ling Meng is Postdoctoral Fellow at the China and Global Development Network, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong…

Shajidanmu Tuxun obtained her PhD in anthropology from the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity/Utrecht University. Currently, she is a…

Alessandra Ferrer is a PhD candidate in the Department of Education at Kyushu University (744 Motooka, Fukuoka, Japan 819-1139). Her primary research interests include the…

Sabrina Y. Tao is a PhD candidate in modern Chinese and Sinophone literature, film, music, and popular culture at the University of Oregon, 27 Friendly…

Julia Marinaccio is a comparative political scientist who studied China studies and political science in Vienna and Taipei. Currently, she works as a postdoctoral researcher…

After the “Organic Law of the Village Committee of the People’s Republic of China” was promulgated in 1987, elections to posts within the Village Committee…

Introduction With the technological and economic development of the Internet, a rich and varied Internet culture emerged in China. One of the most prominent online…

The 1952 painting Happy Marriage (Xingfu hunyin 幸福婚姻, Figure 1)[1] depicts a scene of unambiguous jubilance. Walking behind their healthy ox through a throng of…

Chinese labour is the object of a wide-ranging literature that covers the topic from many angles. Most of it deals with the new working class…