Introduction The article endeavours to interpret the linked phenomena of trust and the smart city, focusing on the public support for the smart city in…

Introduction Confucianism, the philosophical and moral values of which were considered by the iconoclasts of the early twentieth century to run counter to modernisation, consequently…

Introduction: Reading the classics and the perspective of utopia in social movements The study of Confucian classics used to be at the heart of the…

  Since the start of the twenty-first century, China has experienced a growing revival of references to the Confucian tradition in various realms such as…

Introduction: An invitation to dujing Since the 1980s, the Confucian revival in contemporary Chinese society has grown as a local, national, and even global phenomenon…

Introduction Understanding the Confucian revival in contemporary China entails clarifying the conditions of modernity that have materialised in present-day Chinese society. Since the early twentieth…

This special feature of China Perspectives tackles the important topic of generational identities and the original forms of collective actions they give way to across…

On the morning of 27 January 2004, a bus left Chengdu and headed towards Chongqing along the Chengyu highway. Wang was on that bus, both…

Introduction The Taiwanese media is full of commentaries and analyses that have gradually made evident the existence of a young generation separated from their elders…

Introduction In 2020, the story of a 56-year-old woman who went on a solo road trip in China went viral online.[1] Escaping from an unhappy…