China Story Yearbook 2012
Red Rising, Red Eclipse
Introduction: Red Rising
Geremie R. Barmé, ‘China’s Flat Earth: History and 8th August 2008’, The China Quarterly, vol.197 (2009): 64-86.
William A. Callahan, China: The Pessoptimist Nation, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Robert Foyle Hunwick, ‘Utopia Website Shutdown: Interview with Fan Jinggang’, 14 April 2012 on Danwei, online at: www.danwei.com/interview-before-a-gagging-order-fan-jinggang-of-utopia.
Kevin Rudd, ‘Australia and China in the World’, Seventieth George E. Morrison Lecture on Ethnology, The Australian National University, 23 April 2010 at chinainstitute.anu.edu.au/morrison/titles.php.
Kate Merkel-Hess, Kenneth L. Pomeranz and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, eds, China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.
Chapter 1: China’s Foreign Policy
Thomas Christensen, ‘The Advantages of an Assertive China’, Foreign Affairs, vol.90 no.2 (March/April 2011): 54-67.
Jonathan Holslag, Trapped Giant: China’s Military Rise, London: Routledge for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2011.
International Crisis Group, ‘Stirring up the South China Sea’, Asia Report, no. 223, 23 April 2012 at: www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/Files/asia/north-east-asia/223-stirring-up-the-south-china-sea-i.pdf.
Wang Jisi, ‘China’s Search for a Grand Strategy: A Rising Great Power Finds Its Way’, Foreign Affairs, vol.90 no.2 (March/April 2011): 68-79.
Robert D. Kaplan, ‘The Geography of Chinese Power: How Far Can Beijing Reach on Land and at Sea?’, Foreign Affairs, vol.89 no.3 (May/June 2010): 22-41.
Henry Kissinger, On China, London: Allen Lane, 2011.
William H. Overholt, ‘Reassessing China: Awaiting Xi Jinping’, The Washington Quarterly, vol.35 no.2 (Spring 2012): 121-137.
Kevin Rudd, ‘The West isn’t Ready for the Rise of China’, New Statesman, 11 July 2012, at: www.newstatesman.com/politics/international-politics/2012/07/kevin-rudd-west-isnt-ready-rise-china.
David Shambaugh, ‘Coping with a Conflicted China’, The Washington Quarterly, vol.34 no.1 (Winter 2011): 7-27.
Susan L. Shirk, China: Fragile Superpower, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Michael D. Swaine, ‘China’s Assertive Behaviour Part One: On “Core Interests” ’, China Leadership Monitor, no.34 (2011) at: media.hoover.org/sites/default/files/documents/CLM34MS.pdf.
Hugh White, Power Shift: Australia’s Future between Washington and Beijing, Quarterly Essay, Issue 39, Collingwood, Victoria: Black Inc., 2010.
Chapter 2: Symbolic Cities
Jeremy Brown, City Versus Countryside in Mao’s China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Carolyn Cartier, ‘Transnational Urbanism in the Reform Era Chinese City: Landscapes from Shenzhen,’ Urban Studies, vol.39 no.9 (2002): 1513-1532.
‘The World City’ in John A. Agnew and James S. Duncan, eds, The Blackwell Companion to Human Geography, London: Wiley-Blackwell, pp.313-324, 2011.
Anita Chan, Richard Madsen and Jonathan Unger, Chen Village: Revolution to Globalization, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.
Philip C.C. Huang, ‘Chongqing: Equitable Development Driven by a “Third Hand”?’, Modern China, 37(2011): 569-622.
George Lin, Developing China. Land Politics and Social Conditions, London: Routledge, 2009.
You-tien Hsing, The Great Urban Transformation. Politics of Land and Property in China, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Ezra Vogel, One Step Ahead in China: Guangdong under Reform, Cambridge; Harvard University Press, 1990.
Chapter 3: The Ideology of Law and Order
On Stability Maintenance
Chris Buckley, ‘Insight: In China, Security Drive Sows Own Seeds of Unrest’, online at: www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/19/us-china-politics-unrest-idUSTRE7BI0FL20111219.
Peter Mattis, ‘The Foundations of China’s Future Stability’, Asia-Pacific Bulletin (East-West-Center), no.149 (February 2012) online at:
www.scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/21972.
Politics
Susan V. Lawrence and Michael F. Martin, Understanding China’s Political System, CRC report for Congress, 10 May 2012, online at:
www.cfr.org/china/crs-understanding-chinas-political-system/p28270
Perry Link, ‘America’s Outdated View of China’, Washington Post, 11 May 2012, online at:
www.washingtonpost.com/…us…china/…/gIQAUvgaGU_story.html.
Leadership Succession
John Dodson, ‘The Chinese Communist Party and its Emerging Next-Generation Leaders’, U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission Staff Research Report, 23 March, 2012, online at: www.uscc.gov/researchpapers/research_archive.php
Bruce Gilley, ‘The Politics and Policy of Leadership Succession’, China Brief, vol.12 no.2 (20 January 2012), online at:
www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=38910&tx_ttnews[backPid]=589
David Kelly, ‘Stability and Social Governance in China’, East Asia Forum, 13 September 2011, online at:
www.eastasiaforum.org/2011/09/13/stability-and-social-governance-in-china/.
Crime and Policing
Norman P. Ho, ‘Organised Crime in China: the Chongqing Crackdown’, in John Garrick, ed, Law and Policy for China’s Market Socialism, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2012, pp.202-214.
Willy Lam, ‘Chen Guangcheng Fiasco Shows Dim Prospects for Politico-Legal Reform’, China Brief, vol.12 no.10 (11 May, 2012), on-line at: www.jamestown.org/programs/chinabrief/single/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=39359&cHash=91e929a7aa10a8831b80615a192b08ea.
Susan Trevaskes, Policing Serious Crime in China: from Strike Hard to Kill Fewer, London: Routledge, 2010.
Citizen and State
Perry Keller ed., The Citizen and the Chinese State, Ashgate: London, 2012.
Rachel Stern and Kevin O’Brien, ‘Politics at the Boundary: Mixed Signals and the Chinese State’, unpublished paper, 11 June 2011, online at:
www.polisci.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/OBrienK/MC2012.pdf.
Yu Hua, ‘The Arab Spring and the Chinese Autumn’, New Perspectives Quarterly, vol.29, no.1 (2012): 49-51, online at:
www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-5842.2012.01294.x/abstract.
Chapter 4: Uncertain Numbers, Uncertain Outcomes
China’s Fertility Rate
Zhao, Zhongwei and Wei Chen, ‘China’s far below replacement fertility and its long-term impact: Comments on the preliminary results of the 2010 Census’, Demographic Research, vol.25 article 26 (2011): 819-36, at www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol25/26/25-26.pdf.
Cai, Fang, ‘The Coming Demographic Impact on China’s Growth: the age factor in the middle-income trap’, Asian Economic Papers, vol.11 no.1 (2012): 95-111.
www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/ASEP_a_00121.
Surplus Labour
Meng, ‘Has China Run Out of Surplus Labour?’, China Economic Review vol.22 (2011): 555-572, at www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1043951X11000629.
Demographic Dividend
Jane Golley and Rod Tyers, ‘Demographic Dividends, Dependencies and Economic Growth in China and India’, forthcoming in Asian Economic Papers, vol.11 no.2 (Summer/Fall 2012).
Sex Ratio
Du, Qingyuan and Shang-jin Wei, ‘A Sexually Unbalanced Model of Current Account Imbalances’, NBER Working Paper 16000 (May 2010), online at:
www.nber.org/papers/w16000.pdf?new_window=1.
Economic Growth Prospects
Derek Scissors, ‘China Grows at 10 per cent Again: is this believable’, January 2011, www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/01/china-grows-10-percent-again-isthis-believable.
Banking and Financial System
Carl Walter and Fraser Howie, Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China’s Extraordinary Rise, New Jersey: Wiley, 2011.
‘Gray’ Income
Wang, Xiaolu and Wing Thye Woo, ‘The size and distribution of hidden household income in China’, Asian Economic Papers, vol.10 no.1 (2011): 1-30. Also at: www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/ASEP_a_00064
Chapter 5: Discontent in Digital China
The State and the Internet
David Barndurski, ‘How the Chinese Media Relate to Power,’ China Media Project, 20 March 2012, at cmp.hku.hk/2012/03/20/20662/.
Geremie R. Barmé and Sang Ye, ‘The Great Firewall of China’, Wired vol.5 no.6 (1997), at: www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.06/china_pr.html.
Geremie R. Barmé, ‘The Harmonious Evolution of Information in China’, China Beat, 29 January 2010, at: www.thechinabeat.org/?p=1422.
Gloria Davies, ‘Bibliomania in Sino-cyberspace’, China Heritage Quarterly 13 (2008) at: chinaheritagenewsletter.anu.edu.au/articles.php?searchterm=013_virtual.inc&issue=013.
Hassid, Jonathan, ‘Controlling the Chinese media: an Uncertain Business’, Asian Survey, vol.48 no.3 (2008): 414-430.
Gary King, Jennifer Pan and Margaret Roberts, ‘How Censorship in China Allows Government Allows Criticism but Silences Collective Expression’, Harvard University, 18 June 2012, downloadable PDF, at: www.gking.harvard.edu/files/censored.pdf (5.5 MB).
Rebecca Mackinnon, ‘Google Confronts the Great Firewall’, Foreign Policy, 31 May 2012 at: www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/05/31/google_confronts_china_again.
‘Networked Authoritarianism in China and Beyond: Implications for Global Internet Freedom’ paper presented at Stanford University, 11-12 October 2010, at iis-db.stanford.edu/evnts/6349/MacKinnon_Libtech.pdf.
Isaac Mao, speech delivered at the Fortieth Anniversary of the Internet, University of California Los Angeles, 29 October 2009, at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4ZdHSgA1KU.
Online Dissent
Geremie R. Barmé, ‘A View on Ai Weiwei’s Exit’, China Beat, 27 April 2011, at http://www.thechinabeat.org/?p=3371.
Gloria Davies, ‘Homo Dissensum Significans, or the Perils of Taking a Stand in China,’ Social Text, vol.29 no.4 (2011): 29-56.
David K. Herold and Peter Marolt, eds, Online Society in China: creating, celebrating, and instrumentalising the online carnival, Abingdon: Routledge, 2011.
Evan Osnos, ‘The Han Dynasty: how far can a youth-culture idol tweak China’s establishment?’, The New Yorker, 4 July 2011, pp.51-59. Also at: www.peonyliteraryagency.com/pc/images/extra/Han_Han_Evan_Osnos_The_New_Yorker.pdf.
Simon Shen and Shaun Breslin, eds, Online Chinese Nationalism and China’s Bilateral Relations, Lanham: Lexington Books, 2010.
Shaojung Sharon Wang, ‘China’s Internet Lexicon: the Symbolic Meaning and Commoditization of Grass Mud Horse in Contemporary Society’, First Monday, vol.17 nos.1-2 (2011), at: www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3758/3134.
Chapter 6: Searching for a Sage Today
Kam Louie, ‘Confucius the Chameleon: Dubious Envoy for “Brand China” ’, boundary 2, vol.38 no.1 (2011): 77-100.
Chapter 7: Behind the Great Firewall
Danwei: Wenzhou Train Crash One Year Memorial, We Survived a Day in China
China Smack: Entries Tagged ‘7-23 Train Crash’
China Media Project: History of High-speed Propaganda Tells All
ChinaGeeks: Han Han, the Derailed Country, Death on the High-speed Railway
Shanghaiist: Entries Tagged ‘Railways’
Caixin: 痛定思痛谈铁路
Utopia: 7.23背后隐藏的“普世价值”
Economic Observer: 王勇平：’我发生了一点意料不到的事情‘
QQ.com: 温州动车事故遇难赔偿金由50万提至91.5万元
Chapter 10: Red Eclipse
Geremie R. Barmé, ‘Australia and China in the World: Whose Literacy?’, Australian Centre on China in the World Inaugural Annual Lecture, 15 July 2011. Full text available online at: ciw.anu.edu.au/lectures_seminars/inaugural_lecture.php.
William A. Callahan, ‘Sino-speak: Chinese Exceptionalism and the Politics of History’, The Journal of Asian Studies, vol.71, no.1 (February 2012): 1-23.
Children of Yan’an website: www.yananernv.cn.
Mark Elliott, ‘The Historical Vision of the Prosperous Age (shengshi 盛世)’, China Heritage Quarterly, Issue 29 (March 2012) at www.chinaheritagequarterly.org/articles.php?searchterm=029_elliott.inc&issue=029.
Sebastian Veg, ed, ‘Mao Today: A Political Icon for an Age of Prosperity’, China Perspectives, 2012/2, online at www.cefc.com.hk/perspectives.php.
