Journal of Contemporary China

Xi Jinping’s ‘Major Country Diplomacy’: The Role of Leadership in Foreign Policy Transformation

How Hawkish Is the Chinese Public? Another Look at “Rising Nationalism” and Chinese Foreign Policy

A Good Neighbor of Bad Governance? China’s Energy and Mining Development in Southeast Asia

Population Planning after the One-Child Policy: Shifting Modes of Political Steering in China

Impact of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor on Nation-Building in Pakistan

Xi Jinping’s ‘Major Country Diplomacy:’ A Paradigm Shift?

Past Successes and Future Challenges in Rural China’s Human Capital

China–Japan Compete for Infrastructure Investment in Southeast Asia: Geopolitical Rivalry or Healthy Competition?

Debating Ethnic Governance in China

Bargaining with the State: The Empowerment of Chinese Sexual Minorities/LGBT in the Social Media Era

Abolishing the One-Child Policy: Stages, Issues and the Political Process

Great Power-Middle Power Dynamics: The Case of China and Iran

Engaging Huangniu (brokers): Commodification of State-Society Bargaining in China

Beyond the ‘Hidden Agricultural Revolution’ and ‘China’s Overseas Land Investment’: Main Trends in China’s Agriculture and Food Sector

China and the European Union’s Participation in Conflict Resolution: Norm Dynamics, Convergence and Divergence in Foreign Policy

China’s Participation in UN Peacekeeping Operations since the 2000s

The Politics of Wrongful Convictions in China

Peasant Resistance beyond the State: Peasant–NGO Interactions in Post Wenchuan Earthquake Reconstruction, China

Unemployment among Land-Losing Farmers in China: Evidence from the 2010 Census

Iran and the Belt and Road Initiative: Amid Hope and Fear

Inter-Governmental Vertical Competition in China’s Urbanization Process

Social Disadvantage and Children’s Nutritional Status in Rural-Urban Migrant Households

China’s Cultural Diplomacy: A Great Leap Outward with Chinese Characteristics? Multiple Comparative Case Studies of the Confucius Institutes

Institutional Ambiguity in Primary and Preventive Care: Reforming Village Health Services in 21st Century China

The China–Switzerland Free Trade Agreement and Economic Identity-Building

Father Migration and Mother Migration: Different Implications for Social, School, and Psychological Adjustment of Left-Behind Children in Rural China

Local Agency and Complex Power Shifts in the Era of Belt and Road: Perceptions of Chinese Aid in the South Pacific

Sentencing Disparities in Corruption Cases in China

Engagement on the Defensive: From the Mismatched Grand Bargain to the Emerging US–China Rivalry

In the Shadow of Strategic Rivalry: China, America, and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

Partnering with the State: Historical Legacies, the Local State Sector, and Foreign Direct Investment in China

Beyond the Left-Right Spectrum: A Typological Analysis of Ideologues in China’s Weibo Space

Xi Jinping’s ‘Major Country Diplomacy’: The Impacts of China’s Growing Capacity

Are Street-Level Bureaucrats in China Hardnosed Cops or Consultants? An Institutional Account of Policing Behavior in Autocracy

Of Bombs and Bureaucrats: Internal Drivers of Nuclear Force Building in China and the United States

What Money Can Buy: Perceived Economic Security in China

Rhetorical Legitimation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Evidence from Chinese State Media

China’s Vietnam War Revisited: A Domestic Politics Perspective

The Enduring US-led Arms Embargo on China: An Objectives–Implementation Analysis

Home, School, and Community Deprivations: A Multi-Context Approach to Childhood Poverty in China

Specialization without Autonomy: An Informational Approach to the Development of Permanent Committees in China’s National People’s Congress

Punish the Dissidents: The Selective Implementation of Stability Preservation in China

Handling China’s Internal Security: Division of Labor among Armed Forces in Xinjiang

China’s Pervasive yet Forgotten Regional Security Role in Africa

Jawing through Crises: Chinese and Vietnamese Media Strategies in the South China Sea

Contentious versus Compliant: Diversified Patterns of Shanghai Homeowners’ Collective Mobilizations

Meritocracy in Village Elections: The “Separation of Election and Employment” Scheme in Rural China