This article shows that while some Chinese villagers see the state as monolithic, more believe that there are substantial differences between the central and local governments. Among those who perceive a divided state, most appear to have more trust in higher levels than in lower levels and distinguish between the intent and the capacity of…
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About the Modern China format
Modern China is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Chinese history and philosophy, China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance, Vietnamese History and Culture Studies.
| Publisher | SAGE |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Harvard) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Modern China, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Chinese history and philosophy China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance Vietnamese History and Culture Studies Japanese History and Culture China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations |
| ISSN | 0097-7004 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 0.33 |
| h-index | 69 |
| i10-index | 465 |
| Total citations | 20,758 |
| Top institutions publishing here | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Journal website | mcx.sagepub.com |
| You get | A submission-ready PDF and the editable LaTeX source — ready to submit. |
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Most-cited papers in Modern China
On a visit to the nearest city-Kaili-during my 1988 field year in southeast Guizhou,' I encountered an unexpected ritual. Or was it really so unexpected? In 1986, a new six-story building had been constructed to supplement the mildewed older structure that used to house the city's No. 1 Guest House. Kaili was, after all, the…
A salient organizational phenomenon in the Chinese bureaucracy is collusion among local governments in response to policies and directives from higher authorities; local governments often form alliances to compromise the original intention behind state policies. There are thus significant and persistent deviations and goal displacement in policy implementation. This article develops an organizational analysis and…
As a result of its open-door policies and 30 years of reform, China has become the “world’s factory” and given rise to a new working class of rural migrant workers. This process has underlain a path of (semi-)proletarianization of Chinese peasant-workers: now the second generation is experiencing dagong, working for a boss, in industrialized towns…
The concepts of bourgeois public sphere and society as they have been applied to China presuppose a dichotomous opposition between state and society. If we adhere to such a presupposition, we run the risk of reducing the debate here to little more than an argument over whose influence was greater in the phenomena under discussion,…