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Previous article FreeContributors to This IssuePDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreJingyun Dai is a doctoral student in sociology at Harvard University. She is broadly interested in political sociology, organizations, and the sociology of knowledge.Greg Distelhorst is the Mitsubishi Career Development Professor in International Management and Assistant Professor of Global Economics and Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also an investigator with the Governance Project at Stanford University. His research on public participation and government responsiveness in China has recently appeared in The Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and Quarterly Journal of Political Science.Anoushiravan Ehteshami is professor and the Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah Chair in International Relations and director of the HH Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah Programme at the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University. His publications include Dynamics of Change in the Persian Gulf: Political Economy, War and Revolution (2013), Iran: Stuck in Transition (2017), and, as co-editor with Niv Horesh, China’s Presence in the Middle East: The Implications of the One Belt, One Road Initiative (2018).Diana Fu is assistant professor of Asian politics at the University of Toronto. She works on contentious politics in China, with a focus on labor and civil society. She is the author of Mobilizing without the Masses: Control and Contention in China (2017), and her articles have appeared in Comparative Politics Studies, Governance, and Modern China.Niv Horesh is associate professor at the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University. He has published several books and articles in the fields of history, business, and Asian studies. He is particularly interested in monetary policy and outbound foreign investment, past and present.Ewan Smith is the Shaw Foundation Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford, and an associate at the Oxford University China Centre. He spent ten years working for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, including five years in the Political Section of the British Embassy in Beijing. His current research considers the role of political rules in China’s constitutional order.Anthony J. Spires is senior lecturer at the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Melbourne. His research focuses on the development of civil society in China, including philanthropy, governmental regulation, and the cultures of nonprofit organizations. He recently served as a consulting editor for the American Journal of Sociology and is a frequent reviewer for other academic publications.Beibei Tang is associate professor in the Department of China Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou. Her research focuses on state-society relations, grassroots governance, and social class in contemporary China. She was awarded the 2015 Gordon White Prize by The China Quarterly, and she has also published in The China Journal, Journal of Contemporary China, and other journals. She is the author of China’s Housing Middle Class (2018).Ruike Xu is lecturer at the School of English and International Studies at the Beijing Foreign Studies University. He specializes in China–Middle East relations and the US-UK special relationship. His articles have appeared in International Affairs, Journal of Strategic Studies, and Asian Affairs. He is also the author of Alliance Persistence within the Anglo-American Special Relationship: The Post-Cold War Era (2017).Xu Yi-chong is professor in the School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University. She is author of Sinews of Power (2017) and Politics of Nuclear Energy in China (2010), and co-author (with Patrick Weller) of The Working World of International Organisations (2018) and Inside the World Bank (2009). Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The China Journal Volume 79January 2018 Published on behalf of the Australian Centre on China in the World at the Australian National University Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/694917 Copyright 2018 by The Australian National University. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

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