Contemporary Asia Research Articles

Goodbye to the security state: Thailand and ideological change

(2003). Goodbye to the security state: Thailand and ideological change. Journal of Contemporary Asia: Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 431-448.

Imagining globalisation: The world and nation in Chinese communist party ideology

(2003). Imagining globalisation: The world and nation in Chinese communist party ideology. Journal of Contemporary Asia: Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 318-337.

Sino-Japanese relations in the twenty-first century

(2003). Sino-Japanese relations in the twenty-first century. Journal of Contemporary Asia: Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 251-273.

The changing pattern of classes and class conflict in China

(2003). The changing pattern of classes and class conflict in China. Journal of Contemporary Asia: Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 363-376.

Chinese Urban Jobs and the WTO

Previous articleNext article No AccessChinese Urban Jobs and the WTODorothy J. SolingerDorothy J. Solinger Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The China Journal Volume 49Jan., 2003 Published on behalf of the Australian Centre on China in the World at the Australian National University Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/3182195 Views: 39Total views on this site Citations: 13Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 2003 The China JournalPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Feng Xu Building China’s Eldercare Market: The Imperatives of Capital Accumulation and Social Stability, Social Sciences 11, no.55 (May 2022): 212.https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11050212Zhiming Cheng, Melanie Beresford Layoffs in China's City of Textiles: Adaptation to Change, Journal of Contemporary Asia 42, no.22 (May 2012): 155–181.https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2012.668347James Scott, Rorden Wilkinson China and the WTO, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 2011).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2169307Yuheng Li, Hans Westlund, Göran Cars Future urban‐rural relationship in China: comparison in a global context, China Agricultural Economic Review 2, no.44 (Nov 2010): 396–411.https://doi.org/10.1108/17561371011097713Christopher J. Rees, John Hassard, Jonathan Morris, Jackie Sheehan, Xiao Yuxin China's state‐owned enterprises: economic reform and organizational restructuring, Journal of Organizational Change Management 23, no.55 (Aug 2010): 500–516.https://doi.org/10.1108/09534811011071252Milena Janiec-Grygo, Pratyusha Basu Migrant Women and the Distribution of their Income in Hubei Province, China, Espace populations sociétés , no.2009/32009/3 (Dec 2009): 457–469.https://doi.org/10.4000/eps.3794Jieyu Liu Gender dynamics and redundancy in urban China, Feminist Economics 13, no.3-43-4 (Jul 2007): 125–158.https://doi.org/10.1080/13545700701445322William Hurst The City as the Focus, China Information 20, no.33 (Jul 2016): 457–479.https://doi.org/10.1177/0920203X06070035Anja M. Fladrich Graduate Employment in China, China Information 20, no.22 (Jul 2016): 201–235.https://doi.org/10.1177/0920203X06066500Mark W. Frazier State-sector shrinkage and workforce reduction in China, European Journal of Political Economy 22, no.22 (Jun 2006): 435–451.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2005.09.012 Jonathan Unger , and Anita Chan The Internal Politics of an Urban Chinese Work Community: A Case Study of Employee Influence on Decision-Making at a State-Owned Factory, The China Journal 52 (Oct 2015): 1–24.https://doi.org/10.2307/4127882William Hurst Understanding contentious collective action by Chinese laid-off workers: The importance of regional political economy, Studies in Comparative International Development 39, no.22 (Jun 2004): 94–120.https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02686279Tao Ran, , Ray Brooks, China's Labor Market Performance and Challenges, IMF Working Papers 03, no.210210 (Jan 2003): 1.https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451874815.001

Iraq, the United States, and the end of the European coalition

(2003). Iraq, the United States, and the end of the European coalition. Journal of Contemporary Asia: Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 291-298.

The Spaces of Poverty: Zygmunt Bauman `After' Jeremy Seabrook

The poor might always be with us but neither in ways that we imagine them nor in circumstances of their own choosing. Poverty (and its subject class, the poor) has been a persistent presence in the modern social sciences - both as ethical shadow and methodological stimulus. Throughout his self-described career as `professional storyteller of the contemporary human condition', Bauman's hermeneutical, dialectical and anthropological foci and modus operandi are impressively consistent, none more so than in his reflections on the problem of poverty. An important stimulant to Bauman's ruminations on the new poor has been the work of Jeremy Seabrook and not only because Seabrook's primary foci have been the symbiotic and dialectical relationships in the production of poverty and wealth in his chronicles of the poor in contemporary capitalism, in Europe and Asia. Indeed, it is arguable that Seabrook's own vocation as freelance journalist is emblematic of the kind of sociology Bauman exhorts the salaried members of the academy to embrace for now. This article traces the lineaments of the biographical parallels, intellectual resonances and methodological (or at least epistemological) affinities shared between Seabrook and Bauman so as to tease out what a sociology of the new poor looks like in the hands of Bauman after Seabrook.

Changing Chinese foodways in Asia

This book examines Chinese food and the culture of food consumption in East and Southeast Asia. Through the lens of food, the authors address recent theories in social science concerning cultural identity, ethnicity, boundary formation, consumerism and globalization, and the invention of local cuisine in the context of rapid culture change. Written by distinguished anthropologist who have years of research experience in their respective countries and regions, this book shows how human preparation and consumption of food carry important social, economic, political, and spiritual meanings.The book describes many interesting Chinese foodways in contemporary Asia, including rice porridge culture and changing diet in rural Pearl River delta, South China; tea cafes, Hakka restaurants, and dim sum eating in Hong Kong; ethnic relations and Chinese food in Southeast Asia; localization of Chinese food in South Korea; adaptation of Chinese noodles in Japanese daily meals; distribution of pork eating in Asia; and globalization and breakfast in Taiwan. This volume concludes with a commentary by a renowned anthropologist, Professor Sidney Mintz.

Television in Contemporary Asia

Television in Contemporary Asia

Embedded within State Agencies: Business Associations in Yantai

I would like to thank Kevin O'Brien, Hong Yung Lee, David Wank, Ben Goldfrank, Laura Henry, Loren Landau, Kun-Chin Lin and Ben Read for helpful comments on earlier drafts of this article. I also am grateful for the very helpful criticisms and suggestions offered by Jon Unger, Anita Chan and an anonymous reviewer. Of course, any mistakes herein are mine alone. I owe special thanks to the people in Yantai who facilitated my research. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Chicago on 23 March 2001. Research for this article was supported by fellowships from the Committee for Scholarly Communication with China and the National Security Education Program.

Debating rights in Malaysia: Contradictions and challenges

(2002). Debating rights in Malaysia: Contradictions and challenges. Journal of Contemporary Asia: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 108-130.

Political economy of the floating Chinese population

(2002). Political economy of the floating Chinese population. Journal of Contemporary Asia: Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 536-552.

Globalization's impact on the Malaysian workforce

(2002). Globalization's impact on the Malaysian workforce. Journal of Contemporary Asia: Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 305-322.

Opinion status as ethnic identity in the Chinese diaspora

(2002). Opinion status as ethnic identity in the Chinese diaspora. Journal of Contemporary Asia: Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 363-380.

Review: Television in Contemporary Asia

Review: Television in Contemporary Asia

China and Southeast Asia's Ethnic Chinese: State and Diaspora in Contemporary Asia (review)

China and Southeast Asia's Ethnic Chinese: State and Diaspora in Contemporary Asia (review)

Nongovernmental Organizations, "Grassroots," and the Politics of Virtue

n the course of conducting fieldwork in 1993-94 in Durban, South Africa, I attended a training workshop for Zenzele field-workers.' Zenzele was a black women's organization that focused on educating and uplifting black women living in rural and urban KwaZulu and Natal.2 There we were told a story of women's transnational cooperation that struck me as surprisingly reminiscent of colonial relations between European and "native" women. On June 29, 1994, Lyndsay Hacket-Pain, then vice president of the Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW), addressed a gathering of ACWW affiliate organizations the Federation of Women's Institutes (FWI) of Natal and Zululand and the Natal and KwaZulu Zenzele Women's Association (Zenzele). Hacket-Pain, from the head office in London, had been traveling around South Africa visiting various ACWW affiliate organizations and the projects they had undertaken. A

Book Review: China and Southeast Asia's Ethnic Chinese: State and Diaspora in Contemporary Asia

Book Review: China and Southeast Asia's Ethnic Chinese: State and Diaspora in Contemporary Asia

Celebrating ten years of Contemporary South Asia

(2001). Celebrating ten years of Contemporary South Asia. Contemporary South Asia: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 7-10.

Celebrating ten years of Contemporary South Asia

Celebrating ten years of Contemporary South Asia