Academic Censorship in China: The Case of <i>The China Quarterly</i>

Wong, Mathew Y. H.; Kwong, Ying-ho

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“…22 22 Studies show that the Chinese government tended to ban publications about mass protests and controversial events that threaten the Party's rule or national unification (King, Pan, & Roberts, 2013; Wong & Kwong, 2019). …”

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China’s Policy Processes and the Advocacy Coalition Framework

Wei¹,

Weible²

2019

Policy Studies Journal

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This review of 81 applications of the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) in China between 2006 and 2017 finds that the ACF's hypotheses about the existence and stability of competing advocacy coalitions in policy subsystems, the occurrence of change across its three‐tiered belief system, and the credence of its four pathways to policy change, which have been developed and mostly tested in Western democratic contexts, can be confirmed in China's authoritarian political system and transitional context. This review also finds some unexpected results, which have implications for studying China's policy processes and for future applications of the ACF. Adopting common vocabulary and theoretical foci, ACF applications have captured some of the complexity and evolving features of policy processes in China. Applications of the ACF to China have also enriched the discussions about how authoritarian governments, through interacting with other policy actors, adapt to external changes in transitional context.

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China’s Policy Processes and the Advocacy Coalition Framework

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2019

Policy Studies Journal

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“…In 2017, Chinese authorities urged Western academic presses to block online access of articles that contained politically sensitive subjects, such as the Tiananmen Square protest, the Cultural Revolution, and President Xi Jinping. When Western publishers did not comply with the request, Chinese authorities insisted the publishers to pull out entire journals from Chinese markets (Bland, 2017;Kennedy and Phillips, 2017;Shepherd, 2018;Wong and Kwong, 2019).…”

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Linking global leadership to domestic legitimacy: Comparative analysis of perceptions of Xi and Obama

Kim

Cao

2021

Social Science Quarterly

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Objectives: As a one-party state, the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party rule and the leader, Xi, stems from unique sources. This article examines those sources of legitimacy in China and compares those with the United States and its leader, President Obama. Methods: Data from the 2014 Pew Global Attitude Survey are analyzed using ordered logistic regressions to test three main hypotheses: the vertical trust leakage hypothesis, the new Cultural Revolution hypothesis, and the parallel upward mobility hypothesis. Results: Xi's anti-corruption efforts against governmental officials create perceptions of Xi as a moral leader who protects citizens from corrupt local officials. Growing censorship in China prevents intellectuals from questioning Xi's power. The Chinese Dream campaign spearheaded by Xi blends nationalism and populism. Conclusion:The findings suggest that Xi's strategy to portray him as a moral leader, the suppression of intellectuals and advocacy of the Chinese Dream campaign yields strong confidence from Chinese citizens.

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“…The campaign to stifle discussion of Tiananmen is not limited to domestic voices. In 2017, officials instructed Cambridge University Press to censor nearly every article published in The China Quarterly where Tiananmen appears in the title or the abstract (Wong and Kwong, 2019), as well as pieces on Tibet, Xinjiang, the Cultural Revolution, and other sensitive subjects. As a result of these efforts at suppression, many people who came of age after the Tiananmen protests have never grasped their full significance.…”

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The Long-Term Impact of Mobilization and Repression on Political Trust

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Gang

2021

Comparative Political Studies

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Authoritarian regimes respond to threatening student movements with repression and censorship. In many cases, failed movements are effectively erased from public memory. Do such movements affect long-term attitudes? We use a survey of college graduates to measure the impact of a failed student movement. Some of our respondents began college immediately before a major protest; others started after the movement had been suppressed. Using a fuzzy regression discontinuity, we find that individuals who attended college during the movement are significantly less likely to trust the government, more than 25 years later, than individuals who enrolled after the protests. The effects are strongest for trust in the central government, and weakest for local government. These results are robust to a range of specifications, and show that the experience of mass mobilization and state repression can have a long-term impact on public attitudes, even if the event in question remains taboo.

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Academic Censorship in China: The Case of The China Quarterly

Cited by 21 publications

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China’s Policy Processes and the Advocacy Coalition Framework

China’s Policy Processes and the Advocacy Coalition Framework

Linking global leadership to domestic legitimacy: Comparative analysis of perceptions of Xi and Obama

The Long-Term Impact of Mobilization and Repression on Political Trust

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