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2011

September

• Chinese people who know more about the EU's internal complexities are more likely to have a positive attitude about the EU and its citizens, study shows.
  Dr Zhengxu Wang and Bogdan G. Popescuto from SCCS did statistical analyses on the "Chinese views of the EU" survey data and explained why Chinese people favor the EU most, followed by Russia, the US, and Japan. They argued that in order to improve EU's image in China, an effective strategy would be to build or improve the knowledge Chinese people have about the EU and Europe.

August

• Chinese people have positive attitudes towards the EU because they think EU citizens are trustworthy, study shows 
  More than 85% of respondents to the “Chinese Views of the EU” survey have a positive attitude towards the EU. Henk DEKKER of Leiden University and Jolanda van der NOLL of Jacobs University Bremen examined the survey data and explained the factors behind this result. They also argued that an active information policy for the EU in China will remain necessary in future to promote and deepen partnership between the EU and China. 2410 people from across six cities took part in the survey.

July

• Comparative studies show that poverty and economic inequality are closely linked with religion and ethnicity in India and China
  Filling the gap in comparative studies on the welfare of China and India's religious and ethnic minorities, scholars in SCCS argue that poverty and economic inequality is closely related with religion and ethnicity in both countries. Poverty and inequality are two important factors responsible for social unrest in the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir, and China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region, where the Muslim minority accounts for a large share of the local population.
• Study shows more effort should be made to encourage Chinese firms to be more socially responsible
  Corporate social responsibility disclosure (CSRD) has gradually become a common practice among Chinese listed companies. These companies are far more likely to disclose their CSR information if the government imposes stronger rules and regulations. Firm size, environmental sensitivity, consumer sensitivity, media exposure, firm age, share ownership concentration and institutional shareholding were also found to be important determinants of CSRD according to Shujie YAO, Jianling WANG and Lin SONG in this discussion paper.
• A New Spectacle in China’s Mediasphere: A Cultural Reading of aWeb-Based Reality Show from Shanghai 
  This journal article, recently published by Dr Daria BERG in the China Quarterly, offers a cultural reading of the web-based reality show Soul Partners (2007) from Shanghai. Soul Partners serves as a case study to explore how 21st-century Chinese cultural discourse debates the transformation of urban society in China, providing insight into the Chinese cultural imagination, perceptions of the globalizing metropolis and the impact of consumer culture.

May

• Why are protests rising at a faster pace than the economy in China? 
  China has witnessed increasing protests amidst the most phenomenal economic growth in the world in recent decades. In fact, the growth in the number of protests outpaces that of the economy (GDP). Dr Hongyi LAI looks into the odd mixture of rising protests and high economic growth in his recent article published in Journal of Contemporary China.

April 

• A new kind of engagement between China and the EU takes shape in Serbia, paper says 
  A pattern of influence from China, likely to unfurl across Southeastern Europe, can be discerned. Economic, political, military and cultural cooperation bring the benefits of ‘soft loans’ and large-scale infrastructure projects to Serbia, and China gains a secure base to manufacture and trade with the EU on advantageous terms. As a future member of the EU, Serbia can help China with its increasingly multi-dimensional relationship with the EU, according to this policy paper by Dragan PAVLICEVIC, a research associate of the China Policy Institute.
• China’s economic growth remains robust but it faces many challenges in the years ahead
  China’s economic growth remained strong in 2010 after the financial crisis, but it faces tough challenges in transforming itself from a material and energy intensive economy, to a more sustainable one that will see the fruition of a better-balanced Xiaokang (moderately prosperous) Society by 2020, according to an economic review by Shujie YAO and Jing ZHANG at the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, The University of Nottingham.

March

• With the rise of China, global power balance is likely to shift to the East, scholar says
  15 Mar, 2011
  Does economic strength determine global power? How long can under-performing economies continue to claim world political leadership? What pressures arise from this mismatch? In a recent School of Contemporary Chinese Studies seminar, Professor Danny Quah of the London School of Economics and Political Science presented the arguments and evaluated evidence of an ongoing restructuring of world power driven by stunning economic achievements in the East.

February

• Study shows China's recent monetary policy actions have little immediate effect on housing prices
  Feb 28, 2011
  Due to excess liquidity, market imperfections, cultural traditions and irrational investment behavior, both price- and quantity-based monetary policy instruments must be simultaneously deployed to reduce asset market bubbles in China, Shujie Yao, Dan Luo and Lixia Loh argued in this discussion paper.

• Imports and domestic consumption are complementary in China, but substitutes in Japan and Korea, scholars say
  Feb 24, 2011
  Different per capita incomes and consumer behaviors between China and Japan and Korea are two possible reasons for different relationships between imports and domestic consumption, according to this discussion paper by Chuanglian Chen, Guojin Chen and Shujie Yao.

• Chinese people like Europe and Russia more than the US or Japan, survey shows 
  Feb 22, 2011
  Chinese people think much more favourably about the European Union than the United States or Japan, but Russia is almost as popular, according to a scientific survey of 3,000 urban residents across six cities in China.

January 

• Chinese Politics 2010: Managing Multiple Transition
  Jan 27, 2011 
  2010 saw China continuing the effort to manage its rapidly changing society, and struggling to build sustainable relationships with major actors in the international arena. At home, the government is facing a stronger civil society and a much more vociferous labour movement, a group of CPI scholars argue in this policy paper.