Book Reviews (PDF version)

John Osburg, Anxious Wealth: Money and Morality Among China’s New Rich

Wang Simeng, Illusions et souffrances: Les migrants chinois à Paris (Illusions and suffering: Chinese migrants in Paris)

Book Reviews (PDF version)

Teresa Wright, Party and State in Post-Mao China

Du cadre dirigeant au haut fonctionnaire ?Enquête sur l’Ecole du Parti de Shanghai

From Senior Official to Top Civil ServantAn enquiry into the Shanghai Party school

Guo Baogang, China’s Quest for Political Legitimacy: The New Equity

Joseph Fewsmith, Elite Politics in Contemporary China

Joseph Fewsmith, Elite Politics in Contemporary China

Jos Gamble, Shanghai in Transition : Changing Perspectives and Social Contours of a Chinese Metropolis

Editorial – Hong Kong in the 2020s: Reset amidst Challenges

Hong Kong’s Place Branding from 1997 to 2024: From Self-assurance to Aching Attempts to Come Back

ABSTRACT: While previous research has explored Hong Kong’s place branding, it focused on data prior to the Covid-19 pandemic and did not fully address the shifting geoeconomic and political contexts that define Hong Kong. The present paper aims to fill this gap by providing a comprehensive longitudinal analysis from 1997 to 2024. Applying discourse analysis on a corpus of official documents and policy addresses, our study uses a two-pronged framework that integrates place branding and critical juncture to comprehend the practices, politics, and consequences of Hong Kong’s branding strategy. It argues that Hong Kong’s current branding strategies are at a critical juncture, reflecting a devolution from an ambitious and holistic approach in the 2000s to consumption-driven promotional campaigns in the 2020s. The authors underscore the urgency and complexity of redefining a dynamic and adaptative branding strategy that can effectively showcase Hong Kong’s strengths and values to the international community. KEYWORDS: Hong Kong, place branding, critical juncture, discourse analysis, Asia’s World City.

Lü Xiaobo, Cadres and Corruption — The Organizational Involution of the Chinese Communist Party

Lü Xiaobo, Cadres and Corruption - The Organizational Involution of the Chinese Communist Party

Jos Gamble, Shanghai in Transition : Changing Perspectives and Social Contours of a Chinese Metropolis

Christian Henriot et Zheng Zu’an, Atlas de Shanghai — Espaces et représentations de 1849 à nos jours

Christian Henriot and Zheng Zu’an, Atlas de Shanghai—Espaces et représentations de 1849 à nos jours

L'impact de l'industrie du jeu sur la vie familiale à Macao Une étude exploratoire

Notre projet est d'analyser le bien-être psychologique des habitants de Macao. Nous décrivons dans cet article comment l'industrie du jeu affecte aujourd'hui leur vie familiale. Les méthodes employées comprennent une approche par informateur-clé. Nous avons procédé à une analyse textuelle qualitative d'entretiens semi-directifs qui a mis en évidence quatre domaines où les effets du jeu se font ressentir : le fonctionnement de la famille, les relations familiales, les enfants et les problèmes psycho-sociaux au sein de la famille. Bien que l'industrie du jeu ne soit pas l'unique facteur en cause, elle affecte directement et indirectement les familles et le bien-être psychologique des individus et des groupes.

Trust and the Smart City: The Hong Kong Paradox

ABSTRACT: Based mainly on a Hong Kong-wide survey carried out in March-April 2021, while also drawing on a round of stakeholder interviews from July 2020 to December 2021, the article interprets the linked phenomena of trust and the smart city in the specific context of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. In the main body of the article, four angles are used to understand facets of trust-smart city relations, centred on characteristic trust, trust and technology, the role of intermediaries, and trust in government. The main findings of the survey centre around the data trust paradox (of high support for technology in a low-trust environment), the social impact of trust and mistrust (strongly correlated with age and political affiliation), and trust in the smart city as a weathervane of trust in government. Factors such as a digitally literate population, a decades-long investment in technology, and a substantial record of delivery provide solid reasons to believe that a strategic-technical narrative on the smart city might succeed where others have failed to convince.   KEYWORDS: trust, smart city, Hong Kong, data, technology, narrative.

Éditorial - Trust and the Smart City