China Analysis

The US return to Asia does not close the window on China’s strategic opportunity

Xinjiang and Sino-Turkish Ties

China Analysis. Local governments under pressure: The commodification of stability maintenance

China Analysis. The “Guangdong model”: Towards real NGOs?

Book Reviews (PDF version)

Chien-wen Kou and Xiaowei Zang (eds), Choosing China's Leaders

Book Reviews (PDF version)

Yongshun Cai, State and Agents in China: Disciplining Government Officials

A New Impetus for the Fight Against Corruption

Editorial - Intermediary Political Bodies of the Party-State: A Sociology of Mass and Grassroots Organisations in Contemporary China

Low-cost Corporatism The Chinese Communist Youth League and its Sub-organisations in post-Mao China

ABSTRACT: The Communist Youth League has developed a network of sub-organisations to expand its reach at minimum cost. It exemplifies the low-cost corporatism model. Following this model, mass organisations maintain a corporatist relationship with the Party while diversifying their activities through structures they supervise. These structures also provide them with additional material and human resources. In this configuration, the Communist Youth League maintains an equilibrium between dependence on the Party and attractiveness to young people. However, reforms put forward under Xi Jinping challenge this fragile equilibrium by strengthening Party control over the League and its suborganisations. KEYWORDS: Mass organisations, Communist Youth League, state-society relations, corporatism.

FITZGERALD, John. 2022. Cadre Country: How China Became the Chinese Communist Party. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press.

The Local Islamic Associations and the Party-State: Consanguinity and opportunities

ABSTRACT: In order to get to the heart of interactions between the state and Muslim communities and to understand local variants in the religious field, this article will focus on the role played by the Nanjing Islamic Association. This work breaks with top-down approaches, which concentrate on religions from the point of view of the central state, as well as with studies centred on the communities themselves, which overlook links with the state. Shedding light on the historical legacies of the Association and the networks of people comprising it shows that the link between the Party-state and religious communities is not a straightforward relationship of control and repression. It involves complex negotiations that have allowed a depoliticised form of Islam to develop in coastal China. KEYWORDS: Islam, religious management, Nanjing, nationalities, United Front, Party-state.