Based on the data from the 11th National Private Entrepreneur Survey, this paper provides an exploratory analysis of the online behaviors of private entrepreneurs and their impact on media trust. This series survey touches upon this topic for the first time in more than 20 years since it was initiated…
In the last three decades, the commonly assumed ‘close relationship’ between China’s local governments and local economic elites, particularly private entrepreneurs, has been considered the key driver of China’s economic miracle (Pearson 1997; Oi 1999; Dickson 2000; 2003; 2008; Goodman 2008; Fu & Lin 2013)…
There is no standard conception of ‘ruling class’ or ‘political elite’ in China studies. Even cadres in the villages have labeled as (political) ‘elite’ (O’Brien and Li 2000; Oi and Rozelle 2000; Manion 2009). Similarly, researchers use different criteria to divide cadres into ‘rankings’ for theoretical or practical purposes (Zhou 2000; Nee and Cao 2002)…
“Welcome to the People’s Republic of China,” declares a Chinese officer as he crisply salutes a flood of refugees from all over the world who fled to Tibet as their homes were destroyed by an end-of-time deluge. It is a line that thrilled thousands of Chinese filmgoers who voted writer-director Roland Emmerich’s latest blockbuster “2012” the most popular Hollywood film in China…