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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in China Review.daily12026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 13 (2013) through current issueLatest Articles: China ReviewTWOProject MUSE®China Review1015-66071680-2012Latest articles in China Review. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Engineering Accountability from the Above: The CPC and Upward Supervision in Cadre Management*
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987374
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Political accountability is important to the Communist Party of China (CPC) given that its rule is characterized by a responsive party-state system. The CPC has introduced governance innovations to promote accountability and improve official responsiveness, from participatory budgeting to deliberative polls. Its cadre management system has also incorporated citizen participation into its cadre promotion system through the introduction of the Publicity System before Appointing (PSA). The PSA was implemented as a “minor democratic reform” in the CPC cadre management system to inject a more participatory element into the system. As a result, it promotes a new kind of upward political accountability in the selection of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/621/image/coversmallEngineering Accountability from the Above: The CPC and Upward Supervision in Cadre Management*2026-04-03text/htmlen-USEngineering Accountability from the Above: The CPC and Upward Supervision in Cadre Management*2026-04-032026TWOProject MUSE®1230132026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-03Child Development among Left-Behind and Non-Left-Behind Children in Rural Boarding Schools of Guangdong: Social Bonds, Peers, and School Climate
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987375
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In China, largely driven by substantial urban-rural income disparity and fast-growing surplus labor under the agricultural reform,1 around 286 million migrants have relocated themselves from rural areas to cities.2 In China’s rural-urban migration context, children (under 18 years old) of floating migrant workers are usually left behind in rural villages. The number of left-behind children reached 61 million, constituting 38 percent of the child population in rural China.3 In previous Western studies, left-behind children often suffer from long-term family separation and lack of traditional discipline,4 and are more likely to face health risks, behavioral problems and learning difficulties.5 In the field of child
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/621/image/coversmallChild Development among Left-Behind and Non-Left-Behind Children in Rural Boarding Schools of Guangdong: Social Bonds, Peers, and School Climate2026-04-03text/htmlen-USChild Development among Left-Behind and Non-Left-Behind Children in Rural Boarding Schools of Guangdong: Social Bonds, Peers, and School Climate2026-04-032026TWOProject MUSE®1780012026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-03Mapping the Taiwan Strait: The Asia-Pacific Actors and Their Interests, Strategies, and Influence
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987376
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The escalating tensions between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan over the past year have raised concerns among world leaders about the potential for open conflict. The visit of the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, in August 2022, emerged as a significant catalyst for the heightened tensions. Beijing reacted to the visit by launching missiles into waters near Taiwan island and conducting its most extensive military drills in the Taiwan Strait just one day after Pelosi’s visit. According to the CCTV news agency, these military exercises involved 100 fighter jets and over 10 warships.1 Although tensions momentarily eased, they reignited when Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen met with the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/621/image/coversmallMapping the Taiwan Strait: The Asia-Pacific Actors and Their Interests, Strategies, and Influence2026-04-03text/htmlen-USMapping the Taiwan Strait: The Asia-Pacific Actors and Their Interests, Strategies, and Influence2026-04-032026TWOProject MUSE®692622026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-03Why Confucianism Matters Today
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987377
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One cannot understand modern China without understanding its history. The Confucian tradition is central to that history: Confucian ethics shaped the ways of life of Chinese people, both commoners and elites, as well as the country’s political institutions for over two millennia. Confucianism came under severe attack in the twentieth century, but it has made a miraculous comeback the past few decades. The comeback was concretized at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics in 2008, when the character 和 (he; usually translated as “harmony”), perhaps the most influential value in the Confucian tradition, was displayed to the world as representing the best of Chinese culture. Today, Confucian ethics are taught in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/621/image/coversmallWhy Confucianism Matters Today2026-04-03text/htmlen-USWhy Confucianism Matters Today2026-04-032026TWOProject MUSE®82812026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-03Progressive Confucianism in a Multicultural World: Some Methodological Considerations
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987378
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In Reshaping Confucianism: A Progressive Inquiry, Chenyang Li undertakes an ambitious and comprehensive reconstruction of Confucianism. As the subtitle of the book suggests, Li advocates a progressive conception of Confucianism, by which he means that “Confucianism is a living and evolving tradition” (p. 1), and that the core ideas of Confucianism should be progressively developed in response to the contemporary challenges facing the world. This understanding of Confucianism as a living and evolving tradition reminds me of a key idea articulated in the 1958 Manifesto of the Contemporary Confucianism, in which four major figures of the Contemporary Confucianism movement, Mou Zongsan, Tang Junyi, Xu Fuguan, and Zhang
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/621/image/coversmallProgressive Confucianism in a Multicultural World: Some Methodological Considerations2026-04-03text/htmlen-USProgressive Confucianism in a Multicultural World: Some Methodological Considerations2026-04-032026TWOProject MUSE®498932026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-03How Care is the Central Notion for Virtue: Chenyang Li and Zhu Xi on the Relationship Between Care and Comprehensive Virtue
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987379
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Chenyang Li’s Reshaping Confucianism is a distillation of the many admirable qualities that have come to define his life’s work. It is, in turn, thoughtful and inspiring, and represents a sincere and heartfelt attempt to both capture the living essence of Confucianism and provide a viable ethical and political framework for the present day. Among the many important aspects of his particular shape or variant of Confucianism, one that stands out has to do with the ethical significance of care. His claim that care is a central value or feature of Confucian virtue also represents a running thread or theme that dates back to some of his earliest and most influential writings. Li first defended a care-centered reading of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/621/image/coversmallHow Care is the Central Notion for Virtue: Chenyang Li and Zhu Xi on the Relationship Between Care and Comprehensive Virtue2026-04-03text/htmlen-USHow Care is the Central Notion for Virtue: Chenyang Li and Zhu Xi on the Relationship Between Care and Comprehensive Virtue2026-04-032026TWOProject MUSE®588022026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-03Confucian Ren Ethics Revisited: A Feminist Perspective
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987380
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Since the publication of Chenyang Li’s groundbreaking article “The Confucian Concept of Jen and the Feminist Ethics of Care: A Comparative Study” delineating the parallels between Confucian ethics and the ethics of care,1 the Confucian concept of ren (仁) has been closely associated with care ethics in contemporary Confucian feminism. Regardless of the many criticisms it has elicited, this essay holds particular significance within the historical context of Confucian philosophy.2 It is the inaugural piece to argue for care as a cardinal component of Confucian philosophy. The re-evaluation of care within Confucian philosophy and a re-assessment of the value of care have thus given impetus to the discourse on
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/621/image/coversmallConfucian Ren Ethics Revisited: A Feminist Perspective2026-04-03text/htmlen-USConfucian Ren Ethics Revisited: A Feminist Perspective2026-04-032026TWOProject MUSE®858072026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-03Traditional Rulership, “Dirty Hands,” and Democracy: Chenyang Li on Democracy’s Value
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987381
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Any ardent observer of Chinese society and politics would not dismiss the huge imprint of Confucianism. It shaped politics by emphasizing stability, virtuous rule, and promoting the worthy, set up standards of knowledge for generations of intellectuals by emphasizing virtue and learning, and provided common vocabularies and values for the society united around filial piety and social harmony. However, its once unshakable influence on the social fabric was diminished by China’s encounter with the West. The past century was rife with scholars offering competing visions of how to cope with the existential challenges facing Confucianism.Chenyang Li’s recent book, Reshaping Confucianism, is one of the most recent and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/621/image/coversmallTraditional Rulership, “Dirty Hands,” and Democracy: Chenyang Li on Democracy’s Value2026-04-03text/htmlen-USTraditional Rulership, “Dirty Hands,” and Democracy: Chenyang Li on Democracy’s Value2026-04-032026TWOProject MUSE®652822026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-03Reforming Confucianism for the Modern World: Continuing Conversations on Progressive Confucianism
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987382
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It is my great honor to have distinguished scholars to engage in serious discussions of important philosophical issues with my book Reshaping Confucianism: A Progressive Inquiry. I am humbled by their generous compliments and grateful for their constructive criticisms. The questions they raised deserve careful consideration and attentive research. In the limited space below I address some of their excellent questions in the order of the book’s chapters with which they engage.The first is an essay by Siufu Tang, who raises important methodological issues with the book’s Introduction as well as two of the three foundational concepts laid out in the first section of the book. On the basis of his thorough reading of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/621/image/coversmallReforming Confucianism for the Modern World: Continuing Conversations on Progressive Confucianism2026-04-03text/htmlen-USReforming Confucianism for the Modern World: Continuing Conversations on Progressive Confucianism2026-04-032026TWOProject MUSE®703602026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-03