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Heterogeneous fertility reponses to the two-child policy: growth-induced domestic migration and income effect (2025)
Journal Article
Du, J., & King, C. (online). Heterogeneous fertility reponses to the two-child policy: growth-induced domestic migration and income effect. Applied Economics, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2025.2449619

The deteriorating demographic structure in China has already invalidated its one-child policy ineffective. However, smoothing the ripple effects generated by this policy will require more comprehensive population policies. This context led to the int... Read More about Heterogeneous fertility reponses to the two-child policy: growth-induced domestic migration and income effect.

Xi Jinping’s Approach to Acquire Strategic Technology from the West (2024)
Journal Article
Tsang, S., & Cheung, O. (in press). Xi Jinping’s Approach to Acquire Strategic Technology from the West. East Asia, 41, 301-323. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12140-024-09431-1

China’s supreme leader Xi Jinping pursues a “whole-nation” approach to acquire strategic technology from advanced nations. It means the Chinese state uses all resources at its disposal to tap and steer Chinese citizens and members of the Chinese dias... Read More about Xi Jinping’s Approach to Acquire Strategic Technology from the West.

The Political Thought of Xi Jinping (2024)
Book
Tsang, S., & Cheung, O. (2024). The Political Thought of Xi Jinping. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197689363.001.0001

Xi Jinping has been pushing to make his thought a major addition to China’s ideology, which guides China’s direction of travel. No other Chinese leader apart from Mao Zedong had their theoretical contributions elevated to this status. This book provi... Read More about The Political Thought of Xi Jinping.

Prosper or beggar thy neighbour: Industrial policy effect of free trade zones (2023)
Journal Article
Du, J., King, C., & Shi, X. (2023). Prosper or beggar thy neighbour: Industrial policy effect of free trade zones. PLoS ONE, 18(10), Article e0293444. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0293444

Firms that stand to gain from the institutional framework of a free trade zone (FTZ) usually opt for locations in the FTZ region where they could expect higher returns on investment. This concentration of industries in FTZs can result in a reallocati... Read More about Prosper or beggar thy neighbour: Industrial policy effect of free trade zones.

Health and wellbeing among the empty nest and non-empty nest elderly in China—Results from a national cross-sectional study (2023)
Journal Article
Xu, S., Yang, X., Liu, J., Chong, M. K.-C., Cheng, Y., Gong, W., & Zou, G. (in press). Health and wellbeing among the empty nest and non-empty nest elderly in China—Results from a national cross-sectional study. PLoS ONE, 18(9), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291231

Background
The number of empty nest elderly in China has gradually increased in recent years. There is growing concern about the physical and mental health of this population as empty nest elderly are commonly at the risk of compromising health, hom... Read More about Health and wellbeing among the empty nest and non-empty nest elderly in China—Results from a national cross-sectional study.

Factional-Ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics: To the Left or to the Right? (2023)
Book
Cheung, O. (2023). Factional-Ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics: To the Left or to the Right?. Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.5053561

This book reconstructs the factional-ideological conflicts surrounding socialist transformation and political reform in China that were played out through ‘factional model-making’, a norm-bound mechanism for elites of the Chinese Communist Party to c... Read More about Factional-Ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics: To the Left or to the Right?.

Tianxia under Xi Jinping: Is China a revisionist or reformist power of the Liberal International Order? (2023)
Digital Artefact
Cheung, O. (2023). Tianxia under Xi Jinping: Is China a revisionist or reformist power of the Liberal International Order?

Is China a revisionist or reformist power in relation to the liberal international order? Is this a matter with which equally valid conclusions can be reached depending on what evidence is used? To shed light on this debate, it is useful to take Xi J... Read More about Tianxia under Xi Jinping: Is China a revisionist or reformist power of the Liberal International Order?.

A New International Order with Asian Features? Ideas from China (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cheung, O. (2023, June). A New International Order with Asian Features? Ideas from China. Presented at Asian and European Perspectives on the Future of the International Order: Cooperation and Multilateralism in a New Era of Geopolitical Competition, jointly organized by the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) and Consorci Universitari Menendez Pelayo Barcelona (CUIMPB), Barcelona, Spain

Filial piety, love or money? Foundation of old-age support in urban China (2023)
Journal Article
Liu, J. (2023). Filial piety, love or money? Foundation of old-age support in urban China. Journal of Aging Studies, 64, 101104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101104

This article explores the intertwining issues of filial obligation, material interest and emotional intimacy in driving adult children's provision of old-age support in family settings. Drawing upon multi-generational life history interviews with urb... Read More about Filial piety, love or money? Foundation of old-age support in urban China.

Non-Bank Finance and Monetary Policy Transmission in Asia (2023)
Journal Article
Beirne, J., Renzhi, N., & Volz, U. (in press). Non-Bank Finance and Monetary Policy Transmission in Asia. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 59(6), 1976-1991. https://doi.org/10.1080/1540496X.2022.2156279

Focusing on Asian economies over the period 2006 to 2019, we find that while non-bank finance appears to complement rather than substitute credit provision by the traditional banking sector, weaker regulatory quality is an important driving factor. M... Read More about Non-Bank Finance and Monetary Policy Transmission in Asia.

When the United States and the People’s Republic of China Sneeze: Monetary Policy Spillovers to Asian Economies (2023)
Journal Article
Beirne, J., Renzhi, N., & Volz, U. (2023). When the United States and the People’s Republic of China Sneeze: Monetary Policy Spillovers to Asian Economies. Open Economies Review, 34(3), 519-540. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11079-022-09695-1

This paper examines monetary policy spillovers from the US and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to real and financial sectors in advanced and emerging Asian economies over the period 2000 to 2020. Using a structural vector autoregression (SVAR) a... Read More about When the United States and the People’s Republic of China Sneeze: Monetary Policy Spillovers to Asian Economies.

Food Cultures (2022)
Book Chapter
Klein, J. A., Berlin, S., Wang, C. Y., & Thomason, E. (2022). Food Cultures. In S. Kehoe, & G. Wielander (Eds.), Cultural China 2021: The Contemporary China Centre Review (41-55). University of Westminster Press. https://doi.org/10.16997/book69.d

The four pieces in this chapter all revolve around the changing relationship to basic food stuff traditional associated with backwardness and deprivation in the context of a search for the “authentic” by urban middle classes. Jakob Klein deals with t... Read More about Food Cultures.

A Revolutionary Afterlife: The Construction of a History of Chinese Atheism (2022)
Book Chapter
Barrett, T. H. (2022). A Revolutionary Afterlife: The Construction of a History of Chinese Atheism. In Studies of China and Chineseness since the Cultural Revolution: Volume 1: Reinterpreting Ideologies and Ideological Reinterpretations (21-40). World Scientific. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811260872_0002

The following remarks on the articulation between the end of the Cultural Revolution and the birth of the Society for the Study of the History of Chinese Atheism amounts to no more than a sketch, rapidly put together from whatever materials I have fo... Read More about A Revolutionary Afterlife: The Construction of a History of Chinese Atheism.

Centralized Law Enforcement in Contemporary China: The Campaign to "Sweep Away Black Societies and Eradicate Evil Forces" (2022)
Journal Article
Yin, B., & Mou, Y. (2023). Centralized Law Enforcement in Contemporary China: The Campaign to "Sweep Away Black Societies and Eradicate Evil Forces". The China Quarterly, 366-380. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741022001795

In 2018, China's general secretary, Xi Jinping, announced a three-year war on “black societies and evil forces” and promised to take down various forms of organized crime and evil forces within society. This article examines the operational features... Read More about Centralized Law Enforcement in Contemporary China: The Campaign to "Sweep Away Black Societies and Eradicate Evil Forces".