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AbstractPopular media often reflect and guide major trends and discourses in a society. This article analyzes two popular Chinese TV shows. One is a TV drama series aired in 2020, and the other is a reality show broadcast in 2021. Both programs showcase the intersecting identities of Chinese urban middle‐class women and their challenges in balancing marriage and individual identity, work and life. While marriage is still a strong institution in China, especially in the eyes of the older generations and the Chinese state, the new generation of urban middle‐class women is increasingly unsatisfied with the constraints and gender inequality imposed by marriage. These women have made progress in some areas due to the privileges of their class, but they still struggle to balance the expectations of their different social roles.

The recent discussion of a "Beijing Consensus" and a China model seems to challenge neoliberalism as the dominating discourse on development. This paper attempts to explain the contradictions in China's development and discusses whether and how they can be redressed. Specifically, the paper analyses the key issues around the debate over the China model - how distinctive it is and whether it can be replicated elsewhere, and what real lessons can be drawn from China's rise. It proposes a more nuanced view of the economic, social, and political structures in China with a focus on its mixed economy, the role of the state at both the central and local levels, and the possibility of Chinese-style democracy. It also offers suggestions for improving the China model. (China Perspect/GIGA)

Green technologies have become a field of competition between countries that are looking for new areas of economic growth and building low-carbon economies. This paper focuses on the case of electric vehicles (EVs) to look at the various actors embedded in the innovation network and explore the progress of and challenges to the diffusion of EVs in China. It complements a systems of innovation approach with the theory of institutional legitimacy, and discusses the regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive types of legitimacy for different EV-related actors in China. We argue that the EV industry has gained a certain level of regulative legitimacy from the Chinese central state and some local states, but because of power struggles among stakeholders, it has not achieved much normative or cultural-cognitive legitimacy. In fact, it seems that what consumers want is different from what the central and local states have promoted. The discrepancy in different types of legitimacy is also because state investment in green technologies is more of an industrial policy than an environmental policy, seeking to leapfrog China into a technological powerhouse. We thus propose that when studying systems of innovation, it is important to take into account power dynamics across actors and the interactive process of establishing legitimacy, because institutions should not be taken as static, pre-given structures. The different layers of institutions are not always congruent, and when faced with conflicting institutional demands, actors may develop strategies to adapt and change the institutions.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributor Information -- The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism -- Introduction: Global Trends in a Field of Increasing Complexity -- Part I Revising the Agenda: Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Twenty-First Century -- Chapter 1 Confrontational Politics: The Black Lives Matter Movement -- Introduction -- Blacks Lives Matter - The Beginning -- The Art and Theory of Confrontational Politics -- The Centrality of the Local Community -- The Importance of Organizational Decentralization -- A Vision for Black Lives Matter -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2 From Obama to Trump: The Dialectics of Race and Nationalism in Contemporary America -- The Short Life of "Post‐Racialism" -- Populism to the Rescue -- The Death of the American Dream? -- The End of "The American Dilemma"? -- Paranoia and Revivalism -- An Unholy Alliance: Populism and Religion -- The American Experience in a Global Setting -- References -- Chapter 3 The Future of Nationalism in a Transnational World -- Introduction: In and Out of Globalization -- Future Past: Modernity as the Midwife of Nations -- Future Present: Globalization and its Discontents -- Future Uncertain: Entering the Anthropocene, Forecasting the Unknown -- Global Climate Change and Nationalism -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 The Changing Nature of Global Racial and Ethnic Relations -- Situating the Present -- Developing the Field of Scholarship -- Emergent Global Racial and Ethnic Relations -- New Arenas of Scholarship and Research -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5 Why Populism?1 -- A Contested Concept -- Explaining the Populist Conjuncture -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 Racialization, Polyracism, and Global Racism -- Introduction -- Polyracism.