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"Woo investigates examples of the Chinese government using methods normally associated with deliberative democracy to involve their citizenry in decision-making at a sub-national level. Despite the tightening of civil society under Xi there are still some opportunities for the Chinese people to articulate their opinions and participate in decision making. The proliferation of deliberative democratic practices is motivated by the CCP's strong governance logic, to strengthen regime legitimacy and stability. Woo examines deliberative participation through the lens of participatory budgeting in China, and investigates its impact on local governance. To make sense of this model of deliberative democratic governance in China, she unpacks the relationship between deliberative democracy and governance. This requires delving into the forms and functions of deliberation with Chinese characteristics, especially to show how they depart from the Western deliberative democratic experiences. What is the Chinese deliberative discourse in relation to the Western conception of deliberative democracy? How can the Chinese deliberative experience contribute to the concept of deliberative governance? How does deliberation impact upon local governance in China? An intriguing read both for scholars of Chinese politics and for political scientists looking at comparative examples of deliberative governance"--

"This book argues that the idea of colonial intimacy had a far broader and more popular influence on discourse makers, social leaders, and intellectuals throughout the colonial era than previously understood. It investigates representations of Korean-Japanese intimate and familial relationships in literature, media, and cinema, alongside documents that discuss colonial policies during the Japanese protectorate period and colonial rule in Korea (1905-45)" --

This dissertation investigates the discourse and representation of interracial marriage and transnational romance through an examination of popular texts and colonial policies during the Japanese colonial era in Korea (1910-1945). For the colonial ruler, the unusual promotion of interracial marriages between the colonizer and colonized (Japanese and Koreans), which was a part of an assimilation policy, could act as a means to demonstrate the benevolence of the Japanese Empire and encourage Koreans to advance into full imperial citizens. For the colonized people, it might have started as a subjugating colonial project, but then it presented the possibility of becoming much-desired modern subjects, thus it changed construction of "modern subjectivity" and further complicating understandings of race, gender, and sexuality in everyday life. This dissertation traces how an assimilative colonial state program - the promotion of intermarriage between Koreans and Japanese - turned into diverse discourses that impacted public discourses and literary representations of racial and gender norms. The dissertation is organized into four chapters. The first sketches the historical context of interracial marriage between Koreans and Japanese. The remaining chapters focus on analyzing popular texts and contextualizing them within particular issues surrounding intermarriage and romance, such as the construction of domesticity in intermarriage texts (Chapter Two), the representation of international marriage and modern home in popular print culture (Chapter Three), and race and gender in encountering others at the end of the colonial era (Chapter Four). In conclusion, this dissertation aims to unveil the influence of colonial intimacy and articulations of race and gender discourses in the making of a "modern subjectivity" in Korea in the time of Japanese empire-building. It contributes to the growing discussion of modern colonialism and imperialism by examining the everyday life of colonized territories and how colonized people understood, articulated, and manipulated colonial discourse

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Note on Romanizations and Translation -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- East Asian Transwar Popular Culture: Taiwan and Korea in Tandem -- Toward De-Colonization and "De-Cold Warring" -- Bibliography -- Part I Colonial Romance and Its Postwar Metamorphosis -- Chapter 2 Coining the Ideal Woman in Love/Marriage Fiction from Colonial Taiwan -- Fengyuebao as a Site of Love/Marriage Discourse -- Xu Kunquan's Characterization of "Modern" Ideal Womanhood -- Wu Mansha's Polarized Portrait of Modeng Women and New Women -- Hyperbolic, Melodramatic Rhetoric -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 The Epic and the Alternative: Romance in Postcolonial Taiwan -- The Literary Field of Early Postwar Taiwan -- An Epic Romance: Wang Lan's Synthesis of Love and War -- A Banned Modernist Attempt: Guo Lianghui and Her The Locked Heart -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Claiming Colonial Masculinity: Sex and Romance in Ch'ae Mansik's Colonial Fiction -- Korean-Japanese Intermarriage and Its Effect/Affect -- Erotic Desire and Japanese Women in "Transition" -- Mysterious Japanese Woman in Frozen Fish -- Conclusion -- Bibliogrpahy -- Chapter 5 From the Detective to the Romance Genre: Popular Fiction in Postcolonial Korea -- Kim Naesŏng and His Literary Work -- Detective Fiction as Popular Literature in the Colonial Period -- Romantic Love and Family -- Transition from the Colonial to the Postcolonial: Consumerism and Colonial Privilege -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part II Cinematic Nationalism and Melodrama in the Colonial and Postwar Eras -- Chapter 6 The Production of Imperialized Bodies: Colonial Taiwan's Film Regulations and Propaganda Films -- Film Regulations of Wartime Taiwan -- The Changeable "Us" and "Others" Inside the Empire.

A survey conducted in 2010 showed that Chinese citizens had rather positive impressions of the EU and were optimistic for the future of China—EU relations. Against the background of increasing tensions between China and the EU, this study focuses on the changes in the Chinese public's perceptions of the EU and of China-EU relations in the last decade. The analysis uses data from the original 2010 survey, as well as from new survey conducted in fall 2020, each including roughly 3000 respondents in six major Chinese cities. Results are that the Chinese public's overall perception of the EU as well as of China-EU relations remains one of general goodwill, even though critical opinions of the EU have become more widespread. (J Contemp China / GIGA)

AbstractChina–EU relations have become more challenging recently, especially with China being labeled a 'systemic rival'. We therefore examine Chinese perceptions of the EU, particularly to see if recent developments have led to changing representations of the EU. This article specifically attempts to discern nascent changes in the complex representation of the EU amongst the general Chinese public by analyzing and comparing original data from two surveys of 3000 Chinese citizens in six major cities conducted in 2010 and in 2020. Our study uncovers the Chinese respondents' perceptions of the EU in a multifaceted way by providing evidence that they are reconstructing the image of the EU and reconsidering its global role. The overall assessment of China–EU relations by the Chinese public remains one of general goodwill. However, there are more discerning and critical opinions of the EU from the respondents as well, suggesting a much more differentiated view toward the EU. In highlighting the continuities and changes, and situating this discussion within the theoretical lens of two specific forms of complex representation, role and image theories, this study provides a timely and topical discussion of the emergence of a complex portrayal of the EU.

This paper introduces a new and simple decomposition method for a binary choice model that is equivalent to the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis for wage differentials. The decomposition method is first developed for a single probit model and later generalized to a simultaneous equations model. Using Taylor expansion, we approximate the differences in the probabilities of choosing option 1 over option 0 between two groups in order to find the effects of the differences in "each" individual characteristic and the differences in "each" coefficient. We implement this decomposition analysis studying the racial gap in female labor market participation rates. The racial gap of participation rates among women can be almost exclusively explained by the differences in the coefficients.

ABSTRACTThis paper shows how difficult it is to study the roles of discrimination and unobserved skills when studying changes in racial and gender wage gaps over time by examining merits and shortcomings of a popular decomposition method by Juhn, Murphy and Pierce (JMP). The JMP method shows that wage dispersion can offer a compelling explanation of the wage gap. However, JMP have to rely on a few strong assumptions in order to derive their decomposition equation, which introduces wage inequality as the price of unobserved skills (the standard deviation of the residuals) into their decomposition equation.