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Moving Beyond Identity: The Tibet Question Revisited
No full textThis research paper explores the discursive construction of China and Tibet’s national
identity, and how it interrelates with China-Tibet relations. In contrast to studies suggesting a
defining and determinant role of national identity on China-Tibet relations, this research paper
argues that the collective identity of Tibet and China is a hegemonic and highly contested
construction, and Tibet and China, therefore, should look beyond identity and search for an
alternative approach to nation/state building without succumbing to either Chinese
nationalism or Tibetan nationalism. Drawing on the work of some of the critical theorists, this
research paper shows that it is bound to fail to build a political community based on a
collective national identity. This research paper proposes that the authorities of Tibet and
China should negotiate for future institutional reform of the Tibet Question by the recognition
of the contingent identities of the multitude
Do More Strikes Mean a Stronger Working Class's Agency: A Comparative Study in Post-Socialist China
No full textLin JN. Do More Strikes Mean a Stronger Working Class's Agency: A Comparative Study in Post-Socialist China. Journal of Labor and Society. 2017;20(1):85-106
Trading with the Great Powers: The Limits of New Zealand’s Free Trade Strategy with China under the Belt and Road Initiative
No full textLin JN. Trading with the Great Powers: The Limits of New Zealand’s Free Trade Strategy with China under the Belt and Road Initiative. Policy brief. Vol 6. University of Canterbury; 2017
Precarity, Cognitive (Non-)Resistance and the Conservative Working Class in China
No full textLin JN. Precarity, Cognitive (Non-)Resistance and the Conservative Working Class in China. Journal of Contemporary Asia. 2019;49(4):568-585.Workers’ resistance is crucial to understanding how the working class respond to the growing
labour precarity in post-socialist China. The labour studies literature posits that inequality and
volatile capital movements increase workers’ precarity and lead to stronger labour resistance,
such as strikes. However, workers’ cognition as an integral part of resistance has been rarely
studied. This article examines cognitive resistance by Chinese workers from different tier cities
by looking at their social trust, class identity, understanding of policies and class solidarity.
Despite capital movements and precarity causing more labour unrest, it does not necessarily
lead to a stronger cognitive resistance. While inequality and precarity are greater in the more
developed megacities with a shifting capital favourability, workers in megacities display a more
conservative cognitive resistance than those from the lower-tier cities. This study of workers’
cognitive resistance provides insight into the future of the Chinese labour movement. It argues
that the working class’s current cognitive non-resistance suggests that even if a window of
opportunity were to appear in the wall of state oppression, workers are not cognitively prepared
to coalesce into a coherent social movement that would bring about transformative changes
Psyche Matters: Resistance from the Chinese Sweatshop of the World
No full textLin JN. Psyche Matters: Resistance from the Chinese Sweatshop of the World. Perspectives on Global Development and Technology. 2020;19(1-2):217-236.Abstract
Why has the contemporary Chinese labor activism failed to engender transformative social and political change? One obvious answer is the authoritarian state’s neoliberal and technological fix and continuously ramped up efforts to stifle labor movements. This article, however, takes the focus back to workers themselves. Drawing from fieldwork studies, it examines workers and activists’ resistance, focusing on their everyday interpretation of the source of their problems, prospects for a labor movement, and their sense of solidarity. It argues that Chinese workers have not acquired sufficient cognitive strength to become the much-hoped-for agent of political change.</jats:p
Chinese Politics and Labor Movements
No full textLin JN. Chinese Politics and Labor Movements. Politics and Development of Contemporary China . Cham: Springer; 2019
The Emerging Industrial Relations of China. William Brown, Chang Kai, eds. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2017. 250 pp. $110 (hardcover)
No full textLin JN. The Emerging Industrial Relations of China. William Brown, Chang Kai, eds. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2017. 250 pp. $110 (hardcover). Journal of Labor and Society. 19.11.2018;22(1):231-233
Book-Review: Jamie K McCallum, Global Unions, Local Power: The New Spirit of Transnational Labor Organizing. Cornell University Press: Ithaca, NY, 2013
No full textLin JN. Book-Review: Jamie K McCallum, Global Unions, Local Power: The New Spirit of Transnational Labor Organizing. Cornell University Press: Ithaca, NY, 2013. International Sociology. 14.03.2016;31(2):178-180
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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