Now Available--Vol 35 No 159 Journal of Contemporary China (May 2026)

 

I am delighted to pass along a message from Professor Suisheng Zhao (赵穗生), and Editor of the Journal of Contemporary China (JCC) announcing the publication of Volume 35, Issue 159, May 2026 issue of The Journal of Contemporary China (JCC) is now available online. If the library of your institution subscribes to the JCC, you can view the full text of the article and others online at:http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjcc20/current.

Of particular interest to some may be the essays published around the issue's three related areas of research focus. The first is The Development of Party-State Institutions for Policymaking in China’s New Era (I). The second is The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in Xi’s New Era (I). The third is China’s Relations with Periphery Countries: Security, Economy, and Authoritarianism (II). The three flow together: the first touches on structures and frameworks for articulating and operationalizing the fundamental political line of the nation; the second touches on the protection of internal solidarity from outside interference and thus the protection of the elaborated fundamental political line. The third then focuses on the exteriorization of that political line in China's borderlands, which serve both as a defensive line but also as a template for the internationalization of both the fundamental political line and its adaptation  in national contexts sometimes quite different from that of China. 

 

 

Journal of Contemporary China

Volume 35, Issue 159, May 2026

 

 

The Development of Party-State Institutions for Policymaking in China’s New Era (I)      

The Communist Party of China’s New Central Department of Social Work: Neo[1]Socialist Governance or Bolshevized Party Discipline?

Frank N. Pieke      

Pages: 1467-1479

 

Between Centralism and Localism: Dual Mobility Regimes in the Chinese Bureaucracy

Xueguang Zhou and Ling Zhu

Pages: 1480-1505

 

Securing Legitimacy Through Poverty Alleviation: How China’s Communist Party Strengthens Grassroots Control

Yu Cheng

Pages:1506-1526

 

Navigating Uncertainty: The Use of Expert Deliberation in China’s Policymaking

Yoel Kornreich

Pages:1527-1544

 

The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in Xi’s New Era (I)

The Chinese Restrictive Approach to the Law on the Use of Force and Its Application

in Cyberspace

Yaohui Ying and Zehua Shi

Pages:1545-1559

 

Toward a Perfection of Nuclear Strategy: China’s Adoption of Limited Nuclear Deterrence in the Xi Jinping Era

Haneol Lee

Pages:1560-1581

 

How China’s Multilateral Engagement Shapes Threat Perception Amid Rising Authoritarianism

Jungmin Han, Xin Han and Alexander Zhang

Pages:1582-1599

 

China’s Relations with Periphery Countries: Security, Economy, and Authoritarianism (II)

China’s Interventions in ‘Gray Special Economic Zones’ in Southeast Asia’s Borderlands

Selina Ho, Xue Gong and Carla P. Freeman

Pages:1600-1616

 

Amity, Security, Influence: Explaining China’s Policy Toward Afghanistan, 1949–2024

Feng Zhang

Pages:1617-1632

 

Research Article

How the Integration of Rurality and Modernization Promotes Homeowner Autonomy: Evidence from Chinese County Communities

Zelei Xiao, Yifei Li and Yingying Zheng

Pages: 1633-1652