Announcing Publication of Issue 161 Vol 35 (September 2026) The Journal of Contemporary China

 

 

 

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 161 (September 2026). The Issue may be viewed and the full text of the articles accessed online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjcc20/current.  

The Table of Contents of the September 2026 issue of The Journal of Contemporary China follows below, with links. There are three sets of essays that may be of interest: (1) Across the Taiwan Straights: Peaceful Reunification or Else; (2) China’s Crisis Management and COVID-19 Governance; (3) Sexual Education and Gay Men in China; and (4) China’s International Financial and Economic Statecraft (II); plus a research article on a quite interesting aspect of Chinese socialist development (The Political Logic of the Developmental State: Causes of Hits and Misses in China’s Industrial Policies ). Fopr those interested in the long arc of socialist modernization, especially in its current forms in the New Era (see, e.g.,  "Modernization (现代化) as the Lebenswelt of Chinese Constitutionalism" [现代化作为中国宪政的生活世界 ][中文翻译].,), this is a quite worthwhile read.

Journal of Contemporary China 

Volume 35, Issue 161, September 2026 

                                                           

Across the Taiwan Straights: Peaceful Reunification or Else

 

Research Article

Peaceful Reunification or Else: Untangling the China-Taiwan Gordian Knot

Yitzhak Shichor

Pages: 1837-1852

 

How Taiwanese Media Reinforces China’s Domestic Propaganda

Andrew Devine

Pages: 1853-1871

 

The Power of Extended Contact: The Attitudes of National Quemoy University Students Towards China

Ruihua Lin

Pages: 1872-1885

 

China’s Crisis Management and COVID-19 Governance

 

From Securitization to Desecuritization: The Dynamics of China’s COVID-19 Control Policy Change

Jianwen Wang & Jiyong Jin

Pages: 1886-1904

 

From Crisis Management to Infrastructural Power: How China Selectively Institutionalized COVID-19 Governance

Yinbin Tang, Yifan Li & Zhiou Yu

Pages: 1905-1922

 

Sexual Education and Gay Men in China

 

Marketization, Authoritarian Government, and Nonprofit Scaling-Up in China: A Case of Adolescent Sexuality Education

Huina Dong & Ming Hu

Pages: 1923-1941

 

China’s International Financial and Economic Statecraft (II)

 

Masculine Repertories: Family and Articulations of Masculinities Among Chinese Migrant Young Gay Men

Muyuan Luo, Yin Ma & Zheng Zhou

Pages: 1942-1957

 

Beyond the Belt and Road: China’s Competitive Statecraft and Free Trade Agreement Push

Jessica C. Liao

Pages: 1958-1977

 

Reputational Governance and Party-State Capitalism: A Tale of Two Chinese-Sponsored Railways in Africa

Hangwei Li & Yuan Wang

Pages: 1978-1994

 

Research Articles

 

The Political Logic of the Developmental State: Causes of Hits and Misses in China’s Industrial Policies

Wei Chen & Shiping Tang

Pages: 1995-2012