Ya-Wen Lei
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 252204 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ya-Wen Lei |
| NOMBRES | Ya-Wen |
| APELLIDO | Lei |
| FIRMA | LEI Y |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8032-3242 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 184 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Gilded Cage
Gilded Cage
The Gilded Cage
Upgrading China through Automation
This article analyses how local states, electronics manufacturers and low-skilled workers perceive and make decisions about automation under China's techno-developmentalism. Since the early 2010s, local states have made automation - specifically, the substitution of robots for human workers - the linchpin of their techno-developmentalist strategy and set statistical targets to facilitate policy implementation. Although manufacturers realised the …
Delivering Solidarity
This study examines how and when labor control and management leads to collective resistance in China's food-delivery platform economy. I develop the concept of "platform architecture" to examine the technological, legal, and organizational aspects of control and management in the labor process and the variable relationships between them. Analyzing 68 in-depth interviews, ethnographic data, and 87 cases of strikes and protests, I compare the plat…
Revisiting China's Social Volcano
Existing literature suggests that despite rising inequality in China, Chinese people tend to tolerate inequality, so it would be unlikely that rising inequality would cause sociopolitical instability. Few studies, however, have systematically explained Chinese people's attitudes toward inequality, analyzed attitudinal changes over time, or examined the relationship between such attitudes and political trust. The author's analysis of national surv…
The China Questions
The Contentious Public Sphere
The Contentious Public Sphere
"Since the mid-2000s, public opinion and debate in China have become increasingly common and consequential, despite the ongoing censorship of speech and regulation of civil society. How did this happen? [This book] shows how the Chinese state drew on law, the media, and the Internet to further an authoritarian project of modernization, but in so doing, inadvertently created a nationwide public sphere in China--one the state must now endeavor to c…
Freeing the Press
This article examines critical news reporting in China as an instance of collective resistance in authoritarian contexts. It draws on field theory to understand why and how news media in certain localities were able to resist political pressure and report critically on important social problems, despite limited media freedom. Through a comparative study of six newspaper organizations in the three coastal cities of Guangzhou, Beijing, and Shanghai…
Contesting Legality in Authoritarian Contexts
Since the introduction of the Internet, China's networked public sphere has become a critical site in which various actors compete to shape public opinion and promote or forestall legal and political change. This paper examines how members of an online public, the Tianya Forum, conceptualized and discussed law in relation to a specific event, the 2008 Sanlu milk scandal. Whereas previous studies suggest the Chinese state effectively controls citi…
The Political Consequences of the Rise of the Internet
This article addresses a long-standing question: What are the political consequences of the rise of the Internet and the attendant emergence of netizens in China, particularly in terms of China's democratic prospects? Given the Chinese state's firm control in the realm of traditional media, the Internet has been expected to bring about political and social change in China since its introduction. Although scholars have had divergent views on what …
The Contentious Public Sphere
Delivering Solidarity
This study examines how and when labor control and management leads to collective resistance in China's food-delivery platform economy. I develop the concept of "platform architecture" to examine the technological, legal, and organizational aspects of control and management in the labor process and the variable relationships between them. Analyzing 68 in-depth interviews, ethnographic data, and 87 cases of strikes and protests, I compare the plat…
The Political Consequences of the Rise of the Internet
This article addresses a long-standing question: What are the political consequences of the rise of the Internet and the attendant emergence of netizens in China, particularly in terms of China's democratic prospects? Given the Chinese state's firm control in the realm of traditional media, the Internet has been expected to bring about political and social change in China since its introduction. Although scholars have had divergent views on what …
Freeing the Press
This article examines critical news reporting in China as an instance of collective resistance in authoritarian contexts. It draws on field theory to understand why and how news media in certain localities were able to resist political pressure and report critically on important social problems, despite limited media freedom. Through a comparative study of six newspaper organizations in the three coastal cities of Guangzhou, Beijing, and Shanghai…
Contesting Legality in Authoritarian Contexts
Since the introduction of the Internet, China's networked public sphere has become a critical site in which various actors compete to shape public opinion and promote or forestall legal and political change. This paper examines how members of an online public, the Tianya Forum, conceptualized and discussed law in relation to a specific event, the 2008 Sanlu milk scandal. Whereas previous studies suggest the Chinese state effectively controls citi…
Revisiting China's Social Volcano
Existing literature suggests that despite rising inequality in China, Chinese people tend to tolerate inequality, so it would be unlikely that rising inequality would cause sociopolitical instability. Few studies, however, have systematically explained Chinese people's attitudes toward inequality, analyzed attitudinal changes over time, or examined the relationship between such attitudes and political trust. The author's analysis of national surv…
Upgrading China through Automation
This article analyses how local states, electronics manufacturers and low-skilled workers perceive and make decisions about automation under China's techno-developmentalism. Since the early 2010s, local states have made automation - specifically, the substitution of robots for human workers - the linchpin of their techno-developmentalist strategy and set statistical targets to facilitate policy implementation. Although manufacturers realised the …
The Political Consequences of the Rise of the Internet
This article addresses a long-standing question: What are the political consequences of the rise of the Internet and the attendant emergence of netizens in China, particularly in terms of China's democratic prospects? Given the Chinese state's firm control in the realm of traditional media, the Internet has been expected to bring about political and social change in China since its introduction. Although scholars have had divergent views on what …
Contesting Legality in Authoritarian Contexts
Since the introduction of the Internet, China's networked public sphere has become a critical site in which various actors compete to shape public opinion and promote or forestall legal and political change. This paper examines how members of an online public, the Tianya Forum, conceptualized and discussed law in relation to a specific event, the 2008 Sanlu milk scandal. Whereas previous studies suggest the Chinese state effectively controls citi…
Freeing the Press
This article examines critical news reporting in China as an instance of collective resistance in authoritarian contexts. It draws on field theory to understand why and how news media in certain localities were able to resist political pressure and report critically on important social problems, despite limited media freedom. Through a comparative study of six newspaper organizations in the three coastal cities of Guangzhou, Beijing, and Shanghai…
The Contentious Public Sphere
The Contentious Public Sphere
"Since the mid-2000s, public opinion and debate in China have become increasingly common and consequential, despite the ongoing censorship of speech and regulation of civil society. How did this happen? [This book] shows how the Chinese state drew on law, the media, and the Internet to further an authoritarian project of modernization, but in so doing, inadvertently created a nationwide public sphere in China--one the state must now endeavor to c…
The China Questions
Revisiting China's Social Volcano
Existing literature suggests that despite rising inequality in China, Chinese people tend to tolerate inequality, so it would be unlikely that rising inequality would cause sociopolitical instability. Few studies, however, have systematically explained Chinese people's attitudes toward inequality, analyzed attitudinal changes over time, or examined the relationship between such attitudes and political trust. The author's analysis of national surv…
Delivering Solidarity
This study examines how and when labor control and management leads to collective resistance in China's food-delivery platform economy. I develop the concept of "platform architecture" to examine the technological, legal, and organizational aspects of control and management in the labor process and the variable relationships between them. Analyzing 68 in-depth interviews, ethnographic data, and 87 cases of strikes and protests, I compare the plat…
Upgrading China through Automation
This article analyses how local states, electronics manufacturers and low-skilled workers perceive and make decisions about automation under China's techno-developmentalism. Since the early 2010s, local states have made automation - specifically, the substitution of robots for human workers - the linchpin of their techno-developmentalist strategy and set statistical targets to facilitate policy implementation. Although manufacturers realised the …
Gilded Cage
Gilded Cage
The Gilded Cage
The Contentious Public Sphere
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