Shaohua Zhan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 90657 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Shaohua Zhan |
| NOMBRES | Shaohua |
| APELLIDO | Zhan |
| FIRMA | ZHAN S |
| AFILIACIONES | Nanyang Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9996-8833 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 327 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Building a collective economy, but for whom? ‘Three conversions’ and rural revitalization in China
Skill regimes and rural industrial transformation in China: A case study of textile industry in Wujin County from 1949 to 2015
Involuntary transnationalism and regulated precarity: Lived experiences of skilled Chinese and Indian migrants in Singapore
Transnationalism is often perceived as an agentic practice in migration studies. While acknowledging such agency, we argue that transnationalism also involves forced‐choice decision‐making by migrants whose work and daily lives are subjected to structural constraints beyond individual control. We employ the concept of ‘involuntary transnationalism’ to capture this often‐neglected dimension of transnationalism. Based on analysis of survey data and…
Differentiation from above and below: Evolving immigration policy and the integration dilemma in Singapore
Singapore is known for differentiating highly skilled and low-skilled migrants by regulating their social rights, employment, and pathways to permanent residency and citizenship. Since 2009, the city-state has made further differentiation between highly skilled migrants and natives, that is, native-born citizens. Existing studies on migrant differentiation mostly adopt a state-centric perspective. We argue that differentiation is also driven by f…
Homeland, Host Country, and Beyond: Identity Transformation among Chinese Migrants in Singapore
This paper examines identity transformation among Chinese migrants in Singapore in the context of transnationalism and widespread use of ICT s (Information and Communication Technologies). Based on how strongly migrants identify with the homeland and the host country, the paper constructs four ideal types of identity: transnational, assimilatory, sojourning, and cosmopolitan. The study finds that the most common identity is the transnational sort…
The Political Economy of Food Import and Self-reliance in China: 1949-2019
The Land Question in 21st Century China
What does the PRC’s opening to global agribusiness presage for the hundreds of millions who still farm its land? Shaohua Zhan sets out the positions that define the most contentious issue in China today
New dynamics of multinational migration: Chinese and Indian migrants in Singapore and Los Angeles
The emerging literature on multinational migration highlights migratory journeys that involve more than one country of destination. This article focuses on the lived experiences of new Chinese and Indian migrants in Singapore and Los Angeles. We conduct a novel three-way comparison to examine personal choices to engage in additional migration(s) and to consider the reasons behind such moves. Drawing on in-depth interviews and analyses of policy d…
Precarious Talent: Highly skilled Chinese and Indian immigrants in Singapore
This paper examines the challenges that highly skilled immigrant workers face and their strategies of adaptation. We employ the term "precarious talent" to capture an often neglected aspect of skilled migration. Using both survey data and interviews on skilled Chinese and Indian immigrants in Singapore, we find that these migrants confront varying degrees of employment insecurity and settlement uncertainty in an era of neoliberal globalization, c…
Alvin Y. So and Yin-wah Chu. The Global Rise of China
Accumulation by and without dispossession: Rural land use, land expropriation, and livelihood implications in China
Land expropriation and peasant resistance in China have been widely noted, but the many cases in which peasants consent to give up land have drawn less attention. This paper conceptualizes and examines an alternative development practice: accumulation without dispossession (AWD), a concept first developed by Gillian Hart and Giovanni Arrighi. AWD may arise if accumulation takes place without (completely) depriving rural producers of the right to …
China’s flexible overseas food strategy: Food trade and agricultural investment between Southeast Asia and China in 1990–2015
Using the UN Comtrade database and multiple sources of agricultural investment data, this paper outlines the emerging patterns of food trade and agricultural investment between Southeast Asian countries and China. The paper shows that China has adopted a flexible overseas food strategy. First, China has increased food export and shifted its food trade with Southeast Asia from a dependent relationship towards a complementary relationship at the re…
Population Planning after the One-Child Policy: Shifting Modes of Political Steering in China
Since late 2013, one of China’s most controversial policies—the one-child policy—has been gradually phased out, culminating in the reorganization of the National Health and Family Planning Commission in early 2018, which saw it drop the family planning part from its name. Has China forgone population intervention and started to pursue a liberal population policy? This article demonstrates that the Chinese political leadership is still determined …
Crossing the river by feeling for the stones: Contesting models of marketization and the development of China’s long-term care services
Incorporating market mechanisms into public provision of long-term care (LTC) is part of a global trend featuring the liberalization of policies and politics during the past four decades. Drawing on a conceptual framework of marketization developed by Anttonen and Meagher, this article examines how the market mechanism has been introduced in the delivery of public LTC services in Germany, U.S., and China. It also examines the lessons that China h…
From South Africa to China: Land, Migrant Labor and the Semi-Proletarian Thesis Revisited
Hukou Reform and Land Politics in China: Rise of a Tripartite Alliance
This article calls attention to the role of capital, large capital in particular, in recent reforms to China’s system of household registration (hukou). It argues that a tripartite alliance between agrarian capital, urban capital, and local governments arose in the first decade of this century and has become a major force driving locally initiated hukou reforms. The main goal of reform has been to facilitate the transfer of land rights from rural…
Riding on self-sufficiency: Grain policy and the rise of agrarian capital in China
Internal spatial fix: China’s geographical solution to food supply and its limits
Hukouand land: Market reform and rural displacement in China
Scholarship about the Chinese hukou (household registration) system has focused on the advantages and entitlements associated with urban hukou. This paper shifts attention to the key entitlement provided by rural hukou - village land. While early hukou reforms were mainly designed to open up urban labor markets to rural migrants, recent reforms have also begun to open up rural land markets, by replacing hukou-based land rights with market-based r…
From Privatization to Deindustrialization: Implications of Chinese Rural Industry and the Ownership Debate Revisited
From Local State Corporatism to Land Revenue Regime: Urbanization and the Recent Transition of Rural Industry inChina
This paper examines the transition of rural industry in China, particularly changes in the recent decade following the privatization of collective enterprises. Based on fieldwork in aJiangsu county and drawing on national data, the author shows that rapid urbanization has fundamentally altered the nature of rural industry, with previous village-based rural enterprises replaced by large industrial corporations and urban real estate. While urbaniza…
Rural Roots of Current Migrant Labor Shortage in China: Development and Labor Empowerment in a Situation of Incomplete Proletarianization
What Determines Migrant Workers’ Life Chances in Contemporary China? Hukou, Social Exclusion, and the Market
It is widely believed that household registration ( hukou) continues to play a fundamental role in determining migrant workers’ life chances in contemporary China. This article contends, on the contrary, that the importance of hukou has declined substantially, and that migrant workers’ life chances would not be significantly improved even if China were to abolish the hukou system. Based on an investigation of migrant workers in Beijing and Chifen…
Hukouand land: Market reform and rural displacement in China
Scholarship about the Chinese hukou (household registration) system has focused on the advantages and entitlements associated with urban hukou. This paper shifts attention to the key entitlement provided by rural hukou - village land. While early hukou reforms were mainly designed to open up urban labor markets to rural migrants, recent reforms have also begun to open up rural land markets, by replacing hukou-based land rights with market-based r…
What Determines Migrant Workers’ Life Chances in Contemporary China? Hukou, Social Exclusion, and the Market
It is widely believed that household registration ( hukou) continues to play a fundamental role in determining migrant workers’ life chances in contemporary China. This article contends, on the contrary, that the importance of hukou has declined substantially, and that migrant workers’ life chances would not be significantly improved even if China were to abolish the hukou system. Based on an investigation of migrant workers in Beijing and Chifen…
From South Africa to China: Land, Migrant Labor and the Semi-Proletarian Thesis Revisited
Precarious Talent: Highly skilled Chinese and Indian immigrants in Singapore
This paper examines the challenges that highly skilled immigrant workers face and their strategies of adaptation. We employ the term "precarious talent" to capture an often neglected aspect of skilled migration. Using both survey data and interviews on skilled Chinese and Indian immigrants in Singapore, we find that these migrants confront varying degrees of employment insecurity and settlement uncertainty in an era of neoliberal globalization, c…
Hukou Reform and Land Politics in China: Rise of a Tripartite Alliance
This article calls attention to the role of capital, large capital in particular, in recent reforms to China’s system of household registration (hukou). It argues that a tripartite alliance between agrarian capital, urban capital, and local governments arose in the first decade of this century and has become a major force driving locally initiated hukou reforms. The main goal of reform has been to facilitate the transfer of land rights from rural…
Accumulation by and without dispossession: Rural land use, land expropriation, and livelihood implications in China
Land expropriation and peasant resistance in China have been widely noted, but the many cases in which peasants consent to give up land have drawn less attention. This paper conceptualizes and examines an alternative development practice: accumulation without dispossession (AWD), a concept first developed by Gillian Hart and Giovanni Arrighi. AWD may arise if accumulation takes place without (completely) depriving rural producers of the right to …
Riding on self-sufficiency: Grain policy and the rise of agrarian capital in China
From Local State Corporatism to Land Revenue Regime: Urbanization and the Recent Transition of Rural Industry inChina
This paper examines the transition of rural industry in China, particularly changes in the recent decade following the privatization of collective enterprises. Based on fieldwork in aJiangsu county and drawing on national data, the author shows that rapid urbanization has fundamentally altered the nature of rural industry, with previous village-based rural enterprises replaced by large industrial corporations and urban real estate. While urbaniza…
Internal spatial fix: China’s geographical solution to food supply and its limits
Rural Roots of Current Migrant Labor Shortage in China: Development and Labor Empowerment in a Situation of Incomplete Proletarianization
Population Planning after the One-Child Policy: Shifting Modes of Political Steering in China
Since late 2013, one of China’s most controversial policies—the one-child policy—has been gradually phased out, culminating in the reorganization of the National Health and Family Planning Commission in early 2018, which saw it drop the family planning part from its name. Has China forgone population intervention and started to pursue a liberal population policy? This article demonstrates that the Chinese political leadership is still determined …
China’s flexible overseas food strategy: Food trade and agricultural investment between Southeast Asia and China in 1990–2015
Using the UN Comtrade database and multiple sources of agricultural investment data, this paper outlines the emerging patterns of food trade and agricultural investment between Southeast Asian countries and China. The paper shows that China has adopted a flexible overseas food strategy. First, China has increased food export and shifted its food trade with Southeast Asia from a dependent relationship towards a complementary relationship at the re…
Crossing the river by feeling for the stones: Contesting models of marketization and the development of China’s long-term care services
Incorporating market mechanisms into public provision of long-term care (LTC) is part of a global trend featuring the liberalization of policies and politics during the past four decades. Drawing on a conceptual framework of marketization developed by Anttonen and Meagher, this article examines how the market mechanism has been introduced in the delivery of public LTC services in Germany, U.S., and China. It also examines the lessons that China h…
Differentiation from above and below: Evolving immigration policy and the integration dilemma in Singapore
Singapore is known for differentiating highly skilled and low-skilled migrants by regulating their social rights, employment, and pathways to permanent residency and citizenship. Since 2009, the city-state has made further differentiation between highly skilled migrants and natives, that is, native-born citizens. Existing studies on migrant differentiation mostly adopt a state-centric perspective. We argue that differentiation is also driven by f…
From Privatization to Deindustrialization: Implications of Chinese Rural Industry and the Ownership Debate Revisited
New dynamics of multinational migration: Chinese and Indian migrants in Singapore and Los Angeles
The emerging literature on multinational migration highlights migratory journeys that involve more than one country of destination. This article focuses on the lived experiences of new Chinese and Indian migrants in Singapore and Los Angeles. We conduct a novel three-way comparison to examine personal choices to engage in additional migration(s) and to consider the reasons behind such moves. Drawing on in-depth interviews and analyses of policy d…
The Land Question in 21st Century China
What does the PRC’s opening to global agribusiness presage for the hundreds of millions who still farm its land? Shaohua Zhan sets out the positions that define the most contentious issue in China today
What Determines Migrant Workers’ Life Chances in Contemporary China? Hukou, Social Exclusion, and the Market
It is widely believed that household registration ( hukou) continues to play a fundamental role in determining migrant workers’ life chances in contemporary China. This article contends, on the contrary, that the importance of hukou has declined substantially, and that migrant workers’ life chances would not be significantly improved even if China were to abolish the hukou system. Based on an investigation of migrant workers in Beijing and Chifen…
Rural Roots of Current Migrant Labor Shortage in China: Development and Labor Empowerment in a Situation of Incomplete Proletarianization
From Privatization to Deindustrialization: Implications of Chinese Rural Industry and the Ownership Debate Revisited
From Local State Corporatism to Land Revenue Regime: Urbanization and the Recent Transition of Rural Industry inChina
This paper examines the transition of rural industry in China, particularly changes in the recent decade following the privatization of collective enterprises. Based on fieldwork in aJiangsu county and drawing on national data, the author shows that rapid urbanization has fundamentally altered the nature of rural industry, with previous village-based rural enterprises replaced by large industrial corporations and urban real estate. While urbaniza…
Hukouand land: Market reform and rural displacement in China
Scholarship about the Chinese hukou (household registration) system has focused on the advantages and entitlements associated with urban hukou. This paper shifts attention to the key entitlement provided by rural hukou - village land. While early hukou reforms were mainly designed to open up urban labor markets to rural migrants, recent reforms have also begun to open up rural land markets, by replacing hukou-based land rights with market-based r…
Hukou Reform and Land Politics in China: Rise of a Tripartite Alliance
This article calls attention to the role of capital, large capital in particular, in recent reforms to China’s system of household registration (hukou). It argues that a tripartite alliance between agrarian capital, urban capital, and local governments arose in the first decade of this century and has become a major force driving locally initiated hukou reforms. The main goal of reform has been to facilitate the transfer of land rights from rural…
Riding on self-sufficiency: Grain policy and the rise of agrarian capital in China
Internal spatial fix: China’s geographical solution to food supply and its limits
China’s flexible overseas food strategy: Food trade and agricultural investment between Southeast Asia and China in 1990–2015
Using the UN Comtrade database and multiple sources of agricultural investment data, this paper outlines the emerging patterns of food trade and agricultural investment between Southeast Asian countries and China. The paper shows that China has adopted a flexible overseas food strategy. First, China has increased food export and shifted its food trade with Southeast Asia from a dependent relationship towards a complementary relationship at the re…
Population Planning after the One-Child Policy: Shifting Modes of Political Steering in China
Since late 2013, one of China’s most controversial policies—the one-child policy—has been gradually phased out, culminating in the reorganization of the National Health and Family Planning Commission in early 2018, which saw it drop the family planning part from its name. Has China forgone population intervention and started to pursue a liberal population policy? This article demonstrates that the Chinese political leadership is still determined …
Crossing the river by feeling for the stones: Contesting models of marketization and the development of China’s long-term care services
Incorporating market mechanisms into public provision of long-term care (LTC) is part of a global trend featuring the liberalization of policies and politics during the past four decades. Drawing on a conceptual framework of marketization developed by Anttonen and Meagher, this article examines how the market mechanism has been introduced in the delivery of public LTC services in Germany, U.S., and China. It also examines the lessons that China h…
From South Africa to China: Land, Migrant Labor and the Semi-Proletarian Thesis Revisited
Alvin Y. So and Yin-wah Chu. The Global Rise of China
Accumulation by and without dispossession: Rural land use, land expropriation, and livelihood implications in China
Land expropriation and peasant resistance in China have been widely noted, but the many cases in which peasants consent to give up land have drawn less attention. This paper conceptualizes and examines an alternative development practice: accumulation without dispossession (AWD), a concept first developed by Gillian Hart and Giovanni Arrighi. AWD may arise if accumulation takes place without (completely) depriving rural producers of the right to …
The Land Question in 21st Century China
What does the PRC’s opening to global agribusiness presage for the hundreds of millions who still farm its land? Shaohua Zhan sets out the positions that define the most contentious issue in China today
New dynamics of multinational migration: Chinese and Indian migrants in Singapore and Los Angeles
The emerging literature on multinational migration highlights migratory journeys that involve more than one country of destination. This article focuses on the lived experiences of new Chinese and Indian migrants in Singapore and Los Angeles. We conduct a novel three-way comparison to examine personal choices to engage in additional migration(s) and to consider the reasons behind such moves. Drawing on in-depth interviews and analyses of policy d…
Precarious Talent: Highly skilled Chinese and Indian immigrants in Singapore
This paper examines the challenges that highly skilled immigrant workers face and their strategies of adaptation. We employ the term "precarious talent" to capture an often neglected aspect of skilled migration. Using both survey data and interviews on skilled Chinese and Indian immigrants in Singapore, we find that these migrants confront varying degrees of employment insecurity and settlement uncertainty in an era of neoliberal globalization, c…
The Political Economy of Food Import and Self-reliance in China: 1949-2019
Differentiation from above and below: Evolving immigration policy and the integration dilemma in Singapore
Singapore is known for differentiating highly skilled and low-skilled migrants by regulating their social rights, employment, and pathways to permanent residency and citizenship. Since 2009, the city-state has made further differentiation between highly skilled migrants and natives, that is, native-born citizens. Existing studies on migrant differentiation mostly adopt a state-centric perspective. We argue that differentiation is also driven by f…
Homeland, Host Country, and Beyond: Identity Transformation among Chinese Migrants in Singapore
This paper examines identity transformation among Chinese migrants in Singapore in the context of transnationalism and widespread use of ICT s (Information and Communication Technologies). Based on how strongly migrants identify with the homeland and the host country, the paper constructs four ideal types of identity: transnational, assimilatory, sojourning, and cosmopolitan. The study finds that the most common identity is the transnational sort…
Involuntary transnationalism and regulated precarity: Lived experiences of skilled Chinese and Indian migrants in Singapore
Transnationalism is often perceived as an agentic practice in migration studies. While acknowledging such agency, we argue that transnationalism also involves forced‐choice decision‐making by migrants whose work and daily lives are subjected to structural constraints beyond individual control. We employ the concept of ‘involuntary transnationalism’ to capture this often‐neglected dimension of transnationalism. Based on analysis of survey data and…
Building a collective economy, but for whom? ‘Three conversions’ and rural revitalization in China
Skill regimes and rural industrial transformation in China: A case study of textile industry in Wujin County from 1949 to 2015
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