Lichao Yang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3675600 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lichao Yang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lichao |
| FAMILY NAME | Yang |
| SIGNATURE | YANG L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Beijing Normal University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9412-0358 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Migrant children's digital divide in online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic: Evidence from Stone School in Hangzhou, China
In this study, we examined the impact of online learning on children’s educational progress during the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly focusing on migrant children attending a primary school in Hangzhou, China. Through a combination of student and parent questionnaires (n = 537) and in-depth interviews with teachers and parents, we found that migrant children faced challenges such as poor connectivity, inadequate equipment, and lack of parental s…
China and Climate Change: Just Transition and Social Inclusion
China aims to transition from a carbon‐intensive economy to carbon neutrality before 2060. Although climate change policies commenced in 2007, this goal remains extremely challenging. Reporting on China’s progress, the articles in this issue refer to three concepts. Ecological civilization is a political construct framing China’s policy response to climate change and environmental degradation; its “thin” version refers to sustainable development …
The impact of multiple non-pharmaceutical interventions for China-bound travel on domestic Covid-19 outbreaks
Objectives Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) implemented on China-bound travel have successfully mitigated cross-regional transmission of COVID-19 but made the country face ripple effects. Thus, adjusting these interventions to reduce interruptions to individuals’ daily life while minimizing transmission risk was urgent. Methods An improved Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model was built to evaluate the Delta variant’s epidemiological …
Children's dimensions of poverty: Qualitative studies in urban China
The dimensionality of child poverty is not well understood because children are seldom asked systematically to describe their poverty experience. This hinders the prediction of poverty's long‐term consequences and constrains policy design. In this research, 55 children aged 8–12 from Hangzhou and Beijing China were each interviewed individually for 0.5–2 h and participated in 3–4 focus group sessions on poverty experience. Integrating their under…
Poverty and child agency in urban China
Scholars of childhood typically view children as agentic; poverty researchers, aware that poverty reduces children’s life-chances, may be tempted to consider them as victims. Adults experiencing poverty report feelings of powerlessness, and, by analogy, poverty may reduce children’s agency. However, comparatively little is known about the impact of poverty on child agency or the extent to which children use their agency to mediate the effects of …
Village governance, social cohesion and contentment with social assistance in Northern China
The Chinese government’s legitimacy rests on ensuring the contentment of its people and avoiding social instability. In achieving these goals, the government has been massively aided by rising living standards and perhaps by reduced poverty. However, little is known about the contribution of poverty alleviation to political contentment. Therefore, ethnographic research was conducted in eight villages to explore attitudes to social assistance (dib…
Gender Dynamics and Social Assistance in Chinese Villages
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals encourage states to implement social assistance as China has recently done. However, ethnography, guided by field theory, conducted in eight villages in Shanxi Province, reveals interactions between poverty, patriarchy, and migration with unanticipated consequences for social assistance and gender dynamics. Forced back to patrilocal villages by falling urban job opportunities, migrant women find employment m…
Poor and Lazy: Understanding Middle-class Perceptions of Poverty in China
Now addressing relative not absolute poverty, China must redistribute income from the middle class to persons experiencing poverty. However, policy rhetoric has recently prioritised laziness as causing poverty, a view widely shared by China’s middle class. Employing a convenience sample of 2,449 middle-class respondents, regressions relate the attribution of poverty to personality, and ideological and individual socialisation. Given two choices, …
Determining Dimensions of Poverty Applicable in China: A Qualitative Study in Guizhou
While China has succeeded in dramatically reducing income poverty, it is increasingly recognized that poverty is multidimensional. Moreover, all countries are expected under the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to halve poverty in all its dimension by 2030 “according to national definitions”. However, there is little agreement, either in China or elsewhere, as to what the dimensions should be. Therefore, qualitative research was undertaken in G…
Transitions and Conflicts: Reexamining Impacts of Migration on Young Women’s Status and Gender Practice in Rural Shanxi
This article explores impacts of migration on young women’s status and gender practice in rural northern China. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a village in Shanxi Province, it suggests that rural-urban migration has served partially to reconstruct the traditional gender-based roles and norms in migration families. This reconstructive force arises mainly from the changes of the patrilocal residence pattern and rural women’s acquisition of subj…
Transformations to sustainability: Combining structural, systemic and enabling approaches
Poverty, Shame and Ethics in Contemporary China - Erratum
Poverty, Shame and Ethics in Contemporary China
Taking China as a critical case, this article questions recent literature that asserts that shame attached to poverty is both ubiquitous and always problematic. In China, the concepts of shame, loss of face,lian(integrity) andmian(reputation) once provided an ethical framework under which the existence of poverty both indicated ineffective governance and provided individuals in poverty with opportunities to demonstrate virtuous behaviour in copin…
The Pilot Land Reform Program and Land Reform in Pilot Villages: A Study of Pilot Land Reform and Party Consolidation in Lucheng, Shanxi
William Hinton’s widely influential Fanshen is notable for its nuanced description of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) consolidation and land reform in Long Bow village (Hinton’s pseudonym for Zhangzhuang 张庄). But how representative was Long Bow? What was the situation in other villages? Did Hinton accurately describe what really happened in the party consolidation and land reform? Or did he miss important points? Scholars have either consider…
Poverty and Shame: Interactional Impacts on Claimants of Chinese Dibao
The Chinese minimum living standard guarantee (dibao), which has been in place since the 1990s, is one of the most important social assistance programs run by the Chinese government. There is extensive literature on dibao, a majority of which deals with how it is allocated in rural communities and its effectiveness in alleviating rural poverty. Receiving dibao is often considered a sign of poverty. Scholars have long discussed the shame experienc…
Empowered or Disempowered? Women's Participation in a Development Project in Rural China
In the last two decades in China, large international donor agencies and domestic women's non-governmental organizations have become significant actors in improving the lives of rural women. Many development agencies have put the empowerment of women on the agenda of all their development projects and introduced new ideas and approaches to promote gender equality. This article aims to understand a new approach to women's empowerment and explore t…
Transformations to sustainability: Combining structural, systemic and enabling approaches
Poverty and child agency in urban China
Scholars of childhood typically view children as agentic; poverty researchers, aware that poverty reduces children’s life-chances, may be tempted to consider them as victims. Adults experiencing poverty report feelings of powerlessness, and, by analogy, poverty may reduce children’s agency. However, comparatively little is known about the impact of poverty on child agency or the extent to which children use their agency to mediate the effects of …
Village governance, social cohesion and contentment with social assistance in Northern China
The Chinese government’s legitimacy rests on ensuring the contentment of its people and avoiding social instability. In achieving these goals, the government has been massively aided by rising living standards and perhaps by reduced poverty. However, little is known about the contribution of poverty alleviation to political contentment. Therefore, ethnographic research was conducted in eight villages to explore attitudes to social assistance (dib…
Determining Dimensions of Poverty Applicable in China: A Qualitative Study in Guizhou
While China has succeeded in dramatically reducing income poverty, it is increasingly recognized that poverty is multidimensional. Moreover, all countries are expected under the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to halve poverty in all its dimension by 2030 “according to national definitions”. However, there is little agreement, either in China or elsewhere, as to what the dimensions should be. Therefore, qualitative research was undertaken in G…
Poverty, Shame and Ethics in Contemporary China
Taking China as a critical case, this article questions recent literature that asserts that shame attached to poverty is both ubiquitous and always problematic. In China, the concepts of shame, loss of face,lian(integrity) andmian(reputation) once provided an ethical framework under which the existence of poverty both indicated ineffective governance and provided individuals in poverty with opportunities to demonstrate virtuous behaviour in copin…
Migrant children's digital divide in online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic: Evidence from Stone School in Hangzhou, China
In this study, we examined the impact of online learning on children’s educational progress during the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly focusing on migrant children attending a primary school in Hangzhou, China. Through a combination of student and parent questionnaires (n = 537) and in-depth interviews with teachers and parents, we found that migrant children faced challenges such as poor connectivity, inadequate equipment, and lack of parental s…
Gender Dynamics and Social Assistance in Chinese Villages
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals encourage states to implement social assistance as China has recently done. However, ethnography, guided by field theory, conducted in eight villages in Shanxi Province, reveals interactions between poverty, patriarchy, and migration with unanticipated consequences for social assistance and gender dynamics. Forced back to patrilocal villages by falling urban job opportunities, migrant women find employment m…
Transitions and Conflicts: Reexamining Impacts of Migration on Young Women’s Status and Gender Practice in Rural Shanxi
This article explores impacts of migration on young women’s status and gender practice in rural northern China. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a village in Shanxi Province, it suggests that rural-urban migration has served partially to reconstruct the traditional gender-based roles and norms in migration families. This reconstructive force arises mainly from the changes of the patrilocal residence pattern and rural women’s acquisition of subj…
Poverty and Shame: Interactional Impacts on Claimants of Chinese Dibao
The Chinese minimum living standard guarantee (dibao), which has been in place since the 1990s, is one of the most important social assistance programs run by the Chinese government. There is extensive literature on dibao, a majority of which deals with how it is allocated in rural communities and its effectiveness in alleviating rural poverty. Receiving dibao is often considered a sign of poverty. Scholars have long discussed the shame experienc…
Empowered or Disempowered? Women's Participation in a Development Project in Rural China
In the last two decades in China, large international donor agencies and domestic women's non-governmental organizations have become significant actors in improving the lives of rural women. Many development agencies have put the empowerment of women on the agenda of all their development projects and introduced new ideas and approaches to promote gender equality. This article aims to understand a new approach to women's empowerment and explore t…
Poverty and Shame: Interactional Impacts on Claimants of Chinese Dibao
The Chinese minimum living standard guarantee (dibao), which has been in place since the 1990s, is one of the most important social assistance programs run by the Chinese government. There is extensive literature on dibao, a majority of which deals with how it is allocated in rural communities and its effectiveness in alleviating rural poverty. Receiving dibao is often considered a sign of poverty. Scholars have long discussed the shame experienc…
The Pilot Land Reform Program and Land Reform in Pilot Villages: A Study of Pilot Land Reform and Party Consolidation in Lucheng, Shanxi
William Hinton’s widely influential Fanshen is notable for its nuanced description of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) consolidation and land reform in Long Bow village (Hinton’s pseudonym for Zhangzhuang 张庄). But how representative was Long Bow? What was the situation in other villages? Did Hinton accurately describe what really happened in the party consolidation and land reform? Or did he miss important points? Scholars have either consider…
Transitions and Conflicts: Reexamining Impacts of Migration on Young Women’s Status and Gender Practice in Rural Shanxi
This article explores impacts of migration on young women’s status and gender practice in rural northern China. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a village in Shanxi Province, it suggests that rural-urban migration has served partially to reconstruct the traditional gender-based roles and norms in migration families. This reconstructive force arises mainly from the changes of the patrilocal residence pattern and rural women’s acquisition of subj…
Transformations to sustainability: Combining structural, systemic and enabling approaches
Poverty, Shame and Ethics in Contemporary China - Erratum
Poverty, Shame and Ethics in Contemporary China
Taking China as a critical case, this article questions recent literature that asserts that shame attached to poverty is both ubiquitous and always problematic. In China, the concepts of shame, loss of face,lian(integrity) andmian(reputation) once provided an ethical framework under which the existence of poverty both indicated ineffective governance and provided individuals in poverty with opportunities to demonstrate virtuous behaviour in copin…
Village governance, social cohesion and contentment with social assistance in Northern China
The Chinese government’s legitimacy rests on ensuring the contentment of its people and avoiding social instability. In achieving these goals, the government has been massively aided by rising living standards and perhaps by reduced poverty. However, little is known about the contribution of poverty alleviation to political contentment. Therefore, ethnographic research was conducted in eight villages to explore attitudes to social assistance (dib…
Gender Dynamics and Social Assistance in Chinese Villages
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals encourage states to implement social assistance as China has recently done. However, ethnography, guided by field theory, conducted in eight villages in Shanxi Province, reveals interactions between poverty, patriarchy, and migration with unanticipated consequences for social assistance and gender dynamics. Forced back to patrilocal villages by falling urban job opportunities, migrant women find employment m…
Poor and Lazy: Understanding Middle-class Perceptions of Poverty in China
Now addressing relative not absolute poverty, China must redistribute income from the middle class to persons experiencing poverty. However, policy rhetoric has recently prioritised laziness as causing poverty, a view widely shared by China’s middle class. Employing a convenience sample of 2,449 middle-class respondents, regressions relate the attribution of poverty to personality, and ideological and individual socialisation. Given two choices, …
Determining Dimensions of Poverty Applicable in China: A Qualitative Study in Guizhou
While China has succeeded in dramatically reducing income poverty, it is increasingly recognized that poverty is multidimensional. Moreover, all countries are expected under the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to halve poverty in all its dimension by 2030 “according to national definitions”. However, there is little agreement, either in China or elsewhere, as to what the dimensions should be. Therefore, qualitative research was undertaken in G…
The impact of multiple non-pharmaceutical interventions for China-bound travel on domestic Covid-19 outbreaks
Objectives Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) implemented on China-bound travel have successfully mitigated cross-regional transmission of COVID-19 but made the country face ripple effects. Thus, adjusting these interventions to reduce interruptions to individuals’ daily life while minimizing transmission risk was urgent. Methods An improved Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model was built to evaluate the Delta variant’s epidemiological …
Children's dimensions of poverty: Qualitative studies in urban China
The dimensionality of child poverty is not well understood because children are seldom asked systematically to describe their poverty experience. This hinders the prediction of poverty's long‐term consequences and constrains policy design. In this research, 55 children aged 8–12 from Hangzhou and Beijing China were each interviewed individually for 0.5–2 h and participated in 3–4 focus group sessions on poverty experience. Integrating their under…
Poverty and child agency in urban China
Scholars of childhood typically view children as agentic; poverty researchers, aware that poverty reduces children’s life-chances, may be tempted to consider them as victims. Adults experiencing poverty report feelings of powerlessness, and, by analogy, poverty may reduce children’s agency. However, comparatively little is known about the impact of poverty on child agency or the extent to which children use their agency to mediate the effects of …
China and Climate Change: Just Transition and Social Inclusion
China aims to transition from a carbon‐intensive economy to carbon neutrality before 2060. Although climate change policies commenced in 2007, this goal remains extremely challenging. Reporting on China’s progress, the articles in this issue refer to three concepts. Ecological civilization is a political construct framing China’s policy response to climate change and environmental degradation; its “thin” version refers to sustainable development …
Migrant children's digital divide in online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic: Evidence from Stone School in Hangzhou, China
In this study, we examined the impact of online learning on children’s educational progress during the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly focusing on migrant children attending a primary school in Hangzhou, China. Through a combination of student and parent questionnaires (n = 537) and in-depth interviews with teachers and parents, we found that migrant children faced challenges such as poor connectivity, inadequate equipment, and lack of parental s…
Political science (14 works) · China (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Poverty (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works)