Elaine Jeffreys
Biographic Data
| ID | 90605 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elaine Jeffreys |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elaine |
| FAMILY NAME | Jeffreys |
| SIGNATURE | JEFFREYS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Technology Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8269-7080 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Indenturing Celebrity: Governing China’s Entertainment Industries
This article examines the governance of China’s entertainment industries using the concept of “indentured celebrities”—famous people who are obliged to serve as ambassadors for Chinese government advertising and public diplomacy. The article introduces the idea of indentured celebrities in relation to Western sociological understandings of major celebrities as “national power elites,” “powerless elites,” and cosmopolitan “Big Citizens” who use th…
Chinese-international intimate relations: An Australian case study of migrant marriage and divorce
This article analyses trends in Chinese-international marriages and divorces, using Australia, a major migrant-receiving country, as a comparative case study. In exploring the recent rise of 'Chinese-foreign' marriage in the People's Republic of China (PRC), we show that Chinese-international marriage within mainland China is a small, gendered phenomenon that largely involves Chinese women marrying men from other Asian societies. By examining uni…
Changing government in China through philanthropy: On socialist spiritual civilization, civilized cities and good communists
This paper shows how government programmes unified under the rubric of 'building socialist spiritual civilization' are institutionalizing philanthropy and transforming government practice in China. Spiritual civilization refers to a programme of simultaneously advancing China's market economy and socialist culture. Using a governmentality approach, the paper explains how this strategy has been translated into practice through the government-direc…
Beijing Dog Politics: Governing Human-Canine Relationships in China
This paper uses a governmentality approach to examine the political history of human–canine relationships in the People's Republic of China, focusing on the evolution of household dog regulations in Beijing. In doing so, it ties the micropolitics of human–canine relations to transformations in political, economic, and social governance and ways of thinking about and acting on the interactions between human and nonhuman animal species. An examinat…
Governing China’s Coal Challenge: Changing Public Policy, Debate and Advocacy
This paper examines the nexus of coal–government–society relations in present-day China using a governmentality approach to explore the interactions between policy change, “crisis” management and social action. It outlines the noticeable shift in government rationalities and communication regarding the coal industry in recent years. It then frames this shift within the broader context of government–society relations focusing on public debate rega…
Celebrity philanthropy in China
This chapter reveals the Western-centric and homogenizing nature of the 'Big Citizen critique' with reference to the People's Republic of China (PRC), a commercial celebrity culture and a philanthropic sector. It provides a historical development of celebrity and philanthropy in the Western context, and outlines some of the key arguments provided by supporters and critics of celanthropy. The chapter explains why the terms 'celebrity' and 'philant…
Curating philanthropy and socialist governance: The Chinese Charity museum
This paper examines the growing political importance of philanthropy in the People’s Republic of China as presented in the Chinese Charity Museum, probably the only national-level museum in the world to feature permanent exhibits focused solely on the subject of philanthropy. The paper explains why charitable practices, which purportedly flourished in pre-communist China, “disappeared” during the Mao era (1949–1976), and why philanthropy is now a…
Celebrity-inspired, Fan-driven: Doing Philanthropy through Social Media in Mainland China
This paper provides the first detailed study of the links between celebrity-fan communication networks and philanthropy in the People’s Republic of China. It explains how the evolution of the Chinese Internet, and especially the rise of social media, has created new spaces in which fans of entertainment celebrities may be induced to engage with philanthropic causes. It then outlines the history of Chinese fan-driven philanthropic initiatives cent…
Translocal celebrity activism: Shark-protection campaigns in mainland China
Shanghai-born Yao Ming, a retired star player with the American National Basketball Association, is the celebrity face of translocal conservation campaigns to stop the consumption of shark-fin soup in Chinese restaurants worldwide. The standard justification for such communication practices is that they will generate media publicity and save shark populations, by encouraging increasingly affluent Chinese consumers to stop eating a luxury food ite…
Political celebrities and elite politics in contemporary China
This article examines the rise of celebrity politics in mainland China. It outlines some typologies of Western celebrity politics and considers whether equivalent forms exist in China. It then examines the rise of Chinese politician celebrities and celebrity involvement in the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. An examination of celebrity participation in these forums shows that celebrity politi…
Celebrity Philanthropy
Celebrity Philanthropy in China and the Zhang Ziyi Scandal
This book presents case studies of celebrity philanthropy from around the globe—including such figures as Shakira, Arundhati Roy, Zhang Ziyi, Bono, and Madonna—looking at the tensions between celebrity activism and ground-level work and
Celebrity Philanthropy in Mainland China
Celebrity philanthropy in mainland China is a recent phenomenon that has attracted both media publicity and public controversy. Despite its visibility, few data exist regarding how widespread the phenomenon is, and whether it has been growing over time. This paper addresses this gap, using a sample of entertainment and sports celebrities obtained from publicly available sources to answer three key questions. What proportion of celebrities in main…
Doing good or doing nothing? Celebrity, media and philanthropy in China
Based on a statistical analysis of 91 celebrity-endorsed charities in the People’s Republic of China, this paper challenges the popular assumption that celebrity involvement with not-for-profit organisations attracts extensive media coverage. Although China is the largest media market in the world, previous studies of celebrity philanthropy have been conducted almost exclusively in a Western context. Such studies argue passionately for and agains…
Sex work in China
This chapter examines the emergence of a sex industry in post-1978 China and the evolution of public discussions about it. The first section outlines the proclaimed absence of a prostitution industry in China during the Maoist period, and highlights its rapid expansion throughout different sectors of Chinese society following the introduction of market-based economic reforms in 1979. The second section examines the evolution of China’s abolitioni…
The rise of Chinese-foreign marriage in mainland China, 1979-2010
This research note examines the growth of Chinese-foreign marriage in mainland China since 1979. From the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 until the early 1990s, Chinese-foreign marriage was an unusual occurrence in the country. Statistics compiled by the PRC's Ministry of Civil Affairs indicate that the number of couples registering a Chinese-foreign marriage in mainland China increased almost tenfold between 1979 and 201…
Prostitution Scandals in China: Policing, Media and Society
Prostitution Scandals in China presents an examination of media coverage of prostitution-related scandals in contemporary China. It demonstrates that the subject of prostitution is not only widely debated, but also that these public discussions have ramifications for some of the key social, legal and political issues affecting citizens of the PRC. Further, this book shows how these public discussions impact on issues as diverse as sexual exploita…
Migrant Beggars and Buskers: China's Have-Less Celebrities
This article examines issues of migrancy and socioeconomic disadvantage in present-day China with references to two cases involving the celebritization of migrant beggars and buskers. The first concerns Cheng Guorong, a 34-year-old vagrant beggar with mental health issues who became an international fashion icon known as “Brother Sharp” in 2010 after an amateur photographer posted candid photographs of him walking down a street on an internet for…
Modern China’s Idols: Heroes, Role Models, Stars and Celebrities
This paper examines the diversity of China’s popular culture idols with reference to a commemorative website called ‘The Search for Modern China’, which was launched in late September 2009 to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party on 1 October 1949. The website’s framing narrative suggests that the history of idol production and celebrity in th…
China's 100 Per Cent Condom Use Program: Customising the Thai Experience
This paper examines the adoption and roll-out of a 100 Per Cent Condom Use Program (100% CUP) in the People's Republic of China (PRC). It first details the initial implementation of a 100% CUP in Thailand and explains how this created a framework for action in other developing countries. It then examines the implementation of pilot programs in China. We conclude that governmental authorities in the PRC now actively target designated high-risk pop…
Celebrity in China
Celebrity is a pervasive aspect of everyday life and a growing field of academic inquiry. This is a book-length exploration of celebrity culture in the People's Republic of China and its interaction with international norms of celebrity production. The book comprises case studies from popular culture (film, music, dance, literature, the Internet); official culture (military, political, and moral exemplars) and business celebrities. The breadth of…
Zhang Ziyi and China’s Celebrity–Philanthropy Scandals
In January 2010, the internationally acclaimed Chinese actor, Zhang Ziyi, became a focus of public criticism for allegedly defaulting on a pledge to donate one million yuan to the 2008 Sichuan earthquake disaster-relief fund. That earthquake not only killed 70,000 people and left five million homeless, but also produced a dramatic rise in individual and corporate philanthropy in China. Philanthropic donations in 2008 amounted to a total figure of…
Exposing Police Corruption and Malfeasance: China's Virgin Prostitute Cases
This paper examines prostitution-related police corruption and malfeasance in the People's Republic of China (PRC) during the early 2000s, as exemplified by media coverage of the story of Ma Dandan and six other "virgin prostitute cases" (chun maiyin an ). At 8 p.m. on 8 January 2001, Ma Dandan, an eighteen-year-old woman from Jingyang County in Shaanxi Province, was watching television with her brother-in-law and niece in her sister's hairdressi…
Regulating private affairs in contemporary China: Private investigators and the policing of spousal infidelity
This article examines the recent emergence of China's private investigation industry, focusing on investigators of spousal infidelity. It outlines the professed business rationales of private investigators that target women experiencing marital crises, including claims that they provide a necessary social service, protect women's rights, promote anti-corruption measures, and uphold Chinese law. It also details growing criticisms of China's "infid…
China's Governmentalities: Governing Change, Changing Government
Governmentalitya term coined by Michel Foucault (1979Foucault ( , 1991) ) to describe a rethinking of the notion of governmenthas become a key concept in the humanities and social sciences since the 1990s.Defined as 'the conduct of conduct', that is, any more or less calculated means of directing how we behave and act, the concept of governmentality has generated a proliferating body of work on the 'how' of governing: how we govern; how we are go…
The rise of Chinese-foreign marriage in mainland China, 1979-2010
This research note examines the growth of Chinese-foreign marriage in mainland China since 1979. From the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 until the early 1990s, Chinese-foreign marriage was an unusual occurrence in the country. Statistics compiled by the PRC's Ministry of Civil Affairs indicate that the number of couples registering a Chinese-foreign marriage in mainland China increased almost tenfold between 1979 and 201…
Celebrity Philanthropy in Mainland China
Celebrity philanthropy in mainland China is a recent phenomenon that has attracted both media publicity and public controversy. Despite its visibility, few data exist regarding how widespread the phenomenon is, and whether it has been growing over time. This paper addresses this gap, using a sample of entertainment and sports celebrities obtained from publicly available sources to answer three key questions. What proportion of celebrities in main…
Political celebrities and elite politics in contemporary China
This article examines the rise of celebrity politics in mainland China. It outlines some typologies of Western celebrity politics and considers whether equivalent forms exist in China. It then examines the rise of Chinese politician celebrities and celebrity involvement in the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. An examination of celebrity participation in these forums shows that celebrity politi…
Indenturing Celebrity: Governing China’s Entertainment Industries
This article examines the governance of China’s entertainment industries using the concept of “indentured celebrities”—famous people who are obliged to serve as ambassadors for Chinese government advertising and public diplomacy. The article introduces the idea of indentured celebrities in relation to Western sociological understandings of major celebrities as “national power elites,” “powerless elites,” and cosmopolitan “Big Citizens” who use th…
Celebrity-inspired, Fan-driven: Doing Philanthropy through Social Media in Mainland China
This paper provides the first detailed study of the links between celebrity-fan communication networks and philanthropy in the People’s Republic of China. It explains how the evolution of the Chinese Internet, and especially the rise of social media, has created new spaces in which fans of entertainment celebrities may be induced to engage with philanthropic causes. It then outlines the history of Chinese fan-driven philanthropic initiatives cent…
Exposing Police Corruption and Malfeasance: China's Virgin Prostitute Cases
This paper examines prostitution-related police corruption and malfeasance in the People's Republic of China (PRC) during the early 2000s, as exemplified by media coverage of the story of Ma Dandan and six other "virgin prostitute cases" (chun maiyin an ). At 8 p.m. on 8 January 2001, Ma Dandan, an eighteen-year-old woman from Jingyang County in Shaanxi Province, was watching television with her brother-in-law and niece in her sister's hairdressi…
Doing good or doing nothing? Celebrity, media and philanthropy in China
Based on a statistical analysis of 91 celebrity-endorsed charities in the People’s Republic of China, this paper challenges the popular assumption that celebrity involvement with not-for-profit organisations attracts extensive media coverage. Although China is the largest media market in the world, previous studies of celebrity philanthropy have been conducted almost exclusively in a Western context. Such studies argue passionately for and agains…
Modern China’s Idols: Heroes, Role Models, Stars and Celebrities
This paper examines the diversity of China’s popular culture idols with reference to a commemorative website called ‘The Search for Modern China’, which was launched in late September 2009 to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party on 1 October 1949. The website’s framing narrative suggests that the history of idol production and celebrity in th…
Zhang Ziyi and China’s Celebrity–Philanthropy Scandals
In January 2010, the internationally acclaimed Chinese actor, Zhang Ziyi, became a focus of public criticism for allegedly defaulting on a pledge to donate one million yuan to the 2008 Sichuan earthquake disaster-relief fund. That earthquake not only killed 70,000 people and left five million homeless, but also produced a dramatic rise in individual and corporate philanthropy in China. Philanthropic donations in 2008 amounted to a total figure of…
The humanities, humanism and Asian studies
Changing government in China through philanthropy: On socialist spiritual civilization, civilized cities and good communists
This paper shows how government programmes unified under the rubric of 'building socialist spiritual civilization' are institutionalizing philanthropy and transforming government practice in China. Spiritual civilization refers to a programme of simultaneously advancing China's market economy and socialist culture. Using a governmentality approach, the paper explains how this strategy has been translated into practice through the government-direc…
On “sex” and “sexuality” in China: A conversation with Pan Suiming
Pan Suiming, a professor at the Institute for Sexological Research (People's University of China, Beijing) is widely regarded, by Chinese and Western scholars alike, as a leading exponent in the newly emerging field of sexological research and sex education in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Besides lecturing in the field of sexological research, he has written various articles on the nature of sexual attitudes and sexual behaviors in China…
What is 'difference' in feminist theory and practice
Beijing Dog Politics: Governing Human-Canine Relationships in China
This paper uses a governmentality approach to examine the political history of human–canine relationships in the People's Republic of China, focusing on the evolution of household dog regulations in Beijing. In doing so, it ties the micropolitics of human–canine relations to transformations in political, economic, and social governance and ways of thinking about and acting on the interactions between human and nonhuman animal species. An examinat…
Regulating private affairs in contemporary China: Private investigators and the policing of spousal infidelity
This article examines the recent emergence of China's private investigation industry, focusing on investigators of spousal infidelity. It outlines the professed business rationales of private investigators that target women experiencing marital crises, including claims that they provide a necessary social service, protect women's rights, promote anti-corruption measures, and uphold Chinese law. It also details growing criticisms of China's "infid…
Governing buyers of sex in the People's Republic of China
This paper examines the developing body of Chinese prostitution law, and the nature of its implementation, with reference to mainstream media controversy surrounding the case of a male academic penalized as a buyer of commercial sexual services in late 2004. It argues that the protagonist's highly public ‘fall from grace’ may owe more to the Chinese media's new capacity to act as part of a disciplinary apparatus that extends beyond the purview of…
Transnational Prostitution--a Global Feminist Response
2003). Transnational Prostitution--a Global Feminist Response? Australian Feminist Studies: Vol. 18, No. 41, pp. 211-216
Chinese-international intimate relations: An Australian case study of migrant marriage and divorce
This article analyses trends in Chinese-international marriages and divorces, using Australia, a major migrant-receiving country, as a comparative case study. In exploring the recent rise of 'Chinese-foreign' marriage in the People's Republic of China (PRC), we show that Chinese-international marriage within mainland China is a small, gendered phenomenon that largely involves Chinese women marrying men from other Asian societies. By examining uni…
Over My Dead Body! Media Constructions of Forced Prostitution in the People's Republic of China
This paper examines some of the tensions surrounding the PRC’s official policy of banning prostitution by focusing on two highly publicized cases of deceptive recruiting for sexual services—the ‘Tang Shengli Incident’ and the ‘Liu Yanhua Incident’. Both cases involve young rural women who had migrated from their native homes to other more economically developed parts of China to look for work. Both were forced to sell sex and both resisted. Howev…
Dangerous amusements”: Prostitution and Karaoke halls in contemporary China
Woman, nation and narrative: Western biographical accounts of Jiang Qing
What is 'difference' in feminist theory and practice
The humanities, humanism and Asian studies
Woman, nation and narrative: Western biographical accounts of Jiang Qing
Guest Editor's Introduction
Since the early 1980s the subject of prostitution in contemporary China has emerged as a new and increasing focus of debate among both Chinese and Western commentators alike. This interest is hardly surprising given the recorded history of prostitution in Communist China. After all, it is well known that, following its victory in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) embarked on a series of campaigns designed to eradicate prostitution from the …
Dangerous amusements”: Prostitution and Karaoke halls in contemporary China
Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai . Gail Hershatter
Women and Sexuality in China . Harriet Evans
Responses
In reviewing current approaches to Chinese women, gender, and sexuality Jankowiak criticizes what he sees to be certain conceptual and methodological biases, starting points, and their logical consequences. In particular he makes the following claims: first, that women's and gender studies have focused on women at the expense of both men and relations between men and women; second, that as a causal variable and unit of analysis gender has been pr…
On “sex” and “sexuality” in China: A conversation with Pan Suiming
Pan Suiming, a professor at the Institute for Sexological Research (People's University of China, Beijing) is widely regarded, by Chinese and Western scholars alike, as a leading exponent in the newly emerging field of sexological research and sex education in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Besides lecturing in the field of sexological research, he has written various articles on the nature of sexual attitudes and sexual behaviors in China…
Transnational Prostitution--a Global Feminist Response
2003). Transnational Prostitution--a Global Feminist Response? Australian Feminist Studies: Vol. 18, No. 41, pp. 211-216
China, Sex and Prostitution
China, Sex and Prostitution is a topical and important critique of recent scholarship in China studies concerning sexuality, prostitution and policing. Jeffrey's arguments are constructed in the form of detailed analysis of a wide range of primary texts, including documents, press reports, police report, and policy and legal pronouncements, and secondary literature in both English and Chinese. The work engages with some key debates in the fields …
Over My Dead Body! Media Constructions of Forced Prostitution in the People's Republic of China
This paper examines some of the tensions surrounding the PRC’s official policy of banning prostitution by focusing on two highly publicized cases of deceptive recruiting for sexual services—the ‘Tang Shengli Incident’ and the ‘Liu Yanhua Incident’. Both cases involve young rural women who had migrated from their native homes to other more economically developed parts of China to look for work. Both were forced to sell sex and both resisted. Howev…
Governing buyers of sex in the People's Republic of China
This paper examines the developing body of Chinese prostitution law, and the nature of its implementation, with reference to mainstream media controversy surrounding the case of a male academic penalized as a buyer of commercial sexual services in late 2004. It argues that the protagonist's highly public ‘fall from grace’ may owe more to the Chinese media's new capacity to act as part of a disciplinary apparatus that extends beyond the purview of…
Sex and Sexuality in China
Introduction: Talking Sex and Sexuality in China Elaine 1. Transformations in the Primary Life Cycle: The Origins and Nature of China's Sexual Revolution Pan Suiming 2. Sex, Politics and the Policing of Virtue in the People's Republic of China Gary Sigley 3. Contesting Citizenship: Marriage and Divorce in the People's Republic of China Margaret Y.K. Woo 4. Regulating Male Same-Sex Relationships in the People's Republic of China Li Yinhe 5. Sexual…
China's Governmentalities: Governing Change, Changing Government
Governmentalitya term coined by Michel Foucault (1979Foucault ( , 1991) ) to describe a rethinking of the notion of governmenthas become a key concept in the humanities and social sciences since the 1990s.Defined as 'the conduct of conduct', that is, any more or less calculated means of directing how we behave and act, the concept of governmentality has generated a proliferating body of work on the 'how' of governing: how we govern; how we are go…
Governmentality, governance and China
Governmentality – a term coined by Michel Foucault (1979, 1991) to describe a rethinking of the notion of government – has become a key concept in the humanities and social sciences since the 1990s. Defined as ‘the conduct of conduct’, that is, any more or less calculated means of directing how we behave and act, the concept of governmentality has generated a proliferating body of work on the ‘how’ of governing: how we govern; how we are governed…
Celebrity in China
Celebrity is a pervasive aspect of everyday life and a growing field of academic inquiry. This is a book-length exploration of celebrity culture in the People's Republic of China and its interaction with international norms of celebrity production. The book comprises case studies from popular culture (film, music, dance, literature, the Internet); official culture (military, political, and moral exemplars) and business celebrities. The breadth of…
Zhang Ziyi and China’s Celebrity–Philanthropy Scandals
In January 2010, the internationally acclaimed Chinese actor, Zhang Ziyi, became a focus of public criticism for allegedly defaulting on a pledge to donate one million yuan to the 2008 Sichuan earthquake disaster-relief fund. That earthquake not only killed 70,000 people and left five million homeless, but also produced a dramatic rise in individual and corporate philanthropy in China. Philanthropic donations in 2008 amounted to a total figure of…
Exposing Police Corruption and Malfeasance: China's Virgin Prostitute Cases
This paper examines prostitution-related police corruption and malfeasance in the People's Republic of China (PRC) during the early 2000s, as exemplified by media coverage of the story of Ma Dandan and six other "virgin prostitute cases" (chun maiyin an ). At 8 p.m. on 8 January 2001, Ma Dandan, an eighteen-year-old woman from Jingyang County in Shaanxi Province, was watching television with her brother-in-law and niece in her sister's hairdressi…
Regulating private affairs in contemporary China: Private investigators and the policing of spousal infidelity
This article examines the recent emergence of China's private investigation industry, focusing on investigators of spousal infidelity. It outlines the professed business rationales of private investigators that target women experiencing marital crises, including claims that they provide a necessary social service, protect women's rights, promote anti-corruption measures, and uphold Chinese law. It also details growing criticisms of China's "infid…
China's 100 Per Cent Condom Use Program: Customising the Thai Experience
This paper examines the adoption and roll-out of a 100 Per Cent Condom Use Program (100% CUP) in the People's Republic of China (PRC). It first details the initial implementation of a 100% CUP in Thailand and explains how this created a framework for action in other developing countries. It then examines the implementation of pilot programs in China. We conclude that governmental authorities in the PRC now actively target designated high-risk pop…
Prostitution Scandals in China: Policing, Media and Society
Prostitution Scandals in China presents an examination of media coverage of prostitution-related scandals in contemporary China. It demonstrates that the subject of prostitution is not only widely debated, but also that these public discussions have ramifications for some of the key social, legal and political issues affecting citizens of the PRC. Further, this book shows how these public discussions impact on issues as diverse as sexual exploita…
Migrant Beggars and Buskers: China's Have-Less Celebrities
This article examines issues of migrancy and socioeconomic disadvantage in present-day China with references to two cases involving the celebritization of migrant beggars and buskers. The first concerns Cheng Guorong, a 34-year-old vagrant beggar with mental health issues who became an international fashion icon known as “Brother Sharp” in 2010 after an amateur photographer posted candid photographs of him walking down a street on an internet for…
Modern China’s Idols: Heroes, Role Models, Stars and Celebrities
This paper examines the diversity of China’s popular culture idols with reference to a commemorative website called ‘The Search for Modern China’, which was launched in late September 2009 to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party on 1 October 1949. The website’s framing narrative suggests that the history of idol production and celebrity in th…
The rise of Chinese-foreign marriage in mainland China, 1979-2010
This research note examines the growth of Chinese-foreign marriage in mainland China since 1979. From the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 until the early 1990s, Chinese-foreign marriage was an unusual occurrence in the country. Statistics compiled by the PRC's Ministry of Civil Affairs indicate that the number of couples registering a Chinese-foreign marriage in mainland China increased almost tenfold between 1979 and 201…
Political science (36 works) · China (35 works) · Sociology (32 works) · Law (29 works) · Law (20 works) · Politics (15 works) · Sex work and related issues (15 works) · Media studies (14 works) · Economics (11 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (10 works)