China's Society and Culture Studies and Reflections

Introduction - Sabaree Mitra & Usha Chandran
I. Class, Gender, Ethnicity, and Identity Politics

1. Status Quo Amid ‘Change’: Xi Jinping’s Common Prosperity Agenda and Its Interface with Labour
Anand P. Krishnan

2. ‘Zenyang zuo ge Shenzhenren?’ Local State Narratives and Migrant-Worker Subjectivities in Shenzhen
Reeja Nair

3. Ethnic Culture and Gender Relations among Naxi women in Lijiang, China
Ritu Agarwal

4. Significance of Bayandai: Wang Meng’s Quest for Renewing Self, Ethnic Transcendence, and Interethnic Unity
Debasish Chaudhuri

II. China and India: Development and Policy Perspectives

5. The Importance of China’s Two ‘Leftovers’
Anurag Viswanath

6. Media Responses to China’s Two-Child Policy and People’s Resistance to State-Controlled Reproduction
Yuanmeng Song

7. India and China: Some Reflections in Relation to Child Marriage
Mary E. John

8. Disruption in Travel of Indian Students for Medical Education: The Case of China and Ukraine
Rama V. Baru & Madhurima Nundy

III. Chinese Culture and Cultural Interactions across Time

9. Legends and Myths: A Cultural Bridge between India and China
Bihu Ghosh

10. Popular Culture in Contemporary Mainstream Chinese Society: Twenty-first Century Avatar of Confucianism
Usha Chandran  

11. Prize Economy and Chinese Literature
Nishit Kumar

12. The Broadened Road of Realism: Debates and Praxis in Chinese Literature
Sabaree Mitra

IV. Visual Culture in the Making of Perception

13. Seeing China through the Lens of Indian Cinema: An Account of the Popular and Civic Imagination
Madhurendra Kumar Jha

14. History, Subversion and Chinese Society through the Lens of Web Dramas: The OTT Trend
Dharitri Narzary Chakravartty

15. Relational Margins in International Relations:  Reading Select Pre- and Post-Pandemic Cinematic Portrayals of Migrant Workers in China and India
Rityusha Mani Tiwary

V. Journeys, Scholarship, and Universalism

16. Exploration, Travel and Pilgrimage in High Asia: Journeys of Transformation
Ravi Bhoothalingam

17. The Nation and Its Borders in Patricia Uberoi’s  Ouvre
Swargajyoti Gohain

18. Unfolding the Multilayered Diversity of Asia: Publication of Asian Families and Intimacies as a Foundation for Asian Collaboration
Emiko Ochiai

19. Recasting Cultural Questions in the Twenty First Century: Reflections on China in a Comparative Framework
Manoranjan Mohanty

Biography

Sabaree Mitra is Professor of Chinese in Jawaharlal Nehru University and Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS), New Delhi. Her teaching and research have spanned the fields of contemporary Chinese literature and criticism, Chinese cultural history, gender issues, India-China cultural relations and regional interaction. Her latest publication is an edited volume titled China’s May Fourth Movement: New Narratives and Perspectives (Routledge, 2023). She is the Editor of the ICS quarterly journal, China Report, published by Sage.

Usha Chandran is Assistant Professor, Centre for Chinese Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Honorary Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies. She holds a PhD in Chinese from Jawaharlal Nehru University; her research interests include gender issues in China and comparison with India, interface between gender, language, literature and popular culture, women’s subjectivity and socio-cultural dimensions in literature and Chinese society.  Her latest publication is Gender Discrimination at Work in Urban China (Routledge 2025).