ArticleAuthors: Stephanie Na Liua; Tsan-Kuo Changb (2020)
Theoretical discussions about the Chinese citizenship rights suggest four distinctive aspects: rural-urban inequality, state-granted rather than natural born, socioeconomic rights prior to political entitlement, and collectivism overriding individualism. From a longitudinal and comparative perspective, this study examines how the most authoritarian party newspaper – the People’s Daily – has constructed the idea of citizenship rights and manifested the four characteristics between 1978 and 2012, covering the three administrations of Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, and Hu Jintao.
Through content analysis and discourse analysis, we find that the official construction of citizenship rights endu... 
