Matthew Noellert and Xiangning Li’s article on the urban migration of rural elites wins a prize

We are pleased to report that The China Quarterly awarded Matthew Noellert and Xiangning Li, “Internal Migration and the Continuity of Local Elites in North China, 1949-1965” (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741024001516) the Gordon White Prize for the most original article or research report published in The China Quarterly in the year 2025.

For more information about the award, please see the announcement in the front matter of the June 2026 issue of The China Quarterly here.

For more information about the CRRD-SQ dataset analyzed in the article, please see the project page at the Lee-Campbell Group Website.