Distribution & State-Society in China: Social Class, Mobility and State Power

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

This panel focuses on different dimensions of state-society relations. It combines an examination of perceptions of the state and society in China with research on the generation and implementation of policy. Some of the themes of the panel include the implications of social class and hereditary privilege in the generation of civic consciousness and regime legitimacy. Other papers examine the role of private entrepreneurs in the creation of policy and the utilization of certain policies for the purposes of state surveillance over certain social groups.

Sub Unit

• DIVISION 13: The Politics of Communist and Former Communist Countries

Individual Presentations

• Beyond the Clientelism: Post-socialist Entrepreneur’s Political Entitlement - Chengzuo Tang, Duke University

• For the People or for the Party? State Building in China’s Anti-Poverty Campaign - Jing Vivian Zhan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Haoyue Zhou, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics

• Social Foundation of the Hereditary Privileges in China: Wechat Survey Evidence - Hsin-Hsin Pan, National Taiwan University; Yu-tzung Chang, National Taiwan University

• The Civic Consciousness of the Middle Class in China-An Analysis of CSS2013 - Hairong Wang, University of Warwick

Chair

• Lianjiang Li Chinese University of Hong Kong

Discussant

• Lianjiang Li Chinese University of Hong Kong