scholarly journals Dancing with Diversity?

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-52
Author(s):  
Chunrong Liu ◽  
Yanwen Tang
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Market Transition ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Political Implication ◽  
Service Networks ◽  
Social Mechanism ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Spatial Strategy ◽  
Formidable Challenge ◽  
Party Members

Rapid market transition in post-reform China has created various socioeconomic spaces that fall beyond the Leninist mode of control by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and thus constitutes a formidable challenge to its ruling capacity.  This article examines the evolving adaptations of the CCP and the rise of a new form of Party-society nexus in urban China. We found that Party organisers have been fostering a spatial strategy in the context of ‘disorganised urban socialism’. By spanning institutional and sectoral gaps, engaging so-called ‘floating party members’, and developing community-based service networks, the Party has deliberately combined a specific social mechanism with the Leninist logic of organising. We conclude with a broader discussion of the possible scenario and political implication of CCP’s organisational consolidation from below.

scholarly journals Party, Class, and Mobility: An Empirical Investigation of Parents' Chinese Communist Party Membership's Effects on Children's Social Class in Contemporary China

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tongtian Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Market Transition ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Party Membership

Sociological interest in post-reform China has burgeoned since sociologists such as Victor Nee and Andrew Walder had initiated a debate of whether the market transition of former socialist countries benefit the direct producers of the market rather than political elites. Informed by the market transition debate, stratification theories, and intergenerational mobility studies, this study aims to examine whether under the party-state political structure, ruling party membership is a substantial exogenous source of social class stratification. Data in this study is drawn from the 2013 Chinese General Social Survey (n = 2,209). The ordinary least square (OLS) regression suggests that for non-institutionalized Chinese adults who are born during the reform era (1978 -2013), their parents' Chinese Communist Party membership is a statistically significant factor in determining their social class measured by their income and education, when holding constant sex, age, region, urbanity, and ethnicity. This study contributes to the sociological understanding of how political institutions shape individual socio-economic status and how state intervention perpetuates or diminishes social inequality on the individual level.

Market Transition and Gender Gap in Earnings in Urban China

Social Forces ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 1107-1145 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. Shu ◽  
Y. Bian
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
Market Transition ◽  
Urban China ◽  
And Gender

Shaping Identity: Older Adults’ Perceived Community Volunteering Experiences in Shanghai

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 1259-1275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin Chen ◽  
Minzhi Ye ◽  
Yilin Wu
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Sampling Strategies ◽  
Sociocultural Context ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Identity Continuity ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Practice Development

This study explores elderly volunteers’ identity during their experiences volunteering in the community in Shanghai. Purposive and snowball sampling strategies were used to recruit elderly volunteers to participate in semi-structured, in-depth interviews ( N = 40). Participants developed new identities during volunteering. Through volunteering, they also continued to sustain their professional identities and Chinese Communist Party identities. Volunteering had both positive and negative implications for participants’ identities. Our findings suggest that volunteering strengthened participants’ role identity and social identity to better adapt to life after retirement. Volunteering also helped participants achieve identity continuity. This study offers nuanced sociocultural context to current elderly volunteering research and informs tailored policy and practice development in urban China.

Democratic Procedures in the CCP's Cadre Selection Process: Implementation and Consequences

2015 ◽  
Vol 225 ◽  
pp. 73-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingjie Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Democratic Reform ◽  
Process Implementation ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Research Interviews ◽  
Party Members ◽  
Informal Practices ◽  
Formal Procedures

AbstractSince the early 1990s, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has put in place a series of measures to allow more Party members to participate in the cadre selection process. “Intra-party democracy” was promoted as a remedy to solve the corruption and social tension that resulted from overly concentrated personnel power. How effective are these formal procedures in constraining the appointment power of core Party leaders and institutionalizing the influence of a larger group of cadres? Drawing on archival research, interviews and quantitative data, this paper examines two components of intra-party democratic reform: “democratic recommendation,” which serves as a gateway to cadre promotion, and the semi-competitive elections at Party congresses. This in-depth study finds that the efforts to expand bottom-up participation are hindered by loopholes in formal regulations, informal practices and the frequent rotation of Party officials. Meanwhile, the reform measures have brought changes to the personnel system by complicating the Party secretaries' exercise of appointment power and altering the incentives of ambitious cadres. The implementation of intra-party democracy could improve the vitality of one-party rule, and its ebbs and flows imply a divide within China's top leadership over the direction of political change.

Mass political interest (or apathy) in urban China

1999 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Chen ◽  
Yang Zhong
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Political Interest ◽  
Government Performance ◽  
Opinion Survey ◽  
Party Government ◽  
Gender Education ◽  
Leading Position ◽  
High Level ◽  
Beijing China

Based on our reassessment of existing studies on political interest and apathy in various societies, we argue the urgent need for a more systematic and focused examination of mass political interest—as psychological involvement in politics—in China. Utilizing data collected from a public opinion survey conducted in Beijing, China in late 1995, we intend to shed some light on the level and sources of political interest in contemporary China. Contrary to the prevalent argument that most Chinese are politically apathetic, we have found that there was a rather high level of political interest within our sample. We have also found that both conventional variables (i.e. age, gender, education, income, political efficacy, and dissatisfaction with government performance) and variables unique to the Chinese setting (i.e. being a farmer, becoming a private entrepreneur, joining the Chinese Communist Party and holding leading position in the party/government) have significant effects on the levels of political interest.

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