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117775
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ID:
121253
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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
This paper considers the process of constructing the official
discourse of weiwen (??, stability preservation) in the policing arena in
the first decade of the 21st century. It focuses on the pivotal period after
2003 when policing priorities were shifted from "striking hard" at serious
crime to pursuing weiwen to contain burgeoning protests and civil dissent,
as a move to maintain stability in the early to mid years of the Hu Jintao-
Wen Jiabao harmonious society era. We observe how Mao has been
central in this process. Stability preservation operations have been rationalised through Maoist ideology using some staples of Maoist discourse, particularly "social contradictions", and policing authorities have
adopted key methodological aspects of Maoist campaign-style policing to
embed this new weiwen focus in the everyday agendas of policing, while
ever more "mass incidents" disrupt the maintenance of stability in China.
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ID:
121254
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2013.
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In response to worsening social instability in China, among
grassroots communities in the poorer central and western provinces in
particular, the Chinese central government has made budgetary arrangements, since 2003, to increase investment at the grassroots level to improve the capacity of local governments to maintain social order. However, this action by central government has created a dilemma for local
cadres: how to perform their duty to maintain social stability while also
balancing a heavy fiscal burden caused in part by the receipt of insufficient additional budgetary subsidies from higher government. This paper
is an account of and an analysis of how local cadres in China perform
their official duties when faced with this dilemma.
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ID:
144569
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This article assesses stability maintenance (weiwen) as a means of conflict resolution in China. It argues that the resolution of local disputes in China, particularly outside cities, is now being influenced and facilitated by the discourse and practice of stability maintenance, rather than legal methods and traditional mediation processes. This conclusion adds to the existing academic views of stability maintenance, which have previously emphasized social control to the exclusion of almost all else, and suggests that stability maintenance-focused conflict resolution may have practical benefits to Chinese citizens, given the state’s withdrawal from legal conflict resolution methods and its ambiguous attitude towards mediation.
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