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Apathy is not Enough: Changing Modes of Student Management in Post-Mao China / Doyon, Jérôme; Tsimonis, Konstantinos

Doyon, Jérôme	Journal Article
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Chinese campuses have been remarkably calm since the post-1989 repression. Yet, the absence of contention masks profound changes in the party-state’s campus management tactics, exemplifying the different approaches authoritarian regimes employ to regiment students. Based on fieldwork before and after Xi Jinping’s rise to power (2012), we analyse the party-state’s move from a ‘corporatist’ to a ‘partification’ strategy on campus. Contrary to the literature that sees apathy and depoliticisation as the goal of the party-state’s management of campuses, we argue that these changes reveal the regime’s apprehension about student alienation from official political channels and constitute an effort to reverse it.

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Post-Mao China ; Changing Modes of Student Management

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Divination, Yijing, and Cultural Nationalism : the self-legitimation of divination as an aspect of “traditional culture” in post-mao China / Li, Geng

Li, Geng	Journal Article
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By aligning themselves with the Book of Changes (易經 Yijing) and National Learning (國學 Guoxue), diviners in contemporary China regard themselves as protectors of “traditional culture” and promoters of “China’s national wisdom.” e alignment with the national tradition not only enhances divination’s social status, but also generates more prot for diviners and constructs a limited anity with ocial ideology. Diviners can shi their public image from being typical representatives of backward feudal superstition to being in the vanguard of a traditional culture that is essential to China’s national identity. All of this is occurring against the background of China’s national project of global reordering and promoting cultural nationalism. The reactivation of elements of the cultural patrimony is regarded as useful to legitimize state power and to fortify national cohesion. While popular religious practices oen maintain an alternative view to that of the state, they also develop connections with hegemonic discourses, dynamically and strategically.

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Cultural Nationalism ; Traditional Culture ; Divination ; Yijing ; Post-Mao China

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