Governance, Domestic Change, and Social Policy in China: 100 Years after the Xinhai Revolution

208 Pages·2.369 MB·English

by  Jean-Marc Blanchard, Kun-Chin Lin (eds.)

governance,
domestic change,
and social policy
in china
100 Years After
The Xinhai Revolution
Edited by
Jean-Marc F. Blanchard and Kun-Chin Lin
Governance, Domestic Change,
and Social Policy in China
Jean-Marc F. Blanchard • Kun-Chin L in
Editors
Governance,
Domestic Change,
and Social
Policy in China
100 Years after the Xinhai Revolution
Editors
Jean-Marc F. Blanchard Kun-Chin Lin
East China Normal University Department of Politics and
Shanghai, China International Studies
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
ISBN 978-1-137-02284-4 ISBN 978-1-137-02285-1 (eBook)
DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-02285-1
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To the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Foundation for its generous past support of
the Association of Chinese Political Studies and its continuing support of
numerous scholarly endeavours relating to the study of China
Jean-Marc F. Blanchard
To my parents, Mr. C.H. Lin and Mrs. T.H. Yang Lin,
for instilling in me the importance of Chinese history and politics
Kun-Chin Lin
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CKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We would like to thank the Association of Chinese Political Studies for its
support of the international symposium entitled “100 Years after the 1911
Chinese Revolution: Refl ections and Forecasts”—held at King’s College
London (KCL) during 17–19 June 2011—from which this book is an
outgrowth. We also would like to express our sincere gratitude to the
Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Foundation, the King’s China Institute (now Lau
China Institute), Professor Keith Hoggart, Professor Xinzhong Yao, and
Dr. Ralph Parfect. Without these institutions and individuals’ fi nancial,
administrative, and moral backing, we would not have had such an intellec-
tually and professionally rewarding symposium. Jean-Marc further thanks
East China Normal University’s School of Advanced International and
Area Studies, the School of International and Public Affairs at Shanghai
Jiaotong University and Stanford University’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacifi c
Research Center for providing the intellectual environment needed to
develop and consummate this project. Jean-Marc would like to express his
thanks to his co-editor, Kun-Chin, whose positive attitude, wide-ranging
knowledge, and management of book contributors were critical to bring-
ing both the workshop and this book to a successful conclusion. Kun-Chin
thanks each of the authors for their patience and diligence in the prepara-
tion of their contributions, and owes a major debt of gratitude to Jean-
Marc for generously offering his time and experience as the co-editor. He
is deeply grateful that Professor Vivienne Shue and Professor Roderick
MacFarquhar were able to attend the workshop, for they have been chief
inspirations in his study of contemporary Chinese politics. Together with
Professor Shue as pillars of the University of Oxford Contemporary China
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Studies Programme supported by the Leverhulme Trust, Dame Jessica
Rawson and Professor Rana Mitter at Oxford have inspired many of us
to think more historically in our work. The Department of Politics and
International Studies of the University of Cambridge has provided the
ideal setting for the completion of this book.
Jean -Marc F. Blanchard and Kun-Chin Lin
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ONTENTS
1 Governance, Domestic Change, and Social
Policy in China in Historical Perspective 1
Kun-Chin Lin and Jean-Marc F. Blanchard
2 Historical Continuities in Social Assistance
in China, 1911–2011 2 1
Daniel Hammond
3 ‘As Plants Grow Towards Sunlight…:
Amity Foundation’s Social Function in 
Historical Perspective 4 5
Gerda Wielander
4 Governing Disasters: A Comparative
Analysis of the 1931, 1954 and 1998 Middle-Yangzi
Floods in Hubei 6 7
Chris Courtney
5 Reasons to Dam: China’s Hydropower Politics
and Its Socio-Environmental Consequences 1 03
Sabrina Habich
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6 Grassroots Governance Reform in Urban China 129
Stephen Trott
7 China’s Political Stability: Comparisons
and Reflections 149
Shiping Zheng
Bibliography 1 71
Index 1 97
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ONTRIBUTORS
Jean-Marc F.   B lanchard is Distinguished Professor, School of Advanced Inter-
national and Area Studies, East China Normal University, China, and Executive
Director of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational
Corporations, United States. His research emphasises foreign investment in and
from China, Chinese foreign economic policy, and multinational corporations.
Chris   Courtney is a research fellow in Chinese History at Gonville and Caius
College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and the Asia Research
Institute of the National University of Singapore. His research focuses upon the
social and environmental history of disasters in the Middle Yangzi Region.
Sabrina   Habich is postdoctoral fellow in the Department of East Asian Studies at
the University of Vienna. Her research focuses on local governance in China, with
a special emphasis on natural resource governance. Her current project examines
the role of local cadres in the implementation of China’s water resources strategy.
Daniel   R.   Hammond is Lecturer in Chinese Politics and Society at the University
of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. During his PhD research, at the University of
Glasgow, he spent time at Nankai University in Tianjin (2006) and the Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences (2007). His publications have focused on social assis-
tance in China.
Kun-Chin   L in is University Lecturer in the Department of Politics and
International Studies and Director of the Centre for Rising Powers, University of
Cambridge. His research covers the political economy of China, transport infra-
structure and energy policies, industrial policy and regulation, fi scal federalism,
maritime governance, and regionalism in Asia.
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