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SUMMARY:Dr. Armin Müller (Göttingen): "Social Policy in China: Retrospect and Prospect"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nSince 1979\, social protection in China has undergone fundamental institutional transformations. This presentation provides an overview of the state of the literature on social policy in the PRC\, the institutional change which has characterized social protection in the reform period\, and an outlook on future developments. Social protection under the planned economy was characterized by a division between urban and rural areas\, decentralization\, and companies functioning as enclosed mini-welfare states. In the course of economic reforms\, urbanization\, marketization and migration have generated substantial frictions with the institutional legacies of planned-economy social protection. The examples of health and pension insurance illustrate the pattern of institutional change that resulted from these frictions: a process of gradual functional integration. This process adapts social protection to marketization through the creation of insurance systems pooling risks between companies and households; it adapts previously separate urban and rural insurance systems to urbanization by integrating them; and it adapts insurance to migration by improving the portability of benefits from the decentralized and formally enclosed local insurance systems. Functional integration is also driving forward a dualization of social protection in China\, with relatively generous benefits for people in regular\, formal employment\, and merely basic protection for the remainder of the population. While we enter the second term of the Xi administration\, China’s social protection system keeps reproducing economic and political inequality rather than counter-balancing it. Current policy initiatives aim at attenuating inequalities related to employment status\, locality\, and the urban-rural divide. However\, the potentially contentious nature of social redistribution raises questions regarding the degree to which these reforms can achieve their envisioned outcomes.\n \n \nPicture: Pedro Szekely， Shanghai\, China\, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/YkeqME
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/dr-armin-mueller-goettingen-social-policy-in-china-retrospect-and-prospect/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, KWZ 0.609\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, Göttingen\, 37073
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SUMMARY:Prof. Reza Hasmath (Alberta): "Is Policy Innovation Possible Under the Xi Jinping Regime?"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nDespite playing a key contributory role in China’s recent economic reforms and the Party’s regime durability\, there has been a noted reduction in central-level policy experimentation under Xi Jinping’s administration. Recent studies have further noted an empirical reduction in policy innovation at the subnational level\, and question whether local officials will continue to experiment in the foreseeable future.\nThis talk suggests that although these changes at the central-level are filtering down to local officials\, a great deal of variation in policy experimentation exists. Thus\, the puzzle motivating this talk is how do local officials filter these institutional changes to the extent of observed variations in local policy innovation?\nUsing recent fieldwork evidence\, this talk presents three potential explanations: (1) the ineffectiveness of the vertical reward and punishment systems operated by the Party-state; (2) differing base preferences of local officials; and\, (3) the presence of a cohort effect\, viz. a communities of practice. While some officials are still conducting policy experimentation\, the overall reduction in innovation strongly suggests that potential solutions to governance problems remain trapped at the local level\, and that the central government will lose this “adaptable” governance mechanism that has contributed\nto its past economic and political successes.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/prof-reza-hasmath-alberta-is-policy-innovation-possible-under-the-xi-jinping-regime/
LOCATION:Theologicum\, T0.136\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2\, Göttingen\, 37073
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20171116T180000
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SUMMARY:Prof. Mayfair Yang (UC Santa Barbara): “Gendered Religiosity:  Patriarchal Structures and Women’s Agency in China”
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThis lecture will examine how social structures of power\, such as patriarchal power\, depend on the vicissitudes of human agency to implement their principles\, opening them up to subtle shifts and reconfigurations in social practice (Anthony Giddens\, Pierre Bourdieu).  Traditional religiosities\, whether Christian\, Islamic\, Buddhist\, or others\, are often seen to produce conservative agents of patriarchy\, in both men and women.  Writing about the women’s Islamic piety movement in contemporary Egypt\, Saba Mahmood has criticized the narrow definition of women’s agency put forth by liberal Western feminism.  She suggests that women’s agency cannot be understood or defined in terms of oppositionality\, critical discourse\, or rebellious acts\, but must also take into account the modesty\, self-effacement\, and self-sacrificing ethos of pious women.  Here\, I will examine the non-oppositional religious agency of pious women in rural and small-town Wenzhou.  Two divinities in particular\, the regional deity of Chinese popular religion\, known as Goddess Chen the Fourteenth\, and the Buddhist mother goddess Guan Yin\, inspire these women’s religious agency.  However\, I depart from Mahmood\, who almost closes herself off from feminist inquiry\, by showing how local women have\, through their self-sacrifice\, religious leadership\, and religious transcendence\, carved out a public space and role for women.  In the absence of feminism\, and without directly confronting or resisting patriarchal power\, women’s religious agency has made a social impact and brought changes in local society. \nShort bio: \nMayfair Yang received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from UC Berkeley.  She has been a faculty member in the Anthropology Department at UC Santa Barbara\, and is now a Professor in Religious Studies Department and East Asian Studies Department there.  Yang was Director of Asian Studies at the University of Sydney in Australia\, and has been visiting scholar at the University of Michigan\, University of Chicago\, Harvard University\, Academia Sinica in Taiwan\, Beijing and Fudan Universities in China\, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.  She is the author of Gifts\, Favors\, & Banquets:  the Art of Social Relationships in China\, and editor of Chinese Religiosities:  Afflictions of Modernities & State Formation\, andPlaces of Their Own:  Women’s Public Sphere in Transnational China.  Her forthcoming book:  Re-enchanting Modernity:  Ritual Economy & Religious Civil Society in Wenzhou\, China (Duke University Press).  She is also working on a second\, more theoretical book on Wenzhou religiosity and politics.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/prof-mayfair-yang-uc-santa-barbara-gendered-religiosity-patriarchal-structures-and-womens-agency-in-china/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, KWZ 0.602\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, Göttingen\, 37073
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SUMMARY:Prof. Hsiung Ping-chen (Chinese University of Hong Kong): "Discovering Childhood and Paediatrics in Chinese History: Further Considerations "
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nAs a reflection on thirty plus years of research on childhood and paediatrics in Chinese history\, this lecture intends to present further concerns after a systematic review\, in three parts:\nFirst\, a retrospective on the why’s and how’s of studying children and childhood in history\, the conceptual definition that the Chinese case had to start up with\, the categorical materials for the investigation\, the basic methodological questions to conduct the study with.\nSecond\, an in depth re-examination of the physical conditions in the beginnings of life \, and the role of traditional pedestrics  in the Chinese and East Asian cultural linguistic world.\nThird\, further considerations are offered in way of world history\, interdisciplinary childhood studies\, and contemporary Chinese youth culture\, in this ongoing journey.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/prof-hsiung-ping-chen-chinese-university-of-hong-kong-discovering-childhood-and-paediatrics-in-chinese-history-further-considerations/
LOCATION:Theologicum\, T0.136\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2\, Göttingen\, 37073
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SUMMARY:Prof. Mark Frazier (India-China Institute\, New School): "Urbanisation and Social Policy: Prospects for Social Citizenship in China"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nAs numerous commentators have pointed out\, China is the first country in the world to experience an ageing population without first having reached developed country status. China is indeed ‘growing old before it grows rich\,’ but the meanings and significance of this demographic event are not clear. A substantial body of scholarship\, generally public policy-oriented to measure and propose solutions to China’s demographic challenge\, has emerged since the mid-2000s\, with some observers concluding that the ageing burden will impose an insurmountable obstacle to China’s continued economic growth. Many analysts also wonder what population ageing will mean for the fiscal conditions of the Chinese government\, given the demands to be placed on a still fragmented\, and seemingly fragile\, public pension system. Yet\, will be argued in this paper\, the effects of population ageing will in large part depend on questions of citizenship. Inclusion and access to basic social protections—and\, by implication\, exclusion from them—are debated not only in China but also in most high-income countries\, many of which are ageing. In both the former and the latter\, pressures from population ageing would be lessened if those now treated in law and social policy as non-citizens were to be granted access to pension and other social welfare programs (notably\, healthcare) that rely on mandatory contributions from citizens.
URL:https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/events/prof-mark-frazier-new-school-urbanisation-and-social-policy-prospects-for-social-citizenship-in-china/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, KWZ 0.606\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, Göttingen\, 37073
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