Essays about: "party-state"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the word party-state.

1. 1. China’s Crisis Governance and Evolving State-Society Relations during the COVID-19 Pandemic

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Author : Ning Ao; [2023]
   Keywords : China; zero-COVID policy; state-society relations; civil rights; interest alignment; evolutionary governance; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Existing studies on China’s COVID-19 response have gravitated to a macro-level, formal institutional analysis, focusing either on the effectiveness of the policy in early-stage virus containment or on the growing negative impacts of COVID policy practices on China’s socio-political landscape at the late stage. Using serial interviews accompanied by online observations and documents, this thesis redirects its attention to the micro-level, individual response to China’s crisis governance and COVID policy practices. READ MORE

3. 2. Life of one's own: negotiating homosexuality with the family and party-state in China

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Daiyi Chen; [2023]
   Keywords : tongzhi; homosexuality; family; party-state; individualization; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The current study explores the process of how tongzhi, namely the homosexual men in China, who works for the party-state negotiates homosexuality with the family and the party-state in China. Under the background of the individualization of Chinese society, tongzhi has been pursuing to liberate homosexuality while encountering oppression from the family and the party-state. READ MORE

4. 3. Going towards a ‘perfect’ life : A qualitative study on urban middle-class young married women’s experiences and prospects on marriage life in China

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Author : Jiayu Xu; [2022]
   Keywords : Urban middle-class young women; Marriage; Suzhi; Governance ideology; China; Critical discursive psychology; Interpretative repertoires; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The self-evident contradictory governance ideology of the Chinese Communist Party leads to urban-born young middle-class Chinese women struggling between seeking one’s own path with the discourse of ‘individualism’ under the neoliberal market economy and conforming to the traditional role in the family of patriarchal culture. This is reflected in the increasing prominent phenomena of getting married later (after age 25). READ MORE

5. 4. The Chinese quest for good reputation: Strategic narratives, public diplomacy and China’s mass-media strategy

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Author : Elena-Eliza Purici; [2021]
   Keywords : China; Strategic narratives; Public diplomacy; Soft power; Media analysis; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Soft power and public diplomacy compose the new reality shaping the dynamics of contemporary international relations. Strategic narratives represent an essential means for political actors to extend their influence, gain the public opinion’s support for their actions and fulfill their foreign policy goals. READ MORE

6. 5. Women Hold Up Half the Sky - A case study on how professional women in contemporary Shanghai negotiate the contradictions between intergenerational obligations and career development

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Nicole Skoglund; [2020]
   Keywords : Intergenerational obligations; filial piety; desiring self; career women; leftover women; demography; China; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The Chinese party state has taken the initiative to exercise control over the nation’s population in order to align with family policy and goals for national development. As a result, the negatively loaded stereotype “leftover women” has deeply penetrated Chinese society where single, urban and educated Chinese women have been the main targets. READ MORE