Domestic Politics in Contemporary and Historical China

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

This panel brings together papers discussing domestic politics in China. One paper explores how the Chinese state has been restructuring local administration in response to demographic pressures, while another addresses the local resource curse and mitigates resource conflicts. A third paper looks at very recent surveillance patterns undertaken by the Chinese state in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The two final papers which round off the panel look historically, one at the effect of bureaucratic purges in China under Mao on the behavior of local bureaucrats during the Great Leap Forward and the second on deliberative bureaucracy in China under central planning.

Sub Unit

• Division 12: Comparative Politics of Developing Countries

Individual Presentations

• Adapting the Local State to Demographic Distress - Pierre F. Landry, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Zheng ZHANG, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• From Curse to Cooptation: How Resource Conflicts Drive Social Policies in China - Jing Vivian Zhan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Qin Li, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• How Surveillance Justifies Mass Coercion: Insights from China's COVID Lockdowns - Xu Xu, Princeton University; Xin Jin

• The Shadow Cost of State Violence: Evidence from Bureaucratic Purges in China - Ning He, New York University; Wenbing Wu, The University of Melbourne

Chair

• Chengyu Fu Harvard University

Discussants

• Shengqiao Lin Harvard University

• Chengyu Fu Harvard University