The Party-State’s Hegemonic Project and Responses from Civil Society: The Case of Service-oriented NGOs in China

IF 1.7 2区社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES

Critical Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI:10.1080/14672715.2022.2164738

S. Yang

引用次数: 1

Abstract

ABSTRACT This article investigates the Chinese party-state’s hegemonic project to construct social consent in NGOs and how they react to this. Using service-oriented NGOs as examples, it argues that the changing institutional dynamics of NGO governance in China demonstrates that Chinese civil society is a site of ideological struggle. The party-state has adapted some foreign concepts and practices of civil society, which have been popular in China since the reform era, to serve its political and socioeconomic agenda, while avoiding political challenges of liberal values and discourse. Civil society’s hegemonic transformation relies on two major mechanisms—professionalization and Maoist incorporation. This process, however, also leaves some space for NGOs to act differently. Some have been comfortably incorporated into the state-led welfare system and reproduce authoritarian norms and practices among their beneficiaries, whereas counter-hegemonic activism still exists among groups that link their stance and agenda closely with marginalized groups in society.

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党国的霸权计划与公民社会的回应——以中国服务型非政府组织为例

本文考察了中国党国在非政府组织中建构社会同意的霸权计划，以及他们对此的反应。本文以服务型非政府组织为例，认为中国非政府组织治理的制度动态变化表明，中国公民社会是一个意识形态斗争的场所。党国政府将一些自改革开放以来在中国流行的外国公民社会概念和实践加以改编，以服务于其政治和社会经济议程，同时避免了自由主义价值观和话语的政治挑战。公民社会的霸权转型依赖于两大机制——专业化和毛主义整合。然而，这个过程也给非政府组织留下了一些不同的空间。一些人已经轻松地融入了国家主导的福利体系，并在受益者中复制了专制的规范和做法，而反霸权行动主义仍然存在于将自己的立场和议程与社会边缘群体紧密联系在一起的群体中。

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Critical Asian Studies AREA STUDIES-

CiteScore

3.20

自引率

3.80%

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期刊介绍： Critical Asian Studies is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal that welcomes unsolicited essays, reviews, translations, interviews, photo essays, and letters about Asia and the Pacific, particularly those that challenge the accepted formulas for understanding the Asia and Pacific regions, the world, and ourselves. Published now by Routledge Journals, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, Critical Asian Studies remains true to the mission that was articulated for the journal in 1967 by the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars.