Work package 2 - China horizons | DWARC | Dealing with a resurgent China

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The dynamism of China’s society and culture

Work Package 2 aims to analyse the discrepancies and overlaps in conceptions of an ideal society between the new generations and the Party-state. It will investigate social protests, literature and cultural productions, gender experience and discourses on society in contemporary China through a multidisciplinary approach.

It will focus on China’s young generations and middle-class view of the norms and values of an ideal society, how much current social conflicts reflect their aspirations, and the extent of the role of patriotic education. Moreover, it will update the existing knowledge base on China’s cultural industries, including the regulatory environment and the artist - state relations.

Work package 2 leader

Jean-Louis Rocca

Professor at Sciences Po, Senior Researcher at Centre for International Studies (CERI), Sciences Po

Sociologist and Political scientist, contemporary Chinese societyHis research focuses on Chinese society, its social stratification and its symbolic and political representations. He pays particular attention to the middle class, which has become one of the major themes of debate and public policy. Firstly through an analysis of the different definitions given to it by social groups (businessmen, intellectuals) and the Party. Secondly by analyzing the phenomena of identification with this social class that can be identified in social conflicts and cultural movements.

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Work package 2 members

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