Apathy is not Enough: Changing Modes of Student Management in Post-Mao China

Jérôme Doyon and Konstantinos Tsimonis

Europe-Asia Studies, 2022, vol. 74, issue 7, 1123-1146

Abstract: Chinese campuses have been remarkably calm since the post-1989 repression. Yet, the absence of contention masks profound changes in the party-state’s campus management tactics, exemplifying the different approaches authoritarian regimes employ to regiment students. Based on fieldwork before and after Xi Jinping’s rise to power (2012), we analyse the party-state’s move from a ‘corporatist’ to a ‘partification’ strategy on campus. Contrary to the literature that sees apathy and depoliticisation as the goal of the party-state’s management of campuses, we argue that these changes reveal the regime’s apprehension about student alienation from official political channels and constitute an effort to reverse it.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2022.2089349

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