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Chen Chengxin
(CASS)
Sessão de Abertura:
Approaching Grass-roots Social Governance in China During the Global Epidemic
In response to the public crisis, which is more trustworthy and reliable, the State or the grass-roots organizations? From the viewpoint of the governance of public affairs, which is more efficient and effective, the government or civil society? As China has achieved important results when faced with the unexpected global epidemic, what are the secrets of its staged success? Starting from a small case study of China's grass-roots organizations during the epidemic, the guest lecture will discuss what kind of mechanism was implemented between the State power and civil society, to implant a structure of governance that helps them work hand-in-hand to overcome the difficulties and to improve performance.
Bio: Chen Chengxin is Deputy Director of the Department of Contemporary China Politics Research, Institute Of Political Science, CASS. Her fields of expertise are Social Governance and Culture. She published more than 50 papers in core journals, presided over or participated in more than 30 projects. She has done academic visits in Germany, Switzerland, the United States,Japan,etc. and carried out lecture training in Aachen, Germany and quite a few provinces, municipalities, local districts and counties in China.
Lin Hong
(CASS)
Sessão Principal:
Practice and Experience of Poverty Alleviation in Rural China
Poverty alleviation has always been a key issue in global development. As part of global poverty alleviation, China has contributed more than three quarters of the world's poverty reduction. It is well known that in 1990 nearly a half of the world's population in extreme poverty was in China. Over the past 40 years, China's poverty alleviation actions have undergone four stages of transformation including: 1) relief-oriented poverty alleviation focusing on regional targets (1978-1985); 2) development-oriented poverty alleviation focusing on poor counties (1986-2000); 3) comprehensive poverty alleviation focusing on poor villages (2001-2010); and 4) targeted poverty alleviation (2011-present). Throughout the whole process, a system of poverty governance with Chinese characteristics has been gradually established, which has adapted to national and local situations and has also absorbed advanced international experience. This guest lecture will provide two different perspectives to understand China’s practice and experience of poverty alleviation in rural areas, one is the top-down perspective to have an overall picture of poverty alleviation as a kind of China’s national action; and the other is the bottom-up perspective to understand Chinese people’s subjectivity and life change during the "War Against Poverty" declared by UN in the early 1990s.
Bio: She is an assistant professor in the Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She received doctorate in social-cultural anthropology at Peking University in 2010, and previously served in the International Labor Office (Beijing Office) from 2010 to 2013, focusing on HIV/AIDS related research and training. During doctoral and postdoctoral research periods, she has conducted two long-term pieces of fieldwork, including one in environmental non-governmental organization Friends of Nature (November 2013.11-until the present), and the other in Sunan Yugu Minority Autonomous Region of Gansu province (February 2008.2-until the present). Her research interests mainly cover topics of ethnic groups, social governance of environmental issues and public health. She has published books including: A Study on the Practice of Poverty Alleviation in Pastoral Villages from the Perspective of Social Transformation (2020, sole author), Surname and Sex: an Ethnography of Yugu’s Kinship System (2018, sole author), Fields Everywhere: Anthropologists' Field Stories (2018, chief editor). She has also published more than 30 papers and reports related to her two pieces of fieldwork and to the period where she worked for the UN.
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