TY  - JOUR
TI  - Lineage solidarity and rhetorical resonance: village strategies to retain primary schools in rural China
AU  - Tian, Felicia F
AU  - Song, Jing
AU  - Du, Shichao
PY  - 2022
LA  - eng
KW  - Dorf
KW  - Schule
KW  - Gemeindeverwaltung
KW  - Politische Mobilisierung
KW  - Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
KW  - Soziales Netzwerk
AB  - As the state has shifted its priorities towards social harmony and poverty alleviation, this study finds rhetorical resonance, combined with strong lineage solidarity, as an emerging strategy for villages to compete for government resources and investments. By articulating grassroots needs as being in line with local cadres' performance goals, villages have successfully converted their needs into development proposals and mobilized lineage solidarity to persuade local cadres of the feasibility of such proposals. Drawing on three villages' school-saving efforts in Fujian province, our fieldwork illustrates how one village retained its school by mobilizing lineage solidarity and converting education into a "model" village project to boost cultural tourism. Others failed to do so and lost their schools. Under the target-based cadre management system, the bottom-up competition for government support is largely shaped by the villages' pre-existing development and resource structures, which may maximize management efficiency but may also reinforce socioeconomic inequalities between villages. (China Q / GIGA)
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741021001065
DO  - 10.1017/S0305741021001065
T2  - The China quarterly
VL  - 249
IS  - 1
SN  - 1468-2648
SN  - 0305-7410
SP  - 239-258
UR  - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/kxp-1800322968
H1  - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft)
ER  -