Legitimacy crisis in China?

Shue, Vivienne

doi:10.4324/9780203400302_chapter_1

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“…Some said about the campaign on back pay clearance: 'It is not enough to issue new policies, they have to be enforced.' During these interviews, migrant workers were clearly denying the Party-state ability to protect their rights, govern with benevolence and preserve social order that are, as recalled by Shue (2004), the main grounds on which the CCP claims its legitimacy.…”

Section: Confronting Official Discourse With Unchanged Conditions: Grmentioning

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Social movements in China and Hong Kong: the expansion of protest space

2010

Choice Reviews Online

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Section: Confronting Official Discourse With Unchanged Conditions: Grmentioning

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Social movements in China and Hong Kong: the expansion of protest space

2010

Choice Reviews Online

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“…Fuyang infant formula scandal 2004) in China over the past ten years, but also led to rapidly declining public confidence in food safety authorities. However, corruption at the local level, manifested in the orchestrated cover-up between the local authority and Sanlu in 2008, deeply worries the central government which has been experiencing a 'legitimacy crisis' since the intensification of economic reform in 1992 (Shue, 2004). Public discontent over unemployment, expensive health care and income inequality resulting from the neoliberal reform poses a threat to the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party.…”

Section: [We Get the Jab] At The Community Hospital If You Don't Go mentioning

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Mediating science and nature: Representing and consuming infant formula advertising in China

Gong

Jackson

2013

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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Abstract:This paper analyses the representation and consumption of infant formula advertising on Chinese television, following the baby milk scare in 2008. Drawing on the concepts of 'encoding/decoding' and 'circuit of culture', the paper investigates how the Chinese dairy industry encodes the messages of food safety and quality in their advertisements and how parents decode the messages as part of their risk management strategies. The paper focuses on two moments -representation and consumption -in the 'circuit of culture'. Combining a critical analysis of advertising imagery with focus group and interview regarding its consumption, the paper suggests that the dairy industry juxtaposed images of science and nature to mediate messages about the quality and safety of infant formula. Findings show that Chinese consumers decode these messages based on their previous experience and knowledge, exhibiting considerable ambivalence about the advertising of infant formula and reflecting significant anxiety about the product's quality and safety. Both the representation and consumption of the advertising messages should be understood within the wider social and political context including the prevalent medicalization of childcare which accompanied recent neoliberal reforms and the lax regulation of health product advertising in China. The paper concludes that, in the absence of independent medical advice, affordable medical treatment and adequate government regulation, infant formula companies can make illfounded health claims for their products and employ dubious promotional tactics.

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“…At the same time, although the countryside deeply resents the abuse of power by local officials, it retains its trust in the policies of the Party-State. As Li and O'Brien (2010:95) observe, village protest leaders remain "confident in the Center's ability to deliver justice" (see also Wright 2010;Shue 2010).…”

Section: Rural Land Relations In Post-1978 Prcmentioning

confidence: 99%