Socialist emulation in China: worker heroes yesterday and today

Funari, Rachel; Mees, Bernard

doi:10.1080/0023656x.2013.804269

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“…Performance appraisal during the period of the planned economy was most commonly used for assessing promotion opportunities for cadres and appraisal criteria were tilted towards demonstrating the correct biao xian (attitudes and behaviors) (Ding and Warner 2001). This included reward for qualities such as party loyalty and the ability to set a good 'moral' example which recognised individuals on the basis of their diligence, modesty and self-sacrifice, the so-called 'labour hero' model (Funari and Mees 2013;Zhao 1995;Zhu and Dowling 1998).…”

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Performance appraisal in Western and local banks in China: the influence of firm ownership on the perceived importance ofguanxi

Nolan

2015

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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The Chinese cultural factor guanxi has an important influence on the implementation and effectiveness of HRM practices in China (Chen and Chen 2013;Nolan 2011;Rowley and Benson, 2002;Warner 2014). However few studies have investigated how guanxi influences performance appraisal in organizations with different ownership structures. We investigated this issue by studying three banks operating in mainland China: a state-owned commercial bank, a foreign owned bank and a city commercial bank. Both quantitative data (survey of 308 employees) and qualitative data (22 in-depth interviews) was used. Macro-level convergence and micro-level divergence was found among the banks. The reform of the performance appraisal system in the state-owned commercial bank indicated a degree of convergence in the appraisal system towards a form commonly found in western banks, at least on the surface. However there were differences in implementation level in the three banks. The perceived influence of guanxi on performance appraisal was strongest in the state-owned bank and weakest in the western-owned bank. The reasons for this included generational differences in cultural values, the international experience of employees and managers, and the degree of alignment between senior managers and others over the purpose of appraisal.

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Performance appraisal in Western and local banks in China: the influence of firm ownership on the perceived importance ofguanxi

Nolan

2015

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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“…However, Maoist China did not abandon competition; instead, it reassembled competitions with Marxist inspirations. These manifested in the cults of 'labour heroes' (Kelkar 1977) during the 1940s and the labor contests that emerged during the 1950s (Funari and Mees 2013). However, this movement turned into the Great Leap Forward, with different social sectors aiming for unsustainable goals, which devastated China's socialist progress.…”

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E-sports vs. Exams

Rao¹

2022

Social Analysis

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Many Chinese students dislike hyper-competitive public school exams but find competing in e-sports games enjoyable. Some students are perceived to game ‘too much’ by their parents, who, anxious about gaming's impact on their grades, send their children to treatment camps for ‘Internet addiction’. This article documents parents’ and student-gamers’ experiences of competition in China's formal education system, online gaming, and professional e-sports. As student-gamers move between these competitive arenas, they develop counter-hegemonic understandings of what competition does and reconfigure their sense of self. Their movements reveal that, far from a symptom of neoliberal ideology, the prevalence of competition in China marks dialectical interactions between various ideologies and the lived experience of competitive practices. This finding contradicts simplistic conflations of competition and neoliberal economic models.

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“…Behavioral models trace to the tradition of scholar-officials as exemplars of learning and leadership (Munro 2000), yet the compelling matter is how and why these models continue and transform. In the 1940s, the CCP introduced the Stakhanovite labor mobilization model from the Soviet Union to promote zealous work activity (Funari and Mees 2013), and subsequently portrayed the urgency of socialist production through model places for agricultural and industrial development, uniting workers at the grassroots (Shapiro 2001).…”

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Exemplary Cities in China: The Capitalist Aesthetic and the Loss of Space

Cartier

2019

Eurasian Geography and Economics

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Since the late twentieth century, the subject of China becoming urban has appeared in the scholarship across the disciplines while spectacular images of China's cities, and narratives about their developmental achievements, have proliferated in global media. At the same time, the parallel "spatial turn" in social thought invigorated geographical approaches to cities and urban change. Yet at this promising meeting ground, between contemporary geographical thought and urban-industrial transformation in China, research has tended to demonstrate a "loss of space" through patterns of dependence on analog circulation of exemplar paradigms that derive from the history of the capitalist city and liberal political economy. What drives this condition and what do we know about its practices and proliferation? This inquiry challenges research design and the politics of theory to consider how routine adoption of capital-centric concepts for research on cities in China arguably reflects the priority of paradigms in the disciplines and their conjunctures with exemplarity in Chinese society and political philosophy. These interstices facilitate application of analog models, and selective adoption of empirical information to suit them, with the paradoxical result of portraying cities in China through multiple capitalist aesthetics including a relatively narrow range of empirics framed by market-based social thought.

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Socialist emulation in China: worker heroes yesterday and today

Cited by 22 publications

References 25 publications

Performance appraisal in Western and local banks in China: the influence of firm ownership on the perceived importance ofguanxi

Performance appraisal in Western and local banks in China: the influence of firm ownership on the perceived importance ofguanxi

E-sports vs. Exams

Exemplary Cities in China: The Capitalist Aesthetic and the Loss of Space

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