The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) : shaping the reforms, academia and China (1977-2003) / / by Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner.

• Superior document: China studies, v. 9
• Author: Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret, 1961-
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (403 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This socio-political analysis of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) sheds new light on the link between China’s educational reforms and the ideological control exerted by the Party-state. It explores the dynamics of the ways in which the academic community has carved out and utilised the spaces between the academic and Party leadership and the free will of the individual. By differentiating between various forms of power, the author shows how knowledge produced at CASS is influenced not only as a direct result of top-down decisions-making but also unintentionally through organizational networks that interlock both leaders and led in the institutions they helped shape. Administrative tools and symbolic representation in official ceremony are shown to be indispensable for an adequate understanding of the generation of knowledge at CASS. With financial support of the International Institute for Asian Studies (www.iias.nl).

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / M. Sleeboom-Faulkner -- Chapter One. Introduction / M. Sleeboom-Faulkner -- Chapter Two. Locating Cass / M. Sleeboom-Faulkner -- Chapter Three. The Establishment Of Cass And The Process Of Prc State-Building / M. Sleeboom-Faulkner -- Chapter Four. Initial Reform (1977–1982)—Rehabilitations And Expectations / M. Sleeboom-Faulkner -- Chapter Five. Academic Democracy And Spiritual Pollution (1982–1985) / M. Sleeboom-Faulkner -- Chapter Six. Division Among Intellectuals (1985–1988)—Socialist Modernization And The Reforms / M. Sleeboom-Faulkner -- Chapter Seven. Increasing Open Conflict In The Ideological Sphere (1988–1989) / M. Sleeboom-Faulkner -- Chapter Eight. Tightening Control And The Liberalization Of Academic Research (1990–1992) / M. Sleeboom-Faulkner -- Chapter Nine. Deepening The Reforms (1993–1998) / M. Sleeboom-Faulkner -- Chapter Ten. Who Works At Cass And Why? / M. Sleeboom-Faulkner -- Chapter Eleven. National, Rational, And Symbolic Understanding In Academic China And Cass / M. Sleeboom-Faulkner -- Chapter Twelve. The Transformation Of Party Guidance In Cass / M. Sleeboom-Faulkner -- Chapter Thirteen. Streamlining Cass—From Direct Control To Regulatory Information Networks / M. Sleeboom-Faulkner -- Chapter Fourteen. LI Tieying And The Role Of Cass In State Policy-Making / M. Sleeboom-Faulkner -- Chapter Fifteen. Changing The System From Within? / M. Sleeboom-Faulkner -- Appendix I. Cass Research Institutes / M. Sleeboom-Faulkner -- Appendix II. Chronology Of The Founding Of The Xuebu And Cass Institutes / M. Sleeboom-Faulkner -- Appendix III. Economic Research Institutes And Their Research Divisions / M. Sleeboom-Faulkner -- Appendix IV. The History Of The Leadership System Of Cass / M. Sleeboom-Faulkner -- Appendix V. Selection Of Commemorations Held At Cass From 1992 To 1997 / M. Sleeboom-Faulkner -- Appendix VI. Ritualized Occasions / M. Sleeboom-Faulkner -- Bibliography: Chinese / M. Sleeboom-Faulkner -- Bibliography: European Languages / M. Sleeboom-Faulkner -- Chinese Glossary Of Recurrent Concepts And Key Phrases / M. Sleeboom-Faulkner -- Index / M. Sleeboom-Faulkner.