Dr Holly Snape*, Professor Jane Duckett*, Professor Patricia Thornton**, Professor Jinghan Zeng***, Dr Mike Gow****

*University of Glasgow; ** University of Oxford, ***Lancaster University, ****Edge Hill Business School

4pm–5.30pm Wednesday, 26 October 2022

ONLINE

The seminar will be online via Zoom, with registration at: https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrcOygrTItE9x8qHQzvGol0YQXO36zSOT6

At the 20th Congress, Xi Jinping delivered a potted version of the all-important political report. At 3am U.K. time, confusion ensued as analysts watching from afar awaited confirmation of rumours from journalists at the Great Hall of the People: was there really a longer report? As the drama settled—it turned out there is a longer written report—many initial analyses had already gone to press, based on the heavily trimmed version.

This public seminar will spotlight that all-important political report to the Congress, and the Charter amendments that followed. It will bring together five scholars based in the U.K. whose research focuses on difference aspects of Chinese politics and policy to discuss these key documents from the Congress.

Jane Duckett is Edward Caird Chair of Politics at the University of Glasgow and Director of the Scottish Centre for China Research. Her research has focussed on China’s health and social policies as well as on Chinese local government. She has published papers in a wide range of journals, including World Development, The China Quarterly, Modern China, and the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. Her books include China’s Changing Welfare Mix (2010, edited with Beatriz Carrillo), and The Chinese State’s Retreat from Health (2011).

Patricia M. Thornton is Associate Professor of Chinese Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR), University of Oxford, and Tutor in the Politics of China at Merton College. She is the author of Disciplining the State: Virtue, Violence, and State-Making in Modern China (Harvard University Press, 2007), and co-edited Red Shadows: Memories and Legacies of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (Cambridge, 2017) as well as To Govern China: Evolving Practices of Power (Cambridge, 2017). She has published numerous articles, and formerly served as acting Editor in Chief of The China Quarterly.

Jinghan Zeng is Professor of China and International Studies at Lancaster University. He is the author of Artificial Intelligence with Chinese Characteristics: National Strategy, Security and Authoritarian Governance (2022), Slogan Politics: Understanding Chinese Foreign Policy Concepts (2020) and The Chinese Communist Party's Capacity to Rule: Ideology, Legitimacy and Party Cohesion (2015). He is also the co-editor of One Belt, One Road, One Story? Towards an EU-China Strategic Narrative (2021).

Mike Gow is Lecturer in Business and Management at Edge Hill Business School. Mike's research focuses on contemporary China, exploring the role of consumerism and industry in state-building projects - with a focus on developments in the 21st century.  His research aims to understand the mobilization of the private sector in relation to superstructural reform; the role consumerism plays in both reproducing and transforming contemporary Chinese society; how the state, civil society and the private sector combine to "create" citizens in Xi Jinping's New Era. 

Holly Snape is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Glasgow and Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Law and Government. Her current research explores the Chinese Party-state relationship and the interplay between Party, state and society. She is also interested in civil society and political discourse.

 

The Scottish Centre for China Research Seminar Programme gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the MacFie Bequest.

For more details on the SCCR Seminar Series: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/research/sccr/events/

First published: 26 October 2022

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