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2008/4 Special Feature: The City, Laboratory of the New China | Special Feature: The City, Laboratory of the New China
Dorothy J. Solinger

The Dibao Recipients

Mollified Anti-Emblem of Urban Modernization

p. 36-46

Ce document sera publié en ligne en texte intégral le 1 décembre 2011.

Résumé

After the Chinese leadership became cognizant of the negative social externalities of marketization--especially potential threats to its hallowed objectives of social stability and successful state enterprise reform--it initiated a novel welfare approach, the dibao, to handle the people most severely affected by economic restructuring. I review the state’s management of these people and the latter’s experiences. I argue that they are seen subliminally (if not explicitly) by the elite as a menace to officialdom’s modernization ambition. Hence, the dibao is structured so as to keep its targets quiet and out of view, now and into the future.

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Dorothy J. Solinger, « The Dibao Recipients », China perspectives, n°2008/4, 2008, [En ligne], mis en ligne le 1 décembre 2011. URL : http://chinaperspectives.revues.org/document4738.html. Consulté le 26 novembre 2009.

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