Gratitude Education
’ Aid-as-Gift and the Agency of Recognition in Chinese Ethnic Governance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12422153 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Qiaoyun Zhang (0000-0001-8072-5973, Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University), Helina S Woldekiros (0000-0002-7790-0686, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China), Yang Zhan (0000-0001-7357-7861, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 132 |
| Pages | 960-976 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary China (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1067-0564 • E-ISSN: 1469-9400 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10670564.2021.1893560 |
| OpenAlex | W3134607472 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
Previous studies on disaster aid emphasize on how aid as gift forms hierarchical relations and thus perpetuates political and symbolic domination. This article, however, highlights the diverse possibilities and capabilities emerged in disaster aid. Based on a 15-month fieldwork, the authors focus on the ethnic minority Qiang’s post-earthquake experience throughout the unprecedented aid and state-sanctioned ‘Gratitude Education’ campaign. This article argues that the moral obligations of gratitude enabled the Qiang’s competition for tourism, education, and other public service resources despite submitting to a seemingly imbalanced power relation in the multi-ethnic region of southwest China. The article further argues that ethnic governance in China is structured on the entanglement of gift exchanges, state control, inter-ethnic competition, and the in-betweeness of ethnic members, which can be problematic yet productive
Agency (philosophy · China · Corporate governance · Economics · Ethnic group · Government (linguistics · Gratitude · Management · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Psychology · Public Administration · Social Psychology
Teachers’ conceptions of gratitude and its cultivation in schools in China
Discipline and moralise
China's Science Museum Gift to Ethiopia
Kinship imaginaries of similarity and difference
Contested disaster nationalism in the digital age
Negative automatic thoughts, gratitude, and subjective happiness in Chinese children
Citizens’ strategic responses to affective governance in China
The politics of spectrality in earthquake ruins
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |