Shifting Ideologics of Research Funding

The CPC's National Planning Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12952363
AutoresHeike Holbig (0000-0002-3406-2600, Chinese and East Asian area studies at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main., autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen43
Número2
Páginas13-32
Fecha de publicación2014-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Current Chinese Affairs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1868-1026 • E-ISSN: 1868-4874
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/186810261404300203
OpenAlexW2911695502
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas5

For more than two decades, the National Planning Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences (NPOPSS) has been managing official funding of social science research in China under the orbit of the Communist Party of China's (CPC) propaganda system. By focusing on “Major Projects”, the most prestigious and well-funded program initiated by the NPOPSS in 2004, this contribution outlines the political and institutional ramifications of this line of official funding and attempts to identify larger shifts during the past decade in the “ideologics” of official social science research funding – the changing ideological circumscriptions of research agendas in the more narrow sense of echoing party theory and rhetoric and – in the broader sense – of adapting to an increasingly dominant official discourse of cultural and national self-assertion. To conclude, this article offers reflections on the potential repercussions of these shifts for international academic collaboration

China · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Rhetoric · Social science · Sociology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · Law · Public Administration