{"id":33639,"date":"2024-06-24T13:19:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T17:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/?page_id=33639"},"modified":"2024-06-24T13:19:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T17:19:25","slug":"issues-in-brief-no-42-june-2024","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/publications-library\/issues-in-brief\/issues-in-brief-no-42-june-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Issues in Brief, No. 42, June 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Between Cohesion and Control: <em>Shequ<\/em> Governance during China\u2019s Zero-COVID<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2024\/06\/IIB042.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardee\/files\/2024\/06\/IIB042.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" class=\" size-medium alignright\" \/><\/a>By Xuyi Zhao<br \/>\nJune 2024\u00a0(8 Pages)<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2024\/06\/IIB042.pdf\">Download PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most research on China\u2019s zero-COVID policy has focused on its relationship with the country\u2019s political regime, ideological reasoning, policy-making logic, and self-legitimation of the Communist Party. Few studies have paid sufficient attention to how the policy was lived through in everyday life and collectively experienced on the ground. In this <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/publications-library\/issues-in-brief\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Issues in Brief<\/a><\/em>, Xuyi Zhao reflects on her 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Chengdu \u2014 a southwestern Chinese metropolis with over 21 million permanent residents \u2014 from August 2021 to October 2022. Based on her work with local civil servants, community workers, and residents from different social backgrounds, she explores how China&#8217;s draconian zero-COVID policy was made possible on a daily basis, and what implications this top-down initiative engendered for urban governance and community building in urban China. She presents \u201cthe Community\u201d (<em>shequ<\/em>) as a dynamic interface between the state and the individual citizens that often oscillates between the paradoxical aspects of social cohesion and political control.<\/p>\n<p>Xuyi Zhao is a PhD candidate in sociocultural anthropology broadly interested in urbanization, migration, gender, and the state. Zhao holds a BA in political science from Peking University and an MPhil in Asian and Middle Eastern studies from the University of Cambridge. Her current research investigates state-engineered urbanization in southwest China at the intersection of time, politics, and urban imagination. She was a 2023 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between Cohesion and Control: Shequ Governance during China\u2019s Zero-COVID By Xuyi Zhao June 2024\u00a0(8 Pages) Download PDF Most research on China\u2019s zero-COVID policy has focused on its relationship with the country\u2019s political regime, ideological reasoning, policy-making logic, and self-legitimation of the Communist Party. Few studies have paid sufficient attention to how the policy was lived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10270,"featured_media":0,"parent":10277,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33639"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33652,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33639\/revisions\/33652"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}