Abstract
Through the lens of Western citizenship conception (Chap. 2) and taken into account of the state factor (Chap. 3), this book has empirically unveiled the meaning of gongmin in contemporary Chinese society in three dimensions (Chaps. 4– 6) and situated the meaning into the three relevant and wider research areas of Chinese citizenship, East-West citizenship and citizenship education (Chap. 7). Empirical study inextricably has methodological limitation. To compensate for the limitation of the current study, I shall consider in this concluding chapter the possible changes to the found meaning of gongmin. Moreover, the constructed and social nature of the meaning of gongmin determines that what this book has disclosed has its particularity in terms of time, space and people. The other purpose of this chapter is thus to suggest what future work needs to explore following the findings in this book to further understand the term gongmin in contemporary Chinese society.
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