Foundation Of PRC Research Articles

Excluded from Political Task: NGO s’ Marginalized Participation in China’s Accurate Poverty Alleviation Project

Abstract The importance of NGO s’ participation in poverty alleviation has not only been well documented by extensive studies but also confirmed by rich experience both at the international and national levels. In China, the government officially opened its resources to NGO s in combating poverty in 2005, and NGO s are expected to work as important participants in China’s accurate poverty alleviation project, which is the largest anti-poverty campaign launched by the central government since the foundation of PRC. However, empirical data in the paper shows that NGO s’ participation in this ambitious project is at best very limited. Drawing from more than 30 interviews and some other sources of data, this paper argues that it is the nature of poverty alleviation in China, which can be defined as political task, that should account for the NGO’s limited participation. To be more specific, the excessive workload assumed by the local government deprives officials’ motivation to cooperate with NGO s, excluding NGO s out of the poverty alleviation project is also a rational behavior that can avoid risks for officials. Moreover, the over-supplied financial resource also makes the participation of NGO s unnecessary. This research adds more insights to the study on NGO s in China by arguing that the state-society interaction in China is still asymmetrical.

The Influence of Population Migration and Mobility on Culture Changes in Xijiang since the Foundation of PRC

Based on a research on the population migration in Xinjiang, this article analyzes the influence that the floating population has on culture changes. This influence is manifold, including that of Han culture on minorities as well as minority cultures on Han culture. In the present situation in which China's ethnic groups live together over vast areas while some live in individual concentrated communities in small areas, Han culture’s influence on minorities is of dominance. When analyzing these culture changes against the background of “globalization”, the difference between “assimilation by Han” and “modernization” should be distinguished clearly.

Brief introduction of the construction of legal system of traditional Chinese medicine in modern China

Since the foundation of PRC, the people's government attaches great importance to the development of traditional Chinese Medicine. With the efforts of people from Chinese medicine and the Party Central Committee's concern, the legal system of traditional Chinese medicine has been progressing step by step. Since 1949, the construction of legal system of traditional Chinese medicine can be divided into three periods with lessons and achievements, each with its own features. Through the retrospect of the history of our legal system of traditional Chinese medicine from 1949 to modern times, and its analytical summary, we could obtain a lot of inspiration for the construction of modern legal system of traditional Chinese medicine.

Dynamika władzy w powojennych Chinach. Próba analizy teoretycznej

The aim of this paper is to make an attempt to analyze the dynamics of thr political power in People’s Republic of China, using the conceptual apparatus of Leszek Nowak’s non-Marxian historical materialism. By means of application of his first model of the dynamics of power, I am going to generalize in theoretical manner main political changes in post-war China: from foundation of PRC, through Cultural Revolution and Opening Reforms up to the Chinese politics after 1989. Conducted analysis will allow me to make three wide-ranging predictiions concerning further development of China in the field of politics, economy and ideology.