Charity with Chinese Characteristics

Levy, Katja; Pißler, Knut Benjamin

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“…In China's well-researched third sector (e.g., Levy & Pissler, 2020;Z. Zhang & Guo, 2021), social organizations act within a generally restraining political-legal framework and under state control that is particularly restrictive of private political action (Levy & Pissler, 2020). Economic reforms and neoliberal economic policies led to a retreat of the state from its social responsibilities and opened windows of opportunity for social organizations (Lei & Walker, 2013).…”

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“…China has recently also sought to bolster the involvement of nonprofits in social service contracting (Dong & Lu, 2021) and Chinese nonprofits generally see the prospective "funding influx with enthusiasm" (Zhao et al, 2016, p. 51). This is particularly the case in areas that the government and Communist Party consider essential, that is, trade and commerce, science and technology, public welfare and charity, and urban and rural community services (Levy & Pissler, 2020). Social contracting arrangements were tested first in select pilot areas, including Shanghai and Shenzhen, and this experimentation at the provincial level chartered a course for growing official government support for nonprofits and some level of deregulation (Hu & Guo, 2016) and paved the way for the central government to ease policy nationwide (Y.…”

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Beyond the Partnership Paradigm: Toward an Extended Typology of Government/Nonprofit Relationship Patterns

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This article takes a fresh look at nonprofit/government relations in the context of both the partnership literature on collaboration and the closing space literature on repression. Following the Weberian ideal-type approach, we develop a heuristic tool for nuanced analyses of relations between the sectors in comparative research that is applicable in diverse political regime settings. We integrate foundational conceptions of Salamon, Young, and Najam to develop our framework, which we then illustrate with the cases of Russia and China. While repression is not necessarily the predominant characteristic of nonprofit–government relations in authoritarian regime settings, the reduction of intersectoral relations to collaboration strategies common in Western contexts also falls short of capturing the full complexity of the relationship. Rather than trying to establish national patterns, researchers need to remain sensitive to the coexistence of multiple government/nonprofit relationship types, affecting various parts of the nonprofit sector differently.

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“…In China, since the implementation of the reform and opening-up policy in the 1970s, political elites, economic elites, and public intellectuals have constituted the three main subjects of social participation ( Levy and Pissler, 2020 ). Under the government’s efforts to combine politics and popular culture, celebrities represented by entertainment and sports stars often engage in charitable activities to assist the party-state in addressing national development issues ( Deng and Jeffreys, 2019 ).…”

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Philanthropic Motives of China’s Celebrities in Media Representation: From an Impression Management Perspective

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2021

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Background: In China, celebrities, represented by entertainment and sports personalities, are often involved in charitable activities to assist the party-state in solving social problems. Although previous research has addressed the manifestation of prosocial behavior by Chinese celebrities, altruistic engagements have rarely been theorized from the perspective of impression management.Methods: Based on the perspective of impression management, we use the discourse analysis approach to analyze the interview manuscripts of Chinese celebrities in media reports and then summarize the charitable motives and impression management strategies adopted by Chinese celebrities in their self-presentation.Results: Chinese celebrities’ self-presentation of philanthropic motives in the media can be roughly divided into five categories: motivation for empathy-altruism, motivation for social responsibility, motivation to gain prestige, and pursue fame, motivation to reduce negative emotions, and motivation to achieve fulfillment and satisfaction. The philanthropic motives presented in media reports include the impression management processes of celebrities. They adopt a variety of image management strategies to self-present their philanthropic motives, and sometimes several strategies coexist.Conclusion: Our paper helps to expand the existing understanding of the relationship between impression management and philanthropy. The presentation of Chinese celebrities’ philanthropic motivations in the media reflects the uniqueness of China’s political, institutional, and social environment in influencing celebrity philanthropy. As a philanthropic phenomenon with Chinese characteristics, this study could provide some insights into the understanding of celebrities and philanthropy in other cultural contexts.

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