Citizenship and the State in Contemporary China

Chen, Sicong

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-6323-7_3

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“…The discourses of the interviewed participants revealed the Party-state as a principal shaper of citizenship-related education in universities (Chen, 2018). The official discourses might easily become accepted, or at least taken for granted by students affected by these policies.…”

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Active participants but confused minds: university students’ perceptions of citizenship learning experiences in Chinese higher education

Zhang

2023

STICS

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Purpose There is widespread debate about the nationalistic top-down approach of citizenship education. By using the notion of cultural citizenship as a useful theoretical lens, citizenship education research tends to focus on the process of subjectivity construction among students’ citizenship learning process. The Communist Party of China plays a dominant role in cultivating citizens in the form of ideological and political education (IaPE) in Chinese universities. The research problem thus focuses on the dynamics and complexity of how Chinese university students construct their subjectivities regarding citizenship learning through IaPE. The main purpose of the study is to provide some research directions for understanding students’ citizenship learning today. Design/methodology/approach With the case study of one university in China and interview data from 25 students, this paper examines the ways in which students understand and respond to dominant discourses. Findings The findings revealed there is a deficit of citizenship learning in IaPE, and students felt ideologically pressurized. This study suggests students’ complex subjectivities of active participants but confused minds as a phenomenon in Chinese higher education, in which they must involve in IaPE for personal academic and career development, while they adopted covert strategies for self-conscious citizenship learning expectations. These strategies took the form ranging from obediently completing basic curriculum requirements and distancing away by studying abroad, to actively searching for learning opportunities from other courses and media society. Originality/value This paper contributes to citizenship education research by recognizing the complexities of how subjectivities are formed in formal university settings.

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Active participants but confused minds: university students’ perceptions of citizenship learning experiences in Chinese higher education

Zhang

2023

STICS

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“…Through this, they are socialised into loving the nation, the party and socialism (Party Committee of Ministry of Education, 2016). IPE is the platform through which the state fosters morality and patriotism, teaches socialism with Chinese characteristics, and promotes support for the party leadership (Chen, 2018;Li, 2011;Zhou et al, 2011). Patriotism is described in an IPE textbook as the 'spiritual gene for the Zhonghuaminzu (Chinese nation)' (our translation, Ideological-Political Education Research Group 2018, p. 199); the term 'spiritual gene' implies a notion of Chinese identity with ethnocultural connotations.…”

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Students at the Nexus Between the Chinese Diaspora and Internationalisation of Higher Education: The Role of Overseas Students in China’s Strategy of Soft Power

Han¹,

Tong²

2021

British Journal of Educational Studies

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In recent years, an increasingly assertive People's Republic of China (PRC) leadership has sought to extend the PRC's influence globally. To this end, it has developed diverse strategies ranging from soft power to more coercive means. The more visible strategies include the Belt and Road Initiative, the Chinese Dream, and 'wolf warrior' diplomacy. At the soft power end of the spectrum, Chinese overseas students are at the nexus between two strategies of soft power -the Chinese diaspora and the internationalisation of higher education. While there is an established literature analysing China's soft power worldwide, relatively little has been done on the role of higher education, particularly where this concerns overseas Chinese students. The article will examine China's use of overseas students to project its soft power. It then identifies the strategies that support this, viz. ideological and political education to prepare young people for this role and, once overseas, an appeal to a conception of the Chinese diaspora, as well as the organisations (e.g. embassies and student associations) that form potential channels to students and monitor and support them in their role.

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“…With the rapid development of the economy and continuous improvements in people's living standards, the study of air quality has received much attention. Only when we use objective and scientific air quality assessment methods can we really mobilize the enthusiasm and scientific nature of local governments to control air pollution [5]. Changchun is one of the central cities in northeast China; it is very representative of an industrial base [6].…”

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A Novel Combined Model for Air Quality Index Forecasting in Changchun

Chen,

Wang,

Deng

2023

Atmosphere

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With the rapid development of the economy and continuous improvement in people’s living standards, the predictions of the air quality index have attracted wide attention. In this paper, a new feature selection method (Pearson-MI) and a combined model construction method (modified inverse variance method) were proposed to study the air quality index (AQI) and its influencing factors in Changchun. The Pearson-MI method selects the factors that affect the AQI of Changchun City from many influencing factors. This method reduces the RMSE of the LSTM model and XGBoost model by 27% and 5% and the MAE by 41% and 5%, respectively. A model that combines XGBoost, SVR, RF, and LSTM was constructed using the inverse variance method to predict the air quality index of Changchun City. The modified combined model resulted in a 2% reduction in RMSE and a 0.6% reduction in MAE compared with the unmodified combined model. The numerical results of our study show that the prediction accuracy of the modified combined model is obviously higher than that of the basic model, and the prediction accuracy is further improved under the Pearson-MI feature selection.

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Citizenship and the State in Contemporary China

Cited by 3 publications

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Active participants but confused minds: university students’ perceptions of citizenship learning experiences in Chinese higher education

Active participants but confused minds: university students’ perceptions of citizenship learning experiences in Chinese higher education

Students at the Nexus Between the Chinese Diaspora and Internationalisation of Higher Education: The Role of Overseas Students in China’s Strategy of Soft Power

A Novel Combined Model for Air Quality Index Forecasting in Changchun

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