Governing Culture: A Social Network Analysis of the Culture System in the Chinese Bureaucracy

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Abstract: This thesis explores the organizational side of governing the cultural sphere in China by analyzing the Culture System in the bureaucracy. The goal is two-fold—first, to understand the overall structure that governs the culture sector in the Chinese Party-state, and second, to use empirical data to examine the Culture System at the municipal and county levels, which contributes to the lack of research on the local structure of the system. This thesis utilizes social network analysis (SNA) to analyze the interconnectedness and structural patterns of the Culture System, using datasets of personnel flow and multi-job holding (jianzhi) in a Chinese province. The main finding here is the significant difference between the municipal and county levels. At the municipal level, we can observe a cohesive Culture System that is tied together through mobility and jianzhi relations, which does not exist at the county level. Another main finding is the centrality of the Publicity Department through its connections with important bureaus in the bureaucracy and the distinct structural position it occupies, evidencing its leadership status in the system.

Author	Li, Yanni
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Stanford Global Studies, Center for East Asian Studies
Thesis advisor	Zhou, Xueguang

Subject	Stanford Global Studies
Subject	East Asian Studies
Subject	Chinese bureaucracy
Subject	China
Subject	Culture
Subject	Social sciences > Network analysis
Subject	Local government
Genre	Text
Genre	Thesis

DOI	https://doi.org/10.25740/cb842pd3564
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/cb842pd3564

License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC).

Preferred citation: Li, Y. (2023). Governing Culture: A Social Network Analysis of the Culture System in the Chinese Bureaucracy. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/cb842pd3564. https://doi.org/10.25740/cb842pd3564.

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