| Titre | The Dibao Recipients | |
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| Auteur | Dorothy J. Solinger | |
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Revue | China perspectives |
| Numéro | no 2008/4 The City, Laboratory of the New China | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Special Feature: The City, Laboratory of the New China |
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| Page | 36-46 | |
| Résumé anglais | After the Chinese leadership became cognizant of the negative social externalities of marketization--especially potential threats to its hallowed objectives of social stability and successful state enterprise reform--it initiated a novel welfare approach, the dibao, to handle the people most severely affected by economic restructuring. I review the state's management of these people and the latter's experiences. I argue that they are seen subliminally (if not explicitly) by the elite as a menace to officialdom's modernization ambition. Hence, the dibao is structured so as to keep its targets quiet and out of view, now and into the future. |
