EAN: 9783962383299

LINKING THEORY WITH PRACTICE? - JULIA CHRISTINE...

In the early 2000s  the Chinese leadership officially acknowledged that the former development
model  based on irrational economic growth  had brought prosperity for a few  while leaving
behind a significant proportion of China's population. But the country's rapid development had
also taken a huge toll on natural resources and the environment. Since then  China's leaders
have pushed extensive reforms to move the country onto a sustainable path of development. While
most studies have looked into the diverse hierarchical instruments of regulation  supervision 
and punishment  few have recognized cadre training as a critical instrument to steer local
political action and expedite a change of values at the party-state level. This book unpicks
the complex and multi-layered structures of China's cadre training system  offering a new
perspective on its function within the nation's political system. Taking forest management as
its case study  the book reveals how the Chinese regime links ideology and practice in
knowledge transmission and how training is devised to put technical professional skills into
the service of political goals and visions. Based on a comprehensive set of qualitative data
collected through fieldwork and textual research  the book also reveals the drawbacks of this
training system  showing why it fails to foster the administrative capacities of local forestry
authorities in responding to the current challenges facing natural resource management.

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