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The Idea of Governance and the Spirit of Chinese Neoliberalism APPENDIX IINTERVIEW METHOD AND INFORMANT POOL This appendix provides details concerning the interview set used in this book. Heimer and Thogersen’s Doing Fieldwork in China (2006) offers thorough and updated methodological guidance. Our interviews were undertaken from 2009 to 2014, spanning nearly five years of the late Hu-Wen administration and the early Xi-Li administration, witnessing a gradual ideological shift from one slogan (Harmonious Society) to another (Modernization of State Governance). It was thus a suitable period to observe and explore the discursive adjustments made by govern- ance theorists and practitioners as they did in the early days of the intro- duction of governance in China. The leading proponents of governance mentioned in this book are active in academic and policy circles, in particular at the Central Compilation & Translation Bureau, Renmin University, Zhejiang University, Peking University and Fudan University. Beijing and Shanghai are the two major cities where govern- ance ideas are created, circulated and experimented. Those who once studied at these centers have found new positions at universities, party schools or administrative academies in other cities. In this regard, the institutional and geographic distribution of the interviewees roughly cor- responds to their generational relations. The Chinese story of governance, now more than 20 years long, can be read largely as their collective work. The informant pool of 30 interviewees was selected for their contributions to the intellectual development of governance, according to peer © The Author(s) 2017 193 Q. Li, The Idea of Governance and the Spirit of Chinese Neoliberalism, DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-4139-6 194 APPENDIX I INTERVIEW METHOD AND INFORMANT POOL evaluations and citation rates of their corpus of works. The following information about the governance scholars interviewed for this study is provided: position, affiliation and location. For reasons of privacy, all names in the following list are pseudonyms. 1. Yu Qinying. Professor. Renmin University of China. Beijing. 2. Zhou Yihong. Professor. Renmin University of China. Beijing. 3. Chen Zhenyu, Professor, Renmin University of China. Beijing. 4. Li Guoxiong, Associate Professor, Renmin University of China. Beijing. 5. Liao Wen. Associate Professor, Renmin University of China. Beijing. 6. Sun Yong. Research Fellow. Central Compilation & Translation Bureau. Beijing. 7. Cai Jianshe. Research Fellow. Central Compilation & Translation Bureau. Beijing. 8. Chen Qichang. Research Fellow. Central Compilation & Translation Bureau. Beijing. 9. Zhang Fengji. Research Fellow. Central Compilation & Translation Bureau. Beijing. 10. Lin Zhongrong. Professor. University of International Business and Economics. Beijing. 11. Liu Jianguo. Professor. Peking University. Beijing. 12. Wu Shujian. Professor. Peking University. Beijing. 13. Xi Cuimei. Professor. China National School of Administration. Beijing. 14. Li Chaoqun. Professor. Fudan University. Shanghai. 15. Liu Jinchang. Associate Professor. Fudan University. Shanghai. 16. He Xianlong. Professor. Fudan University. Shanghai. 17. Wei Jieming. Associate Professor. Fudan University. Shanghai. 18. Wu Zhenzhong. Professor. Tongji University. Shanghai. 19. Tong Xiaoke. Professor. Tongji University. Shanghai. 20. Wang Hongmei. Professor. East China University of Political Science and Law. Shanghai. 21. Ding Yi. Associate Professor. Shanghai Administration Institute. Shanghai. 22. Guo Yelin. Professor. Zhejiang University. Hangzhou. 23. Li Renjie. Professor. Zhejiang University. Hangzhou. APPENDIX I INTERVIEW METHOD AND INFORMANT POOL 195 Table A.1 The topic guide used in interviews Part I Introduction 1. Researcher position, expectation of career, objective of the study, methodology, source of data 2. Respondent occupation, affiliation, research interests, relevant publications Part II Main questions Individual work(s) 1. Could you first of all tell me how you became interested in issues of governance in your research and writings? 2. What would you say is the problematic of your work(s) about governance? 3. What kind of policy suggestions are addressed in your work(s)? What is the significance of such suggestions for the ongoing political-administrative reforms? 4. What would you say is the distinctiveness of your work(s) compared with other governance studies? 5. What is the contribution of your work to the study of governance in the context of China? General background 6. Which environmental factors or any particular event have been important in pushing scholars to engage in governance theory? (Specifying the time scale; ask casually, if not, ask the next question instead) 7. What is the relationship between the rise of governance theory and Chinese broad context of political-economic reforms? 8. Does governance theory introduce some new perspectives to understand China’s political-administrative development during the reform era? To what extent can governance theory help scholars to understand the political reality of transitional China? Intellectual development of governance theory in China 9. Are there any linkages between governance theory and the other theories or ideas in public administration (or political science)? 10. How would you evaluate the introduction and application of western theories of governance in transitional China? What are the implications of such event for Chinese public administration? 11. How would you assess the current intellectual development of governance theory in China? Part III Recommendations 1. Among the scholars specialized in governance theory, which one(s) do you particularly appreciate? Based on which works in your readings, if available? 2. Which topic(s) is worthy of further study in the field of governance? Why? 196 APPENDIX I INTERVIEW METHOD AND INFORMANT POOL 24. Jin Huaiyuan. Professor. Zhejiang Gongshang University. Hangzhou. 25. Zhou Wenhai. Research Fellow. Zhejiang Provincial Party School. Hangzhou. 26. Xiao Ligong. Professor. Sun Yat-sen University. Guangzhou. 27. Zhai Junjie. Professor. Sun Yat-sen University. Guangzhou. 28. Yang Jun. Professor. Central China Normal University. Wuhan. 29. Ren Hai. Professor. Nanjing University. Nanjing. 30. Wu Feng. Associate Professor. Central South University. Changsha. In practice, the length of an interview was generally kept under two hours, with actual progress adjusted based on informants’ responses. Meanwhile, two additional tasks were carried out: the refining of the topic guide as the interviews progressed and the collecting of primary and secondary documents, statistical data, scholarly literature and journal- istic publications from the libraries of research institutions. These tasks aimed to improve the validity and effectiveness of interviews. The follow- ing table presents the main questions in the practical semi-structured interviews. (Table A.1) APPENDIX II SAMPLING METHOD FOR GOVERNANCE TEXTS The corpus of sample texts for textual analysis in this book was selected from a few leading journals published by Chinese party schools and administrative academies. The data collection had two steps. First, we identified sample journals from the recent six-year annual rankings (2010–2015) of the Information Center for Social Sciences of Renmin University of China, based on the statistical analysis of articles published in its Replicated Journals. The Chinese academic community generally accepts the authority of this professional ranking in the field of humanities and social sciences. In the category “journals of cadre training schools,” the Center usually lists the top 20 journals according to their overall performance. We drew on this source of data and then calculated the frequency and ranking of each journal every year. The following table shows the result of this first step (Table A.2). For the second step, we used the online database China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) to identify the four most cited articles on governance in the journals we had labeled. The advantage of this method was that it took into account the academic significance of articles and journals. A total of 80 texts were selected. In this way, we were able to draw a satisfactorily full picture of governance discourse for possible ideal-type synthesis. The literature has three obvious features that deserve illustration. First, these governance authors are generally supportive of the government and are primarily concerned with improving state capacity. Second, the texts © The Author(s) 2017 197 Q. Li, The Idea of Governance and the Spirit of Chinese Neoliberalism, DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-4139-6 198 Table A.2 List of selected journals of party schools and administrative academies APPENDIX II SAMPLING METHOD FOR GOVERNANCE TEXTS Ranking Title in Chinese Title in English Publisher Frequency Est. 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 year 1 理论学刊 Theory Journal Shangdong Monthly 1984 10 4 9 5 14 11 Provincial Party School 2 北京行政学院学报 Journal of Beijing Beijing Bimonthly 1999 7 2 13 10 3 5 Administrative Adminitrative College College 3 江苏行政学院学报 Journal of Jiangsu Jiangsu Bimonthly 2001 11 112110 Administration Administration Institute Institute 4 上海行政学院学报 Journal of Shanghai Shanghai BimMonthly 2000 13 16 5 13 4 1 Administration Administration Institute Institute 5 理论探讨 Theoretical Heilongjiang Bimonthly 1984 4 13 10 12 15 2 Investigation Provincial Party School 6 中共浙江省委党校 Journal of Zhejiang Zhejiang Bimonthly 1985 19 20 14 18 8 12 学报 Provincial Party Provincial Party School School 7 学习论坛 Tribune
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