Asian Studies Seminar Series: Holly Snape In brief Date - 5 February 2025Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George SquareSpeaker - Dr Holly Snape (University of Glasgow)Title - "Society Work": Shaking Up Party-Society Relations? About the eventIn spring 2023, the Communist Party of China (CCP) established a new Central Society Work Department (CSWD), charging it with functions from managing citizens’ petitioning to figuring out how to “build” the Party among gig economy workers, and livestreamers.The CSWD’s portfolio also covers Party building in NGOs and businesses and subsumes what was previously the state civil affairs system’s functions of interfacing with “self-governance” entities in communities and villages. The national-level CSWD’s establishment is currently being mirrored down to at least the county level, creating a vast network of new “society work” agencies all over the country.This talk will cover what we know about the CSWD and “society work” so far and will examine possible scenarios in its development, focusing particularly on how it might shake up relationships between CCP and society.About the speakerDr Holly Snape is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Glasgow. Prior to that she was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow.Holly has spent over a decade studying and working in China, primarily based at Tsinghua University’s School of Public Management and Peking University’s Research Centre for Chinese Politics. In 2023 and 2024, respectively, she worked as a visiting fellow at Peking University’s School of Government and Shenzhen University’s School of Government studying recent shifts in Chinese politics.Her research focuses on Chinese Communist Party institutions and practices, Chinese documentary politics, and civil society and she is currently leading a project to compare social policy in the Chinese and Vietnamese party-led systems. Holly is Editor in Chief of Chinese Law and Government.How to attendThis event is free to attend and open to all. No registration is required, simply turn up on the day.Are you interested in studying with us?We are the only university in Scotland to offer full undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in both Chinese and Japanese, as well as postgraduate programmes in Korean Studies and East Asian Studies. Find out more about Asian Studies at Edinburgh Feb 05 2025 16.00 - 18.00 Asian Studies Seminar Series: Holly Snape An in-person seminar by Dr Holly Snape (University of Glasgow), titled '"Society Work": Shaking Up Party-Society Relations?' Project Room 1.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue: 50 George Square
Asian Studies Seminar Series: Holly Snape In brief Date - 5 February 2025Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George SquareSpeaker - Dr Holly Snape (University of Glasgow)Title - "Society Work": Shaking Up Party-Society Relations? About the eventIn spring 2023, the Communist Party of China (CCP) established a new Central Society Work Department (CSWD), charging it with functions from managing citizens’ petitioning to figuring out how to “build” the Party among gig economy workers, and livestreamers.The CSWD’s portfolio also covers Party building in NGOs and businesses and subsumes what was previously the state civil affairs system’s functions of interfacing with “self-governance” entities in communities and villages. The national-level CSWD’s establishment is currently being mirrored down to at least the county level, creating a vast network of new “society work” agencies all over the country.This talk will cover what we know about the CSWD and “society work” so far and will examine possible scenarios in its development, focusing particularly on how it might shake up relationships between CCP and society.About the speakerDr Holly Snape is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Glasgow. Prior to that she was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow.Holly has spent over a decade studying and working in China, primarily based at Tsinghua University’s School of Public Management and Peking University’s Research Centre for Chinese Politics. In 2023 and 2024, respectively, she worked as a visiting fellow at Peking University’s School of Government and Shenzhen University’s School of Government studying recent shifts in Chinese politics.Her research focuses on Chinese Communist Party institutions and practices, Chinese documentary politics, and civil society and she is currently leading a project to compare social policy in the Chinese and Vietnamese party-led systems. Holly is Editor in Chief of Chinese Law and Government.How to attendThis event is free to attend and open to all. No registration is required, simply turn up on the day.Are you interested in studying with us?We are the only university in Scotland to offer full undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in both Chinese and Japanese, as well as postgraduate programmes in Korean Studies and East Asian Studies. Find out more about Asian Studies at Edinburgh Feb 05 2025 16.00 - 18.00 Asian Studies Seminar Series: Holly Snape An in-person seminar by Dr Holly Snape (University of Glasgow), titled '"Society Work": Shaking Up Party-Society Relations?' Project Room 1.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue: 50 George Square
Feb 05 2025 16.00 - 18.00 Asian Studies Seminar Series: Holly Snape An in-person seminar by Dr Holly Snape (University of Glasgow), titled '"Society Work": Shaking Up Party-Society Relations?'
