Social Corporatism in Contemporary China

从国家与社会关系的角度来看，中华人民共和国正经历着前所未有的变革进程。本研究项目旨在探索当代中国社会如何渗透到国家领域，将自下而上的自治社会过程聚焦到国家治理中。自2004年我们与中国劳工学会在本项目的总体方案下签订协议以来，我们对地方基层工会负责人的行为和意识进行了联合调研民意调查。成功采集分析了北京、上海、辽宁、浙江、广东等地1811份样品。四川省也进行了同样的考察基层政治领导的努力，通过与四川省社会科学院的联合研究，获得了200个县（县）政府、人大、党支部农村精英的个人资料样本，包括家庭背景、学业成就、职业道路甚至政治意识。为了将这些第一手的研究成果进行国际比较和借鉴，该项目于2007年12月10日在东京组织了题为“中国基层治理”的国际会议。借此机会，通过与其他地区和学科的学者的讨论，总结了该研究项目，并计划于今年秋季由法政大学出版社出版。

People' s Republic of China has been witnessing unprecedented transformation process in the light of the state-society relations. This research project has aimed at finding how the society in contemporary China has penetrated into the state' s sphere, focusing bottom-up process of autonomous society into the state governance.Since we signed the agreement with China Labour Institute in 2004 under the general scheme of this project, we have conducted joint research poll surveys on the behavior and awareness of trade unions directors at local grassroots level. 1811 samples from Beijing, Shanghai, Liaoning, Zhejiang, Guandong and other regions have been successfully collected and analyzed. Same sort of endeavor of scrutinizing grassroots level political leadership have been made at Sichuan Province. 200 samples of personal data of rural elites at County/Xian governments, congress and party branch including family background, academic achievement, career paths and even political awareness were obtained through joint research with Sichuan Academy of Social Science.In order to put these first-hand research findings into the international comparison and reference, this project had organized the international conference at December 10th, 2007 in Tokyo under the title of 'Governance in grassroots China'. On this opportunity, this research project has been summarized through the discussion with scholars from the other regions and disciplines, and the principal result of this research is scheduled to be published by the Hosei University Press in this coming autumn.