IAPS travel bursary for Dun Mao

The Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies has awarded a travel bursary to Politics and International Relations doctoral candidate Dun Mao to support his fieldwork in China.

He explains his research:

My research intends to verify the turning govern philosophy of the Communist Party of China (CPC) from ‘government’ to ‘governance’, which was formally announced at the 3rd plenum of the 18th CPC Central Committee in 2013. More specifically, through archival research and semi-structured interviews with officials, business people and grassroots anticorruption activists, I will analyse policy and institutional reform in anticorruption battlefields in Shenzhen, China to examine whether governance actually applied in China, in which form, to what extent and, resulting in what effects. The data collected from my fieldwork will contribute substantively to the empirical chapters of my thesis.