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100	1		_aYANG Zheng
700			_aJIEREN Hu
245			_aPolitical discourse in Chinese urban community: _bpragmatic utility and ideological fatigue
260			_c2023
520			_aChina's urban community is an important venue to examine the function of political discourse. Drawing on the theory of strategic action field, this article regards community as a field where officials act as incumbents, citizens as challengers, and the political discourse as an internal governance unit. The empirical data from multiple cities demonstrates that political discourses have facilitated the incumbents with several pragmatic utilities such as assuring the state's dominance, mobilizing citizens' participation, and disciplining residents' regular behaviors. Meanwhile, these discourses have met the problem of ideological fatigue. Local officials' hypocritical identification and citizens' disguised conformity disenable the Party-state to win recognition from both citizens and officials. The findings of this article enrich the current study of political discourse with a new perspective.
650			_aPOLITICS _zCHINA
773			_aJournal of Contemporary China: _gVol 32 No 143, September 2023, pp 863-877
598			_aPOLITICS,CHINA
856			_uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10670564.2022.2124355 _zClick here for full text
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