Role Differentiation in Chinese Higher Education by Xiaoxin Du

Role Differentiation in Chinese Higher Education by Xiaoxin Du

Author:Xiaoxin Du
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789811583001
Publisher: Springer Singapore


Nonetheless, this system of information collecting and reporting made students cautious about posting political opinions on social networks, since their student counselors “could see that” (Student 01). Though no negative consequences followed, the mechanism still served to censor opinions, as it sometimes led students to hide their true political opinions.

In addition, these bodies in JU practice their own form of self-censorship, as they generally only report students’ positive comments on issues related to the CPC (PAS 01); for example, students’ opinions on the 18th CPC National Congress, or Uygur students’ view on the 2014 attack in Kunming2, would be reported to faculty and collected by the General Office, which would then decide whether to report them to a higher level (Alumni 03, PAS 01). Students’ views on major CPC events and social problems are watched more closely, so the university can gauge specific students’ support for the CPC. These mechanisms, in a way, informed students about where the bottom line is; furthermore, student counselors would consistently tell them through various ways to stay away from politically sensitive issues.

The first area of politically sensitive activity students are counseled to avoid is participating in political movements against the CPC or that spread negative information about the CPC (SAS 01), or in political demonstrations. Alumna 03 recalled an incident in her undergraduate years in which the class FTP was found to contain a video on the 1989 Tiananmen Incident:The class representative was asked to have a talk with the National Security Department and the vice-secretary of the faculty CPC committee, since he hosted the server, though it was not him who uploaded the video. The student counselor of our class also had a talk with the representative and discussed with him how to avoid this type of incident in the future. The student counselor took this chance to educate all students in our class to be cautious on the contents we uploaded online and we spread. (Alumni 03)



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