For the past several months, China’s State Council Information Office has been hosting a series of press conferences intended to showcase the accomplishments of various government ministries and provincial-level...
In a recent essay, Lu Dewen (吕德文, Lǚ Déwén)—a sometimes controversial Wuhan University sociologist whose research focuses on rural governance—argues that bureaucratic formalism, meaningless busywork, and technological hegemony...
Xi Jinping’s unanimous re-election to a third term as President, a formality after he retained his spot as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party last October, was the headline event of the annual meeting of China’s...
As a result of President Xi Jinping’s ongoing anti-corruption campaign, there has been a...
According to state media, more than 130,000 government “leading groups” across China...
Catch-22, the title and starring-rule of Joseph Heller’s 1961 satire of bureaucratic folly...
From Xinhua, via the China Daily: (h/t World-China Bridges blog) China’s county and local governments would be rewarded for streamlining administrative structures, cutting personnel and ensuring expenditures on key...
Wonder why people in China have been getting so excited over government efforts to reorganize and reduce bureaucracy? A recent post on the popular Daqi BBS provides some stunning insight. Written by a frequent contributer who...
A netizen by the name “1913” published a list of an unidentified city’s various government agencies (including tax-funded organizations) and the numbers of public servants in them. It triggered interesting...
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