S2-1:
<p>Session 2: Special Session for Graduate Students</p>
<p>1)A Case Study on the Preservation of Advance Models in China<br>
  by Chang Shu (M.A. Candidate,Department of Sociology, Tsinghua University,China.E-mail: 
  changs01@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn)</p>
<p>Abstract:</p>
<p>This paper focuses on the strategies of how the CCP committee of Xiyang County 
  sustained the superiority of Dazhai, a brilliant model in building socialist 
  agriculture in Maoist China, to illustrate the mechanism of how advance models 
  could be preserved. <br>
  The main proposition is that, the members in this committee as an interest group 
  played a crucial role in promoting Dazhai¡¯s advanced status, which contributed 
  a lot to the long-term maintenance of the mass movement to learn from Dazhai. 
  <br>
  Based on briefly introducing the process of this movement, this paper primarily 
  aims at two objectives. Firstly, it describes why and how the interest group 
  as mentioned above was constituted; secondly, it attempts to account for the 
  way that the group performed its function, which consisted of two means. <br>
  On the one hand, following the enormous and successive political movements at 
  that time, the group produced and modified the advanced meanings of Dazhai model 
  by various means, with the imaginary names such as ¡°warm leftover rice¡± ¡±knead 
  dough¡± and so on. On the other hand, under the slogan of ¡°establishing the Dazhai-type 
  county,¡± the group managed to expand Dazhai¡¯s experiences to every brigade in 
  Xiyang county, and thus realized the reproduction of Dazhai model and enlarged 
  its extension to a county level. <br>
  In conclusion, this paper discusses the related institutional questions about 
  the mode of setting up examples, and points out that the research on this subject 
  is of considerable theoretical and practical significances.</p>
<p>Keywords<br>
  the mode of setting up examples interest groups discursive constitution</p>
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