The ‘Singapore Fever’ in China: policy mobility and mutation

Lim, Kean Fan and Horesh, Niv (2016) The ‘Singapore Fever’ in China: policy mobility and mutation. China Quarterly, 228 . pp. 992-1017. ISSN 0305-7410

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Abstract

The ‘Singapore Model’ has constituted the only second explicit attempt by the Communist Party of China (CPC) to learn from a foreign country following Mao Zedong’s pledge to contour ‘China’s tomorrow’ on the Soviet Union experience during the early 1950s. This paper critically evaluates policy transfers from Singapore to China in the post-Mao era. It re-examines how this Sino-Singaporean regulatory engagement came about historically following Deng Xiaoping’s visit to Singapore in 1978, and offers a careful re-reading of the degree to which actual policy borrowing by China could transcend different state ideologies, abstract ideas and subjective attitudes. Particular focus is placed on the effects of CPC cadre training in Singapore universities and policy mutation within two government-to-government projects, namely the Suzhou Industrial Park and the Tianjin Eco-City. The paper concludes that the ‘Singapore Model’, as applied in post-Mao China, casts institutional reforms as an open-ended process of policy experimentation and adaptation that is fraught with tension and resistance.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/831665
Keywords: China ; Singapore ; lesson drawing ; policy transfer ; policy mutation
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Contemporary Chinese Studies
University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Geography
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741016001120
Depositing User: Lim, Kean Fan
Date Deposited: 08 Apr 2016 10:44
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 18:23
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/32693

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