The School of Politics and International Relations and the Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies recently supported PhD candidate Dun Mao to carry out fieldwork in Shenzhen and Beijing.
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The Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies (IAPS), together with the School of Politics and International Relations, helped fund my PhD fieldwork in China between 1 December 2016 and 28 February 2017.
My research studies the role of newly deployed governance in the anticorruption battlefield in Shenzhen (China), and one of the key points of this study is to harvest first-hand empirical data from local stakeholders and observers. Thus, the primary purpose of this fieldwork is to visit China to interview entrepreneurs, officials, professors and activists who hold first-hand local information.
I spent three months in China, mainly in Shenzhen and Beijing, where I have interviewed entrepreneurs from different industries, officials from judicial and administrative departments (both retired and active), professors from Academy and universities, lawyers and journalist. In total, I have interviewed over 50 people and some of my interviewees have provided me with a broad range of new perspectives for the research and to which I am very grateful.
This fieldwork consisted a core component of my PhD research and offered me an excellent opportunity to deepen my understanding of my research topic. I am very grateful for the generous support from both IAPS and the School of Politics and International Relations.
Dun Mao, Doctoral Researcher
School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham
Posted on Monday 8th May 2017