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@article{ART002835402},
author={Woojong Moon},
title={China’s Governmentality and the Economic and Political Differentiation of Public Hospital},
journal={Asia Review},
issn={2234-0386},
year={2022},
volume={12},
number={1},
pages={217-239}

TY - JOUR
AU - Woojong Moon
TI - China’s Governmentality and the Economic and Political Differentiation of Public Hospital
JO - Asia Review
PY - 2022
VL - 12
IS - 1
PB - 아시아연구소
SP - 217
EP - 239
SN - 2234-0386
AB - In this paper, I explore the economic and political differentiation of China’s public hospitals and argue that this process is closely associated with the Chinese Communist Party’s governmentality. According to Foucault, governmentality is intimately related to power relations and ruling strategy to configure the health, social, and economic lives of individuals and populations in a specific way. Public hospitals have played a main role in China’s healthcare system since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. Regardless of China’s market-oriented transition and the government’s withdrawal from social welfare provision in the 1980s and 1990s, socialist ideology and practices have been consistently imposed on public hospitals. Nevertheless, hospitals’ financial situation was exacerbated and had to find various informal ways for survival. This resulted in doctors’ over-prescriptions, informal payments from patients to doctors, soaring individual healthcare spending, and increasing medical disputes. In 2009, China’s new healthcare reform began to address these problems. Despite some successes, hospitals have been increasingly differentiated by their grades, medical services, and patients’ socioeconomic status. Higher-grade hospitals pursue their growth on China’s neoliberal and developmental governmentality. On the other hand, lower-grade public hospitals, which depend more on government subsidies, are used as places for increasing medical accessibility and socialist propaganda to strengthen the ideological legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party.
KW - The People’s Republic of China;governmentality;public hospital;healthcare reform;neoliberalism;socialism
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Woojong Moon. (2022). China’s Governmentality and the Economic and Political Differentiation of Public Hospital. Asia Review, 12(1), 217-239.

Woojong Moon. 2022, "China’s Governmentality and the Economic and Political Differentiation of Public Hospital", Asia Review, vol.12, no.1 pp.217-239.

Woojong Moon "China’s Governmentality and the Economic and Political Differentiation of Public Hospital" Asia Review 12.1 pp.217-239 (2022) : 217.

Woojong Moon. China’s Governmentality and the Economic and Political Differentiation of Public Hospital. 2022; 12(1), 217-239.

Woojong Moon. "China’s Governmentality and the Economic and Political Differentiation of Public Hospital" Asia Review 12, no.1 (2022) : 217-239.

Woojong Moon. China’s Governmentality and the Economic and Political Differentiation of Public Hospital. Asia Review, 12(1), 217-239.

Woojong Moon. China’s Governmentality and the Economic and Political Differentiation of Public Hospital. Asia Review. 2022; 12(1) 217-239.

Woojong Moon. China’s Governmentality and the Economic and Political Differentiation of Public Hospital. 2022; 12(1), 217-239.

Woojong Moon. "China’s Governmentality and the Economic and Political Differentiation of Public Hospital" Asia Review 12, no.1 (2022) : 217-239.