Talk:Zhongxian Ganbu

Sufficient notability according Chinese-language media
Hi, the topic of this article has been described in a number of Chinese-language media in detail. e.g.:


 * Coverage by China Youth Daily, titled "The officialdom ecology of a county."
 * Coverage by Qilu Evening News via Chinanews.com, titled "Analysis of county politics after two years of PhD: Interpretation of the promotion mechanism of county and township officials"
 * Coverage by Hong Kong Economic Times, titled "Peking University doctor undercover to expose the monopoly of power in a county"
 * Coverage by New York-based media Duowei News, titled "Peking University doctor reveals politics at the grass-roots level: not a big deal to be womanizers"

Thus, there shouldn't be many problems for their notability on Chinese Wikipedia, since there are enough independent secondary sources as mentioned above to indicate its notability. It will be helpful if you can use Google Translate to verify what I say here. I don't think English-language Wikipedia should only include what is only notable in English-language media, which will undoubtedly cause systematic biases; thus, these Chinese-language sources should also be quite enough to support its notability from my perspective.

Notability as academic work in English-language academia
Given its nature as an academic work, the thesis is "highly specialised, has a small printing run," where "most of the standards for mainstream books are inapplicable." Instead, the academic values should be considered. First of all, although this thesis is not known to be authorised to any publishing house, it is still commercially available online as an individual book, even though it has never been printed by any specialised publishing house, suggesting a spontaneous (though possibly unauthorised) reprints of the thesis. Also, its values have not only been appreciated by Chinese-language sources but also in English language sources such as Graeme Smith (2013), who writes,

In central and western China, local government is seen as a desirable form of employment, and recruitment is largely based on nepotism, a widely acknowledged fact that, to my knowledge, only one scholar has been indiscreet enough to verify empirically by examining recruitment to different county government agencies and tracing the rise of different political clans within that county (Feng 2010).

And then he quotes two paragraphs from Feng's thesis, which is the topic of this article, to explain nepotism in local government. In the article, I have also included how the Chinese-language news media think highly of the book, which should support its academic importance, in addition to what has been mentioned in the article. Besides, it is also mentioned in He and Ng (2017), Li (2015), etc.

--HNlander (talk) 13:58, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

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