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      A Community of Practice for Chinese NGOs

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          A community of practice represents an important resource for the sharing of sector-specific knowledge. Embracing a mature community of practice allows Chinese NGOs to forge networks to share best/worst practices, and foster common norms of conduct. This, in turn, offers a chance to increase the speed of professionalizing the sector, to the extent that there will be greater predictability in NGOs’ activities. Predictability is important since it increases the state’s trust of the NGO sector, and improves greater odds for soliciting external funding. Drawing upon original survey data elicited from over 100 NGOs, this article analyzes the organizational capacity for Chinese NGOs to cultivate a community of practice, and discusses the headwinds and challenges that will ensue.

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                Reza Hasmath:
                Bio :
                Reza Hasmath

                (Ph.D., Cambridge) is a Professor in Political Science at the University of Alberta. He has previously held faculty positions in management, sociology and political science at the Universities of Toronto, Melbourne and Oxford, and has worked for think-tanks, consultancies, development agencies, and NGOs in USA, Canada, Australia, UK and China. His award-winning research looks at evolving state-society relationships in authoritarian contexts, with an emphasis on China and NGO activities.

                Jennifer Y. J. Hsu:
                ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8094-7354
                jenniferhsu@cantab.net
                Bio :
                Jennifer Y. J. Hsu

                (Ph.D., Cambridge) is a Visiting Fellow in the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. Jennifer’s research is primarily focused on relations between state and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in China, particularly the scope of interactions between the local state and NGOs. Within this research program, she has sought to locate her research in several interdisciplinary domains: theories of state-society relations, organisational development of NGOs and civil society, and the internationalisation of Chinese NGOs. The different areas of her research enhance our theoretical understanding of how state and society engage under varying socio-political environments. Her monograph: State of Exchange: Migrant NGOs and the Chinese Government details the importance of the local state in NGO development.

                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): J Chin Polit Sci
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): J Chin Polit Sci
                Title: Journal of Chinese Political Science
                Publisher: Springer Netherlands (Dordrecht )
                ISSN (Print): 1080-6954
                ISSN (Electronic): 1874-6357
                Publication date (Electronic): 27 August 2020
                Pages: 1-15
                Affiliations
                [1 ]GRID grid.17089.37, University of Alberta, ; Edmonton, Canada
                [2 ]GRID grid.1005.4, ISNI 0000 0004 4902 0432, University of New South Wales, ; Sydney, Australia
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                Article
                Publisher ID: 9687
                DOI: 10.1007/s11366-020-09687-3
                PMC ID: 7451769
                SO-VID: 29d32d48-28be-458e-864b-f23517f7f0c8
                Copyright © © Journal of Chinese Political Science/Association of Chinese Political Studies 2020
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                This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.

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                Funded by: FundRef http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000155, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada;
                Award ID: 430-2012-0066
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                Subject: Research Article

                Keywords: ngos,community of practice,knowledge sharing,professionalization,china
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                Keywords: ngos, community of practice, knowledge sharing, professionalization, china

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