Keywords of Chinese Public Administration: The Anchor Point of Independent Knowledge System
Yu Jianxing1,2, Gao Xiang1,3, Huang Biao1,2
1.School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China 2.Academy of Social Governance, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China 3.Center of Social Welfare and Governance, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Abstract：Constructing China’s independent knowledge system is a grand goal and mission for the development of Chinese philosophy and the social sciences, and it is also the epochal responsibility of the academic community as it engages with the great practice of Chinese-style modernization. For a long time, the philosophy and social sciences of late-developing countries have been constrained by a core–semi-periphery–periphery world system, facing a dual dilemma: the limited explanatory power of imported knowledge systems and local knowledge production that remains suspended above the realities of development and governance practice. The extraction and construction of keywords constitute the leverage point—the anchor—for catalyzing endogenous knowledge production and establishing an independent knowledge system. The keywords of Public Administration in China constitute the necessary precondition for the autonomy of public administration discipline in China, the core content for reconstructing the independent knowledge system for Public Administration in China, and the critical nodes for theorizing public administration in China. The extraction and construction of such keywords should follow four principles: (1) taking public affairs and their governance as the domain; (2) being of practical significance and in active use; (3) foregrounding the socially constructed nature of knowledge; and (4) possessing the dual attributes of universality and particularity. As the field pursues autonomy in knowledge production and in its knowledge system, China’s public administration community must keep faith with the imperatives of the era and have the courage to shoulder the responsibility of upholding and improving the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics and advancing Chinese-style modernization.
郁建兴, 高翔, 黄飚. 中国公共管理关键词：自主知识体系的锚点[J]. 浙江大学学报(人文社会科学版), 2025, 55(9): 37-47.
Yu Jianxing, Gao Xiang, Huang Biao. Keywords of Chinese Public Administration: The Anchor Point of Independent Knowledge System. JOURNAL OF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY, 2025, 55(9): 37-47.
2025, Vol. 55 
