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One China, Many Paths

Author : Chaohua Wang
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789609933
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book One China, Many Paths written by Chaohua Wang and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's largest country is now a constant topic of fascination or fear in the West, producing an ever increasing literature of scholarship, reportage and tourism. In this volume, the differing voices and views of leading Chinese thinkers can for the first time be heard in English translation, debating the future of their society and its place in the world. One China, Many Paths offers a vibrant panorama of the contemporary intellectual scene in the People's Republic. Its contributors include economists and historians, philosophers and sociologists, writers and literary critics, across the generations. Among the topics debated in these pages are the future of China's growth model; the deepening crisis on the land; the country's emerging class structure, and the fate of its workers; its commercial and high culture, and the interactions between them; the role of social movements and the aftermath of the late eighties; the prospects of a democratic constitution and the direction of China's foreign policy. This collection gives a unique window onto the variety and vigor of opinions about public affairs expressed in China today. Contributions by He Qinglian, Wang Hui, Chen Pingyuan, Qin Hui, Hu Angang, Gan Yang, Wang Xiaoming, Gian Liqun, and others.

One China, Many Taiwans

Author : Ian Rowen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501766953
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book One China, Many Taiwans written by Ian Rowen and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-15 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One China, Many Taiwans shows how tourism performs and transforms territory. In 2008, as the People's Republic of China pointed over a thousand missiles across the Taiwan Strait, it sent millions of tourists in the same direction with the encouragement of Taiwan's politicians and businesspeople. Contrary to the PRC's efforts to use tourism to incorporate Taiwan into an imaginary "One China," tourism aggravated tensions between the two polities, polarized Taiwanese society, and pushed Taiwanese popular sentiment farther toward support for national self-determination. Consequently, Taiwan was performed as a part of China for Chinese group tourists versus experienced as a place of everyday life. Taiwan's national identity grew increasingly plural, such that not just one or two, but many Taiwans coexisted, even as it faced an existential military threat. Ian Rowen's treatment of tourism as a political technology provides a new theoretical lens for social scientists to examine the impacts of tourism in the region and worldwide.

Great Dragon Fantasy, The: A Lacanian Analysis Of Contemporary Chinese Thought

Author : Guanjun Wu
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814417939
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Great Dragon Fantasy, The: A Lacanian Analysis Of Contemporary Chinese Thought written by Guanjun Wu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has undergone a unique path of development in the post-Maoist era. Especially, the last decade witnessed China's rapid rise to economic wealth and superpower status vis-à-vis the severe developmental predicaments of the West (financial crises, socio-political turbulences, etc.). This book analyzes how the leading Chinese thinkers understand China's prosperity and rapid development today, and whether there is any hidden mechanism that has been playing a crucial role of forming contemporary Chinese thinkers' shared passionate endeavor of resuscitating classical Chinese ideas, and thus shows how the fervor for discovering “essential characteristics” of Chinese thought reveals a hidden psychological mechanism.

The Great Dragon Fantasy

Author : Guanjun Wu
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814417920
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book The Great Dragon Fantasy written by Guanjun Wu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2014 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has undergone a unique path of development in the post-Maoist era. Especially, the last decade witnessed China''s rapid rise to economic wealth and superpower status vis-a-vis the severe developmental predicaments of the West (financial crises, socio-political turbulences, etc.). This book analyzes how the leading Chinese thinkers understand China''s prosperity and rapid development today, and whether there is any hidden mechanism that has been playing a crucial role of forming contemporary Chinese thinkers'' shared passionate endeavor of resuscitating classical Chinese ideas, and thus shows how the fervor for discovering OC essential characteristicsOCO of Chinese thought reveals a hidden psychological mechanism. Contents: The Fantasmatic Narrative of Contemporary Chinese Thought; OC Descendants of a Blurry-Eyed DragonOCO New Enlightenment as Modernization; OC TraumaticOCO Encounters with Postmodernism; Liberals and New Leftists as OC Discursive EnemiesOCO China''s New Nationalism and Its Obscene Core; Traversing the Fantasmatic Past and Future. Readership: Academics, professionals, Sinologists, advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in China studies.

Struggling Giant

Author : Kerry Brown
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 0857287036
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Struggling Giant written by Kerry Brown and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2007-06-07 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Struggling Giant’ explores the future of this emerging economic powerhouse and what the next two decades might bring in the critical areas of the environment, economy and political stability.

The Middle Class in Neoliberal China

Author : Hai Ren
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415501350
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book The Middle Class in Neoliberal China written by Hai Ren and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 1970s, China's move towards neoliberalism has made it not only one of the world's fastest growing economies, but also one of the most polarised states. This economic, social and political transformation has led to the emergence of a new Chinese middle class, and understanding the development and the role of this new social group is crucial to understanding contemporary Chinese society. Investigating the new politics of the middle class in China, this book addresses three major questions. First, how does the Chinese state deal with problems of national sovereignty and political representation to create the middle class both as a legitimate category of the people and as an ideal norm of citizenship? Second, how does the recognition of the middle class norm take place in the practice of everyday life? Finally, what kind of risks does the politics of the middle class generate not only for middle class subjects but also for the disenfranchised? In answering these questions, this book examines a set of practices, bodies of knowledge, measures, and institutions that aim to manage, govern, control, and orient the behaviours, gestures, and thoughts of Chinese citizens. This investigation contributes not only to the understanding of the Chinese middle class society but also to the scholarly debate over the relationship between governmental apparatuses, subjectification, and life-building. Drawing on ethnographic information, historical archives, and the media, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars working in the fields of Chinese studies, Chinese politics, ethnic studies and urban studies, as well as those interested in culture, society, class and welfare.

Aspects of Urbanization in China

Author : Gregory Bracken
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9089643982
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Aspects of Urbanization in China written by Gregory Bracken and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's opkomst als wereldmacht is een van de ingrijpendste gebeurtenissen van deze tijd. Honderden miljoenen mensen zijn de armoede ontvlucht dankzij de snelle industrialisatie van het land. De wonderbaarlijke economische groei van China heeft zijn nadelen, iets wat vaak het meest pijnlijk duidelijk wordt in de steden. Deze studie is geschreven door wetenschappers uit verschillende disciplines, waaronder architectuur, stedenbouw, sociale wetenschappen, aardrijkskunde en antrolpologie. Een dee van de auteurs behandelt de mondiale ambities van de steden, terwijl andere hun culturele en architecturale uitingen onderzoeken.

Minjian

Author : Sebastian Veg
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231549407
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Minjian written by Sebastian Veg and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are the new Chinese intellectuals? In the wake of the crackdown on the 1989 democracy movement and the rapid marketization of the 1990s, a novel type of grassroots intellectual emerged. Instead of harking back to the traditional role of the literati or pronouncing on democracy and modernity like 1980s public intellectuals, they derive legitimacy from their work with the vulnerable and the marginalized, often proclaiming their independence with a heavy dose of anti-elitist rhetoric. They are proudly minjian—unofficial, unaffiliated, and among the people. In this book, Sebastian Veg explores the rise of minjian intellectuals and how they have profoundly transformed China’s public culture. An intellectual history of contemporary China, Minjian documents how, amid deep structural shifts, grassroots thinker-activists began to work outside academia or policy institutions in an embryonic public sphere. Veg explores the work of amateur historians who question official accounts, independent documentarians who let ordinary people speak for themselves, and grassroots lawyers and NGO workers who spread practical knowledge. Their interventions are specific rather than universal, with a focus on concrete problems among disenfranchised populations such as victims of Maoism, migrant workers and others without residence permits, and petitioners. Drawing on careful analysis of public texts by grassroots intellectuals and the networks and publics among which they circulate, Minjian is a groundbreaking transdisciplinary exploration of crucial trends developing under the surface of contemporary Chinese society.

China and International Institutions

Author : Marc Lanteigne
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415365840
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (658 download)

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Download or read book China and International Institutions written by Marc Lanteigne and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a new approach to Chinese foreign policy development in the post-Cold War international order.

The Many Paths of Change in International Law

Author : Ezgi Yildiz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198877846
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Many Paths of Change in International Law written by Ezgi Yildiz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-16 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does international law change? How does it adapt to meet global challenges in a volatile social and political context? The Many Paths of Change in International Law offers fresh, theoretically informed, and empirically rich answers to these questions. It traces drivers, conditions, and consequences of change across the different fields of international law and paints a complex and varied picture very much in contrast with the relatively static imagery prevalent in many accounts today. Drawing on inspirations from international law, international relations, sociology, and legal theory, this book explores how international law changes through means other than treaty-making. Highlighting the social dynamics through which different areas and institutional contexts have generated their own pathways, it presents a theoretical framework for tracing change processes and the conditions that affect their success. Based on this framework, each contribution illuminates the paths of change we observe in contemporary international law. The explorations centre on strategies, forms, forces, and social contexts and draw on primary source material and in-depth case studies. Overall, the volume offers a fascinating account of an international legal order in flux-with a dynamic not captured through traditional doctrinal lenses-and helps situate change processes and their varied implications in international law and politics. A relevant book for everyone wanting to understand change and its consequences in international law. This is an open access title. It is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International licence. It is available to read and download as a PDF version on the Oxford Academic platform.

Paths toward the Modern Fiscal State

Author : Wenkai He
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674074637
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Paths toward the Modern Fiscal State written by Wenkai He and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wenkai He shows why England and Japan, facing crises in public finance, developed the tools and institutions of a modern fiscal state, while China, facing similar circumstances, did not. He’s explanation for China’s failure at a critical moment illuminates one of the most important but least understood transformations of the modern world.

Ideological Conflict and the Rule of Law in Contemporary China

Author : Samuli Seppänen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316692450
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Ideological Conflict and the Rule of Law in Contemporary China written by Samuli Seppänen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies ideological divisions within Chinese legal academia and their relationship to arguments about the rule of law. The book describes argumentative strategies used by Chinese legal scholars to legitimize and subvert China's state-sanctioned ideology. It also examines Chinese efforts to invent new, alternative rule of law conceptions. In addition to this descriptive project, the book advances a more general argument about the rule of law phenomenon, insisting that many arguments about the rule of law are better understood in terms of their intended and actual effects rather than as analytic propositions or descriptive statements. To illustrate this argument, the book demonstrates that various paradoxical, contradictory and otherwise implausible arguments about the rule of law play an important role in Chinese debates about the rule of law. Paradoxical statements about the rule of law, in particular, can be useful for an ideological project.

The Specter of Materialism

Author : Petrus Liu
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478024054
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Specter of Materialism written by Petrus Liu and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-09 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, queer theory appears to have made a materialist turn away from questions of representation and performativity to those of dispossession, precarity, and the differential distribution of life chances. Despite this shift, queer theory finds itself constantly reabsorbed into the liberal project of diversity management. This theoretical and political weakness, Petrus Liu argues, stems from an incomplete understanding of capitalism’s contemporary transformations, of which China has been at the center. In The Specter of Materialism Liu challenges key premises of classic queer theory and Marxism, turning to an analysis of the Beijing Consensus—global capitalism’s latest mutation—to develop a new theory of the political economy of sexuality. Liu explores how relations of gender and sexuality get reconfigured to meet the needs of capital in new regimes of accumulation and dispossession, demonstrating that evolving US-Asian economic relations shape the emergence of new queer identities and academic theories. In so doing, he offers a new history of collective struggles that provides a transnational framework for understanding the nexus between queerness and material life.

Worrying about China

Author : Gloria Davies
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674030230
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Worrying about China written by Gloria Davies and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can we do about China? Gloria Davies pursues this inquiry through a wide range of contemporary topics, including the changing fortunes of radicalism, the peculiarities of Chinese postmodernism, shifts within official discourse, attempts to revive Confucianism for present-day China, and the historically problematic engagement of Chinese intellectuals with Western ideas.

The Peasant in Postsocialist China

Author : Alexander F. Day
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107435293
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Peasant in Postsocialist China written by Alexander F. Day and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of the peasant in society has been fundamental throughout China's history, posing difficult, much-debated questions for Chinese modernity. Today, as China becomes an economic superpower, the issue continues to loom large. Can the peasantry be integrated into a new Chinese capitalism, or will it form an excluded and marginalized class? Alexander F. Day's highly original appraisal explores the role of the peasantry throughout Chinese history and its importance within the development of post-socialist-era politics. Examining the various ways in which the peasant is historicized, Day shows how different perceptions of the rural lie at the heart of the divergence of contemporary political stances and of new forms of social and political activism in China. Indispensable reading for all those wishing to understand Chinese history and politics, The Peasant in Postsocialist China is a new point of departure in the debate as to the nature of tomorrow's China.

Documenting China

Author : Margaret Hillenbrand
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295805005
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Documenting China written by Margaret Hillenbrand and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documenting China brings together a series of linked texts, each one chosen for its impact when first published, and which together chart the core developments in twentieth-century Chinese history. With extracts spanning the fields of philosophy, political science, gender studies, popular culture, literary history, neo-nationalist discourse, and international relations, the book challenges advanced language learners to elevate their reading ability to the level necessary for handling real primary sources in an unmediated way while deepening their understanding of Chinese politics, society, and culture. Each chapter is structured around crucial passages from a core historical text, each chapter begins with an introductory essay in English that provides context for fully understanding the text, suggested further readings, and a glossary of key terms.

The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History

Author : Timothy Cheek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316351858
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History written by Timothy Cheek and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vivid narrative history of Chinese intellectuals and public life provides a guide to making sense of China today. Timothy Cheek presents a map and a method for understanding the intellectual in the long twentieth century, from China's defeat in the Sino-Japanese war in 1895 to the 'Prosperous China' since the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Cheek surveys the changing terrain of intellectual life over this transformative century in Chinese history to enable readers to understand a particular figure, idea or debate. The map provides coordinates to track different times, different social worlds and key concepts. The historical method focuses on context and communities during six periods to make sense of ideas, institutions and individual thinkers across the century. Together they provide a memorable account of the scenes and protagonists, and arguments and ideas, of intellectuals and public life in modern China.