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A Community Of Practice For Chinese Ngos, Reza Hasmath, Jennifer Yj Hsu
A Community Of Practice For Chinese Ngos, Reza Hasmath, Jennifer Yj Hsu
Reza Hasmath
A community of practice represents an important resource for the sharing of sector-specific knowledge. It is a mechanism for Chinese NGOs to learn from each other, and collaborate. Drawing upon original data elicited from over 100 NGOs, this article examines the organizational capacity for Chinese NGOs to cultivate a mature community of practice. We find that there are inherent headwinds that Chinese NGOs will have to navigate to accomplish this goal. On the one hand, the majority of NGOs in our sample do not see themselves as part of a community of experts, which presents a huge challenge for the …
How Modern India Looks At Its Premodernity, Ananya Vajpeyi
How Modern India Looks At Its Premodernity, Ananya Vajpeyi
Ananya Vajpeyi
No abstract provided.
The Comparison Of Power And Authority Of Women In China And Minangkabau Societies, Arif Rohman
The Comparison Of Power And Authority Of Women In China And Minangkabau Societies, Arif Rohman
Arif Rohman
The power and authority available for women are very important in measuring the cultural system in each society contains a gender bias or not. This study will examine whether the matrifocal and matrilineal society guarantees gender equality rather than the patriarchal and patrilineal society and to what extent these societies provide power and authority to women in both domestic and public spheres. To support analysis, this article will compare two Asian societies; those are China as a representative of the patriarchal and patrilineal society and Minangkabau as a representative of the matrifocal and matrilineal society. The analysis will be focused …
The Re-Emerging Dragon, Dylan Kissane
The Re-Emerging Dragon, Dylan Kissane
Dylan Kissane
Remarks prepared for the CEFAM China Conference, 22 January 2013.
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China's Meritocractic Examination And The Ideal Of Virtuous Talents, Hong Xiao, Chenyang Li
China's Meritocractic Examination And The Ideal Of Virtuous Talents, Hong Xiao, Chenyang Li
Hong Xiao
Emphasis on both moral character and talent in selecting government officials has been an intrinsic part of China’s meritocratic tradition. From early on, mainstream Chinese political philosophy, particularly of the Confucian heritage, has promoted such an ideal. This quest, however, has also encountered perennial challenges in practice. In this chapter, we examine in historic context the ideal and the practice of integrating moral character with talent in selecting government officials. We will show that, despite difficulties, searching for virtuous talents in China today has evolved into the most comprehensive and most sophisticated form in history. The first section of this …
To The Peoples: Christianity And Ethnicity In China's Minority Areas, Francis Khek Gee Lim
To The Peoples: Christianity And Ethnicity In China's Minority Areas, Francis Khek Gee Lim
Francis Khek Gee Lim
No abstract provided.
Sankofa Flies At A Circus: Un 4th Conference On Women, Nanette Echols
Sankofa Flies At A Circus: Un 4th Conference On Women, Nanette Echols
Nanette Echols
No abstract provided.
China: Re-Emerging, Not Rising, Dylan Kissane
China: Re-Emerging, Not Rising, Dylan Kissane
Dylan Kissane
In late 1993 Nicholas Kristof argued in the pages of Foreign Affairs that “the rise of china, if it continues, may be the most important trend in the world for the next century”. Fifteen years later two things are clear: there is no longer any reason to wonder if China’s rise will continue and the impact of this surge in the East is now clearly the most important trend in international politics this century.
Forecasting The Storm: Power Cycle Theory And Conflict In The Major Power System, Dylan Kissane
Forecasting The Storm: Power Cycle Theory And Conflict In The Major Power System, Dylan Kissane
Dylan Kissane
Unpredicted and unpredictable storms have cut a disastrous swathe through coastal communities in recent years. If the international relations system can be imagined as a peaceful coast, then conflict is the storm that wrecks havoc upon those in its path. One goal, then, of those within the discipline who study conflict is to forecast these international storms and, in power cycle theory, there exists a method which is of some utility to this end. This paper re-introduces power cycle theory, explaining its components and methodology before introducing the specific changes to the method that are the result of the author’s …
Constructing Indigenousness In The Late Modern World, Robert Cribb, Li Narangoa
Constructing Indigenousness In The Late Modern World, Robert Cribb, Li Narangoa
Robert Cribb
Examines changing meanings of the term 'indigenous" in relation to other ideas that have been valued in various (mainly Western) philosophical system, such as priority, attachment to the land, and technical knowledge.
The Chinese Challenge. Hallucinations For Other Futures, Rudolf Kaehr
The Chinese Challenge. Hallucinations For Other Futures, Rudolf Kaehr
Rudolf Kaehr
The main question is: What can we learn from China that China is not teaching us? It is proposed that a study of polycontextural logic and morphogrammatics could be helpful to discover this new kind of rationality.
India-China 1962 War And Role Of Nehru, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.
India-China 1962 War And Role Of Nehru, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.
Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.
This paper attempts the role of Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first Indian Prime Minister in 1962 war with China.
Genocide In The Non-Western World: Implications For Holocaust Studies, Robert Cribb
Genocide In The Non-Western World: Implications For Holocaust Studies, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
The example of the Holocaust has tended to dominate genocide studies, but the broader study of extreme violence makes it difficult to exclude the mass killing of indigenous peoples and mass killing on political grounds from the category of genocide.
Japan And Transformation Of National Identities In The Imperial Era, Li Narangoa, Robert Cribb
Japan And Transformation Of National Identities In The Imperial Era, Li Narangoa, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
Japan's view of the nationality of its Asian neightbours took many forms during the imperial era. In some respects Japan asserted its superiority to those neighbours, in other respects saw them as nations with a standing equal to that of Japan. The working out of these two views reflected Japanese strategic interests.
Remembering, Forgetting And Historical Injustice, Robert Cribb, Kenneth Christie
Remembering, Forgetting And Historical Injustice, Robert Cribb, Kenneth Christie
Robert Cribb
No abstract provided.
Lethal Laws, David B. Kopel
Lethal Laws, David B. Kopel
David B Kopel
Book review of Lethal Laws, which examines the relationsip between gun prohibition and genocide in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, Guatemala, Uganda, and Armenia.