Excerpt: Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global
Powerhouse,
2011
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Excerpt: Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse, Shelley Rigger
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Taipei 101, the blue-green glass tower that reigned for six years as the world’s tallest building, is everywhere in Taiwan. Its image appears on advertisements, magazine covers, brochures, guidebooks, and billboards; the soaring structure itself is visible from nearly everywhere in Taipei City. As ubiquitous as Shanghai’s Oriental Pearl TV tower—and considerably more graceful—Taipei 101 has become the iconic image of contemporary Taiwan.
Soft Power With Chinese Characteristics: Promoting Creative Industries While Maintaining Political Control,
2011
Hong Kong
Soft Power With Chinese Characteristics: Promoting Creative Industries While Maintaining Political Control, Thomas Glucksmann-Smith
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
On October 15-18th 2011 during the latest Plenary Session of the 17th CPC Central Committee, China’s leaders discussed ways to make China a ‘culturally strong nation’ (文化强国) and defined strategies to enhance China’s international soft power. This meeting coincided with tax evasion charges laid against China’s world renowned artist Ai Weiwei—charges he now plans to challenge.
Ai Weiwei, recently described by Art Review as the ‘world’s most powerful artist’ would, in any other nation, be regarded as a perfect diplomat for his country’s cultural industries. But, for China’s CCP leaders Mr Ai’s political activism and provocative behaviour has gone too …
Transmitting The Ideal Of Enlightenment: Chinese Universities Since The Late Nineteenth Century (Book Review),
2011
Sacred Heart University
Transmitting The Ideal Of Enlightenment: Chinese Universities Since The Late Nineteenth Century (Book Review), Thomas D. Curran
History Faculty Publications
Book review by Thomas D. Curran.
Mak, Ricarado K. S., ed. Transmitting the Ideal of Enlightenment: Chinese Universities Since the Late Nineteenth Century. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2009.
ISBN 9780761847267
Reader Responses: Celebrating Jianbing,
2011
National Committee on U.S.-China Relations
Reader Responses: Celebrating Jianbing, Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
[Editor’s note: It seems that quite a few of our readers are as fond of jianbing as we are here at China Beat HQ. This morning’s post on the tasty breakfast dish garnered a number of responses on Twitter (revealing that not everyone is a fan, though all have strong feelings on the jianbing issue), which I’ve collected below, followed by one story sent in by a reader via email. And fellow UC Irvine graduate student Aubrey Adams directed my attention to this basic recipe for jianbing, in case I (or anyone else) wants to attempt making them at home.]
Soft Power Struggle: Ai Weiwei And The Limits Of Sino-German Cultural Cooperation,
2011
Pacific Lutheran University
Soft Power Struggle: Ai Weiwei And The Limits Of Sino-German Cultural Cooperation, Adam Cathcart
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
As an attempt to drain the seemingly endless reserves of paranoia fed by China’s rise, the extension of Chinese “soft power” [ruan shi li 软实力] into Western Europe is one of the more interesting stories of our day. How the Chinese Communist Party uses culture and cultural exchange to shape its image in Europe varies, like any good guerrilla strategy, depending on conditions. In the performing arts, PRC-sponsored groups tour European stages, acting out a meta-drama that pits twirling autonomous-region Uighurs against the ubiquitous Falun Gong-affiliated Shen Yun ballerinas (and their army of granny pamphleteers). Embassy-sponsored photographic exhibits celebrating modernization …
蜚語 (第四期),
2011
Lingnan University
蜚語 (第五期),
2011
Lingnan University
The Olympics In East Asia: Nationalism, Regionalism, And Globalism On The Center Stage Of World Sports,
2011
Yale University
The Olympics In East Asia: Nationalism, Regionalism, And Globalism On The Center Stage Of World Sports, William W. Kelly, Susan Brownell
CEAS Occasional Publication Series
Yale CEAS Occasional Publication Series - Volume 3
Siue Prof Finds Japanese Culture Enlightening,
2011
CUNY Bernard M Baruch College
Siue Prof Finds Japanese Culture Enlightening, Aldemaro Romero Jr.
Publications and Research
No abstract provided.
The Debate On The Uselessness Of Western Studies,
2011
University at Albany, State University of New York
The Debate On The Uselessness Of Western Studies, Susanna Fessler Phd
East Asian Studies Faculty Scholarship
In 1902, Mori O¯ gai and Anesaki Cho¯fu¯ briefl y engaged in a public debate on the importance of study abroad and Western learning in general. Cho¯fu¯ was cautionary about Japan following foolishly in the steps of Germany; O¯ gai countered with the argument that the West (and Germany in particular) offered intellectual riches as long as the Japanese student chose his subjects carefully. Neither man “won” the debate, but their arguments reveal how German philosophy infl uenced modern Japan and how variably that philosophy was interpreted.
From Larva To Butterfly: Sophia In Ding Ling’S Miss Sophia’S Diary And Coco In Wei Hui’S Shanghai Baby,
2011
Butler University
From Larva To Butterfly: Sophia In Ding Ling’S Miss Sophia’S Diary And Coco In Wei Hui’S Shanghai Baby, Xiaoqing Liu
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Sophia and Coco are two characters in Ding Ling's Miss Sophia's Diary (1928/1995) and Wei Hui's Shanghai Baby (1999), respectively. Like a larva, Sophia, who enters society in the early twentieth century, is weak and immobile. Coco, who lives at the end of the twentieth century, is like a butterfly leading an outlandish lifestyle. The differences between Sophia and Coco reflect the achievement of official feminism, which liberated Chinese women from traditional patriarchal control in the social sense. However, gender issues for women remain unresolved. To fight against traditional patriarchy and especially challenge gender oppression in official feminism, both Sophia …
Review Of 1918 Shikoku Pilgrimage Of Takamure Itsue Translated By Susan Tennant,
2011
Coastal Carolina University
Review Of 1918 Shikoku Pilgrimage Of Takamure Itsue Translated By Susan Tennant, Ronald S. Green
Philosophy and Religious Studies
This book is a collection of 105 short reflections and poems by Takamure Itsue (1894–1964) on her travels to and around Shikoku in 1918, when she was twenty-three years old. Each piece was published individually during her pilgrimage as a serial column in a Kyushu newspaper. They were compiled after her death and published as Musume Junreiki (1979). Although best known as a historian and feminist concerned with the education of women, she also wrote Gohenro (1938) and Henro to jinsei (1939), two additional books about her 1918 Shikoku pilgrimage.
Late Qing Dreams Of Modernity,
2011
Institute of Modern History, Academia Sincia
Late Qing Dreams Of Modernity, Peter Zarrow
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
I would like to alert China Beat readers to a new film, Datong: The Great Society [Chinese title: 大同：康有為在瑞典]. This docu-drama tells the story of Kang Youwei (1858-1927) and to a great extent that of his second daughter Kang Tongbi (aka Kang Tung Pih, 1887-1969).
I found the film a powerful and affecting evocation of a philosopher’s life, and found myself challenged to consider what we make of the past and what it makes of us. The film-maker, Evans Chan, calls Datong: The Great Society a “docu-drama,” since it is based on verifiable records, period photos, and vintage footage—as well …
Straight Out Of Wukan: A Quick Q & A With Journalist Rachel Beitare,
2011
The China Beat
Straight Out Of Wukan: A Quick Q & A With Journalist Rachel Beitare, Jeffrey Wasserstrom
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Earlier this year, a Beijing-based Israeli journalist named Rachel Beitare contacted me out of the blue to set up an interview about the impact the Arab Spring events might have in China. I ended up impressed by the caliber of the questions put to me, so I started keeping an eye out for her byline, in case she published things in English (much of her work comes out in Hebrew, which I don’t read). I wasn’t disappointed, as before long Foreign Policy ran a smart commentary, ”Guilty By Association,” in which Ms. Beitare looked at the way the Party had …
Bow Before The Portrait: Sino-North Korean Relations Enter The Kim Jong Un Era,
2011
Pacific Lutheran University
Bow Before The Portrait: Sino-North Korean Relations Enter The Kim Jong Un Era, Adam Cathcart
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
The pigs were being slaughtered in the streets when the news of Kim Jong Il’s death arrived in Dachuan, a small logging village in the mountains of western Sichuan province. Over the immense and extended cacophony of the blood-letting, the retired head of the local bank explained, with a bit of apologetic joy, that the villagers were getting ready for Spring Festival, then turned back to the news from Pyongyang, shaking his head at the retrograde tendencies of China’s Korean socialist brothers.
Book Review: Behind The Gate: Inventing Students In Beijing,
2011
Southern Methodist University
Book Review: Behind The Gate: Inventing Students In Beijing, Ling Shiao
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
By drawing our attention to the previously unexamined question of space for student activism, Fabio Lanza has successfully remapped the May Fourth Movement, despite the fact that it is perhaps the most well-travelled terrain in historical research of modern China. This is not a revisionist study that seeks to de-center May Fourth in China’s passage from tradition to modernity by looking for pre-May Fourth modern experimentations and the continuity between the late Qing and May Fourth periods. In fact, Lanza travels back to the historical site of Beijing University (hereafter Beida) and the canonical moment of the May Fourth years …
When Things Go Wrong: Village Elections As A Process
Creating Contention,
2011
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
When Things Go Wrong: Village Elections As A Process Creating Contention, Kerry Brown
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
At the heart of the big story of Chinese rural democracy is the many millions of smaller stories of those who have been touched by this immense process. Before looking at village elections, therefore, here is one single story, of one man, who tried to stand in a village election, and of what happened to him. It is concrete experiences of engaging in the whole process of rural democracy like this that give village democracy its tremendous significance and interest. This section is based on papers obtained in Beijing in August 2009.
New Issue Of Twentieth-Century China Available,
2011
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
New Issue Of Twentieth-Century China Available
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
The latest issue of Twentieth-Century China should be arriving in subscribers’ mailboxes right now, bringing readers four research articles described below by Chief Editor James Carter in an excerpt from the journal’s editorial:
Ai Weiwei And The “Age Of Madness”: Day Five And
Counting,
2011
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Ai Weiwei And The “Age Of Madness”: Day Five And Counting, Lionel M. Jensen
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
Just over four days after Ai Weiwei’s sudden apprehension by China’s Public Security Bureau, the government has initiated, as is its tireless and terrifying custom, the public process of building a case against the disappeared by alluding to the subject’s “crimes.”
From Monkey King To Mao: Cultivating Online Games
With “Chinese Characteristics”,
2011
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
From Monkey King To Mao: Cultivating Online Games With “Chinese Characteristics”, Marcella Szablewicz
China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012
With 300 million people playing Internet games in China, the question of how these games affect youth has captured the attention of the public and researchers alike. I first became interested in studying online gaming in 2002 when, as a language student in Harbin, China, I discovered the extent to which playing online games in Internet cafés had become a central part of social life for many urban youth. However, like any new technology, the growing popularity of games has also sparked growing fears about their potential to negatively impact society. In recent years the Chinese media has been full …
