Le présent ouvrage collectif est le fruit de la réflexion d’une vingtaine de chercheurs et de spécialistes provenant de différents pays et diverses régions (Canada, Chine, France, Belgique, etc.), ...dont la plupart ont participé au colloque Rencontres et interculturalité entre l’Orient et l’Occident que la Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines et le CELAT de l’Université Laval ont organisé en octobre 2018, en collaboration avec la Faculté d’histoire de l’Université Nankai en Chine. L’ouvrage se divise en cinq parties : Les missionnaires et les rencontres interculturelles ; La littérature, les médias et les échanges entre la Chine et la France ; Les échanges des connaissances scientifiques et les emprunts culturels réciproques ; Les Chinois d’outre-mer et l’adaptation culturelle ; Un regard croisé et la perception de l’autre : l’image de la Chine et de l’Occident. Il propose une réflexion sur les rencontres et les interactions interculturelles entre la Chine et l’Occident dans une perspective interdisciplinaire pour contribuer à l’avancement de la recherche dans ce domaine.
Conventional wisdom holds that China's rise is disrupting the
global balance of power in unpredictable ways. However, China has
often deferred to the consensus of smaller neighboring countries on
...regional security rather than running roughshod over them. Why and
when does China exercise restraint-and how does this aspect of
Chinese statecraft challenge the assumptions of international
relations theory? In Power and Restraint in China's Rise ,
Chin-Hao Huang argues that a rising power's aspirations for
acceptance provide a key rationale for refraining from coercive
measures. He analyzes Chinese foreign policy conduct in the South
China Sea, showing how complying with regional norms and accepting
constraints improves external perceptions of China and advances
other states' recognition of China as a legitimate power. Huang
details how member states of the Association of Southeast Asian
Nations have taken a collective approach to defusing tension in
maritime disputes, incentivizing China to support regional security
initiatives that it had previously resisted. Drawing on this
empirical analysis, Huang develops new theoretical perspectives on
why great powers eschew coercion in favor of restraint when they
seek legitimacy. His framework explains why a dominant state with
rising ambitions takes the views and interests of small states into
account, as well as how collective action can induce change in a
major power's behavior. Offering new insight into the causes and
consequences of change in recent Chinese foreign policy, this book
has significant implications for the future of engagement with
China.
This book, a sequel to Inequality and Public Policy in China (2008), examines the evolution of inequality in China from 2002 to 2007, a period when the new 'harmonious society' development strategy ...was adopted under Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao. It fills a gap in knowledge about the outcomes of this development strategy for equity and inequality. Drawing on original information collected from the recent two waves of nationwide household surveys conducted by the China Household Income Project, this book provides a detailed overview of recent trends in income inequality and cutting-edge analysis of key factors underlying such trends. Topics covered include inequality in education, changes in homeownership and the distribution of housing wealth, the evolution of the migrant labor market, disparities between public and non-public sectors, patterns of work and non-work, gender, ethnicity, and the impacts of public policies such as reforms in taxation and social welfare programs.
"The First Emperor of China (259-210 BCE) is recognized as one of the pivotal figures in world history, alongside other great conquerors and political innovators such as Alexander the Great, Genghis ...Khan, and Julius Caesar. His accomplishments are undeniable, including the conquest of the six other warring states of China, his creation of the imperial bureaucratic system that endured for 2,000 years, and his unification of Chinese culture through the promotion of a single coinage, unified weights and measures, and one writing system. Since his dynasty was cut off a few short years after his death, concrete information on the critical period in Chinese history he occupied has been lacking until recent decades. Only a single, biased historical account, written a century after his death, narrates his biography. In the last forty years, however, archaeologists have revealed not only the lavish burial pits associated with his tomb, but also
While the literature of hybrid regimes has given up the presumption that post- communist countries must democratize, its language and concepts still mostly relate to Western democracies. Magyar and ...Madlovics strongly argue for a vocabulary and grammar tailored to the specifics of the region. In 120 theses they unfold a conceptual framework with (1) a typology of post-communist regimes and (2) a detailed presentation of ideal-type actors and the political, economic, and social phenomena in these regimes. The book is a more digestible companion to the 800-page The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes (CEU Press, 2020), which was a detailed theoretical study with plenty of empirical illustrations. Each of the 120 theses contains a statement and its concise discussion supported by illustrative tables, figures, and QR-codes that connect the interested reader to the more detailed analysis in the Anatomy. In a condensed variety, this book has kept the holistic approach of the Anatomy and treats the spheres of political, market, and communal action as parts of a single, coherent whole. The endeavor to synthesize a vast range of ideas does not, however, result in a too complicated text. On the contrary, freed from the implicit presumptions of democracy theory, the new terminology yields a readily usable toolkit of unambiguous means of expression to speak about post- communism.
What does the state do when public expectations exceed
its governing capacity? The Performative State
shows how the state can shape public perceptions and defuse crises
through the theatrical ...deployment of language, symbols, and
gestures of good governance-performative governance.
Iza Ding unpacks the black box of street-level bureaucracy in
China through ethnographic participation, in-depth interviews, and
public opinion surveys. She demonstrates in vivid detail how
China's environmental bureaucrats deal with intense public scrutiny
over pollution when they lack the authority to actually improve the
physical environment. They assuage public outrage by appearing
responsive, benevolent, and humble. But performative governance is
hard work. Environmental bureaucrats paradoxically work themselves
to exhaustion even when they cannot effectively implement
environmental policies. Instead of achieving "performance
legitimacy" by delivering material improvements, the state can
shape public opinion through the theatrical performance of goodwill
and sincere effort.
The Performative State also explains when performative
governance fails at impressing its audience and when governance
becomes less performative and more substantive. Ding focuses on
Chinese evidence but her theory travels: comparisons with Vietnam
and the United States show that all states, democratic and
authoritarian alike, engage in performative governance.
Guilty of indigence Chen, Janet Y
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In the early twentieth century, a time of political fragmentation and social upheaval in China, poverty became the focus of an anguished national conversation about the future of the country. ...Investigating the lives of the urban poor in China during this critical era, Guilty of Indigence examines the solutions implemented by a nation attempting to deal with "society's most fundamental problem." Interweaving analysis of shifting social viewpoints, the evolution of poor relief institutions, and the lived experiences of the urban poor, Janet Chen explores the development of Chinese attitudes toward urban poverty and of policies intended for its alleviation.
Dr. Hu Shih (1891–1962) was one of China’s top scholars and diplomats and served as the Republic of China’s ambassador to the United States during World War II. As early as 1941, Hu Shih warned of ...the fundamental ideological conflict between dictatorial totalitarianism and democratic systems, a view that later became the foundation of the Cold War narrative. In the 1950s, after Mao’s authoritarian regime was established, Hu Shih started to analyze the development and nature of Communism, delivering a series of lectures and addresses to reveal what he called Stalin’s “grand strategy” for facilitating the International Communist Movement. For decades—and today to a certain extent—Hu Shih’s political writings were considered sensitive and even dangerous. As a strident critic of the Chinese Communist Party’s oligarchical practices, he was targeted by the CCP in a concerted national campaign to smear his reputation, cast aspersions on his writings, and generally destroy any possible influence he might have in China. This volume brings together a collection of Hu Shih’s most important, mostly unpublished, English-language speeches, interviews, and commentaries on international politics, China-U.S. relations, and the International Communist Movement. Taken together, these works provide an insider’s perspective on Sino-American relations and the development of the International Communist Movement over the course of the 20th century.
Ban Wang traces the shifting concept of the Chinese state from the late nineteenth century to the present, showing how the Confucian notion of tianxia—“all under heaven”—influences China’s dedication ...to contributing to and exchanging with a common world.
