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BA (International Relations) (Hons)/LLB (University of New South Wales)
MTeach (Secondary education) (University of Technology Sydney)
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Unpublished honours thesis , 2018
Hostility towards the emergent Chinese School [Zhongguo xuepai] of international relations (IR) r... more Hostility towards the emergent Chinese School [Zhongguo xuepai] of international relations (IR) reflects a Eurocentric view of the ideal relationship between intellectuals and the state that is inconsistent with the Chinese history of thought and culture (sixiang wenhua shi). The Western intellectual division of labour between theory and policy-making has not been a feature of Chinese intellectual life until the early twentieth century, prior to which China’s pre-eminent political theorists, the Confucian shi scholar-official class, were expected to use their insights in the formation of public policy. While the scholar-official lineage ended with the fall of the Qing dynasty and concurrent rise of the Republican movement around 1912, there are signs that it is beginning to re-emerge in the figure of the IR scholar Qin Yaqing. Throughout his career, Qin has consistently demonstrated the core competencies of the traditional Confucian scholar-official - a generalist approach to theory-building, combined with an intellectual curiosity about, and even an admiration for, Western culture and values. The parallels between Qin Yaqing and the scholar-official are most apparent in the methods utilised by the former to construct a ‘Chinese School’ of international relations: a selective appropriation of the radical reformist ideas of citizen intellectuals. Qin’s engagement with the controversial Chinese political philosopher Zhao Tingyang and his tianxia tixi thesis recalls the engagement of the late-Qing era scholar-officials with the reformists Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao. It is on this basis that a historical analogy between Qin Yaqing’s ‘Chinese School’ and the Neo-Confucian ‘Chinese learning school’ may be drawn.
Unpublished honours thesis , 2018
Hostility towards the emergent Chinese School [Zhongguo xuepai] of international relations (IR) r... more Hostility towards the emergent Chinese School [Zhongguo xuepai] of international relations (IR) reflects a Eurocentric view of the ideal relationship between intellectuals and the state that is inconsistent with the Chinese history of thought and culture (sixiang wenhua shi). The Western intellectual division of labour between theory and policy-making has not been a feature of Chinese intellectual life until the early twentieth century, prior to which China’s pre-eminent political theorists, the Confucian shi scholar-official class, were expected to use their insights in the formation of public policy. While the scholar-official lineage ended with the fall of the Qing dynasty and concurrent rise of the Republican movement around 1912, there are signs that it is beginning to re-emerge in the figure of the IR scholar Qin Yaqing. Throughout his career, Qin has consistently demonstrated the core competencies of the traditional Confucian scholar-official - a generalist approach to theory-building, combined with an intellectual curiosity about, and even an admiration for, Western culture and values. The parallels between Qin Yaqing and the scholar-official are most apparent in the methods utilised by the former to construct a ‘Chinese School’ of international relations: a selective appropriation of the radical reformist ideas of citizen intellectuals. Qin’s engagement with the controversial Chinese political philosopher Zhao Tingyang and his tianxia tixi thesis recalls the engagement of the late-Qing era scholar-officials with the reformists Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao. It is on this basis that a historical analogy between Qin Yaqing’s ‘Chinese School’ and the Neo-Confucian ‘Chinese learning school’ may be drawn.