Contemporary China. Ethnicity, Culture an Chinese Politics Research Papers (original) (raw)

While the CCP asserted unconditional sovereignty over Tibet, the party was clearly aware of its distinct culture, customs, administrations, and that liberating and transforming Tibet would present unprecedented obstacles. The experience of Tibetans under
Mao’s socialist revolution is a complex picture and often differentiated depending on one’s gender, social status, and political leaning. Despite the CCP’s active attempt to resolve the ingrained divergence and tension between the two sides, the party’s vision of peaceful incorporation was lost to a revolutionary ambition before a voluntary acceptance of socialism was completed, ultimately resulting in the subjugation of Tibetan culture and an uneven absorption of the population.

In this article, I stress the need for a multi-sited methodological and theoretical approach to the study of transnationalism that simultaneously highlights the local, national and transnational dimensions of globalizing identity movements. In particular, I analyze the post-1980s transnational identity building project of certain ethnic Akha elite in the Upper Mekong Region. I highlight the complex ways in which these ethnic elite are reshaping their cultural identity by way of multiple and shifting orientations to the past as well as the local, national and transnational in the contexts of social gatherings, communal rituals, linguistic productions, multimedia engagements, and cross-border travel. I argue that by virtue of their simultaneously multi-sited representations of Akhaness, Akha elite are composing their own theories of culture that challenge and incorporate dominant models of nationalism and globalization, all the while reproducing and claiming a distinctly Akha way of being in the world.

A study of China's modernisation is arguably the most important research project that Sinologists could embark on in close collaboration with China oriented scientists from various quarters ready and willing to co-operate with each other.... more

- by Hans Kuijper
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- Modern History, Asian Studies, Early Modern History, Chinese Studies

In this article, I employ a language ideologies approach to analyse the often contentious efforts of certain ethnic Akha elite to negotiate a common orthography in promoting their transnational identity project encompassing some 730,000 Akha positioned throughout the Upper Mekong Region. I highlight the particular ways in which different elite’s beliefs and feelings about language and discourse, their language ideologies, are employed to construct and represent distinct social and cultural identities. From a historical perspective I further examine the no less than 13 different competing orthographies developed for Akha language by various institutions and actors since the 1920s as lenses for viewing changes in Akha ethnic formations at different periods of time and scales. I bring attention to the specific ways in which the divergent positions of Akha as embedded within particular nation-states yet involved in a transborder movement shape their historical negotiations for a common orthography. I argue that languages, in addition to communities, need to be imagined before their unity can be accomplished socially. I further argue for an understanding of contemporary identity politics as having complex relations to the past and involving multiple and shifting orientations to the local, national and transnational.

- by Guangtian Ha
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- Ethnic Studies, China, China studies, Contemporary China
- by Serena Lee
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- Ethnic Studies, Multiculturalism, Southeast Asian Studies, Anthropology of Dress

Čína i nacionalismus patří v současnosti mezi ústřední spo-lečenská témata. S rostoucí geopolitickou mocí Číny vyvstává stále více potřeba tomuto vzmáhajícímu se kolosu porozumět. Kromě ekonomických či politických témat je ale třeba rozu-mět též současné ideologii. Ta, byť je skryta pod označením "socialismus s čínskými specifiky", je veskrze nacionalistická. Čínský nacionalismus je komplikovaný a jeho pochopení pomůže poznat, kdo ve skutečnosti jsou samotní Číňané. Předkládaná kniha se ptá mimo jiné i na tyto otázky. Kdo jsou Číňané? Lze skloubit státní ideologie socialismu a na-cionalismu v čínském prostředí? Jaký je či chce být čínský ná rod a čím anebo vůči čemu se definuje? Koncept čínského národa je představen prostřednictvím tzv. čtyř pilířů, skrze něž je čínský národ představován a pomocí nichž se definuje. Čínský nacionalismus nebyl doposud v českém prostředí for-mou monografie představen, a proto kniha uvádí čtenáře do základních teoretických konceptů i dějinných souvislostí. Aby bylo téma čtenáři přístupnější, jsou čínskému nacionalismu v jednotlivých kapitolách nastavována zrcadla-hong kongské, taiwanský a české, která umožňují lépe pochopit ideu čínského národa i jeho synkretický charakter. VELKÝ ČÍNSKÝ NÁROD: Nacionalismus s čínskými specifiky Autor: Adam Horálek Vydavatel: Univerzita Pardubice Rok vydání: 2019 ISBN 978-80-7560-199-5 Cena: 187 Kč (při koupi v https://e-shop.upce.cz) ADAM HORÁLEK VELKÝ ČÍNSKÝ NÁROD Nacionalismus s čínskými specifiky

- by Adam Horálek
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- Nationalism, China, Chinese Nationalism, Contemporary China

El tiempo ha confirmado bastantes de las posibilidades entrevistas cuando se escribió este artículo y, sobre todo, el trabajo realizado ha fructificado en el desarrollo de los estudios de Sinología y de Extremo Oriente en España. El Centro de Estudios Orientales de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, dirigido por Taciana Fisac, ha sido y es un soporte permanente de la política exterior española y la actividad empresarial relacionadas con China.

- by Francisco A Marcos-Marín
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- China, China studies, Contemporary China, sociology of China

ABSTRACT Using a data set (n = 1,967) collected in Kuala Lumpur in 2002, this paper examines ethnic differences in love marriage in urban Malaysia. Data analysis shows that the majority of the marriages among both the Malays and the Chinese are based on free choice. Data analysis also shows that Chinese are more likely than Malays to report love marriages when major background characteristics are controlled. However, the differences between Malay men and Chinese men fade away when background characteristics are controlled, whereas no similar patterns are found among women. These findings indicate that Malay women have a lower degree of autonomy in the marriage market than their Muslim brothers. Findings from this research thus suggest a new interpretation of the effect of Malay culture and status attainment on inter-group differences in marriage in Malaysia.