Full Description
This Handbook approaches Chinese Studies from an interdisciplinary perspective while attempting to establish a fundamental set of core values and tenets for the subject, in relation to the further development of Chinese Studies as an academic discipline. It aims to consolidate the current findings in Chinese Studies, extract the essence from each affiliated discipline, formulate a concrete set of ideas to represent the 'Chineseness' of the subject, establish a clear identity for the discipline and provide clear guidelines for further research and practice.Topics included in this Handbook cover a wide spectrum of traditional and newly added concerns in Chinese Studies, ranging from the Chinese political system and domestic governance to international relations, Chinese culture, literature and history, Chinese sociology (gender, middle class, nationalism, home ownership, dating) and Chinese opposition and activism. The Handbook also looks at widening the scope of Chinese Studies (Chinese psychology, postcolonialism and China, Chinese science and climate change), and some illustrations of innovative Chinese Studies research methods.The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Studies is an essential reference for researchers and scholars in Chinese Studies, as well as students in the discipline.
Contents
Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsForewordIntroduction (Weixiao Wei)Part 1. China's global interests and foreign policy 1. Great chaos under heaven: Strategies and challenges for consolidating China's global hegemony in the 21st Century (Mariano Ignacio Treacy)2. Normative economic statecraft: China's quest to shape the world in its image (Mikael Mattlin) 3. China's United Front Work Department: Roles and Influence Domestically and Abroad (Gerry Groot ) 4. The discursive construction of the Belt and Road Initiative as a global public good (Eduardo Tzili-Apango ) 5. The Chinese Model of Development: Substances and Applications in and Beyond China (Yu-Wen Chen & Obert Hodzi ) 6. China's Central Asia Policy: Beijing's doctrines of active defense, belt & road and peaceful coexistence (Liselotte Odgaard ) 7. The Role of Context in Chinese HUMINT (Human Source Collection) Intelligence (Jim Schnell ) Part 2. China's political system and governance 8. Dynamic dictators: elite cohesion and authoritarian resilience in China (Elina SINKKONEN) 9. Conceptualizing "Meritocracy" as "Ruling Legitimacy" in the Course of China's History, Transformation and Global Rise (Li Xing) 10. Managing Public Opinion in Crisis: Weibo and the Wenzhou High Speed Rail Crash of 2011 (Patrick Gorman) 11. A review of the research and practice of eGovernment in China (Jesper Schlaeger) 12. Cultural Heritage Politics in China (Christina Maags) 13. Population Ageing and Social Policies in China: Challenges and Opportunities (Huoyun Zhu Alan Walker) 14. A place-specific approach to environmental governance in China: the Protean Environmental State (Nick Hacking & Andrew Flynn ) Part 3. Chinese culture and history 15. Martial Legacies: Strategic Culture, Ethnic Conflict and the Military in Modern Chinese History (Eric Setzekorn )16. History of International Law and China: Eurocentrism, Multi-Normativity and the Politics of History (Maria Adele Carrai) 17. Marx in China (William McBride) 18. Chinese Correlative Cosmology: A Chinese View of the World? (William Matthews) 19. Philosophical Hermeneutics and Chinese Metaphors (Joshua Mason) 20. Poetry and Emotion in Classical Chinese Literature (Chen Xia) 21. The advocacy of cultural change through translation: the rhetoric of Chinese sutra translators (Weixiao Wei & Hui Shi) 22. Shaolin: the Cradle of Chan (Zhouxiang Lu) Part 4. Chinese people and society 23. Embracing the Middle Class: Wealth, power and social status (David S G Goodman) 24. Labor Migration and Rural Development in China (Elise Pizzi ) 25. Chinese Nationalism in Comparative Perspective (Luyang Zhou ) 26. Populism in China (He Li) 27. Social Transformations of Chinese Society in the Focus of Modern Sociological Science (Deriugin Pavel , Lebedintseva Liubov & Veselova Liudmila)28. The Differential Cosmopolitan Chineseness in Australia's Chinese Ethnic Media (Fan Yang) 29. The cultural meanings of home ownership for China-born migrants in Australia (Christina Y. P. Ting , Iris Levin & Wendy Stone) 30. Dating and Mate Selection in Contemporary China: Examining the Role of Gender and Family (Sampson Lee Blair) 31. Reconstruction of Gender: A Study of Online Gaming Communities in Shanghai, China (Andy Xiao Ping Yue & Eric P. H. Li) Part 5. Oppression and opposition 32. Nonviolent Revolution in China: Past and Prospects (John J. Chin)33. Studying the Chinese political opposition in exile (Jie Chen) 34. The Chinese Communist Party's Control of Online Public Opinion: Towards Networked Authoritarianism (Wen-Hsuan Tsai) 35. In the Name of Stability: Literary Censorship and Self-censorship in Contemporary China (Kamila Hladikova) 36. The typology of on- and off-line collective action in China (Ting Xue & Jacquelien van Stekelenburg ) 37. Personality and Contentious Participation in China (Ching-Hsing Wang) Part 6. Chinese studies: scope and methodology Chinese Studies in Brazil: History and current perspectives (Andre Bueno )On "lagging behind" and "catching-up" - Postcolonialism and China (Marius Meinhof )Science in China: Key Problems, Topics, and Methodologies (Florin-Stefan Morar)Transnational knowledge transfer: The adaptation of German psychiatric concepts during the academic evolution of modern psychiatry in China (Wenjing Li )The effects of climate change in China: transformation of lives through cultural heritage (Elena Perez-Alvaro )Reading between the lines: How frame analysis reveals changes in policy priorities (Sabine Mokry )44. Chinese News Discourse Analysis: A Case Study of the Discursive Strategies in the Editorials of Global Times (Bo Wang & Yuanyi Ma) Index
