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Thinking China | The China Story
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Currents of Thought 思潮. Reading into the Past. Thinking China is an attempt over time to document Chinese thinkers and thinking, scholarship and intellectual enquiry. Our aim is to feature Chinese voices, arguments and accounts that allow English-language readers better understanding the many (often conflicting) strands that make up The China Story. Will become a database of Chinese thinkers that can, in some small way, help redress these distorting imbalances. Steven NS Cheung 张五常. Steven NS Cheung 张五常.
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Yearbook 2012: Red Rising, Red Eclipse | The China Story
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Currents of Thought 思潮. Reading into the Past. Yearbook 2012: Red Rising, Red Eclipse. Brings together the various talents of the Australian Centre on China in the World. It is aimed at the engaged public, as well as specialists, journalists, businesspeople, diplomats and students. Red Rising, Red Eclipse. And it covers the period from 2009 to mid 2012. Produced by academics and writers who are members of or who are affiliated with the Centre the. You may read the contents of the book on this website, or...
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Telling Chinese Stories | The China Story
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Currents of Thought 思潮. Reading into the Past. We tell ourselves stories in order to live.’ This is the famous opening line of Joan Didion’s 1979. History and national narratives express aspirations as well as political agendas. Australia too is a country that tells itself stories. At around the time that the Chinese Communist Party’s General Secretary Hu Jintao announced the ‘Eight Glories, Eight Shames’ (. Ba rong ba chi. Many of those who engage with the Chinese world today encounter the stories that ...
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Interviews | The China Story
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Currents of Thought 思潮. Reading into the Past. Shawna Yang Ryan discusses her novel Green Island. Shawna Yang Ryan 楊小娜 published her second novel Green Island in February 2016. Her first novel Water Ghosts was published by Penguin Press in 2009. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, has published widely and was the 2015 recipient of the Elliot Cades Award for Literature for emerging writers. … more. Wang Gungwu 王赓武 on Living Chinese History. The following inte...
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Shorts | The China Story
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Currents of Thought 思潮. Reading into the Past. From the Year of the Ape to the Year of the Monkey. Christopher Rea is Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Director of the Centre for Chinese Research at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China (California, 2015), the editor of China’s Literary Cosmopolitans: Qian Zhongshu, Yang Jiang, and the World of Letters … more. The Australia-China Story Launched. This year, 2015, marks a c...
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The China Story Lexicon | The China Story
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Currents of Thought 思潮. Reading into the Past. The China Story Lexicon. Use the selector above to navigate around The China Story Lexicon, or read about the rationale behind the Lexicon below:. Zhonghua minzude weida fuxing. This connected narrative has, more recently, coalesced into what is sometimes called The China Story (. 中国的故事). It accounts for a kind of ‘Chinese exceptionalism’ based on what are spoken as the country’s particular or unique national characteristics (. In recent years, rhetorical cl...
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Journal | The China Story
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Currents of Thought 思潮. Reading into the Past. Liao Yiwu on human rights, universal values and Chinese culture. When Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull embarked on his inaugural thirty-six-hour visit…. Shanzhai 山寨 China and its Contents. In the welter of discussions in Australia about 'innovation', 'agility' and being 'nimble' in the ma…. 2016: The Golden Monkey 金猴, a Year to Remember. This Year of the Monkey which begins on 8 February 2016 marks the anniversary of a number of signifi…. The I Ch...
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Chapter 7: Fitting Words | The China Story
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Currents of Thought 思潮. Reading into the Past. Chapter 7: Fitting Words. A performance during the CCTV Spring Festival Gala 2012. Speak like a real person! 说人话, literally ‘speak human language’) became a popular catchphrase in China in 2012. In a January 2013 interview, Ha Wen a leading media personality and director of China Central Television’s annual Spring Festival Gala (. The annual state-funded Spring Festival Gala that marks the Chinese New Year is a highlight in the mainland cultural calendar....
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Wu Jiaxiang 吴稼祥 | The China Story
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Currents of Thought 思潮. Reading into the Past. Wu is well-known in and outside China as an early leading proponent of the economic restructuring of China’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs). He was among the first to call for SOE shares to be floated on stock markets. He first came to public notice because of his 1985 article ‘Shareholding system – one way of advancing reform’ 股份化 进一步改革的一种思路. In the piece, Wu suggested a series of practical measures for reforming state-own enterprises through privatisation.
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In Memoriam: Anthony Yu 余國藩 | The China Story
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Currents of Thought 思潮. Reading into the Past. In Memoriam: Anthony Yu 余國藩. In Memoriam: Anthony Yu 余國藩. Was Carl Darling Buck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Humanities at The University of Chicago. In his work he sought to reinterpret classical Chinese narratives and poetry in light of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism. He is noted for his masterful four-volume translation of Wu Cheng’en’s. Journey to the West. 吳承恩著 西遊記 and a profound study of. The Story of the Stone. 石頭記 , also known as.
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