China Hard work, not ‘Confucian’ mentality, underpins Chinese success overseas February 3, 2017 0 Written by Robert Hoffmann and Swee Hoon Chuah. Our study of ethnically Chinese people in Malaysia shows some of the assumptions about what leads to their…
Law and Justice Sources for Chinese Legal Reform February 10, 2016 0 Written by Kenneth Winston. It is commonly observed that Chinese legal history was guided for centuries by the idea of rule by law, rather than…
Climate Change Confucianism and Contemporary Environmental Politics December 4, 2015 0 Written by Joel J. Kassiola. In the past ten years I have been studying China’s environmental crisis and how it might inform societal transformation to achieve…
International Relations The Cultural Messages of a Rising China December 2, 2015 0 Written by Tongdong Bai. In spite of Chinese leaders’ effort to reassure the world about China’s intentions, much of the rest of the world is…
Culture and Society Official Marxism vs. New Confucianism: the Vanishing Statue of Confucius December 1, 2015 0 Written By Jiawen Ai. On 11 January 2011, a statue of Confucius was unveiled on the east side of Tiananmen Square. The 9.5-meter bronze sculpture…
China Chinese Propaganda in Historical Perspective: Five terms to consider May 11, 2015 2 Written by Timothy Cheek. In August 2013 Xi Jinping declared a propaganda war on independent political criticism on China’s internet, especially the popular domestic weibo microblogging…
Culture and Society China’s market in stolen babies dates back decades March 19, 2015 0 Written by Jackie Sheehan. The figures in a recent BBC report on the abduction and selling of babies and children in China are shocking –…
Culture and Society Confucius doesn’t live here anymore October 30, 2014 0 Written by Sam Crane. In today’s China, the philosopher Confucius is back. To mark his 2,565th birthday this September, the nation’s President, Xi Jinping, paid homage…
China The Two States of Nature in Chinese Non-interventionism April 2, 2014 0 Written by Chih-yu Shih. It is easy to spot a contradiction between theory and practice in any government’s foreign policy, whether of a hegemonic government…
