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| | Universität Witten/Herdecke The Evolution of the Interaction Among the Chinese Mainland's State, Non-state Ruling Elite and the Masses During the Period of the Reform - Sun Liping |
 | | This model of social integration may be called the innate integration; the integration of the two levels, lacking organizational connections, mainly relied an the integration mechanism role connecting the two levels played by the local elite’s' personal relations with the officials and an the replacement of the organizational integration partially by value integration. | | | This article is intended to explore the outline of the evolution of the Chinese mainland's social structures with the analysis framework of the three - layer structure of "the state the non - state ruling elite and the masses". | | | After the state held the power to monopolize and control the overwhelming majority of the social resources, -the whole social members fell into two major categories in accordance with their different relations with resources. |
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| | USCC Text Only Uren Page |
| | Pervading Chinese government thinking about the media is the fundamental issue of China’s relations with the outside world, which draws together China’s desire for economic modernization, the fear of a breakdown in social stability, the perennial question of Taiwan, and its interest in maintaining its own national security. | | | The Chinese authorities consequently seem to be performing a balancing act, on the one hand taking at times quite bold steps to maintain economic growth, while on the other hand trying to prevent the reform program from undermining social stability and perhaps eventually even the foundations of the regime. | | | The Chinese government appreciates that continuing reform is necessary to sustain the economic growth that is essential to maintaining social stability and to realizing China’s ambition to become a modern state. |
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| | Minorities At Risk (MAR) |
| | The Chinese follow different social customs than the dominant community and they are primarily Buddhists in comparison to the Malay Muslims (BELIEF = 3). | | | Relations between the Chinese community and the government have remained harmonious, unlike the situation in neighboring Indonesia where there are many questions about potential government involvement in the 1998 anti-Chinese riots. | | | The Chinese in Malaysia remain underrepresented in the political arena due to prevailing social practices by the dominant Malay majority and public policies are not adequate to offset these disadvantages (POLDIS00 = 3). |
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http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/data/malchi.htm
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| | Alchemy |
| | It is still too early to attempt a truly historical study of the theoretical side of Chinese alchemy, in which one could see how concepts and their relations developed and changed both through mutual influence and the pressure of wider intellectual and social currents. | | | This latter tendency might be called technological, in the sense that the product was all-important, and we shall see that reflections of the artisan's ability to control Nature, uncommon elsewhere in Chinese thought, furnish an important part of its ideology. | | | We cannot pretend that we understand the historical dynamics of Chinese alchemy until someone has succeeded in explaining why this very real contradiction never generated sufficient dialectical voltage to be faced or resolved. |
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~nsivin/alch.html
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| | Minorities At Risk (MAR) |
| | The Chinese follow different social customs than the dominant community and they are primarily Buddhists in comparison to the Malay Muslims (BELIEF = 3). | | | Relations between the Chinese community and the government have remained harmonious, unlike the situation in neighboring Indonesia where there are many questions about potential government involvement in the 1998 anti-Chinese riots. | | | The Chinese in Malaysia remain underrepresented in the political arena due to prevailing social practices by the dominant Malay majority and public policies are not adequate to offset these disadvantages (POLDIS00 = 3). |
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http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/data/malchi.htm
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| | Confucianism is the Chinese nontheistic mystical religion based on the sayings of Confucius (c500 BCE) recorded in the Analects, and which teaches social order, scholarship, filial reverence for family and ancestors, and divination. | | | Taoism is the Chinese polytheistic mystical religion based on the Tao-Te-Ching ascribed to Lao Tzu (c550 BCE) and which advocates a path (tao) of minimalist serenity and reverence for various deities. | | | The Chinese Room is a thought experiment devised by John Searle in 1980 to show that there cannot be intentionality or understanding in a formal symbol manipulation system such as a room in which a speaker of English manually executes an algorithm allowing the room to pass the Turing Test in Chinese. |
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http://humanknowledge.net/HumanKnowledge.txt
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| | History 130f - Asian Studies 101f |
| | Rather, we will focus on fundamental issues in Chinese history: economic and technological evolution; the growth, power, structures, and ideologies of the state; relations with and perceptions of other peoples; and intellectual and social life. | | | March 6 Buddhism Becomes Chinese, China Becomes Buddhist | | | Your paper should answer all of the following questions (if not more): Where does your text belong in the Chinese intellectual tradition? |
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http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/jlipman/hist130syllabus.html
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| | fachp.html |
| | Research Interests: Chinese foreign policy; learning theory; international relations theory; Chinese strategic thought. | | | Research interests: Political, social, and intellectual history of China, 1644-present, history of Chinese emigration. | | | Research interests: Chinese ceramics; Chinese jades; Chinese bronzes; Chinese Buddhist art; Korean ceramics; Korean Buddhist art; Korean painting. |
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http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~eas/fachp.html
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| | Chinese Military History Society |
| | The Chinese Military History Society welcomes historians and other scholars in the humanities and social sciences who are interested in the warfare, strategic thought, military institutions, or civil-military relations of any period of Chinese history from earliest times to the present day. | | | Students of the military history of other Asian countries influenced by Chinese culture are also welcome to join the society. | | | The society will also undertake to organize panels, roundtable discussions, workshops and conferences devoted to Chinese military history. |
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http://www.ksu.edu/history/institute/cmhs
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| | HIS- Faclty Research |
| | "Urban Chinese Social Organization: Some Unexplored Aspects of Huiguan Development in Singapore, 1900-1941." Modern Asian Studies 26.3 (1992), pp. | | | "Challenging an Immigrant Discourse: The Rise of the Local-born Chinese in Vancouver, 1945-70." The Journal of American-East Asian Relations 5.2. | | | "Becoming Chinese Canadian: The Genesis of a Cultural Category," in Elizabeth Sinn, ed., The Last Half Century of Chinese Overseas. |
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http://colfa.utsa.edu/HIST/FacultyResearch.html
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| | Chinese social relations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | An important concept within Chinese social relations is the concept of face and many other Oriental cultures. | | | Chinese social relations are social relations typified by a reciprocal social network. | | | Unlike other societies, Chinese tend to see social relations in terms of networks rather than boxes. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_social_relations
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| | Chapter Two |
| | Economic stratification in Overseas Chinese society of Sarawak for instance is arranged like a pyramid of social relations with the base represented by laborers and agriculturalists of the rural zones, with an intermediary class of "rural bazaar shopkeepers in the middle" and an elite of big businessmen at the apex. | | | It is argued that this most characteristic economic preoccupation of the Nanyang Chinese can be best understood in terms of their regional inter-positionality as an entrepreneurial pariah class of merchant-middlemen mediating the relations between the "dual economies" of the local native context and the larger regional/global market economy. | | | Social stratification exists within, defines, and is defined by, a continuum of social interaction, enduring relations and interpersonal experience that exist through time and across space. |
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http://www.lewismicropublishing.com/Publications/OverseasChinese/OverseasChinese2.htm
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| | White-Paper-022100 |
| | The Chinese Government believes that Taiwan's international space for economic, cultural and social activities compatible with its status, the political status of the Taiwan authorities and other questions can be finally settled in the process of peaceful reunification through political negotiations within this framework. | | | The Chinese government's declaration in 1979 on implementing the principle of peaceful reunification was based on the premise that the Taiwan authorities at that time upheld the principle that there is only one China in the world and Taiwan is a part of China. | | | The Chinese Government advocates that the final purpose of cross- Straits negotiations is to achieve peaceful reunification; and that to achieve this purpose, talks should be held based on the principle of one China. |
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http://taiwansecurity.org/IS/White-Paper-022100.htm
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| | USCC Other Works Text only Page |
| | Analysis and Strategic Study of Advantages/Disadvantages of China& Entry into the WTO in Various Industries, by Yang Fan, Research Fellow, Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Spring 2001 | | | This article was published in Xiandai Guoji Guanxi (Contemporary International Relations) (2001.10), a Chinese Journal of China Institute of Contemporary International Relations. | | | On Methods and Practice of Military Intelligence on Electronic Sciences and Technologies, By Liang Dewen, Number Ten Research Institute of Electronics; Chinese Defense Science and Technology Information Monthly; Issue 121, the 5th Issue of 1998. |
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| | Face (social custom) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | For a person to maintain face is important with Chinese social relations because face translates into power and influence. | | | Face refers to two separate but related concepts in Chinese social relations. | | | Lian is the confidence of society in a person's moral character, while mianzi represents social perceptions of a person's prestige. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_(social_custom)
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| | [4] “The Chinese are uncivilized, unclean, and filthy beyond all conception without any of the higher domestic or social relations; lustful and sensual in their dispositions, every female is a prostitute of the basest order….”[5] In 1875, the American Medical Association sponsored a study of Chinese prostitutes and their effect on the “nation’s bloodstream”. | | | These social evils were attributed to the Chinese and sensationalized by whites. | | | At first, Californians were barely aware of the Chinese presence because they were employed in railroad construction and mining, distant from the centers of population. |
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http://www.american.edu/bgriff/dighistprojects/boyle/chinatowns.htm
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| | Fuji Lozada's Webpage @ Davidson College |
| | Based on fieldwork conducted in Meizhou Prefecture from 1993-1997, this paper will examine the funerary practices of a Hakka Catholic village to depict the changing nature of rural Chinese social relations. | | | Multiple social processes such as modernization, ethnic mobilization, and state consolidation have resulted in vast changes in contemporary Chinese rural social life. | | | How has the continued participation in a Catholic community, one that was marginalized and persecuted through the Maoist period, affected social relations among villagers, between Catholic and non-Catholic neighbors, and between local residents and non-local Catholics? |
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http://www.davidson.edu/academic/anthropology/erlozada/papers/fuji98AAS.htm
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| | CHINA BOOKS: *History: Modern |
| | This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese society. | | | Chapters on education policies and practices, Party relations with Chinese Christian and missionary communities, the use of paper currency, political propaganda, and the construction of scientific institutions all provide fresh points of comparison with Chinese Communist ideas, practices, and dilemmas. | | | Drawing on a wide range of newly-available archival sources, this book shows how the war of 1924 opened the way for radical nationalism, deeply affecting the Chinese economy, society, politics, and foreign relations. |
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| | Sino-Soviet split - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Relations between the Chinese Communist Party and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union broke off, as did relations with the Communist parties of the Warsaw Pact countries. | | | The Chinese continued to denounce "Soviet social imperialism" and accuse the Soviets of being the enemies of the world revolution. | | | Soviet military forces along the border were greatly reduced, normal economic relations were resumed, and the border issue was quietly forgotten. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Chinese Politics and Society: An Introduction |
| | Covers a brief history of the Chinese Revolution, problems of transition, the Chinese state and political institutions, the Chinese economy, civil-military relations, ethnicity, environment, and perspectives for the fut ure. | | | Concentrating on the era since 1949, the text takes a look at politics in the widest sense, analysing political institutions within the crucial broader context of Chinese history and the pressures of social, economic and cultural changes. | | | Concentrating on the era since 1949, this book takes a look at Chinese politics in the widest sense, analyzing political institutions within the crucial broader context of Chinese history and the pressures of social, economic, and cultural change. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/013354656X
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| | Traditional Chinese Foreign Relations |
| | Relations between China and other states were in theory to be governed by the same li, the "Confucian rules of propriety," that regulated familial and social relations within China. | | | While the Chinese held firmly to the Confucian theories as theories, this did not necessarily blind them to the true basis of international relations. | | | For the Chinese the coming of foreign missions showed a recognition of the superiority of Chinese civilization and the authority of the "Son of Heaven." It was also considered a gesture of friendship and peace. |
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http://nacrp.cic.sfu.ca/nacrp/articles/panyihong/panyihongtext.html
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| | MA Thesis Abstract |
| | This thesis focuses on the generation of an anti-Chinese discourse in the 1980s in Belize as a social arena in which various actors and entities differentially located in relation to the control and distribution of material resources contest and negotiate relations of power. | | | I assert that to focus too narrowly on class alone perpetuates the very real cultural and experiential basis of race and ethnicity as social categories of differentiation in the structuring of those class relations. | | | Chinese in Belize: An Examination of Nationalism, Development and Social Conflict |
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http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/students/ropp/abstract.html
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| | Traditional Chinese Foreign Relations |
| | Relations between China and other states were in theory to be governed by the same li, the "Confucian rules of propriety," that regulated familial and social relations within China. | | | On the one hand, there were the traditional theories mirroring the Confucian value system and the policies associated with this system; on the other hand there were the actual policies and practices of Chinese foreign relations. | | | Foreign rulers sent tributary missions to the Chinese court, the Chinese would present a certain amount of Chinese products in return for the foreign tribute, and both sides would gain. |
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http://nacrp.cic.sfu.ca/nacrp/articles/panyihong/panyihongtext.html
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| | NEAS - Resources, Politics |
| | Topics include historical background, political system and participation, bureaucracy, economic structure and performance, social reaction to market reform, income distribution, education and mobility, health care and welfare policy, industrial relations, ethnic relations, the environment, family and marriage, position of women, intellectuals and dissidents, trends in popular culture, and so on. | | | Explores the economic, political, and social upheavals that followed the Chinese revolution in 1949 and the cause of subsequent inauguration of reform in the late 1970's. | | | The political system of China, approached from a number of perspectives: as a continuing development within the framework of Chinese history and culture; as a case study of political modernization; in the context of world Communist movements; as an object of comparison with other political systems. |
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| | We study images, characters, plots and motives as openings into the vast hidden background of beliefs, mentality and social relations embedded in Chinese culture. | | | We will focus on the major traumatic events that affected the Chinese in this century: the imperialist invasion and colonization, the anti-Japanese war, the social upheavals and massive Diaspora, the political oppression in Mao's China, the Cultural Revolution, and the increasingly postmodern character of contemporary Chinese society. | | | Drawing on current studies of cultural memory and representation of historical trauma, this course aims to illuminate the ways both the mainland Chinese and Chinese Americans grapple with and reconstruct their pasts. |
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http://www.sunysb.edu/complit/fall97.htm
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| | :: Welcome to Manila Bulletin Online :: |
| | Today, on the occasion of the Filipino and Chinese Friendship Day, we also celebrate in a gathering at the Manila Hotel 30 years of diplomatic relations between the Philippines and the Peoples Republic of China. | | | The Chinese Annals recorded that Filipino and Chinese relations began as early as 500 BC. | | | The Chinese annals mention the early names given to the Philippines "Volcano Country, because of the volcanic features of the land; "Gold Country, because gold was already a thriving industry among the inhabitants; and "Betel-nut Chewing Country, because betel-nut chewing was already popular among the countrys inhabitants. |
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| | RUSSIA-CHINA 3 |
| | Cologne: Guenter Verheugen, Social Democratic Party of Germany [SPD], state minister in the Foreign Ministry, is convinced that the accidental bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade will not lead to Beijing's breach with the West. | | | Its security and safety are protected by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and should not be flagrantly infringed upon by anyone, he added."However, NATO, cloaked with humanitarianism and in defiance of world opinion, has launched gratuitous attacks at the Chinese diplomatic mission and savagely slaughtered the Chinese citizens," the Chinese ambassador said. | | | China's ambassador to the Philippines is not convinced that the bombing of the Chinese embassy was an accident. |
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| | History Courses (Part III) |
| | The social, economic and political transformation of China under Communism; the role of ideology in contemporary Chinese historical development; the nature of that historical development in the comparative perspective of other post-revolutionary histories. | | | The history of Syria (including Palestine), Egypt, and Iraq under the Ottomans, emphasizing relations between central authority and diverse forces of social and political regionalism. | | | History of the region since the Islamic invasions, and the social and political transformations leading to the rise of modern states in the 20th century. |
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| | Sigur Center Asia Paper: The International Relations Theoretical Discourse in China |
| | Later, the Chinese-Burmese joint statement repeated the five principles, and the two prime ministers proclaimed that the principles should guide their bilateral relationship and should be the norm of international relations. | | | And a crucial part of Chinese foreign relations is its good neighbor policy, which seeks to actively develop relations with neighboring countries. | | | Under five sub-topics, I will discusses Chinese discourse on war, peace, and development, the concept of contradiction, power configuration and multipolarization, the new international economic and political order, and the five principles of peaceful coexistence. |
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http://www.gwu.edu/~sigur/scholar_papers/RenXiao00.htm
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