The Role of Reserve Requirements: The Case of Contemporary China Compared to Postwar Germany

2014 ◽  
pp. 143-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franziska Schobert ◽  
Lijun Yu
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary China ◽  
Postwar Germany ◽  
Reserve Requirements

Party and Professionals. The Political Role of Teachers in contemporary China.

1984 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Pepper ◽  
Gordon White
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Political Role ◽  
Role Of Teachers

Men in Mixed-Orientation Marriages in Contemporary China: Unpacking the Role of Heteronormativity and Patriarchy

2021 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2110557
Author(s):  
Changhui Song ◽  
Joyee Shairee Chatterjee ◽  
Donna L. Doane ◽  
Philippe Doneys
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Filial Piety ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Depth Interviews

This qualitative study based on 34 in-depth interviews (IDIs) with cis-gendered tongzhi (men who are attracted to men) critically explores the factors influencing their decisions to enter mixed-orientation marriages (MOMs) in China. Theoretically, the study weaves together insights from queer and feminist theorizing and analyzes the role of heteronormativity and patriarchy, especially in relation to hegemonic masculine ideals, in the context of marriage norms in contemporary China. Our examination showcases the contradictory role heteronormativity and patriarchy play in simultaneously marginalizing and privileging these groups of men along the axes of sexual, gender, and lineage (inter-generational) hierarchies. It also underscores the continued role of filial piety norms. Overall, the study contributes to deepening our understanding of the complex nature of MOMs and discussions of MOMs as marriage fraud. We argue that examining these non-normative marriages furthers explication of the social structures underpinning gender and sexuality in a context of patriarchal marriage-normative societies.

Haunted Chinese Gay Identity

2018 ◽  
pp. 73-86
Author(s):  
Hongwei Bao
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Gay Identity ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Critique ◽  
Subject Formation ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Potential Productivity ◽  
Chinese Context ◽  
Historical Memories

This chapter examines the construction of Chinese gay identity in a popular queer online fiction titled Beijing Story. Drawing on the Derridian notion of “hauntology”, I propose to read the novel as a social critique of postsocialist China in the context of globalization and neoliberalism. I highlight the intersections between sexuality, masculinity, and class in the narrative, and the potential productivity of paying more attention to the issue of class in queer subject formation in contemporary China. I also emphasize the crucial role of the transnational, as well as historical forms of homoeroticism and recent historical memories of revolution and reconstruction, in constructing contemporary gay identity in China. In doing so, I critically assess the role of “queer Marxism” (Liu 2015) in a transnational Chinese context.

Neue Westpolitik: The Clandestine Campaign to Westernize the SPD in Cold War Berlin, 1948–1958

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott H. Krause
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Democratic Party ◽  
Postwar Germany ◽  
Political Clout ◽  
Willy Brandt ◽  
German American

AbstractThis article focuses on the joint campaign of “remigrés” and American authorities to “westernize” the local Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Berlin during the early Cold War. The years 1948 to 1958 witnessed one of postwar Germany's most bitter intraparty struggles for leadership within the Berlin SPD, where a faction of remigrés led by Ernst Reuter and Willy Brandt wrestled for control with the so-calledKeulenriegearound Franz Neumann. Examining clandestine American support for the remigré faction, which included favorable media coverage and considerable financial contributions, this article focuses in particular on the political maneuvering of a German-American network around Shepard Stone, political advisor to U.S. Commissioner John McCloy. An investigation of the postwar power struggle within the Berlin SPD offers fresh perspectives on three related subjects: the role of remigrés in postwar Germany history; the political clout of informal German-American networks; and West Berlin as an alternative laboratory of German democratization.

scholarly journals English Education Should Focus on the Integration of Humanism

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Yu Xing
Keyword(s):  
English Education ◽  
Current Level ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
The Core ◽  
Contemporary Education ◽  
Positive Effect

People in educational circles believe that humanism has an incomparable role and status in education and its ideology has a certain positive effect both in past education and in contemporary education. Moreover, the core of people-oriented thinking in humanism can be integrated with the quality education thought advocated by contemporary China. Therefore, in this context, the paper analyzes English education should focus on the integration of humanism. Firstly, the paper gives a brief overview of the meaning of humanism, and then summarizes the role of humanism in the full integration of English education. Finally, it analyzes in detail how to effectively integrate humanism into English education. The purpose of this study is mainly to improve the current level of English education, and to train comprehensive quality talents for the country.

scholarly journals Chinese Heritage with European Characteristics: International and Domestic Dimensions of the China’s Cultural Heritage Politics

Politeja ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4(73)) ◽  
pp. 7-28
Author(s):  
Joanna Wardęga
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Protective Measures ◽  
Opium War ◽  
Chinese Scholars ◽  
Heritage Politics ◽  
Historical Sites

The discussion on Chinese cultural heritage started to emerge as a result of inspiration coming from foreign travels of Chinese scholars-officials and as protective measures against looting of artifacts in the 19th and 20th centuries. The most spectacular robberies were carried out by Anglo-French forces in the Old Summer Palace (Yuanming Yuan) during the Second Opium War in 1860. That event became one of the cornerstones of the “century of humiliation” (bainian guochi) in the Chinese historical narrative. Even though the Communist Revolution classified historical sites as remnants of feudalism, today the Communist Party of China has assumed the role of a defender of the Chinese heritage. In contemporary China, its cultural heritage is a phenomenon of both domestic and international significance. The Chinese emphasize the antiquity of the Chinese nation, pointing to the origins of Chinese civilization as early as five thousand years ago. In contemporary China, recovering cultural treasures is important for the political legitimacy of a government and for erasing the national humiliation.

scholarly journals Equality of Access? Chinese Women Practicing Chan and Transnational Meditation in Contemporary China

Religions ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Ngar-Sze Lau
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Buddhist Meditation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Contemporary Chinese ◽  
Different Parts

This paper examines how the Buddhist revival, the Chan revival, and recent popularity of transnational meditation practices have facilitated Chinese women practicing Buddhist meditation in contemporary China. With the influence of the opening of China and growing transnational networks, there has been an increasing number of Han Chinese monastics and lay people practicing transnational meditation, such as samādhi, vipassanā and mindfulness, in the past two decades. Despite the restriction of accessing Chan halls at monasteries, some Chinese nuns and laywomen have traveled to learn meditation in different parts of China, and international meditation centers in Southeast Asia to study with yogis from all over the world. Surprisingly some returned female travelers have taken significant roles in organizing meditation retreats, and establishing meditation centers and meditation halls. Through examining some ethnographic cases of Chinese nuns and laywomen, this paper argues that the transnational meditation movement has an impact not only on gender equality, especially concerning Chinese women practicing meditation, but also on the development of contemporary Chinese Buddhism. The significant role of Chinese female meditators in promoting Buddhist meditation can reflect a trend of re-positioning the Chan School in contemporary China.

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