scholarly journals Seeing like a Minority: Political Tourism and the Struggle for Recognition in China

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 133-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uradyn E. Bulag
Keyword(s):  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Minority Leaders ◽  
Tiananmen Square ◽  
Ethnic Tourism ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Tourist Gaze ◽  
Metropolitan Cities ◽  
May Day ◽  
Struggle For Recognition

This paper outlines the operation of what may be called “political tourism” in China, and analyses the role of the sensorial technology of “seeing” in the kind of narrative this tourism engenders. Beginning in 1950, the newly established People's Republic of China launched an annual tradition of inviting non-communist elites to attend the May Day and the National Day (1 October) parades on Tiananmen Square in Beijing and in some metropolitan cities. Unlike contemporary ethnic tourism, wherein minorities and their cultures become the objects of the tourist gaze, Chinese political tourism aims at bringing minority leaders out of their putative “isolation”, treating them with hospitality, and ultimately making them “see with their own eyes” China's “true face”.

scholarly journals The role of [clinical] legal education in legal reform in the People’s Republic of China: chicken, egg – or fox?

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Jay Pottenger
Keyword(s):  
Legal History ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Legal Reform ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Straight Line

<p>China has a long and sophisticated “legal” history. This makes commenting upon it a daunting and humbling task, particularly for someone like me, who comes from a nation with only a fairly short and (relatively) straight-line story by comparison. Nonetheless, I shall begin by attempting both to describe the current situation in the People’s Republic of China and to place it in some historical context.</p>

Not Another Don Quixote!

2018 ◽  
pp. 428-450
Author(s):  
Rowan McLelland
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Don Quixote ◽  
Political Capital ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Dance Teachers ◽  
The World ◽  
Training Institutions ◽  
Teachers Training

This chapter discusses international ballet competitions through exploring their contributions to ballet as a transnational practice. It provides an ethnographic account, specifically focused on the multilayered significance of competing for aspiring dancers in the People’s Republic of China, in addition to assessing the role of competitions in the broader institution of ballet in China. The chapter investigates the value found in engaging with ballet competitions in terms of physical, social, economic, and political capital. It explores how value operates differently for individual competitors, dance teachers, training institutions, and even nations, both within China and in the rest of the world, to indicate the significance of competitions as a contributing factor to China’s increasing status in ballet more widely.

FEATURES OF MEDIATION IN CHINA

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasiia Saulevych ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Confucian Ethics ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Labor Disputes ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Trade Promotion ◽  
Constituent Elements ◽  
The Given

The article examines the institute of mediation in the People's Republic of China. The reasons for the widespread mediation procedure in China are outlined. The influence of Confucian ethics and Taoist practice on the mediation procedure in China is analyzed, its constituent elements are determined. The organizational and legal bases of functioning of mediation in the given country are investigated, the legal status of mediators in labor disputes, national conciliation commissions, national mediators is outlined. The main normative legal acts of the People's Republic of China regulating the mediation procedure are analyzed. Types of mediation in China are identified: mediation in labor disputes, public mediation, judicial mediation, administrative mediation, legal mediation, commercial mediation. The peculiarities of the mediation procedure, the defining principles of mediation, the rights and obligations of the parties, the role of the mediator in the dispute resolution procedure are described. The types of judicial mediation and the main ways of interaction of courts with mediation organizations are indicated. The main mediation organizations in China (Mediation Center of the China Council for International Trade Promotion, Hong Kong Mediation and Mediation Center) are considered. The peculiarities of concluding and executing agreements based on the results of mediation, the possibility of approving the agreement by the people's court are studied. The role of the Singapore Convention in the development of the institution of mediation in China is determined. The main online mediation platforms are analyzed, the current number of mediation organizations and mediators in China is determined. Prospective directions of improving the institution of mediation in China are proposed, in particular, reorientation of emphasis during the mediation procedure on the rights and interests of the parties, professionalization of mediation, facilitation of cooperation between courts and mediation organizations, improvement of mediation legislation, further active introduction of modern technologies.

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