A civilising mission with Chinese characteristics? Education, colonialism and Chinese state formation in comparative perspective

2014 ◽  
pp. 64-94
Keyword(s):  
State Formation ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
Chinese State

The Revolutionary Path to State Formation in Vietnam

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 267-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuong Vu
Keyword(s):  
State Formation ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
State Building ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Radical Ideology ◽  
Key Aspects

This essay examines the revolutionary path of modern state formation in Vietnam under the Vietnamese Communist Party. I argue that the party’s radical ideology and practices shaped the path of state formation by creating particular opportunities and conundrums in five key aspects of state formation: legitimization, establishing sovereignty, territorialization, creating a centralized bureaucracy, and monopolizing violence. The revolutionary state left behind significant and adverse legacies that today’s Vietnam is still grappling with. In comparative perspective, the Vietnamese experience contributes to scholarship on revolutions, revolutionary state-building, and the role of revolutions in world politics.

scholarly journals Emotional Branding of China’s State-Owned Enterprises on Sina Weibo

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 30-45
Author(s):  
Ying Hua
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
National Economy ◽  
Sina Weibo ◽  
The Public ◽  
Emotional Bonding ◽  
Communicative Functions ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
Branding Strategies ◽  
Chinese State ◽  
Shed Light

In order to provide the interpersonal, rhetoric and semiotic insights for studying corporate emotional branding discourse on social media, this study attempts to target China’s state-owned enterprises which represent the pillars of national economy with Chinese characteristics and shed light on the discourse realizations of their emotional branding strategies from the textual and interpersonal perspectives. Specifically, the present study focuses on the two kinds of textual and interpersonal representations on China-based Sina Weibo: 1) the use of stylistic features; 2) the use of attitudinal appeals. A corpus of forty-day updates of the three giant Chinese state-owned enterprises on Sina Weibo is retrieved and analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The results suggest the prevalence of involving stylistic features, the proliferation of affect and judgment appeals and the hybridization of appreciation and affect/judgment, which posits interdiscursivity and intertextuality in communicative functions. China’s state-owned enterprises communicate to forge emotional bonding with the public other than promote their products. This pragmatic shift towards solidarity facework is indicative of a transcultural phenomenon elicited by digital globalization and the neoliberalist trend in China’s national economy.

Introduction

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carles Boix ◽  
Susan C. Stokes
Keyword(s):  
State Formation ◽  
Political Instability ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Political Regimes ◽  
Current Volume ◽  
Form Part ◽  
Gathering Data

This article discusses several crucial questions that comparative political scientists address. These questions also form part of the basis of the current volume. The article first studies the theory and methods used in gathering data and evidence, and then focuses on the concepts of states, state formation, and political consent. Political regimes, political conflict, mass political mobilization, and political instability are other topics examined in this article. The latter portion of the article is devoted to determining how political demands are processed and viewing governance using a comparative perspective.

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