scholarly journals PROTECTING PRIVATE PROPERTY IN CHINA - WHOSE PROPERTY?

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-41
Author(s):  
Xiaoyang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Private Property ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
The Core ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Modern Chinese History ◽  
Core Value ◽  
The Right

The importance of protecting private property in China has now ascended to the same level as that of safeguarding public assets which has traditionally been a top priority for socialist nations. This article will firstly and heavily expound on the rationale behind the availability and at certain times the marginalisation of protecting private property de jure and de facto during some momentous stages in modern Chinese history. It will then touch on a lingering problem relevant to today’s Chinese society arising from the drainage of state assets, a phenomenon having occurred in the transformation process of China’s economic regimes over the most recent decades. It finally argues that while protecting the right to lawful private property is not a matter in dispute, pursuing the protection of private property shall in no way lead to the weakening of sticking to the core value of justice and egalitarianism, a key to ensuring a sound socialist institution.

Recent Studies of Modern Chinese History

1996 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans van de Ven
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Modern Chinese History ◽  
Western Scholarship

Some time ago the Commonwealth and Overseas History Society of Cambridge University asked me to provide an overview of recent scholarship on modern Chinese history. What follows is a written version of this ‘public service’ lecture aimed at non-specialist historians. It discusses Western scholarship on China from the eighteenth until the twentieth century.

From Cohong to Comprador

Tea War ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 230-272
Author(s):  
Andrew B. Liu
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Free Labor ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Productive Labor ◽  
Modern Chinese History ◽  
Theoretical Category ◽  
Historical Institution

This chapter analyzes how the Republican economic reformer Wu Juenong, in his attempts to revive the collapsed industry, articulated a criticism of the tea merchants as parasitic. These were the same houses who played a crucial, dynamic role during the nineteenth-century golden years of Chinese tea. What had changed by the 1930s was not the comprador (buyer) and tea warehouse merchants' own behavior but instead the perspectives of Chinese economic thought, now rooted in a division between “productive” labor and “unproductive” finance. The chapter introduces the comprador both as a real, historical institution and as a theoretical category in modern Chinese history. As with free labor in India, the oppositional categories of productive and unproductive labor in China signaled an embrace of the industrial capitalist model by nationalists across Asia, in spite of a dearth of the traditional signs of industrialization in either region.

scholarly journals Enlightenment and Reflection on the Integration of the Red Boat Spirit into the Teaching of The Outline of Modern Chinese History

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. p245
Author(s):  
Qiu Chenxi
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
History Teachers ◽  
New Era ◽  
Party Building ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Teaching Content ◽  
Modern Chinese History

The Red Boat spirit is the source of the Chinese revolutionary spirit and the source of the advancement of the Chinese Communist Party. Its connotation reflects the CCP’s spirit of party building, the cultural label that indicates the initial heart and mission of CCP, and represents the core value requirement of our party. The spirit of the Red Boat has a deep connection with the teaching content of The Outline of Chinese Modern History. Teachers should enrich the teaching forms and encourage students to be thoughtful. In this way, college students can truly feel the role of the Red Boat spirit in promoting the development of modern Chinese history and understand the relationship between the Red Boat spirit and their own growth, which is of positive significance for the cultivation of contemporary college students’ historical views, the shaping of political views and the promotion of Red Boat spirit in the new era.

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