Politics and Traditional Culture: The Political Use of Traditions in Contemporary China, by Janette Ai. Singapore: World Scientific, 2015. xii+254 pp. US$95.00/£63.00 (cloth).

2016 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 170-172
Author(s):  
Bryce Kositz
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Culture ◽  
The Political ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
World Scientific

scholarly journals Chinese Classical Aesthetic in the View of Inter-Subjectivity

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 211
Author(s):  
Zhang Haitao
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Chinese Aesthetics ◽  
Classical Chinese ◽  
Contemporary Chinese ◽  
Dimensions Of Space

In contemporary China, the theory of intersubjectivity causes great significance to the construction of modern Chinese aesthetic theory but this kind of transverse dimensions of space on the outside of the transplantation of theory gave rise to some bad effects to traditional culture and classical Chinese aesthetics. Article presents a qualitative method. Its purpose to conduct research on intersubjectiveness spirit of Chinese aesthetics and literature from the dimensions of the longitudinal time. The discussion will also cause a vital significance to the building of contemporary Chinese aesthetics in this direction.

Twentieth‐Century China

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uradyn E. Bulag
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Ethnic Relations ◽  
The Political ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Acculturation Process ◽  
Political Concept

This article invokes a Chinese political concept of ‘sinicization’, aiming to capture the nature of ethnic relations in China historically, and the political fate of ethnic groups in contemporary China. Sinicization has powerful genealogical and governmental dimensions; it is not primarily an ‘acculturation’ process as it is understood generally. Sinicization may not kill people directly, but it murders the non- Chinese sense of genealogical differences and their polities. The discussion concludes that sinicization has made a remarkable success in the PRC more than at any other time in Chinese history. Chinese policies have been directed at destroying the possibility that non-Chinese national identity might have any political meaning, at destroying the minorities' capacity to think and engage in politics independently as sovereign ethnic groups.

The political uses of culture

Focaal ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 2006 (48) ◽  
pp. 17-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Fitting
Keyword(s):  
State Policy ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Genetically Modified ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
The Political ◽  
Maize Production ◽  
Use Values ◽  
Younger Generation

In the Mexican debates over genetically modified (GM) corn, critics reject the official narrative about risk expertise and the inefficiency of maize production. Corn is used to symbolize the Mexican countryside and traditional culture threatened by the forces of neo-liberal globalization. At times, however, both GM critics and proponents portray maize-based livelihoods as a culture of use-values beyond the reach of the market. This article explores these claims in relation to neo-liberal policies and their effect on small-scale cultivators. While critics draw our attention to how such policies exacerbate the difficulties faced by peasants, their notion of a corn culture obscures some of the changes taking place. Drawing on research in the Tehuacán Valley, where maize production is increasingly monetized and rejected by a younger generation, this article suggests that such agriculture is a dynamic practice, rather than a millennial culture, which interacts with processes of capital accumulation and state policy.

scholarly journals A Critical Discussion of Daniel A. Bell’s Political Meritocracy

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-28
Author(s):  
Yushun Huang ◽  
Kathryn Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Popular Sovereignty ◽  
Main Issue ◽  
The Political ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Political Orientations ◽  
Political Program ◽  
Democratic Systems ◽  
Political Meritocracy

Abstract“Meritocracy” is among the political phenomena and political orientations found in modern Western democratic systems. Daniel A. Bell, however, imposes it on ancient Confucianism and contemporary China and refers to it in Chinese using loaded terms such asxianneng zhengzhi賢能政治 andshangxian zhi尚賢制. Bell’s “political meritocracy” not only consists of an anti-democratic political program but also is full of logical contradictions: at times, it is the antithesis of democracy, and, at other times, it is a supplement to democracy; sometimes it resolutely rejects democracy, and sometimes it desperately needs democratic mechanisms as the ultimate guarantee of its legitimacy. Bell’s criticism of democracy consists of untenable platitudes, and his defense of “political meritocracy” comprises a series of specious arguments. Ultimately, the main issue with “political meritocracy” is its blatant negation of popular sovereignty as well as the fact that it inherently represents a road leading directly to totalitarianism.

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