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121256
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2013.
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The rise of stability preservation to dominance in the political
order coincided with a highly charged debate over "universal values" and
a closely related discussion of a "China Model". This paper analyses the
critique of universal values as a "wedge issue" that is used to pre-empt
criticism of the party-state by appealing to nationalism and cultural essentialism. Taking freedom as a case in point of a universal value, it
shows that, while more developed in the West, freedom has an authentic
Chinese history with key watersheds in the late Qing reception of popular sovereignty and the ending of the Maoist era. The work of Wang
Ruoshui, Qin Hui and Xu Jilin display some of the resources liberals
now bring to "de-wedging" universal values, not least freedom. They
share a refusal to regard "Western" values as essentially hostile to Chinese.
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This study looks at cultural policy through the analytical lens of two major theories of mass media that are considered of major significance in understanding the reproductive roles of media in nation building and maintenance. Focusing on the Israeli context, it examines the reciprocal relations between the State of Israel during its first decade of independence and its developing cinema industry. It highlights the institutionalised processes through which cinema policies were formulated. The study is grounded on discourse analysis of the minutes of Israeli parliament (Knesset) discussions that preceded enactment of the “1954 Law for Encouragement of Israeli Cinema”. The findings show that the legislative initiative, legislation process and the Law itself reflect the hegemonic “Statist-Zionist” ideology that the ruling elite sought to promulgate and naturalise.
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160507
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The emergence of Chinese liberalism carries with it a specific China-centric character that reflects both a Chinese and a foreign focus on the nation’s complicated domestic situation. As part of the research dialogue on the intellectual public sphere in China, this article provides a historical perspective of the development of contemporary Chinese liberalism and explores the complexities of those Chinese liberals’ engagement with a number of key issues in political thought, both among themselves and with their principal opponents, the New Left. We review four themes in these ongoing debates: the relationship between freedom and equality; the liberals’ demands for a more open civil society; their call for balanced social structures, including a mechanism for expressing interest; and their search for a new synthesis of Chinese tradition with a strong nation state. Contemporary Chinese liberals propose their visions for a China that operates within and against a Euro-American-dominated system. Thus, their interpretation of classical liberal texts is characterized by one of creative adaptation, and informed by both local and foreign intellectual resources. The article’s ultimate goal is to provide a deeper understanding of the internal debates among Chinese liberals, which may give a sense of the multifarious predicaments and opportunities that China’s intellectuals face as China attempts to pursue wealth, power, and a revitalized role in a new world order.
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142191
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New Delhi, Bloomsbury Publishing India, 2016.
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202p.pbk
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9789385436970
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Copies: C:1/I:0,R:0,Q:0
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 058397 | 320.01/MOS 058397 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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158266
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This article will examine the strategies by which a number of intellectuals in China have staked out a liberal position in their work over the last decade, doing so in the face of opposition not only from rival intellectual groups but also the state’s ideological machinery. The writings of these intellectuals take up themes inherent to the liberal political tradition, including democracy, individual rights, and the rule of law. Collectively, they seek to revive liberal ideas as the basis for future political reforms, working at a time when New Left and New Confucian discourses have risen to positions of prominence in intellectual circles, each of which reinforce the cultural nationalism of the Chinese government in their own ways. In responding to this intellectual landscape, liberal thinkers have reckoned with four major areas of concern in their work: the meaning of China’s 20th-century history, particularly the Cultural Revolution; the social inequality created by market reforms; statism as a discourse of power that openly rejects Euro-American political models; and cultural pluralism as a grounding idea for 21st-century China.
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115255
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2012.
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This article traces the rise and fall of radical praxis in South Africa and offers a critique of the prevailing practices of former Marxists under post-apartheid conditions. Western Marxism emerged in the 1970s in South Africa and Marxist activists became deeply involved in the liberation movements. With the unravelling of apartheid, the main liberation forces made a social pact with capitalist forces and former Marxists embraced a statist project. In the context of the rise of 'new' social movements, radical thinking of a more Libertarian kind is emerging in contemporary South Africa.
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158267
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In post-Mao China, a group of Chinese intellectuals who formed what became the New Left (新左派) sought to renew socialism in China in a context of globalization and the rise of social inequalities they associated with neo-liberalism. As they saw it, China’s market reform and opening to the world had not brought greater equality and prosperity for all Chinese citizens. As part of China Information’s research dialogue on the intellectual public sphere in China, this article provides a historical survey of the development of the contemporary Chinese New Left, exploring the range of ideas that characterized this intellectual movement. It takes as its focus four of the most prominent New Left figures and their positions in the ongoing debate about China’s future: Wang Shaoguang, Cui Zhiyuan, Wang Hui, and Gan Yang.
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106459
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2011.
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This article seeks to identify and assess the general shift in Russian foreign policy thinking during Vladimir Putin's presidency. The main thesis of this article is that a general shift in Russian foreign policy had occurred during Putin's presidency owing to the rise in Statist thinking. To substantiate the thesis, the author uses the State of the Nation addresses of Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin to make a comparative analysis of the presidents' foreign policy approaches. As will be demonstrated in the article, the Russian foreign policy had experienced a dramatic influence of state power during Vladimir Putin's presidency, which resulted in the relative quantitative and qualitative reduction of cooperative initiatives between the United States and Russia.
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