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Achieving the impossible / Sinclair, Paul

Sinclair, Paul	Journal Article
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Paul Sinclair discusses President Trump’s approach to the challenge presented by North Korea.

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North Korea ; President Trump

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ID: 160782

Agriculture and Sino-Canadian relations: hsieh pei-chi and his farmers program / Sinclair, Paul ; Blachford, Dongyan Ru

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This article discusses the intermediary activities of Hsieh Pei-chi, a Shandong-born, Taiwan- and U.S.-educated historian active in Canada's main agricultural province of Saskatchewan. We focus on a China Farmers Program, a project jointly implemented by China's Ministries of Agricultural Machinery (農業機械部 Nongye jixiebu) and Land Reclamation (農墾部 Nongkenbu) and the Province of Saskatchewan during the early 1980s. The study carefully examines the intermediary, broker role played by Hsieh in the complex negotiations between Chinese ministries and a regional Canadian government. Drawing on Fei Xiaotong's research on rural Chinese society and the historical record of Chinese intermediary activities, the article reflects on the role and significance of the Chinese zhongjianren (中間人 intermediary) in China's modern interaction with overseas partners.

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Agriculture ; Sino-Canadian Relations ; Hsieh Pei-chi ; Farmers Program

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Japanese Universities’ Fraught Relationship with the Modern Chinese Language / Sinclair, Paul

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This study argues that the massive growing interest in Chinese language in Japanese universities in the 1990s was more complicated than it seemed. ‘Chinese fever’ at the beginning of the new millennium is best situated in the context of several ‘boom-and-bust’ cycles in Chinese language education that date back to the early Meiji Period when the Japanese university system was beginning to take shape. This focusses on three key transitions: 1) the early 1870s, when Monbushō assumed control of foreign language education from the Gaimushō (Ministry of Foreign Affairs); 2) the mid-1940s, when the Allied General Headquarters (GHQ) made policy decisions that compromised the Chinese studies that had slowly taken root in the pre-war system; and 3) the late 1990s when Monbushō advanced internationalization policies that compromised Chinese language initiatives while interest in the language was burgeoning. In each case, ‘homegrown’ Chinese studies were poised to make some kind of dramatic comeback; in each case the best efforts of Chinese language’s colorful protagonists were thwarted by politically-tinged government policy. This article contends that the western-oriented Japanese academy failed to nurture Chinese language education precisely at times when the environment for its growth was most fertile.

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Japanese Universities ; Fraught Relationship ; Modern Chinese Language

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New Zealand’s defence relations with ASEAN / Sinclair, Paul

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Paul Sinclair reviews the evolution of New Zealand’s involvement in effors to ensure the security of South-east Asia.

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ASEAN ; South East Asia ; New Zealand ; Military Presence ; Defence Relations ; Counter Piracy ;
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