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CHINA REPORT VOL: 52 NO 4 (3) answer(s).
 
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Bilingual education in Xinjiang in the post-2009 period / Gupta, Sonika ; Veena, R   Journal Article
Gupta, Sonika Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract This article analyses strategies of minority education currently in place in Xinjiang in the context of the second generation ethnic policy debate in China. The article argues that the 2009 ethnic riots in Xinjiang coupled with the change of leadership in China has significantly hardened the state’s approach to aggressively promoting Putonghua (standard Chinese). This policy is facing significant structural and political challenges in its implementation and acceptance in Xinjiang. The policy to universalise Putonghua in all Xinjiang schools is likely to produce more resistance to the statist agenda rather than resulting in the intended outcome of integration.
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Not so simple : complexity theory and the rise of China / Garlick, Jeremy   Journal Article
Garlick, Jeremy Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract China’s rise to the status of a global power is a very complex phenomenon. Yet students of international relations (IR) are taught that a good theory should be ‘parsimonious’, meaning that it should explain a lot with a little. In relation to China’s rise, the problem with theoretical parsimony may be not what it includes but what it leaves out. This article argues that lack of explanatory breadth and depth in connection with China’s IRs demonstrates a shortcoming in mainstream IR theories such as neorealism, offensive realism and constructivism. A candidate for an IR theory which explains more with more is complexity theory (CT), which utilises a conceptual toolkit including non-linearity, feedback effects, emergent properties and complex adaptive systems. CT’s toolkit, already used in the natural sciences, seems a good candidate to explain the hard-to-predict phenomena that emerge in the international sphere, but has not yet been developed into a clear theoretical lens in IR. In this article, the rise of China is analysed through the lenses of three mainstream theories and CT in order to assess the strengths and shortcomings of each approach and to suggest how CT’s ‘conceptual toolkit’ might be utilised to flesh out existing IR theories in order to explain China’s rise more fully.
Key Words Realism  CAS  Constructivism  Rise of China  CT  Non Linearity 
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Sino-Turkish ‘solid strategic partnership’ : China’s dream or a reality? / Chaziza, Mordechai   Journal Article
Chaziza, Mordechai Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract This article analyses the motivation behind China’s measures to formalise a solid strategic partnership with Turkey. One cannot ignore the inherent potential and impact on the region of a Chinese strategic partnership with Turkey and Beijing’s balancing efforts to contain US predominance in the Middle East. However, China’s bilateral relationship with Turkey is essentially limited, with narrow strategic manoeuvrability, which make the two countries unlikely to become solid strategic partners in the foreseeable future. Yet an improved strategy and more sophisticated diplomatic tactics by China could bring it closer to reality.
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