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• Ways to conceptualize utopianism : an introduction
• Cosmopolitanism and equality : Kang Youwei
• Aesthetics and transcendence : Cai Yuanpei
• Democracy and the community : Chen Duxiu
• Experimentalism, process, and progress : Hu Shi.

"Offers new perspectives on modern Chinese political thought"-- Provided by publisher.

• Emotions on the move
• At home and unhomeliness
• Shame and desire
• Vulnerability and resistance
• Sacrifice and social heroism
• Mourning and movement
• Affect and activism.

"This book explores the politics of gendered labour migration in Southeast Asia through the stories and perspectives of Indonesian and Filipina women presented in films, fictions and performance to show how the emotionality of these texts contribute to the emergence and vitality of women's social movements in Southeast Asia. By placing literary and filmic narratives of Filipina and Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong and Singapore within existing conversations concerning migration policies, the book offers an innovative approach towards examining contemporary issues of Asian migration. Furthermore, through rich ethnographic accounts, the book unpacks themes of belonging and displacement, shame and desire, victimhood and resistance, sacrifice, and grief to show that the stories of Filipina and Indonesian migrant women do not just depict their everyday lives and practices but also reveal how they mediate and make sense of the fraught politics of gendered labour diaspora and globalization. Contributing to the 'affective turn' of feminist and transnational scholarship, the book draws insight from the importance and centrality of affect, emotions and feelings in shaping discourses on women's subjectivity, labor and mobility. In addition, the book demonstrates issues of vulnerability and agency inherent in debates on social exclusion, human rights, development and nation-building in Southeast Asia. Offering an innovative and multidisciplinary approach to analyses of Asian migration, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of Asian Studies, literary and cultural studies, film studies, gender and women's studies and migration studies"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The tone of encounters: Strangers, anxiety and everyday exclusivism
• 2. Interactional affection: Suspicion and sustainability of voluntary cooperation
• 3. Emotional labour: Leadership, dependency and everyday work relations 4 Ethical qualia: Role ethics and the moral transformation of young Chinese migrants
• 5. Speaking with affect: Speech capital, situationa-- affect and daily (mis)communication Conclusion Bibliography Index.
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Against the background of China's rapidly growing, and sometimes highly controversial, activities in Africa, this book is among the first of its kind to systematically document Sino-African interactions at the everyday level. Based on sixteen months of ethnographic fieldwork at two contrasting sites in Lusaka, Zambia-a Chinese state-sponsored educational farm and a private Chinese family farm-Di Wu focuses on daily interactions among Chinese migrants and their Zambian hosts. Daily communicative events, e.g. banquets, market negotiations, work-place disputes, and various social encounters across a range of settings are used to trace the essential role that emotion/affect plays in forming and reproducing social relations and group identities among Chinese migrants. Wu suggests that affective encounters in everyday situations-as well as failed attempts to generate affect-should not be overlooked in order to fully appreciate Sino-African interactions. Deeply researched and with rich ethnographic detail, this book will be relevant to scholars of anthropology, international development, and others interested in Sino-African relations.
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• 1: Introduction Ch
• 2: A Call for An African Policy Framework Towards China Ch
• 3: Regionalizing Sino-African Diplomatic Engagement: Kagame and Overcoming The 'One and The Many' Paradigm Ch
• 4: Cultural Approaches To Africa's Engagement with China Ch
• 5: Pan-African Perspectives on International Relations - Africa and China Ch
• 6: China's Evolving Approach to the African Peace and Security Agenda: Rationale, Trends and Implications Ch
• 7: Self-Reliance or Dependency? The Role of China's Development Finance in Enhancing African Agency Ch
• 8: The EU and Africa: A Multilateral Model For The Future Of Africa-China Relations? Ch
• 9: One or Many Voices? Public Diplomacy and Its Impact on an African Policy Towards China Ch
• 10: The Need for Africa's Common Policy Towards China: A Decolonial Afrocentric Perspective Ch
• 11: Conclusion.
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This book offers a range of perspectives on the Africa-China partnership in the context of the Forum on China and Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). Incorporating historical, political, social and cultural dimensions, it offers innovative views on the Africa-China relationship that combine theory and practice, and critically examines the prospects of a Pan-African policy towards China, complementary to China's comprehensive African policy. The chapters address a number of key questions, including: What steps are being taken to achieve a more coordinated approach and policy towards China on the African continent? Does Africa even need a collective strategy in the first place? How would a coherent policy framework affect Africa's relations with Europe and other external partners? How do the pillars of the partnership align with the African Union's Agenda 2063 and the United Nation's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development?
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• Preface. a fleeting encounter
• Introduction. Foreigners in China
• 1. The emergence of the 'Chocolate City': multiethnic spaces, catering networks, and articulated subeconomies
• 2. The materialities of transnational movement: food, hair, fashion, movies and other 'things'
• 3. Placemaking in Guangzhou: emplacement, transiency and the 'politics' of solidarity
• 4. Making it on the move: landscapes of aspiration in Guangzhou's African music scene
• 5. Transnational flows: gendered and racialised imaginaries of Africans in Guangzhou
• 6. Embedded transnationality: problematic transnational mobilities, the burden of methodological nationalism
• Postscript. African transnational mobility in post-COVID19 pandemic Guangzhou
• Index.
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Considering the African presence in China from an ethnographic and cultural studies perspective, this book offers a new way to theorise contemporary and future forms of transnational mobilities while expanding our understandings around the transformations happening in both China and Africa. The author develops an original argument and new theoretical insights about the significance of the African presence in Guangzhou, and presents an invaluable case study for understanding particular modes of transnational mobility. More broadly, it challenges forms of (re)presenting and producing knowledge about subjects on the move; and it transforms existing theorisations and critical understandings of mobility and its shaping power. Through an ethnographic approach, the book brings us closer to a number of practices, features and objects that, while characterising the lives of Africans in Guangzhou, are also evidence of the interplay between individual aspirations, and the structural constraints embedded in contemporary regimes of transnational mobility. Raising critical questions about ways of (un)belonging in the precarious settings of neoliberal modernity and the future of African mobilities, this book will be of interest to scholars of transnational, African and Chinese Studies.
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The relationship between the Chinese nation and its recent past has been fraught with contradictions and tensions. This collection aims to make sense of this complex relationship and challenge the prevalent state-centric and nation-centric modes of history writing on modern China. It explores alternative representations of the past and the salience of political conflicts and competitive histories in China, highlighting the paradoxical similarities in such representations of the past from the late nineteenth century to the present. Ultimately, this book contributes to the ongoing discussion on the politics of interpreting the past and its many manifestations in both China and other societies. ?This volume will contribute to the scholarly debate on the use of the past in national history.? Tze-ki Hon, City University of Hong Kong ?Alternative Representations of the Past presents a collection of essays that critically examine the ways in which the contradicting and contested enterprise of history has been politicized in China. As ?memory is past made present?, the meticulous re-evaluation of Chinese history by the contributors of this volume promises to offer readers valuable insights into contemporary China.? Chang-Yau Hoon, Associate Professor and Director, Centre for Advanced Research, Universiti Brunei Darussalam.

"This book is a study of the Shishuo xinyu, the most important anecdotal collection of medieval China-and arguably of the entire traditional era. In a set of interconnected essays, Jack W. Chen offers new readings of the Shishuo xinyu that draw upon social network analysis, performance studies, theories of ritual and mourning, and concepts of gossip and reputation to illuminate how the anecdotes of the collection imagine and represent a political and cultural elite. Whereas most accounts of the Shishuo have taken a historical approach, Chen argues that the work should be understood in literary terms. Thus, the central concern of Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance is an extended meditation on the very nature of the anecdote form, both what the anecdote affords in terms of representing a social community and how it provides a space for the rehearsal of certain longstanding philosophical and cultural arguments. Although each of the chapters may be read separately as an essay in its own right, when taken together, they present a comprehensive account of the Shishuo in all of its literary complexity"-- Provided by publisher.

• Emerging technologies and the criminal law / Dennis J. Baker and Paul H. Robinson
• Financial technology : opportunities and challenges to law and regulation / the Right Hon. Lord Hodge
• Between prevention and enforcement : the role of 'disruption' in confronting cybercrime / Jonathan Clough
• Preventive cybercrime and cybercrime by omission in China / He Ronggong and Jinglijia
• Criminal law protection of virtual property / Zhang Mingkai and Wang Wenjing
• Criminalising cybercrime facilitation by omission and its remote harm form in China / Liang Genlin and Dennis J. Baker
• Rethinking personal data protection in the criminal law of China / Dongyan Lao and Dennis J. Baker
• Using conspiracy and complicity for criminalising cyber-fraud in China : lessons from the common law / Li Lifeng, Tianhong Zhao and Dennis J. Baker
• The threat of AI / adie Creese
• AI v IP : criminal liability for intellectual property offences of artificial intelligence entities / Gabriel Hallevy
• Don't panic : artificial intelligence and criminal law 101 / Mark Dsouza

This volume presents new research in artificial intelligence (AI) and Law with special reference to criminal justice. It brings together leading international experts including computer scientists, lawyers, judges and cyber-psychologists. The book examines some of the core problems that technology raises for criminal law ranging from privacy and data protection, to cyber-warfare, through to the theft of virtual property. Focusing on the West and China, the work considers the issue of AI and the Law in a comparative context presenting the research from a cross-jurisdictional and cross-disciplinary approach. As China becomes a global leader in AI and technology, the book provides an essential in-depth understanding of domestic laws in both Western jurisdictions and China on criminal liability for cybercrime. As such, it will be a valuable resource for academics and researchers working in the areas of AI, technology and criminal justice.
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• 1. The Preliminary Understanding of Gui
• 2. The Original Meaning of the Character Gui: An Examination of Jiaguwen and Jinwen
• 3. What's in a Character? Definition and Variegated Characteristics of Gui in the Zuozhuan and Liji
• 4. Confucian, Daoist, and Mohist Perspectives on the Concept of Gui
• 5. Folk-oriented Usages of Gui in the Rishu Manuscript. Conclusion.
• Appendix I: Table of the Radical Gui and Its Related Characters.
• Appendix II: Gui-related Oracle Bone Inscriptions.
• Appendix III: Investigations: Annotated Translation of the "Jie" Section. Bibliography. Index with Glossary.
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The present book by Hu Baozhu explores the subject of ghosts and spirits and attempts to map the religious landscape of ancient China. The main focus of attention is the character gui , an essential key to the understanding of spiritual beings. The author analyses the character gui in various materials - lexicons and dictionaries, excavated manuscripts and inscriptions, and received classical texts. Gui is examined from the perspective of its linguistic root, literary interpretation, ritual practices, sociopolitical implication, and cosmological thinking. In the gradual process of coming to know the otherworld in terms of ghosts and spirits, Chinese people in ancient times attempted to identify and classify these spiritual entities. In their philosophical thinking, they connected the subject of gui with the movement of the universe. Thus the belief in ghosts and spirits in ancient China appeared to be a moral standard for all, not only providing a room for individual religiosity but also implementing the purpose of family-oriented social order, the legitimization of political operations, and the understanding of the way of Heaven and Earth.
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Within Asia, the period from 1840s to 1960s had witnessed the rise and decline of Pax Britannica, the growth of multiple and often competing anti-colonial movements, and the entrenchment of the nation-state system. Beyond Pan-Asianism seeks to demonstrate the complex interactions between China, India, and their neighbouring societies against this background of imperialism and nationalist resistance. The contributors to this volume, from India, the West, and the Chinese-speaking world, cover a tremendous breadth of figures, including novelists, soldiers, intelligence officers, archivists, among others, by deploying published and archival materials in multiple Asian and Western languages. This volume also attempts to answer the question of how China-India connectedness in the modern period should be narrated. Instead of providing one definite answer, it engages with prevailing and past frameworks-notably 'Pan-Asianism' and 'China/India as Method'-with an aim to provoke further discussions on how histories of China-India and, by extension the non-Western world, can be conceptualized.
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• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Translations and Transliterations Introduction: Buddhist Aesthetics, the Cultivation of the Senses, and Beauty's Efficacy
• 1. Historical Background: Laying the Foundation for Mindroeling
• 2. A Pleasure Grove for the Buddhist Senses: Mindroeling Takes Root
• 3. Plucking the Strings: On Style, Letter Writing, and Relationships
• 4. Training the Senses: Aesthetic Education for Monastics
• 5. Taming the Aristocrats: Cultivating Early Modern Tibetan Literati and Bureaucrats Epilogue: Destruction and Revival: The Next Generation Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index.
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Founded in 1676 during a cosmopolitan early modern period, Mindroeling monastery became a key site for Buddhist education and a Tibetan civilizational center. Its founders sought to systematize and institutionalize a worldview rooted in Buddhist philosophy, engaging with contemporaries from across Tibetan Buddhist schools while crystallizing what it meant to be part of their own Nyingma school. At the monastery, ritual performance, meditation, renunciation, and training in the skills of a bureaucrat or member of the literati went hand in hand. Studying at Mindroeling entailed training the senses and cultivating the objects of the senses through poetry, ritual music, monastic dance, visual arts, and incense production, as well as medicine and astrology. Dominique Townsend investigates the ritual, artistic, and cultural practices inculcated at Mindroeling to demonstrate how early modern Tibetans integrated Buddhist and worldly activities through training in aesthetics. Considering laypeople as well as monastics and women as well as men, A Buddhist Sensibility sheds new light on the forms of knowledge valued in early modern Tibetan societies, especially among the ruling classes. Townsend traces how tastes, values, and sensibilities were cultivated and spread, showing what it meant for a person, lay or monastic, to be deemed well educated. Combining historical and literary analysis with fieldwork in Tibetan Buddhist communities, this book reveals how monastic institutions work as centers of cultural production beyond the boundaries of what is conventionally deemed Buddhist.
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• Introduction: Buddhist aesthetics, the cultivation of the senses, and beauty's efficacy
• Historical background : laying the foundation for Mindröling
• A pleasure grove for the Buddhist senses : Mindröling takes root
• Plucking the strings : on style, letter writing, and relationships
• Training the senses : aesthetic education for monastics
• Taming the aristocrats : cultivating early modern Tibetan Buddhist literati and bureaucrats
• Epilogue: The next generation and beyond.

"Founded in 1676 during a cosmopolitan early modern period, Mindröling monastery became a key site for Buddhist education and a Tibetan civilizational center. Its founders sought to systematize and institutionalize a worldview rooted in Buddhist philosophy, engaging with contemporaries from across Tibetan Buddhist schools while crystallizing what it meant to be part of their own Nyingma school. At the monastery, ritual performance, meditation, renunciation, and training in the skills of a bureaucrat or member of the literati went hand in hand. Studying at Mindröling entailed training the senses and cultivating the objects of the senses through poetry, ritual music, monastic dance, visual arts, and incense production, as well as medicine and astrology. Dominique Townsend investigates the ritual, artistic, and cultural practices inculcated at Mindröling to demonstrate how early modern Tibetans integrated Buddhist and worldly activities through training in aesthetics. Considering laypeople as well as monastics and women as well as men, A Buddhist Sensibility sheds new light on the forms of knowledge valued in early modern Tibetan societies, especially among the ruling classes. Townsend traces how tastes, values, and sensibilities were cultivated and spread, showing what it meant for a person, lay or monastic, to be deemed well educated. Combining historical and literary analysis with fieldwork in Tibetan Buddhist communities, this book reveals how monastic institutions work as centers of cultural production beyond the boundaries of what is conventionally deemed Buddhist"-- Provided by publisher.

• A Note on Language and Romanization
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. The Geluk School's Innovative Use of Monastic Constitutions
• Chapter 2. Administering a Monastery for the "Common Good"
• Chapter 3. Institutionalizing Tantra
• Chapter 4. The Systematization of Doctrine and Education
• Chapter 5. Singing Together in One Voice Conclusion
• Appendix. Monastic Constitutions to the Mid-Eighteenth Century Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments.
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The vast majority of monasteries in Tibet and nearly all of the monasteries in Mongolia belong to the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism, best known through its symbolic head, the Dalai Lama. Historically, these monasteries were some of the largest in the world, and even today some Geluk monasteries house thousands of monks, both in Tibet and in exile in India. In Building a Religious Empire, Brenton Sullivan examines the school's expansion and consolidation of power along the frontier with China and Mongolia from the mid-seventeenth through the mid-eighteenth centuries to chart how its rise to dominance took shape. In contrast to the practice in other schools of Tibetan Buddhism, Geluk lamas devoted an extraordinary amount of effort to establishing the institutional frameworks within which everyday aspects of monastic life, such as philosophizing, meditating, or conducting rituals, took place. In doing so, the lamas drew on administrative techniques usually associated with state-making-standardization, record-keeping, the conscription of young males, and the concentration of manpower in central cores, among others-thereby earning the moniker "lama official, " or "Buddhist bureaucrat." The deployment of these bureaucratic techniques to extend the Geluk "liberating umbrella" over increasing numbers of lands and peoples leads Sullivan to describe the result of this Geluk project as a "religious empire." The Geluk lamas' privileging of the monastic institution, Sullivan argues, fostered a common religious identity that insulated it from factionalism and provided legitimacy to the Geluk project of conversion, conquest, and expansion. Ultimately, this system succeeded in establishing a relatively uniform and resilient network of thousands of monasteries stretching from Nepal to Lake Baikal, from Beijing to the Caspian Sea.
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• Introduction by Leah Gerber and Lintao Qi PART I: Theoretical and Historical Reflections
• 1. Archival Research as Method: A Study of 'Non-professional' Agents of Literary Translation by Lintao Qi and Leah Gerber
• 2. Unpacking the Mo Yan Archive: Actor-Network Translation Studies and the Chinese Literature Translation Archive by Jonathan Stalling and Ronald Schleifer
• 3. Intuition and Spontaneity in Multiple Voice Literary Translation: Collaboration by Accident or by Design by Bonnie S. McDougall
• 4. Gift-giving: Panda Books Series and Chinese Literature "Walking toward the World" by Qiang Geng PART II: Translations for the Page and Stage
• 5. Regarding Lady Precious Stream: A Theatrical Translation by Nicholas Jose
• 6. A Descriptive Study of Lu Xun's Short Stories in the English-Speaking World - with Focus on Yang Xianyi & Gladys Yang's Translation by Hongjuan Xin
• 7. A Study of Contrasting Translatorial Methodologies in Ida Pruitt and Lao She's Co-Translation of The Yellow Storm by Man Zhang
• 8. Strategizing Hong Kong literature in the world: Self-collaborative Translation of Dung Kai Cheung's Atlas by Uganda Sze Pui Kwan
• 9. English Translation of Mo Yan's Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out: A Cognitive Narratology Perspective by Lu Shao
• 10. Transferring the Self-Reflexive Function: Translation of Chinese Metafictions by Will Gatherer PART III: Voice of Translators
• 11. Translating Between Languages by Carlos Rojas
• 12. Translating Yu Hua by Allan H. Barr.
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This book delves into the Chinese literary translation landscape over the last century, spanning critical historical periods such as the Cultural Revolution in the greater China region. Contributors from all around the world approach this theme from various angles, providing an overview of translation phenomena at key historical moments, identifying the trends of translation and publication, uncovering the translation history of important works, elucidating the relationship between translators and other agents, articulating the interaction between texts and readers and disclosing the nature of literary migration from Chinese into English. This volume aims at benefiting both academics of translation studies from a dominantly Anglophone culture and researchers in the greater China region. Chinese scholars of translation studies will not only be able to cite this as a reference book, but will be able to discover contrasts, confluence and communication between academics across the globe, which will stimulate, inspire and transform discussions in this field.
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• Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: Chan Buddhism in an Inter-religious and Cross-linguistic perspective Christoph Anderl
• Part 1 Early Chan History Revisited
• 1 Early Chan Revisited: A Critical Reading of Daoxuan's Hagiographies of Bodhidharma, Huike and Their Associates John Jorgensen
• 2 Northern Chan and the Siddham Songs Christoph Anderl and Henrik H. Sorensen
• Part 2 The Spread of Chan in the Northwestern Region
• 3 The Old Uigur Translation of the Siddham Songs Peter Zieme
• 4 Reconsidering Tibetan Chan Sam van Schaik
• 5 The Great Master Tongli: The Texts by a Liao Buddhist Master among the Khara-Khoto Findings Kirill Solonin
• Part 3 Chan in an Interreligious Perspective
• 6 The Meeting and Conflation of Chan and Esoteric Buddhism during the Tang Henrik H. Sorensen
• 7 Buddho-Daoist Interaction as Creative Dialogue: The Mind and Dao in Twofold Mystery Teaching Friederike Assandri
• John R. McRae: A Bibliography Index.
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Chan Buddhism in Dunhuang and Beyond: A Study of Manuscripts, Texts, and Contexts in Memory of John R. McRae is dedicated to the memory of the eminent Chan scholar John McRae and investigates the spread of early Chan in a historical, multi-lingual, and interreligious context. Combining the expertise of scholars of Chinese, Tibetan, Uighur, and Tangut Buddhism, the edited volume is based on a thorough study of manuscripts from Dunhuang, Turfan, and Karakhoto, tracing the particular features of Chan in the Northwestern and Northern regions of late medieval China.
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• The transition
• All aboard
• Mar-a-Lago and beyond
• The road to war
• The Trumps go to Asia
• The Bingo Club
• Ploughshares into swords
• The battle for the future
• New World Order
• Cold War redux
• The big chill
• Waking up
• Endgame
• The coronavirus.

"The behind-the-scenes story of America's chaotic, high-stakes confrontation with Beijing, from an award-winning Washington Post columnist and peerless observer of the U.S.-China relationship. The war began as soon as Donald Trump won the presidency. In an attempt to shape the president-elect's stance toward China, Henry Kissinger began arranging secret meetings between incoming officials and Chinese leaders. Soon, factions in the new administration were battling to shape the U.S. strategy toward China, and with it the future of the most important relationship of the 21st century. The resulting chaos would not only lead Washington and Beijing into a trade war that would reshape international economics and push the two countries to the brink of a Cold War. It also would bring to a boil the long-simmering rivalry between Washington and Beijing, and force a reckoning over China's audacious influence operations within the United States's competition between superpowers that risks a confrontation of inconceivable peril."-- provided by publisher.

• 1. Introduction--
• 2. China's Evolving Posture Toward the International Human Rights Regime: 1949-2017--
• 3. China, the Convention Against Torture and the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture: 1982-2002--
• 4. China and the Establishment of the Human Rights Council: 2004-2007--
• 5. China and the International Labour Organization's Conference Committee on the Application of Standards, 1983-2017--
• 6. Explaining China's Behavior--
• 7. Conclusion.
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Rana Siu Inboden examines China's role in the international human rights regime between 1982 and 2017 and, through this lens, explores China's rising position in the world. Focusing on three major case studies - the drafting and adoption of the Convention against Torture and the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, the establishment of the UN Human Rights Council, and the International Labour Organization's Conference Committee on the Application of Standards - Inboden shows China's subtle yet persistent efforts to constrain the international human rights regime. Based on a range of documentary and archival research, as well as extensive interview data, Inboden provides fresh insights into the motivations and influences driving China's conduct and explores China's rising position as a global power.
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