Haiqing Yu, Xiangyang Xin, Hui Jiang, Ruiqin Li, Haiqing Yu, Xiangyang Xin, Hui Jiang, and Ruiqin Li
Subjects
Statesmen--Europe, Eastern--Interviews, Socialist leadership--China, Socialism--China, and Socialists--Europe, Eastern--Interviews
Abstract
This book is a subject from the Academy of Marxism in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. From the perspective of China's new era by the former Communist Party and state leaders in the former Soviet region and Eastern Europe, it tells China's own development and international influence in the new era. This book, combined with international and domestic history and the present situation, in the form of summary and interviews shows how the former party and state leaders see the new era, reviews the history of these countries and friendly relations with China. Meanwhile, the book makes an in-depth observation and reflection on the rapid changes and development of China and on the history, reality and future of world socialism.
Rose, Kate, Verfasser and Wei Xue, Aviva, Sonstige
Subjects
Feminism -- China, Women and socialism -- China, Internet and women -- China, Féminisme -- Chine, Femmes et socialisme -- Chine, Internet et femmes -- Chine, Feminism, Internet and women, Women and socialism, and China
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2204 'On China's biggest social media platform, Weibo, feminists are staying one step ahead of the censors. Weibo Feminism is the first book to explore in-depth the connections and forms of resistance that feminist activists in China are making in online spaces despite increasing crackdowns on free speech and public expression. Aviva Wei Xue and Kate Rose explore the many forms of contemporary feminism in China, from activist campaigns against sexual harassment and domestic violence, through to Weibo Reading groups of feminist texts and subversive online novels published on the platform. The book includes an in-depth case study of feminist support networks for overwhelmingly female frontline medical staff that have sprung up on social media in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Weibo Feminism goes on to asks what lessons are being learned in contemporary China for the cause of social justice for women around the world'
People's democracies, Socialism--China, and Democracy--China
Abstract
The book expounds on the role played by democracy in China's revolution and modernization led by the Communist Party of China (CPC), and how the CPC, in both its party building and state building, has constantly sought to leverage democracy's positive functions while avoiding its shortcomings.Special attention is paid to reconstructing and explaining the historical contexts from which the Party's theoretical innovations have emerged, thus offering readers insights into the inner political logic that has shaped China's development.The author, a member of the Party's senior policy panel, offers a perceptive analysis of the modernization of the country and its governing capacity, and provides a clear assessment of how democracy in China has developed with the times.Always bearing the big picture in mind, the author has not shied away from some of the more controversial parts of China's recent history, and his deep understanding of relevant Party documents and historical facts give strong support to his analyses. He concludes that that the Party is central to leading the nation to explore its path of socialism with Chinese characteristics and that the country has always emerged stronger after setbacks.
Mass media and culture -- China, Mass media -- Political aspects -- China, Socialism -- History -- 20th century -- China, Socialism -- China -- History -- 20th century, and HISTORY -- Asia -- China
Mass media and culture -- China, Mass media -- Political aspects -- China, Socialism -- History -- 20th century -- China, Socialism -- China -- History -- 20th century, and HISTORY -- Asia -- China
Material culture--China--History--20th century, Commodification--China--History--20th century, Socialism--China--History--20th century, Mass media--Political aspects--China, and Mass media and culture--China
Abstract
Contemporary China is seen as a place of widespread commodification and consumerism, while the preceeding Maoist Cultural Revolution is typically understood as a time when goods were scarce and the state criticized what little consumption was possible. Indeed, with the exception of the likeness and words of Mao Zedong, both the media and material culture of the Cultural Revolution are often characterized as a void out of which the postsocialist world of commodity consumption miraculously sprang fully formed. In Newborn Socialist Things, Laurence Coderre explores the material culture of the Cultural Revolution to show how it paved the way for commodification in contemporary China. Examining objects ranging from retail counters and porcelain statuettes to textbooks and vanity mirrors, she shows how the project of building socialism in China has always been intimately bound up with consumption. By focusing on these objects—or “newborn socialist things”—along with the Cultural Revolution's media environment, discourses of materiality, and political economy, Coderre reconfigures understandings of the origins of present-day China.
This book covers the whole system of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, dealing with Deng Xiaoping's theory, the socialist market economy, a moderately well-off (Xiaokang) society, China's practice and theory of socialist democracy, human rights, and Xi Jinping's Marxism. In short, the resolute focus is the Reform and Opening-Up. Socialism with Chinese Characteristics is one of the most important global realities today. However, the concept and its practice remain largely misunderstood outside China. This book sets to redress such a lack of knowledge, by making available to non-Chinese speakers the sophisticated debates and conclusions in China concerning socialism with Chinese Characteristics. It presents this material in a way that is both accessible and thorough.
'The book expounds on the role played by democracy in China's revolution and modernization led by the Communist Party of China (CPC), and how the CPC, in both its party building and state building, has constantly sought to leverage democracy's positive functions while avoiding its shortcomings. Special attention is paid to reconstructing and explaining the historical contexts from which the Party's theoretical innovations have emerged, thus offering readers insights into the inner political logic that has shaped China's development. The author, a member of the Party's senior policy panel, offers a perceptive analysis of the modernization of the country and its governing capacity, and provides a clear assessment of how democracy in China has developed with the times. Always bearing the big picture in mind, the author has not shied away from some of the more controversial parts of China's recent history, and his deep understanding of relevant Party documents and historical facts give strong support to his analyses. He concludes that that the Party is central to leading the nation to explore its path of socialism with Chinese characteristics and that the country has always emerged stronger after setbacks'--Publisher's website
Demokratie, Volksdemokratie, People's democracies, Democracy -- China, Socialism -- China, China -- Politics and government, Democracy, Politics and government, Socialism, China, and Zhong guo gong chan dang
Abstract
'The book expounds on the role played by democracy in China's revolution and modernization led by the Communist Party of China (CPC), and how the CPC, in both its party building and state building, has constantly sought to leverage democracy's positive functions while avoiding its shortcomings. Special attention is paid to reconstructing and explaining the historical contexts from which the Party's theoretical innovations have emerged, thus offering readers insights into the inner political logic that has shaped China's development. The author, a member of the Party's senior policy panel, offers a perceptive analysis of the modernization of the country and its governing capacity, and provides a clear assessment of how democracy in China has developed with the times. Always bearing the big picture in mind, the author has not shied away from some of the more controversial parts of China's recent history, and his deep understanding of relevant Party documents and historical facts give strong support to his analyses. He concludes that that the Party is central to leading the nation to explore its path of socialism with Chinese characteristics and that the country has always emerged stronger after setbacks'
INFORMAL sector, FEDERAL government, PUBLIC finance, LOCAL government, and TAXATION
Abstract
The second largest economy in the world and one of the five existing experiences of Real Socialism, China surprises for its capacity for growth, innovation and development. Although it is defined as a unitary state, many of its practices are decentralized. In this way, this work brings a survey of the tax system that has existed since 1994 in China, the Tax-Share System, detailing its taxes, budget expenditures, and the regional issue. In addition, it also focuses on the division of these variables between the levels of central and local government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Rhetorical question, Socialism, Authoritarianism, Government, China, Environmental ethics, Politics, Capitalism, Rhetoric, media_common.quotation_subject, media_common, and Political science
Abstract
Critics argue that the Chinese rhetorical concept of ecological civilization has been used to justify an increasingly authoritarian government without substantial improvements in China’s environmental footprint. Far from instituting an ecologically responsible socialism, China appears to be continuing on a path of rapid industrialization, growing economic inequality, and repression of individual rights. However, the concept of ecological civilization has played a significant projective, polemical, and appropriative rhetorical role in the Chinese context. An analysis of the function of ecological civilization in Chinese policy shows that it has contributed to a national self-identity based on environmental responsibility by projecting a fictionalized image of itself as an alternative to Western capitalism. The rhetoric of ecological civilization has not always translated into improved environmental policy, nor is its vision for a holistic, socialist society likely to be translated into an objective reality. Still, the concept remains a useful rhetorical tool both for the government and for Chinese citizens attempting to hold the government accountable to its stated ideals. Rather than discounting ecological civilization because of its rhetorical function, its rhetorical effects should be analyzed on its own terms. On the whole, ecological civilization as a rhetorical concept has produced positive political effects with respect to climate change and should be encouraged as a potential tool for environmental progress in China, whether it is used by the Chinese government, Chinese citizens and activists, or international environmentalists.
