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China has one of the largest gaps between the rich coastal cities in the Southeast and the poor countryside in the Northwest and it is still widening. This is especially visible in the different educational chances. In this session, we compare the Gini coefficient with the EU and regional differences in the EU, look into reasons and measures to even that difference. | China has one of the largest gaps between the rich coastal cities in the Southeast and the poor countryside in the Northwest and it is still widening. This is especially visible in the different educational chances. In this session, we compare the Gini coefficient with the EU and regional differences in the EU, look into reasons and measures to even that difference. | ||
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Family has played an important role in China since millenia. As a unit of identification, it supposedly is both more important than the individual or than the nation. Recent changes through 1-child-policy, job mobility and smaller family units show that China encounters change here too. The recent law on family visits shows how alienated this relation has become by now. Still, old people’s homes are the exception. The generation contract becomes more difficult with the agening of the people. | Family has played an important role in China since millenia. As a unit of identification, it supposedly is both more important than the individual or than the nation. Recent changes through 1-child-policy, job mobility and smaller family units show that China encounters change here too. The recent law on family visits shows how alienated this relation has become by now. Still, old people’s homes are the exception. The generation contract becomes more difficult with the agening of the people. | ||
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Social media like blogs, microblogging (Weibo, similar to Twitter) plays an important role in Chinese society today. Similar to the social critical newspaper essays of the early Republican period, where intellectual opinion leaders carried out the public discourse, social media in China today creates a critical public sphere, a tool of democratization, control and legitimization of government power as well as of self-awareness as a citizen and of participation in the decision-making process. The more restrictive a regime is, the more power has the ability of the internet to change societies. | Social media like blogs, microblogging (Weibo, similar to Twitter) plays an important role in Chinese society today. Similar to the social critical newspaper essays of the early Republican period, where intellectual opinion leaders carried out the public discourse, social media in China today creates a critical public sphere, a tool of democratization, control and legitimization of government power as well as of self-awareness as a citizen and of participation in the decision-making process. The more restrictive a regime is, the more power has the ability of the internet to change societies. | ||
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The China Model – Sacrificing Freedom for Economical Success With a steady growth and rise of living standards for more than 30 years, China is the most successful country in the world – in economic respect. However, it is also one of the most restrictive regimes in the | The China Model – Sacrificing Freedom for Economical Success With a steady growth and rise of living standards for more than 30 years, China is the most successful country in the world – in economic respect. However, it is also one of the most restrictive regimes in the | ||
world with surveillance, censorship, political imprisonment, large-scale bribery etc. In recent years, the | world with surveillance, censorship, political imprisonment, large-scale bribery etc. In recent years, the | ||
Chinese government becomes more self-confident and offensively defends their societal system as more stable and controllable, therefore more economically-friendly than free Western societies. In about 2016, China may become the economic world leader in GPD, 10 years later it may become the world leader in GDP per capita. Several semi-authoritarian regimes in Asia look at the “China model” (cf. the term “Beijing consensus”) as a possible sample model to learn from. | Chinese government becomes more self-confident and offensively defends their societal system as more stable and controllable, therefore more economically-friendly than free Western societies. In about 2016, China may become the economic world leader in GPD, 10 years later it may become the world leader in GDP per capita. Several semi-authoritarian regimes in Asia look at the “China model” (cf. the term “Beijing consensus”) as a possible sample model to learn from. | ||
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Revision as of 12:10, 6 March 2015
Reader for download (please use username and password as received by personal email):
http://universitaetsverlag.com/dp/EU_China_Reader.pdf
Dr. Martin Woesler (PhD Ruhr University Bochum/Germany, Professor of Sinology and Cultural Comparison)
INTRODUCTION
“EU-China Multi-level Comparison”
12 hours PhD workshop, on 6 days in March (March 2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13), each day 15-16:30 p.m. Open for PhD students of the Faculty of Political Science and to other interested students. Interested students should register by sending an email to giovanni.renzullo@uniroma3.it Material will be supplied in English, additional material for Chinese speakers in Chinese. Doctoral Room Via G. Chiabrera 199, 4th floor. Maximum number of students: 25.
In 2016, China might surpass the USA as the world’s economic leader. To Europe, China is extremely important. Still, China has an extremely different system than Europe. This workshop explores the differences and commons on the levels of identity, economy, social life, the public sphere, the role in the world and the tensional field of freedom and economic success.
TIMELINE
Monday March 2, 15-16:30 p.m. Becoming world leaders again - Chinese Identity today
Wednesday March 4, 15-16:30 p.m. Contrast between countryside and cities, rich and poor
Friday March 6, 15-16:30 p.m. The Generation Contract, Family life and gender role
Monday March 9, 15-16:30 p.m.
Civil society, social media and citizenship
Wednesday March 11, 15-16:30 p.m. The China Model – Sacrificing Freedom for Economical Success
Friday March 13, 15-16:30 p.m. Wrap-up Discussion
DETAILS
Monday March 2, 15-16:30 p.m.
Becoming world leaders again - Chinese Identity today Chinese identity, legitimization, mythology, humiliation, nationalism, patriotism, equality, historical narrative, world leadership, misperceptions, Sino-EU relations, Sino-US relations
Chinese identity in the 21st century is extremely complicated and meanders between pride and shame. While Chinese are taught in school to see the last 180 years as humiliating, Chinese people feel proud of themselves, especially when it comes to their economic and military developments since 1980. These contradictory feelings, of extreme shame and pride, result in a schizophrenic longing to prove to the world that China will, one day, surpass the West (and especially the United States) in every aspect and become the world’s leader.
Material:
- http://universitaetsverlag.com/dp/session_1_woesler_china_eu_relations.pptx
- Fishman, Ted. China, Inc.: how the rise of the next superpower challenges America and the world. Simon and Schuster, 2005. Complete Book for download: http://www.tburg.k12.ny.us/hsking/Apgov/China,%20Inc.pdf
- Maddison, Angus. The world economy volume 1: A millennial perspective volume 2: Historical statistics.
Academic Foundation, 2007. Complete download from: http://goo.gl/0nFIyF
- Woesler, Martin: “Chinese Identity: How do the Chinese see themselves today? How do they see
their relation to the West and their role in the world?”, European Journal of Sinology 3 (2012) 108-116
- Xi Jinping: Excerpts from his speeches (in Chinese with partial English translations) – provided by the teacher from his personal archive
Wednesday March 4, 15-16:30 p.m.
Contrast between countryside and cities, rich and poor
China has one of the largest gaps between the rich coastal cities in the Southeast and the poor countryside in the Northwest and it is still widening. This is especially visible in the different educational chances. In this session, we compare the Gini coefficient with the EU and regional differences in the EU, look into reasons and measures to even that difference.
Material:
- http://universitaetsverlag.com/dp/session_2_woesler_china_eu_relations.pptx
- Sicular, Terry, et al. "The urban–rural income gap and inequality in China." Review of Income and
Wealth 53.1 (2007): 93-126. Fulltext: http://goo.gl/GRCO5n
- Qian, Xiaolei, and Russell Smyth. "Measuring regional inequality of education in China: widening coast–inland gap or widening rural–urban gap?." Journal of International Development 20.2 (2008):
132-144. Fulltext: http://goo.gl/LhTl3J
Friday March 6, 15-16:30 p.m.
The Generation Contract, Family life and gender role
Family has played an important role in China since millenia. As a unit of identification, it supposedly is both more important than the individual or than the nation. Recent changes through 1-child-policy, job mobility and smaller family units show that China encounters change here too. The recent law on family visits shows how alienated this relation has become by now. Still, old people’s homes are the exception. The generation contract becomes more difficult with the agening of the people.
Material:
- http://universitaetsverlag.com/dp/session_3_woesler_china_eu_relations.pptx
- Lee, Paul H., et al. "Validating the concord index as a measure of family relationships in China."
Journal of Family Psychology 26.6 (2012): 906. Fulltext: http://goo.gl/sIjD6c
- Eklund, Lisa. Rethinking Son Preference–Gender, Population Dynamics and Social Change in the People’s
Republic of China. Vol. 96. Lund University, 2011. Fulltext: http://lup.lub.lu.se/record/1950819
Monday March 9, 15-16:30 p.m.
Civil society, social media and citizenship
Social media like blogs, microblogging (Weibo, similar to Twitter) plays an important role in Chinese society today. Similar to the social critical newspaper essays of the early Republican period, where intellectual opinion leaders carried out the public discourse, social media in China today creates a critical public sphere, a tool of democratization, control and legitimization of government power as well as of self-awareness as a citizen and of participation in the decision-making process. The more restrictive a regime is, the more power has the ability of the internet to change societies.
Materials:
- http://universitaetsverlag.com/dp/session_4_woesler_china_eu_relations.pptx
- Bamman, David, Brendan O'Connor, and Noah Smith. "Censorship and deletion practices in Chinese social media." First Monday 17.3 (2012). Fulltext: http://goo.gl/H87A2e
- Shi, Yu. "Identity construction of the Chinese diaspora, ethnic media use, community formation, and the possibility of social activism." Continuum
19.1 (2005): 55-72. Fulltext: http://goo.gl/UndFZe
- Shirky, Clay. "Political Power of Social Media- Technology, the Public Sphere Sphere, and Political Change, The." Foreign Aff. 90 (2011): 28. Fulltext: http://goo.gl/qcUVq7
- Yu, Louis, Sitaram Asur, and Bernardo A. Huberman. "What trends in Chinese social media." arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.3522 (2011). Fulltext: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1107.3522
Wednesday March 12, 15-16:30 p.m.
The China Model – Sacrificing Freedom for Economical Success With a steady growth and rise of living standards for more than 30 years, China is the most successful country in the world – in economic respect. However, it is also one of the most restrictive regimes in the world with surveillance, censorship, political imprisonment, large-scale bribery etc. In recent years, the Chinese government becomes more self-confident and offensively defends their societal system as more stable and controllable, therefore more economically-friendly than free Western societies. In about 2016, China may become the economic world leader in GPD, 10 years later it may become the world leader in GDP per capita. Several semi-authoritarian regimes in Asia look at the “China model” (cf. the term “Beijing consensus”) as a possible sample model to learn from.
Material:
- http://universitaetsverlag.com/dp/session_5_woesler_china_eu_relations.pptx
- Breslin, Shaun. "The ‘China model’and the global crisis: from Friedrich List to a Chinese mode of
governance?." International Affairs 87.6 (2011): 1323-1343. Fulltext: http://goo.gl/t0qoL8
- Williamson, John. "Is the" Beijing Consensus" Now Dominant?." asia policy 13.1 (2012): 1-16. Fulltext:
Friday March 14, 15-16:30 p.m.
Wrap-up Discussion Wrapping up the discussion of the previous sessions - Becoming world leaders again - Chinese Identity today - Contrast between countryside and cities, rich and poor - The Generation Contract, Family life and gender role - Civil society, social media and citizenship - The China Model – Sacrificing Freedom for Economical Success