The Chinese Dream: Imagining China

Bislev, Ane Katrine

doi:10.1007/s40647-015-0099-2

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“…The Residents Party Charter calls for the "rejuvenation of the Chinese nation" (fuxing zhonghua minz, 復興中華民族). This is nearly identical to the PRC's slogan of the "great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation" (zhonghua minzu weida fuxing, 中華民族偉大復興,) and the unity of the Chinese nation (Mahoney, 2014;Wang, 2014;Bislev, 2015). The fact that the Residents Party was co-founded by Taiwanese citizens was stressed by Yang Yaping as an indication that the eventual unification was also envisaged by some people in Taiwan (interview, 3 October 2014, Taipei).…”

Section: Chinese Activists: Transforming the Value Of Transnational Lmentioning

confidence: 79%

Asset or Liability: Transnational Links and Political Participation of Foreign‐Born Citizens in Taiwan

Cheng

Momesso²,

Fell

2018

International Migration

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Viewed as outsiders clinging onto links with their country of origin, immigrants do not often feature positively in electoral politics in their host society. Challenging this conventional view, this article examines how immigrants make use of their transnational ties to foster their political participation in the host state. This exploration is conducted through our study of the political participation of Vietnamese and Chinese immigrants in Taiwan. Our research finds that transnational ties are politicized by the mainstream political parties. However, such politicization does not necessarily restrict immigrants’ agency and their sociopolitical space for political participation. Their transnational ties constitute a dynamic sociopolitical field in which these maintained connections are acted upon and give rise to a variety of strategies for responding to issues affecting their interests.

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Section: Chinese Activists: Transforming the Value Of Transnational Lmentioning

confidence: 79%

Asset or Liability: Transnational Links and Political Participation of Foreign‐Born Citizens in Taiwan

Cheng

Momesso²,

Fell

2018

International Migration

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“…Gramsci’s sensitivity to the links among intellectuals and common sense is also apt to understanding the resilience of “conceptions of the world” in the integral state. The “Chinese Dream” discourse represents a paradigmatic example due to its “potentially all‐encompassing nature” (Bislev 2015:586) distinguishing it from previous CCP slogans (Li 2015). The intrinsic openness of the “Chinese Dream” to a variety of interpretations has not been detrimental to its success.…”

Section: Between Translation and Betrayal—a Still Open Encountermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The intrinsic openness of the “Chinese Dream” to a variety of interpretations has not been detrimental to its success. Quite the contrary, this characteristic has supported it in finding its way into popular discourse as a permanent component of both national and personal vocabulary (Bislev 2015:595).…”

Section: Between Translation and Betrayal—a Still Open Encountermentioning

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Gramsci in China: Past, Present, and Future of a Still Open Encounter

Caterina

2021

Antipode

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Assessments of the nature and trajectory of China's political economy polarise into a highly controversial debate. The present paper aims to introduce Antonio Gramsci as a powerful ally in making sense of the specificities of the Chinese case by shedding light on the past, present, and future of the Gramsci-China encounter. Starting from an in-depth assessment of the reception of Gramsci's textual legacy in Mainland China and of the main related problems, the paper promotes a philologically sound, diachronic approach to the potential of a Gramscian perspective in analysing China's peculiar trajectory, such as the ability to focus on: (1) the constructed nature of Chinese hegemony; (2) the terrain of China's integral state; (3) adopted strategies of passive revolution; (4) the materiality of Chinese hegemony; (5) its processual and contested nature across different times and scales; as well as ( 6) key links between intellectuals and the production of common sense.

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“…For the CD, many scholars have discarded, rightly so, the exercise in trying to find the interpretation of the Chinese Dream and focus, instead, on the CD as a discourse. Bislev (2015), (through an online analysis of Sina Weibo 2 ) for instance, points out that the CD discourse changed when it interacted with the public as it searched for parts of the dream that had "greater resonance" with citizens. He further suggests that the CD is a public communication campaign and contributes to the 'creation and maintenance' of an imagined community and that it is "very special because it is a potentially all-encompassing term that invites multiple interpretations quite unlike something as delimited and well defined as the Three Represents" (2015, p. 586).…”

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The ‘Chinese Dream’ and the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’: narratives, practices, and sub-state actors

Loh

2019

International Relations of the Asia-Pacific

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The ‘Chinese Dream’ (CD) and the ‘Belt Road Initiative’ (BRI) are signature programs of President Xi Jinping. Much of the scholarships on these two projects have concerned itself with either domestic propagandistic effects or external foreign policy impact. These concerns have underpinned the literature’s focus on material expressions of such projects, be it through infrastructural construction in the case of the BRI or propaganda tools in the example of the CD. Yet, an important but understudied element of these two projects is the narratives that they tell and the impact of these narratives. In that regard, this article complements existing studies of the CD and the BRI by reading the projects as grand narratives. Drawing on international practice theory, I trace an explicit link between narratives and practices to demonstrate how narratives activate, anchor, produces and contest political practices of some sub-state actors in China. That is to say narratives: (i) serve as signposts for sub-state actors’ orientations in clarifying what are relevant/irrelevant and appropriate/inappropriate practices; (ii) provide ‘background’ stock of information where actors draw on to legitimize their practices when they speak of the BRI and CD; and (iii) create conditions for both the creation of new practices and contestation of existing ones. I then argue that four narrative-practice processes are seen in the Chinese example: contestation, sustenance, activation, and production.

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The Chinese Dream: Imagining China

Cited by 13 publications

References 10 publications

Asset or Liability: Transnational Links and Political Participation of Foreign‐Born Citizens in Taiwan

Asset or Liability: Transnational Links and Political Participation of Foreign‐Born Citizens in Taiwan

Gramsci in China: Past, Present, and Future of a Still Open Encounter

The ‘Chinese Dream’ and the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’: narratives, practices, and sub-state actors

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