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CHINA DREAMS 梦 EDITED BY Jane Golley, Linda Jaivin Ben Hillman, WITH Sharon Strange China Story yearbook: China DreamS Published by ANU Press The Australian National University Acton ACT 2601, Australia Email: [email protected] Available to download for free at press.anu.edu.au ISBN (print): 9781760463731 ISBN (online): 9781760463748 WorldCat (print): 1145684061 WorldCat (online): 1145684091 DOI: 10.22459/CSY.2020 This title is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). The full licence terms are available at creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ legalcode Design concept by Markuz Wernli; ‘Power’ cover design and chapter openers by CRE8IVE Typesetting by Chin-Jie Melodie Liu and Sharon Strange; copyediting by Jan Borrie Printed by Union Offset Printers, Canberra, Australia The Australian Centre on China in the World is an initiative of the Commonwealth Government of Australia and The Australian National University This edition © 2020 ANU Press 揭 蓄 美 民 因 续 倡 压 学 庆 2 , 秘 梦 族 编 镇 导 破 生 祝 、 0 错 多 伟 辑 压 中 碎 运 中 。 综 元 泡 大 婴 维 国 动 华 1 时 视 影 复 儿 吾 公 2 三 人 、 事 角 兴 事 尔 民 0 十 民 , 9 呈 凌 之 件 族 应 1 周 共 , 为 现 云 梦 群 在 9 年 和 、 中 政 壮 对 拓 国 年 整 国 国 志 有 中 展 日 际 , , 成 各 年 经 在 与 鉴 国 南 益 场 几 民 立 领 中 文 全 梦 于 与 极 恶 合 多 主 七 风 国 化 球 魇 此 世 与 化 ﹃ 旧 与 十 骚 恰 与 , 。 日 于 界 称 中 维 ﹃ 言 周 逢 人 渐 中 ︽ 民 霸 美 护 梦 论 年 五 几 文 隆 外 中 众 太 关 国 ﹄ 自 弘 四 个 社 盛 大 国 而 空 系 家 重 由 扬 运 划 会 势 地 故 言 的 成 荣 回 在 革 动 时 力 之 上 事 为 雄 为 誉 , 凌 命 百 代 一 与 相 年 何 心 媒 ﹄ 粉 晨 与 年 意 脉 。 影 吸 鉴 种 亦 体 墨 的 国 祭 义 响 相 相 : 图 甚 焦 香 登 梦 家 重 的 连 提 斥 梦 景 嚣 点 港 场 乡 富 温 周 。 , 。 。 供 之 ︾ 尘 暴 中 强 爱 年 解 本 画 钩 一 上 人 力 习 被 之 国 纪 惑 年 卷 沉 时 。 工 抗 近 政 梦 情 念 之 鉴 ; 是 庙 习 智 争 平 府 。 怀 日 匙 以 并 年 堂 近 能 风 主 的 是 与 , 。 浅 一 重 江 平 的 起 席 安 年 文 新 显 如 大 湖 脑 突 云 权 定 亦 化 旧 易 既 事 舆 海 飞 涌 倾 团 距 革 ﹃ 、 懂 往 件 情 中 猛 天 结 1 新 中 的 兼 , 四 的 进 新 下 之 9 之 国 , 笔 容 展 起 中 与 疆 梦 8 梦 梦 。 触 并 示 华 基 持 并 碾 9 ; ﹄ Translation by Yayun Zhu and Annie Luman Ren Contents INTRODUCTION viii .. Dream On · JANE GOLLEY, BEN HILLMAN, and LINDA JAIVIN xviii .. Acknowledgements xviii .. The Cover Image FORUM · ILLUSIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS: THE MANY MEANINGS OF MENG 夢 5 .. From the Land of Illusion to the Paradise of Truth · ANNIE LUMAN REN 11 .. Zhuangzi and His Butterfly Dream: The Etymology of Meng 夢 · JINGJING CHEN CHAPTER 1 19 .. A Dream of Perpetual Rule · GLORIA DAVIES FORUM · ENFORCING THE DREAM 37 .. Xi Jinping’s War on ‘Black and Evil’ · BEN HILLMAN 43 .. The Changing ‘Dream’ in the Classroom: Literary Chinese Textbooks in the PRC · ESTHER SUNKYUNG KLEIN and VICTOR FONG CHAPTER 2 51 .. Hong Kong’s Reckoning · ANTONY DAPIRAN FORUM · UNDER OBSERVATION 73 .. Legalism and the Social Credit System · SAMUEL J. PARSONS 79 .. ‘Evil Cults’ and Holy Writ · BENJAMIN PENNY CHAPTER 3 87 .. Meridians of Influence in a Nervous World · BRENDAN TAYLOR and RICHARD RIGBY FORUM · PROJECTING THE DREAM 105 .. Dreams in Space · ADAM NI 111 .. Antarctic Ambitions: Cold Power · BEYONGO MUKETE DYNAMIC CHAPTER 4 119 .. Conscious Decoupling: The Technology Security Dilemma · DARREN LIM and VICTOR FERGUSON FORUM · CONSCIOUS COUPLING! 137 .. Queer Dreams · JAMIE ZHAO THE CHINA STORY YEARBOOK: CHAPTER 5 143 .. AI Dreams and Authoritarian Nightmares · OLIVIA SHEN CHINA DREAMS 梦 FORUM · LIFE AND DEATH 161 .. Dream Babies · JANE BROPHY 167 .. Recurring Nightmare: The Plague Visits Beijing · JANE BROPHY CHAPTER 6 175 .. Urbanising Tibet: Aspirations, Illusions, and Nightmares · GERALD ROCHE, JAMES LEIBOLD, and BEN HILLMAN FORUM · FORGOTTEN HISTORIES 191 .. ‘Prairie Mothers’ and Shanghai Orphans · UCHRALT OTEDE CHAPTER 7 199 .. Schemes, Dreams, and Nightmares: China’s Paradox(es) of Trust · GERRY GROOT FORUM · VIGILANTE JUSTICE 217 .. Taking Justice into their Own Hands: ‘Netilantism’ in Hong Kong · LENNON YAO-CHUNG CHANG CHAPTER 8 223 .. Hong Kong and the Tiananmen Playbook · LOUISA LIM and GRAEME SMITH FORUM · SHARING THE DREAM? 241 .. South Korea and the ‘China Effect’ · HYUNG-GEUN KIM 247 .. Taiwanese Dreams: Security, Sovereignity, and the Space to be Seen · CHIUNG-CHIU HUANG CHAPTER 9 255 .. Campus Conundrums: Clashes and Collaborations · JANE GOLLEY, PAUL HARRIS, and JAMES LAURENCESON 269 .. NOTES 305 .. PREVIOUS CHINA STORY YEARBOOKS 299 .. CONTRIBUTORS vi vii man, and Linda Jaivin Hill m OnGolley, Ben DreaJane OKMS OA ARBDRE A STORY YECHINA N HI C INTRODUCTION DREAM ON Jane Golley, Ben Hillman, and Linda Jaivin x xi man, and Linda Jaivin Hill m OnGolley, Ben DreaJane OKMS OA ARBDRE A STORY YECHINA A pig lantern lights up the streets in Singapore for Chinese New Year celebrations in 2019 HIN Source: Choo Yut Shing, Flickr C According to legend, the Jade Emperor called all twelve celestial animals to his palace to assign them their place in the zodiac. The Pig, a lazy if intelligent creature, was still in dreamland when the other eleven turned up to claim their places. He ended up last. And so 2019, the eventful Year of the Pig (coincidentally also marked by swine fever and a severe pork supply shortage in the mainland), ended a zodiac cycle that began with the Year of the Rat in 2008, the year of the Beijing Olympics — often referred to as the official ‘coming-out’ party of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). By 2019, China had well and truly arrived. It boasted the second biggest economy in the world and could claim significant global influence and power. Yet the ongoing tit-for-tat trade war with the United States afflicted an economy already undergoing its own difficult internal readjustments — even if, by the year’s end, the two sides had signed a (precarious) ‘phase one’ of a peace deal. In Hong Kong, the nightmarish and increasingly violent cycles of protest, police suppression, and popular reaction that began with peaceful mass demonstrations in June showed no sign of

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