The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Studies

683 Pages·2021·16.132 MB·English

by  Chris Shei and Weixiao Wei

The Routledge Handbook of
Chinese Studies
This Handbook approaches Chinese Studies from an interdisciplinary perspective while
attempting to establish a fundamental set of core values and tenets for the subject, in relation
to the further development of Chinese Studies as an academic discipline. It aims to consoli-
date the current findings in Chinese Studies, extract the essence from each affiliated discipline,
formulate a concrete set of ideas to represent the ‘Chineseness’ of the subject, establish a clear
identity for the discipline and provide clear guidelines for further research and practice.
Topics included in this Handbook cover a wide spectrum of traditional and newly added
concerns in Chinese Studies, ranging from the Chinese political system and domestic gov-
ernance to international relations, Chinese culture, literature and history, Chinese sociol-
ogy (gender, middle class, nationalism, home ownership, dating) and Chinese opposition
and activism. The Handbook also looks at widening the scope of Chinese Studies (Chinese
psychology, postcolonialism and China, Chinese science and climate change), and some
illustrations of innovative Chinese Studies research methods.
The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Studies is an essential reference for researchers and
scholars in Chinese Studies, as well as students in the discipline.
Chris Shei was educated in Taiwan and studied at the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh,
UK. He has worked at Swansea University, UK, since 2003. He teaches and researches in lin-
guistics and translation and also edits books and online publications across the broad spectrum
of Chinese studies, including Chinese politics and governance, Chinese sociology, Chinese
history and cultural studies and so on. He is the General Editor for three Routledge book series:
Routledge Studies in Chinese Discourse Analysis, Routledge Studies in Chinese Translation,
and Routledge Studies in Chinese Language Teaching (with Der-lin Chao).
Weixiao Wei has been working with Taiyuan University of Technology as a lecturer at the
College of Foreign Languages and Literatures since she obtained her MA degree in 2010.
In July 2017, she obtained a visiting scholarship from the China Scholarship Council (CSC)
to visit Swansea University, UK, for a year. Since then, she has published a monograph and
three book chapters with Routledge. In addition to preparing research papers, monographs,
and edited volumes for further publication, she started pursuing her PhD study in rhetoric
and composition at the University of Houston in August 2020.

The Routledge Handbook
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Edited by Chris Shei and Weixiao Wei
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Contents
Figures x
Tables xii
Contributors xiii
Foreword xxi
Introduction 1
Weixiao Wei
PART I
China’s global interests and foreign policy 7
1 Great chaos under heaven: Strategies and challenges for consolidating
China’s global hegemony in the 21st century 9
Mariano Treacy
2 Normative economic statecraft: China’s quest to shape the world
in its image 24
Mikael Mattlin
3 The CCP’s united front work department: Roles and influence at home
and abroad 41
Gerry Groot
4 The discursive construction of the Belt and Road Initiative as a global
public good 56
Eduardo Tzili-Apango
5 The Chinese model of development: Substances and applications in and
beyond China 69
Yu-Wen Chen and Obert Hodzi
v
Contents
6 China’s Central Asia policy: Beijing’s doctrines of active defense, Belt
and Road, and peaceful coexistence 83
Liselotte Odgaard
7 The role of context in Chinese HUMINT (human source collection)
intelligence 98
Jim Schnell
PART II
China’s political system and governance 111
8 Dynamic dictators: Elite cohesion and authoritarian resilience in China 113
Elina Sinkkonen
9 Conceptualizing ‘meritocracy’ as ruling legitimacy in the course of
China’s history, transformation, and global rise 127
Li Xing
10 Managing public opinion in crisis: Weibo and the Wenzhou high-speed
rail crash of 2011 146
Patrick Gorman
11 A review of the research and practice of e-government in China 163
Jesper Schlæger
12 Cultural heritage politics in China 177
Christina Maags
13 Population ageing and social policies in China: Challenges and opportunities 191
Huoyun Zhu and Alan Walker
14 A place-specific approach to environmental governance in China: The
Protean Environmental State 205
Nick Hacking and Andrew Flynn
PART III
Chinese culture and history 219
15 Martial legacies: Strategic culture, ethnic conflict, and the military in
modern Chinese history 221
Eric Setzekorn
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Contents
16 History of international law and China: Eurocentrism, multinormativity,
and the politics of history 234
Maria Adele Carrai
17 Marx in China 250
William Leon McBride
18 Chinese correlative cosmology: A Chinese view of the world? 260
William Matthews
19 Philosophical hermeneutics and Chinese metaphors 274
Joshua Mason
20 Poetry and emotion in classical Chinese literature 289
Chen Xia
21 The advocacy of cultural change through translation: The rhetoric of
Chinese sutra translators 304
Weixiao Wei and Hui Shi
22 Shaolin, the cradle of Chan 320
Lu Zhouxiang
PART IV
Chinese people and society 333
23 Embracing the middle class: Wealth, power, and social status 335
David S.G. Goodman
24 Labor migration and rural development in China 348
Elise Pizzi
25 Chinese nationalism in comparative perspective 360
Luyang Zhou
26 Populism in China 376
He Li
27 Social transformations of Chinese society in the focus of modern
sociological science 389
Pavel Deriugin, Liubov Lebedintseva, and Liudmila Veselova
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Contents
28 The differential cosmopolitan Chineseness in Australia’s Chinese ethnic
media 402
Fan Yang
29 The cultural meanings of home ownership for China-born migrants in
Australia 418
Christina Y. P. Ting, Iris Levin, and Wendy M. Stone
30 Dating and mate selection in contemporary China: Examining the role
of gender and family 432
Sampson Lee Blair
31 Reconstruction of gender and youth identities: A study of online
gaming communities in Shanghai 447
Andy Xiao Ping Yue and Eric Ping Hung Li
PART V
Oppression and opposition 463
32 Nonviolent revolution in China: Past and prospects 465
John J. Chin
33 Studying the Chinese political opposition in exile 479
Jie Chen
34 The Chinese Communist Party’s control of online public opinion:
Toward networked authoritarianism 493
Wen-Hsuan Tsai
35 In the name of stability: Literary censorship and self-censorship in
contemporary China 505
Kamila Hladíková
36 The typology of on- and offline collective action in China 518
Ting Xue and Jacquelien van Stekelenburg
37 Personality and contentious participation in China 532
Ching-Hsing Wang
PART VI
Chinese studies: Scope and methodology 549
38 Chinese studies in Brazil: History and current perspectives 551
André Bueno
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Contents
39 On ‘lagging behind’ and ‘catching-up’ – postcolonialism and China 565
Marius Meinhof
40 Science in China: Key problems, topics, and methodologies 579
Florin-Stefan Morar
41 Transnational knowledge transfer: The adaptation of German
psychiatric concepts during the academic evolution of modern
psychiatry in China 593
Wenjing Li
42 The effects of climate change in China: Transformation of lives through
cultural heritage 608
Elena Perez-Alvaro
43 Reading between the lines: How frame analysis reveals changes in
policy priorities 622
Sabine Mokry
44 Chinese media discourse analysis: A case study of the discursive
strategies in the editorials in Global Times 638
Bo Wang and Yuanyi Ma
Index 655
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