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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"contemporary China"”.
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Media representations of gender in contemporary China
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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Cybernetics, AI and Modernisation in Contemporary China
This thesis investigates China's unique technological modernisation pathway through the lens of cybernetics, a discipline centred on systems control and engineering that has fundamentally influenced governance structures and bureaucratic authority. Moving beyond the existing analyses of China’s …
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Political Economy of Village Governance in Contemporary China
Rural development and transformation in post-Mao China is one of the most remarkable scenarios in transition countries. With the dismantlement of collectivized farming and the rural reforms since the late 1970s, villages have become diverse in terms of institutional structure. In some villages, one …
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Soft Masculinity and Its Discontents in Contemporary China
… billboards and social media platforms in today’s China has attracted scholarly attention. Researchers repeatedly mention keywords such as cultural globalisation, modernisation, consumerism and increasing gender equality as if this is an emerging trend in (mainland) China. The waxing and waning of …
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Religion, Heritage, and Power： Everyday Life in Contemporary China
… and religion and intangible cultural heritage in contemporary China. This research found that both the practitioners of Chinese rituals and the Christian community deploy tactics to resist and negotiate with the hegemonic official culture through spatial and religious practices in their everyday …
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Fate calculation experts : diviners seeking legitimation in contemporary China
… social and political legitimacy. Divination in China has often been stigmatised as immoral and illegal 'superstition', and contemporary Chinese diviners' practice is often shaped by the ways in which diviners counter such stigmatising discourses. China's rapidly changing society is forcing …
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Fate calculation experts : diviners seeking legitimation in contemporary China
… social and political legitimacy. Divination in China has often been stigmatised as immoral and illegal 'superstition', and contemporary Chinese diviners' practice is often shaped by the ways in which diviners counter such stigmatising discourses. China's rapidly changing society is forcing …
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Watching the bromance: Gender and subculture’s masquerade in contemporary China
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2023-12-01
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A public choice analysis of developing constitutional review in contemporary China
… However, there is no constitutional review in contemporary China. This dissertation uses the methodology of public choice theory to examine the feasibility of developing constitutional review in modern China.
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Caring for star-children : autism, families, and ethics in contemporary China
… Star-Children: Autism, Families, and Ethics in Contemporary China studies the emergence and development of family caregiving for autistic children after 1982, when autism was first diagnosed separately in two cities in China. Based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork at municipal specialist …
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Cultural governance in contemporary China: popular culture, digital technology, and the state
This dissertation is a study of the historical formation and transformation of the Chinese online audiovisual industry under forces of strategic political calculations, expanding market relations, and growing social participation, and the cultural ramifications of this process, especially the kind …
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Modernization and music in contemporary China : crisis, identity, and the politics of style
… process of this dialectic has produced a contemporary cultural crisis: a crisis of national identity. This dissertation draws on ethnography, historical analysis and critical theory in an attempt to understand the concrete configurations of this historically situated crisis in three …
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‘Wild Intellectuals’ In ‘COVID-1984’: Liberalism, freedom, and ‘normal lives’ in Contemporary China
This thesis focuses on contemporary Chinese liberal intellectuals, and the problems, paradoxes but also possibilities that :low from their commitments to liberal ideals in a context where those ideals clash with official ideological control and nationalist sentiments in the public sphere. Adopting …
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Fragments of the Prosperous Age: Living with Heritage and Treasure in Contemporary China
This thesis studies contemporary China’s heritage boom phenomenon as experienced through the everyday lives of antiquarian communities (collectors, antique dealers etc.) and heritage professionals in and around Beijing. Aiming to extend our vision beyond heritage sites and museums, which constitute …
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Commerce and coercion in contemporary China : local leader responses to foreign policy crises
During foreign policy crises involving China and its most important foreign economic partners, some local leaders in China willingly threaten foreign commercial interests, while others attempt to protect foreign commerce from diplomatic tensions. This subnational variation in participation in …
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From village to small town in contemporary China : the transformation of civic space
With the fast urbanization in contemporary China, "spontaneous" civic spaces rooted in the rural area-the spaces in which local people of different origins and paths of life can commingle without overt control by government, commercial or other private interests have been excluded from numerous …
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IVF Journeys of No Return: A Sociological Analysis of Reproductive Ambivalence in Contemporary China
… analysis of reproductive politics in contemporary China. With the end of the one-child policy, the population policy in China has heralded a gradual retreat of anti-natalist policies and signalled a shift towards pro-natalism at the national level. However, at the individual level, the …
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Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) psychotherapy in contemporary China: a qualitative study of TCM practitioners' perspectives
… With the rise of Western psychotherapy in China, the resulting need for indigenizing Western theories and practices, and the emergence of the discipline of TCM psychology, interest has grown in exploring TCM when treating Chinese individuals with mental health disorders. Fourteen TCM …
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Contentious Activities and Party-State Responses in Contemporary China -- Investigating China’s Democratisation during its Modernisation
The macroscopic picture of China today is highly contradictory: on the one hand there is an explicit scenario of modernisation initiated by the government and developing in unexpected depth and rapidity, and on the other hand an implicit but unrecognised scenario of democratisation nurtured by …
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