Looking Back to Look Forward: Chinese Geopolitical Narratives and China's Past

TL;DR: Based on the framework of multi-scalar analysis, the authors investigates the impacts of party politics on interregional development and governance by looking at the case of Taiwan, 1994-2008.

TL;DR: In this article, outbound tourism from the People's Republic of China to Taiwan is analyzed to unpack the geopolitics of the state and the everyday, to theorize the mutual constitution of the tourist and the nation state, and explore the role of tourism in new forms of protest and resistance, including the 2014 Taiwan Sunflower and Hong Kong Umbrella Movements.

TL;DR: Boyer and Yurchak as mentioned in this paper explored the possibilities of satirical humor in compromising mega-event promoters' attempts to propagate geopolitical visions and territorial claims in the Olympic Torch Relay.

TL;DR: In this article , the role of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the globalisation of China's infrastructure capital is explored, and how accumulation strategies of Chinese SOEs are driven by a complex set of political and economic, state and private, interests.

TL;DR: When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Rise of a New Global Order as discussed by the authors is a seminal work on China's ascendancy to the world's dominant power.

Abstract: the Chou people (can one account for the rise of Chou through economic advantages?) and the military strength of the Chou (their weapon kit and chariots), both examined through a medley of material evidence and literary tradition. The authors also provide an extended discussion (even celebration) of the Mandate of Heaven and related ideas as the dawn of an incipient Chinese humanism and rationalism. As an account of Western Chou archaeology, the volume is less than satisfying. Archaeological data are the handmaidens of history in this volume. Instead of being topically organized, information is sprinkled throughout when and if it serves to illustrate the subject under discussion. Illustrations are fair at best. Of the seventy-two figures in chapters 4 8 , two-thirds are rubbings or transcriptions of bronze inscriptions; rarely are these texts actually translated or given any extended critical examination. Many of the photographs are indistinct, with the notable exception of those drawn from the Metropolitan Museum's Great Bronze Age of China exhibition (but many of these are not properly and fully acknowledged). The description of the key sites at Feng-ch'u, Ch'i-shan, and Chao-ch'en, Fu-feng, is confused and uncritically illustrates contradictory reconstructions of the buildings. The literature surveyed seems to stop at 1983, almost five years before publication. The greatest merit of this volume is its serious effort to place the study of the Western Chou centuries on an equal footing with that of other great ages in Chinese civilization. Given both the nature of the received sources and the new data at hand, the organizational framework of this volume is plausible, albeit heavily indebted to traditional canons of historical thinking. The authors work from within an allembracing set of historical assumptions; their mission is not to challenge orthodoxy but to elaborate it. Many of their assumptions might well be questioned by historians looking from outside the native Chinese historiographical tradition, but the authors are not unaware of critical issues in modern history writing. As a summation of conventional wisdom leavened with examples drawn from recent archaeology, Western Chou Civilization will find its own readership. New thinking on Western Chou history and a proper conspectus of Western Chou archaeology remain topics for other authors to attempt.