Tony Hong
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China’s Expanding Mobile Cyberspace – Endless Disruption Opportunities
October 14, 2016
By Gary Zhenyuan, SCCS Summer School Participant. The daily life of Chinese citizens is significantly more convenient today, thanks to the integration of mobile internet into key activities. In 2011, China had 513 million internet users. Within 5 years, Chinese outbound international bandwidth rose from 1.39M Mbps to 3.78M Mbps – this is an incredible …
China’s Examination Hell
October 1, 2016
By Anthony Carter, BA Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham. 9:30pm. The seconds ticked by and then, like animals being released from captivity into the Serengeti, a shy, lonely trickle of students, slowly developing into a stream, sleepily marched from the main school building and out of the dark school gates into the …
The Construction of a Chinese Majority Identity
September 23, 2016
By Jonathan McAllister, SCCS Summer School Participant. From the window of the teaching building at UNNC’s summer school program, the view is spliced by a collection of high-rise buildings: symbols of China’s modernity and surging economy, which grew by 6.7% in the first quarter of 2016. Nearer the university, a collection of construction workers’ huts …
No Support, No Opposition, No Promotion
September 16, 2016
By Emmanuelle Lazzara, PhD Candidate. From the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham UK. Recent years have witnessed increasing media coverage of LGBT-related issues in China. For instance, in 2014, Qiu Bai, a student from Guangdong province, sued the Ministry of Education on the grounds that a number of university …
The ‘straddling’ bus: a solution for China’s eco-woes?
September 2, 2016
By Gareth Shaw, PhD Candidate. From the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham UK. China’s air pollution problems are world-renowned, with the country playing host to eight of the top 50 locations in the world with the worst air quality in 2016[1]. Contributing significantly to this figure is China’s on-going …
China’s R&D expenditure on basic research: beyond the number
August 26, 2016
By Yutao Sun is a professor with the Faculty of Management and Economics, Dalian University of Technology. Prof. Cong Cao is the Head of the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo. While devoting an increasing percentage of its GDP – 2.1 % in 2015 – on research and development (R&D), …
China’s Internet, the spread of Information
August 19, 2016
By Joshua Gardiner, Participant in SCCS Summer school. One of the first things a westerner will notice as they enter China is the increasing number of ‘error’ messages encountered when surfing the web. At first it may seem like an accidental problem with one’s chosen device yet this could not be further from the …
Lenin Protects Private Property
June 21, 2016
By Dr. Tracey Fallon, Assistant Professor at the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China. In contemporary China the symbolism of Mao-era iconography is used in multiple and often contradictory ways from its original intent.[1] Not excluded from this mining of the past, socialist moral stories are also deployed to further …
Propaganda and Ideology in Everyday Life: Award-winning Open Course Returns!
May 11, 2016
Prof Mathew Humphrey, Head of School of Politics and School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, Lead Educator, Propaganda and Ideology in Everyday Life. The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) ‘Ideology and Propaganda in Everyday Life’ returns for its second run on Monday May 16th. The course is run in partnership between the …
Embodying Soft Power
April 29, 2016
By Frazer Worboy, BA in Contemporary Chinese Studies. Soft Power and a reputation of a Nation are a hard thing to grasp. Where I’m from in Britain, the soft power is huge. With top quality universities, high wages and free healthcare, it’s a pretty attractive place to live. Add to that a thriving arts scene …