The Internet Economy
April 21, 2016
By Tony Hong, PhD Student from the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies UNNC. There are advantages of managing the Internet because it is an most important wealth generator in the economy. For more than 30 years, China has managed under successive administrations to have its economy grow at a rate of nearly 10% year on …
The ancient Chinese fortune cookie
March 29, 2016
By David O’Brien, Assistant Professor School of Contemporary Chinese Studies. Last week I saw young Russian guys on campus wearing fake red beards and leprechaun hats, Chinese girls with shamrock t-shirts and Irish flags flying from a kiosk on the High Street. It was of course St Patrick’s Day, national day of my homeland and …
A Tale of Two Companies
February 5, 2016
By Professor Cong Cao, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham Ningbo. In 1984, Liu Chuanzhi, along with ten colleagues, started a computer-related business in Beijing with borrowed RMB300,000 (or $25,000). The company, “New Technology Company of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,” was the predecessor of Lenovo.
Education and Ideology: Paving the Way for Cosmopolitan Nationalism
January 19, 2016
By Dr Tracey Fallon, Assistant Professor, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at UNNC. According to news reports in December 2015, the governments of Beijing and Shanghai moved to restrict international programmes at high school level.[1] These preparatory foundation programmes provide a pathway to university study abroad without necessity for the intensive gaokao entrance exam. The programmes …
Has ‘Little Brother’ Gone too Far
January 7, 2016
By David O’Brien Assistant Professor, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies UNNC. Whether this week’s nuclear explosion detonated under a mountain just a hundred miles or so from the border with China was a hydrogen bomb or not the PRC’s relationship with North Korea may have been irreparably damaged. In perhaps its strongest ever criticism of …
Cross-Strait Liberalization of Aviation: The Case of Kinmen
December 15, 2015
By Julie Yu-Wen Chen, Department of Asian Studies, Palacky University, Czech Republic & Ying Lee, Department of Geography, San Diego State University, USA. This article first appeared on the China Institute Policy Blog. In early December, DPP presidential candidate Tsai Ing-Wen made a campaign stop in Kinmen, an outlying island geographically close to China that …
Saturday Afternoon Snail Fishing
December 4, 2015
By Alice Richards, University of Nottingham UK exchange student studying MSci Hons Contemporary Chinese Studies. On Saturday 17th October between midday and 1 o’clock, I observed two groups of people fishing for snails in the XiaoPutuo area of Dongqian lake in Ningbo. These field notes will describe the behaviours of the two groups, analysing how …
Chinese Frustrations: My Rightist Mobility, My Leftist Hypocrisy
November 20, 2015
By Flair Donglai Shi, World Literatures in English (MSt) at University of Oxford. (Caution: the words “rightist” and “leftist” are used in the vaguest/broadest sense possible in this article, which is full of generalising languages and assuming discourses that the reader is welcome to deconstruct) My British dustbin is my best friend. It always sits …
Will Chinese trains come to Britain?
November 14, 2015
By Dr Yuefan Xiao Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam. The internationalisation of China’s High-Speed Rail (HSR) has gone a long way since 2010 and it epitomised China’s soft power as an ascending nation not only of great growing but innovative potential. Recent months have seen a sequence of international endorsements of China’s …
The Cautious Seldom Make Mistakes: Chinese Culture Centres Learn from Confucius’s Mistakes
November 6, 2015
By Dr. Zhenzhi Guo School of Journalism and Communication Tsinghua University. Dr. Zhang Xiaoling, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies University of Nottingham UK. The worldwide spread of Confucius Institutes (CIs) has become a global phenomenon. Their partnership with prestigious universities has won it many friends, but at the same time, has attracted strong levels of …