If you’re Chinese, come into the Parlor
May 22, 2015
By David O’Brien Assistant Professor, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham Ningbo. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang this week began a major trip of four South American nations with trade and investment top of his agenda. Over the next few days Mr Li will visit the continent’s leading powers Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Columbia and …
Struggling to keep up on China’s New Silk Road
May 6, 2015
By David O’Brien, Assistant Professor, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, The University of Nottingham Ningbo. The announcement of US$1.65bn dollar injection of capital into a hydropower project in Pakistan during Xi Jinping’s recent visit there marks the first step on China’s much hyped New Silk Road. In November President Xi announced that China intends to …
Three Generations of Chineseness
April 21, 2015
By Flair Shi, Currently Studying Comparative Literature (MA) at University College London, Graduate of the School of English University of Nottingham Ningbo, BA in English Language and Literature. I am not sure whether it is because of the trendy post-colonial obsession with cultural authenticity or simply due to the ascendance of personal narratives in the …
One store with different tales
By Dr. Xiaoling Zhang, Head of the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China. With China’s rise to a global power, we are seeing an increasing amount of literature predicting China’s future(s). It is safe to say that the next five years will witness more of this kind being churned out. …
Soccer and Soft Power
April 7, 2015
By Joseph Healy, MA candidate in Contemporary Chinese Studies, UNNC. Coming back to wintry Ningbo from the summer in Australia – and the glow of the Australian soccer team winning the Asia Cup – was a shock to the system, but l was soon warmed up by reading the front-page headline in the China Daily …
Chinese Gay and the West: Far From a Post-colonial Queer
March 23, 2015
By Flair Shi, Currently Studying Comparative Literature (MA) at University College London, Graduate of the School of English University of Nottingham Ningbo, BA in English Language and Literature. Post-colonialism as a school of political/literary theory rose in the 1980s, with Edward Said’s Orientalism, Spivak’s concern for the voicelessness of the subaltern and Homi Bhabha’s postcolonial …
Is China’s International Strategy a Trojan Horse?
March 15, 2015
By Joseph Healy, MA student in Contemporary Chinese Studies, UNNC When President Xi Jinping said in January 2014 that China would become “proactive” in international affairs, did this signal that China was abandoning its “non-interference” foreign policy stance, first enunciated as the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence by Zhou Enlai in 1955? Is the growing …
Watching “Under the Dome” from a Chinese Communication Perspective
March 5, 2015
By Angela Wang Dan, PhD Student from Hong Kong Baptist University. On the last day of February, 2015, former CCTV investigative report anchor, Chai Jing, released a documentary on Chinese air pollution issue which stirred up hot debates. 48 hours after “Under the Dome”, the documentary, delivered online for free, it has received over 30 …
Love at first sight
March 3, 2015
By Ismail Sadurdeen Student at Nottingham University Ningbo Summer School From the many options available to choose from I picked the Ningbo Summer School program as it was located in China. I had always wanted to visit the Great Wall from a young age so I thought this would be an excellent opportunity to combine …
On the Possibility of a New Pan-Asianism
February 25, 2015
By Flair Shi, Currently Studying Comparative Literature (MA) at University College London, Graduate of the School of English University of Nottingham Ningbo, BA in English Language and Literature. In a recent lecture entitled “Confronting the History Problem in Northeast Asia” at King’s College London, renowned international relations scholar Professor Barry Buzan, concerned about the disputed …