Education and Ideology: Paving the Way for Cosmopolitan Nationalism

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 …

Is China’s International Strategy a Trojan Horse?

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 …

Commemoration or Provocation?

By Dr. David O’Brien, Assistant Professor, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is no longer welcome in China because of his visit to a shrine honouring war criminals, as relations between the two countries become ever more strained.  Abe’s visit to the Yasukuni shrine …