Journal articles: 'Imagination of China'

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Kitson, Peter J. "Introduction: China and the British Romantic Imagination." European Romantic Review 27, no. 1 (January 2, 2016): 3–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10509585.2015.1124575.

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Chan, Brenda Kin Ying. "Leaving China: Media, Migration and Transnational Imagination." Journal of Chinese Overseas 1, no. 1 (2005): 130–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/179325405788639337.

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Latham, Andrew A. "China in the Contemporary American Geopolitical Imagination." Asian Affairs: An American Review 28, no. 3 (January 2001): 138–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00927670109601492.

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Hacking, Jane F., Jeffrey S. Hardy, and Matthew P. Romaniello. "Asia in the Russian Imagination." Sibirica 19, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/sib.2020.190102.

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This special issue of Sibirica is devoted to exploring Russia’s complicated relationship with Asia. Along with an edited volume (Russia in Asia: Imaginations, Interactions, and Realities, forthcoming), it is an outgrowth of the “Asia in the Russian Imagination” conference that was held at the University of Utah in March 2018. This conference brought together an interdisciplinary body of scholars from the United States, Canada, and Russia to discuss how Russians imagined and interacted with the peoples of Eurasia. Chronologically this conversation spanned the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and post-Soviet Russia, and included not just the geography and peoples possessed by Russia but also the bordering states of Japan, China, and the Ottoman Empire. This is certainly not a new line of inquiry, but there is still much to be understood about these complex relationships, both real and imagined.

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Chu, Yingchi. "Review: Leaving China: Media, Migration, and Transnational Imagination." Media International Australia 107, no. 1 (May 2003): 164–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0310700128.

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Schaberg, David. "Song and the Historical Imagination in Early China." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 59, no. 2 (December 1999): 305. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2652717.

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Fitzgerald, John. "East by South: China in the Australasian Imagination." Journal of Chinese Overseas 2, no. 1 (2006): 154–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/179325406794756762.

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Ying, Brenda Chan Kin. "Leaving China: Media, Migration and Transnational Imagination (review)." Journal of Chinese Overseas 1, no. 1 (2005): 130–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jco.2007.0011.

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Degenhardt, Jane Hwang. "Cracking the Mysteries of “China”: China(ware) in the Early Modern Imagination." Studies in Philology 110, no. 1 (2013): 132–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sip.2013.0003.

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Chuang, Yin C. "Divorcing China: The Swing from the Patrilineal Genealogy of China to the Matrilineal Genealogy of Taiwan in Taiwan's National Imagination." Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 40, no. 1 (March 2011): 159–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/186810261104000106.

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This paper explores the popular concept of the relationship between Taiwan and China as a feminine/ masculine dichotomy which has been constructed within Taiwan's national imagination. First, I will focus on how this dichotomy has been created within the process of identity-shifting in Taiwan since the 1990s as manifested in Taiwanese pop songs. Second, I will demonstrate how it has been appropriated within the process of nation-building. Two primary questions will be addressed: How is the national imagination of Taiwan in Taiwanese pop songs constructed through maternal and feminine images? How is the matrilineal genealogy in Taiwanese pop songs appropriated by the opposition camp, namely the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), to mobilize voters? I will investigate, from a cultural studies perspective, how cultural imagination has come to serve as the vehicle to formulate resistance, mobilize voters, gain power and, most importantly, reconstruct Taiwanese nationalism within Taiwan's political limbo for decades. Furthermore, Margaret Somers' discussion (1993, 1994, 1995a, 1995b, 1995c; Somers and Gibson 1994) of narrative identity is adopted as the framework for this paper in order to look at how identities are constructed within and across multiple realms. My research methods consist of conducting in-depth interviews and analysing texts.

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Talat, Usman, and Kirk Chang. "Employee imagination and implications for entrepreneurs." Journal of Chinese Human Resource Management 8, no. 2 (October 9, 2017): 129–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jchrm-06-2017-0012.

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine employee imagination and implications for entrepreneurs of China. In 2015, the European Group of Organization Studies released a call for papers highlighting poor knowledge of employee imagination in organizations. To address this need, the current study hypothesizes employee imagination consisting of seven conditions common to the organizational experience of Chinese Entrepreneurs. Design/methodology/approach The current paper reviews the Chinese enterprising context. Cases from China are used to illustrate the effects of proposed conditions and their value for entrepreneurs and innovators in businesses undergoing change. Findings Employee imagination underpins and conditions how Chinese employees make sense of their organizations and better understand the process of organizational change. From the viewpoint of human resource management, emphasis on coaching and developing imagination enables businesses to stay competitive and adapt to environmental demands such as lack of information, too much information or the need for new information. Research limitations/implications The proposed conditions apply to the Chinese context; however, their application to wider contexts is suggested and requires attention. Practical implications Employee imagination was found to be a powerful tool, which facilitates the process of organizational change management. Originality/value Theoretically, the research adds new insights to knowledge of a poorly understood organizational behavior topic – employee imagination. Practically, the research findings provide mangers with knowledge of conditions, which could be adopted as powerful tools in facilitating organizational change management.

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Schein, Louisa. "Leaving China: Media, Migration, and Transnational Imagination. Wanning Sun." China Journal 51 (January 2004): 156–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3182158.

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Shlapentokh, Dmitry. "China and Japan in the Russian Imagination, 1685-1922." Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies 13, no. 2 (October 2013): 281–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.21866/esjeas.2013.13.2.010.

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Wagner, Rudolph. "Political Institutions, Discourse and Imagination in China at Tiananmen." IDS Bulletin 21, no. 4 (October 1990): 16–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1759-5436.1990.mp21004004.x.

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Szonyi, Michael. "Book Review: Leaving China: Media, Migration and Transnational Imagination." Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 12, no. 4 (December 2003): 515–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/011719680301200405.

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Huang, Ana. "Precariousness and the queer politics of imagination in China." Culture, Theory and Critique 58, no. 2 (April 3, 2017): 226–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2017.1287580.

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Fitzgerald, John. "East by South: China in the Australasian Imagination (review)." Journal of Chinese Overseas 2, no. 1 (2006): 154–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jco.2006.0002.

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Wu, Fulong. "Adding new narratives to the urban imagination: An introduction to ‘New directions of urban studies in China’." Urban Studies 57, no. 3 (January 29, 2020): 459–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098019898137.

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Rapid urban development in China provides rich cases for urban research. Current urban studies in China are heavily influenced by an urban imagination embedded in the West. Using the cases of land management and environmental governance, social transformation and the spatial and regional dimensions of urbanisation, this article attempts to rethink some surprising findings from empirical research in Chinese cities and to contribute to theoretical understandings of urbanisation beyond contextual particularities. Following the narrative of ‘planning centrality, market instruments’ in China, this article highlights the political logic behind managing growth and environmental governance, social differentiation produced by interwoven state and market forces and new geographies of Chinese cities beyond the economic-centred imagination.

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Finnane, Antonia. "Reinventing Modern China: Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing." Asian Studies Review 39, no. 1 (November 27, 2014): 163–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2014.979733.

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Su, Xiaobo. "Geopolitical imagination and the US war on drugs against China." Territory, Politics, Governance 8, no. 2 (December 15, 2018): 204–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2018.1554503.

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Spencer, Jane. "The Animals of China in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination." Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences 8, no. 2 (May 5, 2015): 167–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40647-015-0069-8.

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Wang, Siwei. "Transcontinental Revolutionary Imagination: Literary Translation between China and Brazil (1952–1964)." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 6, no. 1 (January 2019): 70–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pli.2018.35.

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This paper investigates the literary translation between China and Brazil from 1952, when Jorge Amado visited China for the first time, to 1964, when the Brazilian military government detained and expelled Chinese diplomats after the coup d’état. It is mainly focused on Chinese and Brazilian writers who traveled between the two countries, and the role they played in literary translation as part of the hot battles in the cultural Cold War. I will show how important literary translation, assisted by writers’ lectures and travel writing, were in the construction of a revolutionary China and Brazil that were sympathetic with each other in their struggles, which aimed at creating viable alternatives to not only the existing bipolar world order but also the discursive practices of the dominant colonial/imperial powers.

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Narangoa, Li. "The Power of Imagination: Whose Northeast and Whose Manchuria?" Inner Asia 4, no. 1 (2002): 3–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/146481702793647524.

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AbstractIn the early twentieth century, Manchuria became what Owen Lattimore called a ‘Cradle of Conflict’ where Russia and Japan competed for supremacy in Northeast Asia. Russian and Japanese involvement in Mongolia and Manchuria, especially after the Russo-Japanese War, compelled Chinese authorities to certify that the Northeast (Dongbei), that is Manchuria, was an integral part of China. Japan, for its part, asserted the opposite and represented Manchuria as a territory separate from China in order to justify its presence there. In this paper I argue that Japanese and Chinese travellers’ accounts, their reconnaissance or memoir writings on Manchuria and its Manchu and Mongolian inhabitants, were part of larger geographical and historical constructions of power struggle, in terms of both the Japanese claim for Manchuria and the Chinese ‘response’ to the loss of Manchuria.

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zha, daojiong. "comment: can china rise?" Review of International Studies 31, no. 4 (October 2005): 775–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210505006753.

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first, ‘peaceful rise’ was the theme of a keynote speech to a regional policy forum created by the chinese government, aptly named the bo’ao forum for asia, then it was an emphatic point made by china’s premier wen jiabao in a speech at harvard university, and still later it was a key feature in china’s president hu jintao’s talk at a gathering to mark the 110th anniversary of mao zedong’s birth. the phrase ‘peaceful rise’ (heping jueqi) has caught the imagination both inside china and abroad partly because all three events took place within a short two-month period beginning at the end of 2003. the chinese leadership seems to have a well-coordinated campaign to officially present the notion to the country and the world.

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Smith, Joanna F. Handlin. "Liberating Animals in Ming-Qing China: Buddhist Inspiration and Elite Imagination." Journal of Asian Studies 58, no. 1 (February 1999): 51–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2658389.

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Terms, like monuments, long stand unchanged. They might acquire new contexts, attract new associations, and thus be transformed in content or meaning. Yet the very constancy of the term beguiles us to assume some immutable essence instead. Such has been the case for the term fangsheng, which literally means “releasing lives,” but specifically referred to the practice of freeing animals from captivity or rescuing them from death, and which I therefore translate variously as “releasing,” “liberating,” or “saving” animals. The term fangsheng is usually traced back to the fifth century, when it appeared in the Book of Brahmā's Net (Fanwang jing); and it can be tracked forward to the present, where it is still used for practices observed in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and New York. Understood to have originated in a Buddhist text and to have beenin currency for at least 1500 years, it thus signals the power and durability of a Buddhist belief.

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Yu, Yongtae. "Territorial Imagination and the Perception of East Asia in Republican China." JOURNAL OF ASIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES 130 (March 31, 2015): 199. http://dx.doi.org/10.17856/jahs.2015.03.130.199.

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SPEIRS, KENNETH. "Who Ain't an Ishmael? Moby-Dick and Visual Imagination in China." Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 2, no. 2 (October 2000): 101–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1750-1849.2000.tb00039.x.

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Mlačnik, Primož. "Kafka “Shanghai-Ed”: Orientalist China in Kafka’s Fiction and Kafkaesque Phenomena in China." European Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 5, no. 2 (May 31, 2019): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejis-2019.v5i2-283.

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During a visit to Shanghai in August 2019, I attempted to use the auto-ethnographic method to answer a few general questions: what is the image of China in Kafka’s literary imagination, what is Kafkaesque in Shanghai, and what is Shanghai-esque in Kafka? Because the combination of theoretical interest, spontaneous ethnographic observations, and personal reflections proved insufficient to respond to these questions, I also analyzed Kafka’s ‘Chinese’ stories, namely The Great Wall of China, In the Penal Colony, The Message from The Emperor, An Old Manuscript, and The Letters to Felice, and two Kafkaesque phenomena in China: the Shanghai World Expo and the Chinese Ghost Cities. I concluded that Kafka’s fiction contains certain Orientalist elements and that, through the perspective of contemporary material Kafkaesque phenomena, are more western than the West.

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Mlačnik, Primož. "Kafka “Shanghai-Ed”: Orientalist China in Kafka’s Fiction and Kafkaesque Phenomena in China." European Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 5, no. 2 (May 31, 2019): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejis.v5i2.p36-44.

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During a visit to Shanghai in August 2019, I attempted to use the auto-ethnographic method to answer a few general questions: what is the image of China in Kafka’s literary imagination, what is Kafkaesque in Shanghai, and what is Shanghai-esque in Kafka? Because the combination of theoretical interest, spontaneous ethnographic observations, and personal reflections proved insufficient to respond to these questions, I also analyzed Kafka’s ‘Chinese’ stories, namely The Great Wall of China, In the Penal Colony, The Message from The Emperor, An Old Manuscript, and The Letters to Felice, and two Kafkaesque phenomena in China: the Shanghai World Expo and the Chinese Ghost Cities. I concluded that Kafka’s fiction contains certain Orientalist elements and that, through the perspective of contemporary material Kafkaesque phenomena, are more western than the West.

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Mao, Peijie. "The Cultural Imaginary of “Middle Society” in Early Republican Shanghai." Modern China 44, no. 6 (April 13, 2018): 620–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0097700418766827.

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This article explores the cultural imaginary of “middle society” in China through popular writings of the early twentieth century. It pays particular attention to popular print media in early Republican Shanghai, which played a central role in constructing a middle-class cultural identity by offering new sources for imagination and for the configuration of urban modernity. I suggest that the popular imagination of the Chinese middle class can be traced back to the discourse of “middle society,” “utopian stories,” and “industrial fiction” in the 1910s and 1920s. This imaginary of middle society was defined and supported by a broad range of cultural expressions in popular media. It revealed both the social anxiety and tensions brought about by the socioeconomic transformations in early twentieth-century China and the middle-class “cultural dreams” of Chinese society and modern life.

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Zhang, Weidong. "Bridging Hmong/Miao, Extending Miaojiang: Divided Space, Translocal Contacts, and the Imagination of Hmongland." Cultural Diversity in China 2, no. 1 (January 1, 2016): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cdc-2016-0002.

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AbstractOver the past several decades, the Hmong communities scattered around the world and their co-ethnic Miao ethnic group in China came into close contact. This paper explores the nature and dynamics of this encounter as well as the connections and ties that have been rediscovered and reestablished between the Hmong in diaspora and the Miao in China, two groups long separated by time and distance, and the impact and implications this entails. Based on three-month fieldwork in the Hmong/Miao communities across Southwest China and Southeast Asia, this paper examines the ever increasing movement of people and materials, as well as symbolic flows on the one hand, and connections and linkages between different localities on the other hand. It discusses how this new fast-changing development contributes to a new translocal imagination of Hmong community, re-territorialization of a new continuous Hmong space, a Hmongland encompassing Southwest provinces of China and northern part of Southeast Asian countries, and what it means to the Hmong/Miao people in the region. It further discusses how the emerging translocal imagination of the Hmong/Miao community will produce unique translocal subjects and how it interacts with the nation-states they belong to.

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Saburova, Tatiana. "Geographical Imagination, Anthropology, and Political Exiles." Sibirica 19, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 57–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/sib.2020.190105.

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This article is focused on several themes connected with the history of photography, political exile in Imperial Russia, exploration and representations of Siberia in the late 19th–early 20th centuries. Photography became an essential tool in numerous geographic, topographic and ethnographic expeditions to Siberia in the late 19th century; well-known scientists started to master photography or were accompanied by professional photographers in their expeditions, including ones organized by the Russian Imperial Geographic Society, which resulted in the photographic records, reports, publications and exhibitions. Photography was rapidly spreading across Asian Russia and by the end of the 19th century there was a photo studio (or several ones) in almost every Siberian town. Political exiles were often among Siberian photographers, making photography their new profession, business, a way of getting a social status in the local society, and a means of surviving financially as well as intellectually and emotionally. They contributed significantly to the museum’s collections by photographing indigenous people in Siberia and even traveling to Mongolia and China, displaying “types” as a part of anthropological research in Asia and presenting “views” of the Russian empire’s borderlands. The visual representation of Siberia corresponded with general perceptions of an exotic East, populated by “primitive” peoples devoid of civilization, a trope reinforced by numerous photographs and depictions of Siberia as an untamed natural world, later transformed and modernized by the railroads construction.

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Hua Li. "The Political Imagination in Liu Cixin's Critical Utopia: China 2185." Science Fiction Studies 42, no. 3 (2015): 519. http://dx.doi.org/10.5621/sciefictstud.42.3.0519.

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Cohen, P. A. "HUAIYIN LI. Reinventing Modern China: Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing." American Historical Review 118, no. 4 (October 1, 2013): 1146–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ahr/118.4.1146.

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Lan, Shi-Chi Mike. "THE AMBIVALENCE OF NATIONAL IMAGINATION: DEFINING "THE TAIWANESE" IN CHINA, 1931-1941." China Journal 64 (July 2010): 179–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/tcj.64.20749252.

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Tsao. "The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination." Journal for the Study of Radicalism 11, no. 1 (2017): 201. http://dx.doi.org/10.14321/jstudradi.11.1.0198.

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Wei, Tang. "Transnational Imagination of China in Ezra Pound’s and William Carlos Williams’ Poetics." English Language, Literature & Culture 6, no. 1 (2021): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.11648/j.ellc.20210601.12.

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Chao, Guo. "Reinventing Modern China: Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing by Li Huaiyin, and: Imaginations of Late Ming Dynasty in Late Imperial China by Qin Yanchun." China Review International 21, no. 1 (2016): 58–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cri.2016.0047.

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Hua, Minchao. "The 2014 Scottish Referendum in the Chinese imagination." Scottish Affairs 28, no. 2 (May 2019): 200–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/scot.2019.0277.

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This paper lays out the perceptions of three different regions to describe Chinese perspectives on the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum. Mainstream newspapers, cyber-opinions, and scholarly writings are three vectors to assess Mainland Chinese perception. Considering the limited number of academic reports about the referendum in Taiwan and Hong Kong, compared to that on the mainland, our conclusion about their perceptions is primarily based on mainstream newspapers. The article identifies two ideologically opposed perspectives. On the one hand, the dominant view in Mainland China (and in mainstream newspapers in Hong Kong and Taiwan) framed the referendum in negative terms, presenting it as a ‘threat’ and a ‘problem’. On the other hand, the dominant view in Hong Kong and Taiwan praised the Scottish referendum as a model of participatory democracy. These contrasting perspectives are deeply rooted in distinctive ideologies and historical experiences.

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Cheng, Juan, YuLin Wang, Dian Tjondronegoro, and Wei Song. "Construction of Interactive Teaching System for Course of Mechanical Drawing Based on Mobile Augmented Reality Technology." International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) 13, no. 02 (February 27, 2018): 126. http://dx.doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v13i02.7847.

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The teaching aim of Mechanical Drawing is to cultivate the students' graphics interpreting ability, plotting ability, inter-space imagination and innovation ability. For engineering students in China Universities, Mechanical Drawing course with the characteristics of 3D and 2D inter-space transformation, is often difficult to master. The ordinary dull teaching method is not enough for stimulating students’ spatial imagination capability, interest in learning, and cannot meet teachers’ teaching needs to explain complicated graphs relationships. In this paper, we design an interactive teaching system based on mobile augmented reality to improve the learning efficiency of Mechanical Drawing course. To check the effect of the proposed system, we carried out a case study of course teaching of Mechanical Drawing. The results demonstrate that the class for which interactive teaching system based on mobile augmented reality technology was adopted is significantly superior to the class for which the ordinary dull teaching approach was adopted with regard to the degree of proficiency of course key and difficult points content，spatial imagination capability, students’ interest in learning and study after class, especially in respect of students’ learning interest and spatial imagination capability.

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Liu, Hong. "Constructing a China Metaphor: Sukarno's Perception of the PRC and Indonesia's Political Transformation." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 28, no. 1 (March 1997): 27–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022463400015162.

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Throughout Sukarno's long and colourful political career, China constituted one of the central objects in his construction of the outside world. What did the PRC stand for in his intellectual and political imagination? How relevant was Sukarno's China perception to the evolution of his own socio-political thought? This paper suggests that Sukarno's favourable view of the PRC reflected more of his predispositions about Indonesia than it did Chinese realities. China as seen through Sukarno's eyes became the point of reference for both intellectual judgement and political thinking. Furthermore, Sukarno employed his perception of China as a cultural metaphor, social symbol, and political model in his drive to establish and consolidate the Guided Democracy regime.

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Schaberg, David. "Travel, Geography, and the Imperial Imagination in Fifth-Century Athens and Han China." Comparative Literature 51, no. 2 (1999): 152. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1771246.

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LIN, HSIAO-TING. "The Tributary System in China's Historical Imagination: China and Hunza, ca. 1760–1960." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 19, no. 4 (September 9, 2009): 489–507. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1356186309990071.

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AbstractThis article examines over 200 years (1761–1963) of China's relations with the Central Asian tribal state of Hunza. Employing a territorial genealogical approach, this research explores how Hunza, not initially recognised during the high Qing as an inner dependency or vassal, was gradually re-conceptualised by the Qing court as a historical tributary protectorate, and then in the Republican and Nationalist eras became known as a ‘lost territory’ ripe for restoration. It will also argue that the tributary system is not a dynastic legacy that ceased to function after 1911; but rather, it was an instrument of political expediency that continued to be used in the post-imperial era. In a sense, this research offers a new thinking about the ‘tribute system’ which might really be a nineteenth and twentieth century reinterpretation of an older form of symbolically asymmetric interstate relations (common in one form or another throughout many parts of Asia); this reinterpretation was strongly informed by English-language terminology and formulations, including ‘suzerainty’ and the mistranslation of ‘gong’ as ‘tribute’ itself, and both Britain and China manipulated the terminology and claimed to further their respective territorial, diplomatic and strategic interests.

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Fung, Anthony, Boris Pun, and Yoshitaka Mori. "Reading border-crossing Japanese comics/anime in China: Cultural consumption, fandom, and imagination." Global Media and China 4, no. 1 (March 2019): 125–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2059436419835379.

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Differences in cultural consumption are well recognized as potential forces for changing the cultural identity of consumers. Based on this logic, our hypothesis posits that Chinese readers, who comprise the largest fan community of Japanese comics/anime, are culturally influenced by this foreign product. To examine this hypothesis, we question whether the global values and worldviews of freedom, peaceful coexistence, justice, companionship, and humanity, which are embedded in Japanese comics/anime, influence the values and ideology of Chinese readers. This study was aimed to examine the reading strategies and patterns in legally or illegally imported border-crossing cultural products to assess the potential cultural impact of their consumption on young Chinese readers. Their differences in passion could affect their devotion, their identity, and their worldviews. In this study, focus groups in Japan and China, in-depth interviews, and textual analyses of Japanese comic/amine were conducted to examine the reading, fandom, and cultural impact of comics/anime on Chinese urban youth. The significance of this study is that it explores new models of active reading that affect the long-term shape of and changes in the values and identities of Chinese youth. The findings of this study shed light on whether imported cultural products could transform, change, and dilute the ideologies of the state and nationalism, thereby allowing new and alternative imaginings of values and global citizenship, which are emerging areas of interest in global communication studies.

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Pickowicz, Paul G. "Reinventing Modern China: Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing by Huaiyin Li." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 74, no. 1 (2014): 167–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jas.2014.0013.

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Koch, Camilo, and Mikko Ranta. "Hack-schooling to Foster Creativity in Students in China." International Journal of Management Science and Business Administration 2, no. 1 (2014): 33–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.18775/ijmsba.1849-5664-5419.2014.21.1003.

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This paper proposes a method for refining the lack of creativity existent on middle schools in China. Actual teaching methods at schools do not focus on fostering student’s imagination, setting efforts in other priorities when educating students from all ages. We examined and categorized the results of a quantitative examination applied to students and categorized feelings about their educational institution by mapping relations of pairs of data; students suggested several words and then selected two of which fitted on their accumulated emotions. Creativity theory and experts believe that kids have tremendous talents and schools squander them (Sir Ken Robinson, 2006). Schools are responsible for fostering student’s ability to innovate but they are not improving significantly, and this is not particularly a country problem, oppositely it is a global situation. Due to this circumstance, we analyzed the educational cycle in a middle school case intending to find the mainstay relations between student’s time consumption and student’s creative output from the daily school routine. The essential role of parents in home teaching, and the possible effects that “hackschooling” or “homeschooling” can have on student’s life and education, are essential as expected explanation to the lack of creativity advocated by schools in the short and medium course. Finding better ways to accomplish the same goals outside of the educational establishment is fundamental. In a second procedure, we will examine the success of Finland in hackschooling as a comparison, and evaluate the chances of adapting and introducing Finland hackschooling principles in China as an innovation multiplier on child’ lives.

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Fiskesjö, Magnus. "The Barbarian Borderland and the Chinese Imagination: Travellers in Wa Country." Inner Asia 4, no. 1 (2002): 81–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/146481702793647542.

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AbstractThe Wa lands continue to be seized upon in the Chinese imagination, and elsewhere too, as representing what is dangerous and off limits. This is one important underlying reason why these lands, located in between China and Burma, have been some of the least-travelled areas on China's southwestern borders during most of the last few centuries. In fact, these areas have long been regarded as impenetrable for outsider travellers unless assisted by a full-fledged army, its gunpowder dry and its guns loaded. In the last years of the nineteenth century, the British occupation of Burma as well as increasing opium trade prompted increases in the numbers of Chinese and other visitors: officials, soldiers, traders, and so on. The first attempt at delineating a Burma-China border having failed, a second, joint British-Chinese survey was launched and almost completed in the late 1930s. These activities prompted a flurry of patriotic-scholarly efforts to claim these borderlands for the reconstituted Chinese state, which continued into the second half of the twentieth century. This brief paper explores some of the conflicting views of the various kinds of travellers and locals, including early Chinese judgements of the Wa, the nationalistic and scientistic travellers and writers of the 1930s, as well as the teams of ethnologists and soldiers dispatched there in the 1950s and 1960s – notably also Alan Winnington, the famous British correspondent for the Morning Star, and his Wa reception.

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Lucas, Patrick. "Local narrative and outsider imagination in a Chinese landscape." Focaal 2012, no. 64 (December 1, 2012): 69–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2012.640107.

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In recent years, the culturally distinctive Tunpu, a people group in southwestern China, have been reimagined by outsiders, including media, tourist companies, scholars, and especially Han Chinese from other regions in a search for perceived lost roots of Chineseness. Building upon a Tunpu narrative of migration to the region during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) period, these outsiders imagine Tunpu sociocultural alienness to be representative of ancient unchanged Ming-period character. Thus romanticized, the Tunpu become an unspoiled reservoir where an authentic national Chinese essence can be rediscovered. Through a complex process of embodied engagement with the Tunpu landscape and its objects, however, it is a class of non-Tunpu settlement that becomes celebrated by these outside actors as ideal representation of Tunpu settlement and architecture. This total process fundamentally transforms Tunpu time and place. Yet, it also interacts intricately with local knowledge, and leads to complex local responses and reappropriations of new historical elements.

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Tang, Xiaobing. "The Ocular Turn, Misty Poetry, and a Postrevolutionary Imagination." Prism 16, no. 1 (March 1, 2019): 62–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/25783491-7480333.

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Abstract “The Answer,” a poem by Bei Dao first published in 1978, marks the emergence of a defiant voice in contemporary Chinese poetry and asserts skepticism as the political stance of a young generation in post–Cultural Revolution China. It also heralds a historic transition from an era of sonic agitation to an aesthetics based on visual perception and contemplation. This rereading of Bei Dao's canonical poem and other related texts goes back to the late 1970s, when the political implications of the human senses were firmly grasped and heatedly debated. The author shows that an ocular turn occurs in “The Answer” and drives the aesthetic as well as political pursuits of a new generation of poets. He further argues that, in a moment still enthralled with a revolutionary sonic culture, Misty poetry disavowed aural excitement and was part of the reconditioning of the human senses in preparation for a postrevolutionary order and sensibility.

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Chu, Kiu-wai. "The imagination of eco-disaster: Post-disaster rebuilding in Asian cinema." Asian Cinema 30, no. 2 (October 1, 2019): 255–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ac_00007_1.

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Commercial films today often reduce representations of natural catastrophes to commodified spectacles that de-contextualize the subject matter. To contemporary film viewers, the ‘psychic numbing’ effect is apparent, and it does not apply merely to our perception of numbers, statistics, the big data. It can also be seen when we are bombarded with similar kinds of images over and over again; in this case, the large-scale tsunami, the hurricanes, the earthquake and all the exaggerated destruction scenes in recent disaster movies have become clichés no matter how realistic and intense the shots are made. By focusing on a range of eco-disaster films, this article highlights the importance of cultural sensitivity in the study of eco-disaster films, by exploring several questions: how are eco-disasters culturally shaped and defined, via cinematic means? How are human responses to disasters, as reflected in cinematic representations, shaped by specific sociopolitical, cultural or economic conditions? How does cinema as a media form represent ecological concepts that are shared globally or universally, while at the same time reflecting specific cultural characteristics? Juxtaposing examples from China, Thailand and the Phillippines, particularly with three films: Wonderful Town (Thailand, 2007), Aftershock (China, 2010) and Taklub (Phillippines, 2015), this article demonstrates how Asian eco-disaster films in the Anthropocene epoch reflect specific cultural imaginations of nation and identity rebuilding, which in turn provide a ground to reposition, redefine and reinvent the changing cultural identities in contemporary Asia. Eventually, it argues that eco-disaster narratives in Asia reflect the identity crisis of Asian nations in a global capitalist world, just as much as they are about ecological crises.

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