China after Deng Xiaoping: Implications for Japan

While there exists mistrust between China and Japan stemming from the legacy of the Second World War, the two countries are making efforts to build mutual trust through bilateral dialogue. Growing bilateral interdependence and common interests will likely ease the mistrust and overcome obstacles to a political partnership between the two countries. In the post-Deng era, this article argues that Japan and the West should help China integrate with the world economy if they want China's support in preserving a peaceful world order. Sino-Japanese bilateral cooperation and interdependence are not only beneficial for the two countries and the Asia-Pacific region, they are also of significance for promoting global cooperation and economic development. Thus, this article emphasises China's importance to Japan and the West in the twenty-first century. The author wishes to acknowledge useful comments by Susan Pares, Senior Executive Member of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs (London); Chi Kara Komura, Director of the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, Seikei University (Japan) and Peter Curwen, Professor at the Policy Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University (England), on an earlier draft of the paper. He has recently contributed articles to Asian Thought and Society, The Review of Policy Issues, New Zealand Journal of East Asian Studies, Korea Observer, and Australia and World Affairs.     

The Man Who Walked Alone

This story comes from Pietersburg, Northern Transuaal. Shortlyafter we received it, we read of episodes of a very similarnature having actually occurred in the life of the grandparentsof Mary Susan Malahlele, the first Bantu woman doctor, who tookthe Hippocratic oath on the 21st June.     

邓小平对美政策思想与中国大战略--评《邓小平与美国》

邓小平对美政策思想是邓小平国际战略思想的重要组成部分。在邓小平诞辰 10 0周年之际 ,中共党史出版社推出了中央党校国际战略研究所副所长宫力教授的《邓小平与美国》一书。这部 5 0余万字的著作是宫力教授主持的国家社会科学基金项目“邓小平对美政策思想研究”的最终成果 ,凝结了他四年的心血和十几年的学术积淀。作者从理论与实践相结合的角度 ,以邓小平的重大对美外交决策和活动为基本线索 ,系统地归纳和总结了邓小平对美战略策略思想的形成、演变、发展的过程。一本书紧紧抓住邓小平时代中美关系发展的历史脉络 ,清晰地展现了邓小平…     

邓小平与1977年之后的中美关系

本文对1977年之后至90年代初,邓小平在处理中美关系问题上所采取的政策和策略进行考察和评估,认为邓小平的决断是促成中美关系正常化的重要因素之一,他从实现中国现代化的目标出发,努力促进中美经济贸易的发展,不仅为中国引进了大量的资金和技术,而且为稳定中美关系的大局构筑了一个新的战略支点.邓小平在1989年中美关系跌入低谷后所采取的一系列对策,使中国在西方的制裁面前,稳住了阵脚,并成功地把中美关系稳定在一定的战略水平之上.     

Challenging The Mandate Of Heaven: Popular Protest in Modern China

Arguing that popular protest has played an unusual role in bestowing political legitimacy in China, this article traces continuities in state responses to protest movements from imperial days to the present. The author compares the government's recent handling of three different types of protest: economically motivated actions by hard-pressed workers and farmers, nationalistically inspired demonstrations by patriotic students, and (at greater length) religiously rooted resistance by zealous believers. The central authorities' tolerance toward localized strikes and tax riots, and their overt encouragement of protests against the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, contrasts sharply with the harsh and unrelenting campaign of repression that has been directed against Falun Gong adherents. Explanations for these variant state responses are sought in historically grounded assessments of the political implications of different types of popular protest.     

The Cultural Aspects of Advertising Communications in Modern China

Advertising studies allow us not only to differentiate successful from unsuccessful marketing activities, but establish the fact as well that advertising reveals specific cultural norms that somehow differ depending on global regions. Advertising studies feature a clearly pronounced interdisciplinary nature and allow us to better understand what cultural basis specific advertising texts are made on. An advertising message is oriented on both rational and emotional-affective processes among the people perceiving the message. Modern Chinese consumers live in a complex social and cultural space. The ideology of the People’s Republic of China combines traditional philosophy, socialist ideas, and technological pragmatism. In modern China, advertising costs are skyrocketing (the year-to-year increase is about 100%). Chinese visual advertising images are based on a complex mixture of global and traditional cultural values and embody different aspects of “the Great Chinese Dream.” A visual analysis of Chinese advertisements allows us to see what traditional and global values are embodied by advertisers in advertising texts in order to render such advertising messages more effectively. Generally encountered are female images, nature-related images, and images pertaining to the ancient past of China. At the same time, ancient Chinese traditions are subject to globalization. Chinese traditional female images are created in the context of trends of mass culture. Nevertheless, the keynote remains within China’s traditional values. All the while, it features no forced separation from the global culture. It is more likely that China harmoniously includes the components considered acceptable within its own worldview.     

The Australian Welfare State: Has Federalism Made a Difference?

This paper examines the historical development of the Australian welfare state with a view to identifying the role that Australia's federal constitutional arrangements have played in shaping that development. Theoretical paradigms have been unanimous in their prognoses: that federal states are likely to be slow in developing welfare state programmes and typically spend less on them than unitary states. But recently it has been argued that federal institutions may have a “ratchet effect” of slowing down the pace of change, irrespective of its direction. The purpose of this chronological account of significant stages in the development of the Australian welfare state is to use the unfolding of historical events — far too rich in nuance and detail to be captured in quantitative modelling — as a test‐bed for establishing whether, and, if so, to what extent, federalism has impacted on the trajectory of Australian welfare state development.