Journal of International Affairs articles from January 1996

Journal of International Affairs archives from January 1996

Why China matters.(Contemporary China: The Consequences of Change)
January 1, 1996... Is China a great success, a nation solving its internal divisions and moving from strength to strength? Or is China so overwhelmed by problems that its policy makers are paralyzed and its system so corrupt that everything might fall apart? In...

Addressing the human rights issue in Sino-American relations.(Contemporary China: The Consequences of Change)
January 1, 1996... Under the best of circumstances, policymakers from China, the United States or any other major power must attempt to reconcile at least three competing priorities: national security, economic viability and moral authority. Each of these three...

Human rights, democracy and China.(Contemporary China: The Consequences of Change)
January 1, 1996... The issue of human rights and democracy has perplexed China for more than a hundred years. The fact that this issue has not died out, but instead has become even more conspicuous with the passage of time indicates its bearing on China's...

The humanitarian and technical dilemmas of population control in China.(Contemporary China: The Consequences of Change)
January 1, 1996... An important experiment for mankind this century is the control of population growth by state-administered means. The necessity for some controls is beyond dispute from the point of view of global interests as a whole. But the outcome of their...

Unique spiritual engineers: the infighting among Chinese intellectuals.(Contemporary China: The Consequences of Change)
January 1, 1996... In China, there is a widespread and long-held belief that all intellectuals suffer persecution under the Communist regime, support reform and hope for the democratization of the country. But this has actually never been true. While the scholars...

The need to restrain China.(Contemporary China: The Consequences of Change)
January 1, 1996... Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the American strategy was to use China as a wildcard in the Cold War, though the usefulness of playing Beijing off of Soviet interests is no more. Now there is a serious question whether the United States...

On repression and reform.(Contemporary China: The Consequences of Change)
January 1, 1996... The Need for Organization In China, there are different components of society with different interests, such as students, workers and intellectuals. Although at this point, it is very difficult to have real factional infighting when one is...

The establishment of extensive private organizations: the foremost task for human rights guarantees and promoting democracy.(Contemporary China: The Consequences of Change)
January 1, 1996... A hundred years ago, the founding father of modern China, Sun Yat-sen, raised the slogan of human rights and democracy, Nonetheless, up until the present day, human rights in China has not gone beyond the mere right of existence, and democracy is...

Succession politics and China's future.(Contemporary China: The Consequences of Change)
January 1, 1996... At some point during the 1995 calendar year, what had been a truism in Chinese politics from 1978 on became inaccurate: Deng Xiaoping was no longer the most powerful political actor in China. He was thought to have been near death in the spring,...

Regional security issues.(Contemporary China: The Consequences of Change)
January 1, 1996... The early 1990s saw the dismantling of Cold War power relationships in Asia while providing no clear guidelines as to what arrangements might take their place. The crisintegration of the Soviet Union meant that the Chinese, who had been skilled...

Maximum flexibility, rigid framework: China's policy towards Hong Kong and its implications.(Contemporary China: The Consequences of Change)
January 1, 1996... Hong Kong is a subject that provokes strong yet mixed feelings among policy makers in the People's Republic of China (PRC). It is both an emotional and a pragmatic issue. The aging top leaders who took an active part in the communist revolution...

Migration from China.(Contemporary China: The Consequences of Change)
January 1, 1996... Tradition holds that the Chinese were a non-migratory people: Generally speaking, no Chinese will leave his home to seek his fortune at a distance unless he is in some way driven to do so... No Chinese leaves his home not intending to return....

Rising sectionalism in China?(Contemporary China: The Consequences of Change)
January 1, 1996... It is not unusual for moments of crisis to become opportunities for renewal. China's political crisis of 1989 is an excellent example of such a moment; it exposed the cracks in the political monolith of the Chinese Communist Party while at the...

Social change and the Chinese Communist Party: domestic problems of rule.(Contemporary China: The Consequences of Change)
January 1, 1996... The Chinese Communist Party has become in many ways the victim of its own economic success since 1978. The introduction of market reforms has thrown Chinese society into increasing turmoil. Moreover, the speed of development has exacerbated the...

Women and the state in post-1949 rural China.(Contemporary China: The Consequences of Change)
January 1, 1996... In old China, women were bound up by the shackles of power in politics, clan, husband and religion. They were kept at the bottom of society. Women were liberated after the birth of New China in 1949.(2) - Huang Qizao, Sichuan Province npc...

Securities markets and China's international economic integration.(Contemporary China: The Consequences of Change)
January 1, 1996... In 1995, China was ranked by the World Economic Forum's Competitiveness Report for the first time. The report found that China was second in capital formation, behind only the United States, and that China's growth in gross domestic product (both...

Business law in China: evolutionary revolution.(Contemporary China: The Consequences of Change)
January 1, 1996... Western investors in China are of two minds. They are at once frustrated by the lack of transparency and predictability in the Chinese legal process. Indeed they frequently see China as having no law in the Western sense, with guan xi (personal...

Economic development, political stability and international respect.(Contemporary China: The Consequences of Change)
January 1, 1996... My assignment for this essay is to present the official Chinese perspective on issues related to China's domestic politics and U.S.-China relations in a Western academic style. This is a thankless task because it runs a high risk of displeasing...

Culture, "race" and nation: the formation of national identity in twentieth century China.(Contemporary China: The Consequences of Change)
January 1, 1996... Nationalism in the post-Tiananmen era is a worrying phenomenon that may be better understood when seen from a historical perspective. Before we examine the formation of national identity in twentieth century China, however, it may be instructive...

Policing Shanghai: 1927-1937.
January 1, 1996... In Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937, Frederic Wakeman presents a magisterial slice of modern Chinese history which takes his readers from the Chinese Nationalists' strategies for modernization and national renewal to Shanghai's seedier world of...

Governing China: From Revolution Through Reform.
January 1, 1996... Kenneth Lieberthal (New York: W.W. Norton, 1995) 498 pp. Everyone knows that China's economy has taken off like a rocket; some studies already rank its GDP as the world's largest. The real question mark hanging over China's future is the fate...

Marxism, China and Development: Reflections on Theory and Reality.
January 1, 1996... James Gregor (New Brunswick:Transaction Publishers, 1995) 283 pp. The book before us is an introduction into Marxist theory and the failures of the Chinese and Soviet revolutions, listing not only the mistakes made, but also their sources, and...

China After Deng Xiaoping.
January 1, 1996... In 1976, China was emerging from the Cultural Revolution, an era characterized by isolationism and internal weakness, when Mao Zedong's death complicated the situation, leading to a period of political instability and a resurgence of radicalism....

Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law.
January 1, 1996... New immigrants bringing energy and talent from other parts of the world have historically provided America with much of its economic strength and cultural dynamism. Yet U.S. citizens, many of them recent immigrants themselves, have often been...

Lords of the Rim: The Invisible Empire of the Overseas Chinese.
January 1, 1996... Sterling Seagrave (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995 345pp. including index With Lords of the Rim, Sterling Seagrave has painted a compelling portrait of the overseas Chinese community and the secret of its economic success, though one...

China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power.
January 1, 1996... by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (New York: Vintage Books, 1995) 501pp. In China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn take their reader on a journey through the People's Republic of China...

Comrade Criminal.
January 1, 1996... Steve Handelman (New York: Yale University Press, 1995) 379pp. Reviewed by David Jones The collapse of the Soviet Union seemed to promise a new age for Russia. With much fanfare in the Western press, privatization plans were unveiled and...