Chinese Dream Research Articles

China’s long march to national rejuvenation: toward a Neo-Imperial order in East Asia?

ABSTRACT The material disparity with the West, and the havoc wreaked in the period of Japanese imperial encroachment on Chinese territory and autonomy after the First Opium War, have shaped and guided China’s collective memory and its shared desire of national rejuvenation to this day. In tracing the deeper historical roots of what Xi Jinping contemporarily frames as a “Chinese dream” of “wealth and power,” the article discerns key actors, events, and organizing principles in a long process toward restoring China’s deemed rightful place in the regional system. Taking into account the region-specific socio-historical complex of China and East Asia, and further exploring the parameters of an International Relations theory with “Chinese characteristics,” the article’s comparative historical analysis details how China’s leaders have chosen to mobilize the nation’s “domestic resources” in their common pursuit of national rejuvenation. Providing greater insight into how and according to which interlinked domestic and foreign explanatory markers this is attained, the article argues that we are currently in the last phase of rejuvenation and advances implications for China’s further trajectory.

Remain True to Our Original Aspiration and Keep Our Mission Firmly in Mind—New Ideas on Learning and Implementing the Spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China

The theme of the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is Never forget your original and keep your mission in mind. In this report, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the Communist Party of China should not forget its original and mission, continue to implement the scientific outlook on development, focus on the four greats and put forward updated tasks and requirements in the scientific construction of the party. The contents of this report greatly encouraged the whole Party and the whole people to continue to strive for the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. And for us, the Communist Party of China, is to provide the direction of the struggle to guide and encourage. This article mainly focuses on the theme of Never forget the original and discusses the content of this report and how to achieve the requirement of Never forget the original mind, keep the mission in mind as a member of the Communist Party of China.

Research on the Integration of Ideological and Political Education and "The Second Classroom" in Colleges and Universities

The young generation is builders and successors of our socialist cause, bearing important task of realizing great Chinese dream. As an important position of young generation education, colleges and universities not only undertake teaching task of subject knowledge, but also hotbed of Ideological and political education, both of which play an equally important role in education system of moral education. Therefore, on basis of constantly improving educational function of Ideological and political courses in Colleges and universities, how to effectively use broad platform of the to further promote ideological and political education in Colleges and universities is a new direction that every ideological and political worker in Colleges and universities is constantly exploring. Based on second in colleges and universities, this paper intends to explore internal relationship between classroom and ideological and political education, as well as possibility of combining two, so as to create a new path for integration of ideological and political education and classroom in colleges and universities.

From Socialist Modernization to Chinese Dream

Book review : Mitrović, Dragana. 2019. From Socialist Modernization to Chinese Dream. Belgrade: Institute for Asian Studies, 306 p.

Innovation of Agricultural Products Trace-ability System in Internet + Eco Agriculture

With the rapid development of economy and the continuous improvement of people’s living standards, the Chinese dream of building a moderately prosperous society in 2020 will come true. At present, people’s concept and pursuit are also changing imperceptibly. It is especially obvious in people’s normal consumption of agricultural products. People are not worried about basic food and clothing problems, but more about the pursuit of “green, safety and health” of food quality. As China is a large agricultural country, there are many kinds of agricultural products, many employees selling agricultural products, weak awareness of agricultural product safety, blind pursuit of immediate interests, interest edification, and weak legal knowledge. With the rapid development of Internet technology, it is an inevitable trend to combine the Internet with the security of traditional agricultural products. Therefore, it is necessary to establish a set of agricultural product tracking and tracing system based on RFID technology in the Internet + era. Through the traceability system of agricultural products, the production records can be stored and the flow direction of products can be traced.

Research on the Innovation in Educational Methods on Splendid Traditional Chinese Culture, Revolutionary Culture and Advanced Culture of Socialism for Contemporary College Students

As General Secretary Xi pointed out, we should carry forward socialism with Chinese characteristics, promote social and cultural development and prosperity and march towards the goal of building a socialist culturally powerful country. For the moment, socialism with Chinese characteristics has marched into a new age. As the constructors and the successors of the cause of the construction of socialism, college students have the country’s future and the nation’s hope on their shoulders. As a result, college students should cultivate considerable culture confidence, adhere to the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics, lead and stimulate the cultural innovation and creativity of the entire nation and strive to build a strong socialist cultural country and to realize the Chinese dream, in which the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is achieved. Therefore, it is not only the requirement of the cultural view of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new period of time, but also the need for college students to grow up in the new period of time to study and innovate the education methods of Chinese splendid revolutionary culture, traditional culture, and advanced socialism.

CHINA AND QUAD 2.0: Between response and regional construct

ABSTRACT The existing literature on the Quadrilateral Initiative or Quad 2.0, has primarily focused on why the US, India, Japan and Australia have been promoting a strategic mechanism and how it could possibly contain an increasingly assertive China in the Indo-Pacific. However, what remains overlooked is the Chinese perception towards the Quad, which remains complex and systemic, underpinned by Beijing’s national interests, national identity in the regional affairs, and a desire to attain the “Chinese Dream”. While the official Chinese reaction to the “Asian NATO” has mainly been dismissive, this paper argues that Beijing’s response to the Quad with its underlying apprehensions, is structurally linked to China’s rise vis-à-vis India, the re-emergence of Japan in Asia and beyond, Australia’s recent firm and calculated approach towards China, and US’ rebuilt Asia strategy extending beyond military connotations.

Overview of the modern chinese science through the prism of the “Chinese dream”

Recent events in the world and radical changes in the development of human civilization haveonce again proved the importance of the concept as “science”. The article examines how the People’sRepublic of China develops science and innovation to realize the concept of the “Chinese Dream”. Untilnow, on the world market, China’s industrial export policy has been carried out through the expansion ofits cheap goods. This strategy is no longer effective in the competition. This is due to the need for hightechproduction: the creation and development of high-quality products. The current economic growthand the current foreign economic situation, the accelerated modernization of the Chinese economy arefavorable on a modern technological basis. The introduction of a complex of high technologies in organizationsand mechanisms representing the national innovation system and industry is reflected in thesearch and updating of new products and technologies in the form of scientific knowledge.The article is based on the principle of the scientific and technological development of China in thepolitical, economic, trade, humanitarian spheres, taking place in the modern world. In addition, some issuesof Kazakh-Chinese bilateral cooperation in the field of science were analyzed. The paper were usedthe theory of “soft power” in international relations and the Chinese concept of “harmonious world”.Key words: People’s Republic of China, theoretical foundations of China’s foreign policy, “Chinesedream”, soft power.

Stage Analysis of the Chinese Dream Created by the Communist Party of China

The Chinese nation is a nation yearning for a bright future, which has been fully demonstrated in the process of national salvation and peaceful development. Since the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), this ideal has become a reality. It has not only realized the “dream of building an independent country”, but also persisted in the “dream of strengthening oneself independently” and forged the “dream of a strong country”. Therefore, the Chinese dream not only enlightens and warms all the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation, but also inspires and unites the great strength of China, making it a common ideal for the Chinese nation to work as one. From the perspective of historical process, this paper analyzes and studies the stage in which the Chinese Communist Party casts the Chinese dream, which will further strengthen our understanding of the Chinese dream and enrich and develop the theory of the Chinese dream.

Evolving Principles and Guiding Concepts: How China Gains African Support for its Core National Interests

For decades, the People's Republic of China has advocated rhetorically consistent, albeit gradually evolving, principles of state sovereignty and non-interference in internal affairs that find particular resonance in African nations. Under Xi Jinping, China has packaged its policies using two interrelated guiding concepts, the “Chinese Dream” and the “The Community of Shared Future.” Africans have greeted the former with little enthusiasm, but have been more receptive to the latter. These principles and concepts represent the conceptual framework that China has built to engage African countries amid a rapid expansion in its diplomatic, economic, technological, and security footprint on the continent. Beijing has successfully garnered African support or, at least, acquiescence on topics its leaders consider the country's “core national interests,” namely Taiwan, Tibet, the mistreatment of Muslim minorities, human rights, South China Sea, and Hong Kong. On these key sensitive issues, reciprocity has long been an essential element of Beijing's approach, one that together with financing, investment, aid, and political backing of African interests, ensures that African countries support China's position—lest they open themselves to criticisms of their own domestic affairs.

The Chinese Dream: Hukou, Social Mobility, and Trust in Government

Objective. Social mobility plays an important role in stabilizing the political order. This article leverages China’s hukou (household registration) reforms to examine the effects of state-engineered social mobility on individuals’ trust in the government. Methods. Using China General Social Survey data for 2010 and entropy balancing for causal effects, this article provides empirical evidence for the attitudinal effects of social mobility at the individual level. Results. It finds that, first, individuals with the rural-to-urban hukou change are more likely to experience upward mobility, while individuals with the nonlocal-to-local hukou change are more pessimistic about their prospects of upward mobility; second, the rural-to-urban hukou change increases beneficiaries’ trust in the central government, while the nonlocal-to-local hukou change increases beneficiaries’ trust in the local government. Conclusion. The Chinese authoritarian regime’s co-optation tactic of engineering upward social mobility via the hukou reforms contributes to its performance-based political legitimacy as it effectively bolsters individuals’ trust in government.

Lexical-semantic and cognitive specifics of political discourse (based on si jinping's speeches)

The article is devoted to the lexical-semantic and cognitive analysis of the specifics of the translation of some proverbs and sayings, as well as metaphorical sayings in the discourse on the basis of Si Jinping's speeches about the “Chinese dream”. The topic also included the analysis of factors affecting changes in the vocabulary of the lexical component, a linguistic analysis of the semantically-comparative phenomena of the social and political terminology of the Chinese language using descriptive description methods, features of the political discourse in Chinese, used as an object of translation, containing a rich vocabulary with background information. Particular attention is paid to the phenomenon of suggestion in political discourse. The research materials show the richness of the lexical layer of the Chinese language, the wide possibilities of transmitting thoughts using various social and political terms, transforming not only the tone, but also the cognitive paradigm of the text. These lexical and semantic features of Chinese sociopolitical terminology should be taken into account when translating articles, materials of negotiations, speeches, reports and speeches.

Assessment of China‘s 1985-2017 Higher Education Policy Reform: Nation-Building Directives

The Chinese Dream presented by president Xi Jinping focused on the renewal of the Chinese nation, the prosperity of the country and the well-being of its people. Incorporating the global influence ambition of China into nation-building and education, this study employed a macro policy analysis approach to synthesize the effects of the state-led ideals on nation-building and the roles to be played by higher education. A total of nine comprehensive policies, covering the period 1985 to 2017, and receptive to globalization, nation-building and higher education were selected. The findings revealed that nation-building in the post-Moa era is built upon three critical priority determinants labelled global influence, socialist market economy and talent management. These core nation-building determinants delineate specific higher education guidelines in terms of citizen education, science and technology, talent management, and innovation amidst accelerating global modernization and freedom-of-mind requirement for the establishment of a socialist consultative democracy. The findings further offer direction to higher education for the provision of a fit-for-purpose workforce capable of operating in both a modern global and local market.

On the Construction of the Contemporary Power Supervision System in China

Abstract:On the 70th anniversary of the founding of China and the 41st anniversary of the reform and opening up, it is of great significance to study the power supervision system of contemporary China and plan for the future system construction and development in order to realize the "two centenary" goal and the "Chinese dream" of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.Power supervision has an important influence on the governance of the party, the strengthening of self construction, the maintenance of long-term stability and social stability, and the promotion of political system reform.

Chinese foreign policy through the prism of «community of common destiny»

Since the accession to power of the fifth generation of rulers headed by Chinese PresidentXi Jinping, serious changes have taken place in the principle of foreign policy of the People’s Republic ofChina. The principle “not to be a leader in international relations, be in shadow” which had been strictlyobserved of Mao Zedong and Ding Xiaoping, was given to oblivion. China has transferred to new principles,now it is ready to assume responsibility in solving the common human problems on the globallevel sticking to the motto of mutually beneficial peace and politics in order to become “the leader” intheir settlement. These changes are vividly seen in the Chinese “Belt and Road” initiative, rejuvenationof “the Chinese dream” and the initiative of “the common destiny of mankind” which have become themotto of foreign policy of Xi Jinping. At any meeting or summit of the global level (bilateral, multilateral,at the sessions of regional and international organizations), Xi Jinping is constantly bringing up the issueof “the common destiny of mankind”. Due to the fact that they do not manifest any visible expansionisticor empirical sings, they gain more supporters of their initiatives by their attractive proposals in tacklingsuch global problems as international terrorism, global warming, ecology, etc. The article analyses theprinciples of foreign policy of People’s Republic of China by studying the we initiatives focusing on itsmerits and demerits, advantages and threats to other states.Key words: The People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, Chinese foreign policy, “The common destinyof mankind”, “Chinese dream”.

From Marxism to nationalism: The Chinese Communist Party's discursive shift in the post-Mao era

The Chinese Communist Party's dramatic shift from Mao Zedong's Chinese Revolution to Xi Jinping's Chinese Dream remains under-examined and even misunderstood or mispresented despite its enormous impact on every aspect of national life in the People's Republic of China. There is a clear need for in-depth analysis of the extent to which the CCP has departed from the philosophical foundation of Marxism and Maoism, abandoned socialism and communism, inverted its long tradition of iconoclasm, transformed its own identity and altered its subject position. Part of the CCP's philosophical departure from Marxism and Maoism is its increasing conversion to nationalism. The new nationalism underpinning the Chinese Dream, in particular, operates against the grain of Marxism and Maoism, and vice versa, and is logically irreconcilable with the latter – so much so that the CCP cannot be nationalists and Marxists, Maoists or communists at the same time. The contradictory logics between nationalism and Marxism can be best seen from their respective conceptions of permanence and change, the unity and conflict of opposites, and conceptions of, and approaches to, tradition and the past, which have had major ramifications in political-cultural change in post-Mao China, especially in Xi's New Era.

Çin’in Avrasya Rüyası Olarak İpek Yolu Ekonomik Kuşağı: Ortak Kimlik mi Ortak Korku mu?

The Silk Road Economic Belt is the key component of China’s Eurasian Pivot strategy. In this study, China’s Eurasian Pivot is approached as a creativity strategy from the perspective of social identity theory. In order to succeed in its creativity strategy, China is trying to create a common in-group identity with the Silk Road Economic Belt countries through the Chinese Dream. However, the Chinese Dream is not perceived as a common identity by Central Asians and Uyghurs. While Central Asians respond China’s economic presence in the region positively, they are afraid of demographic changes and cultural influences that Chinese migration will cause. Therefore, the Chinese Dream has been a common fear for Turkic societies along the Silk Road Economic Belt rather than common identity. This fear could be one of the most important factors that will prevent the success of China’s Eurasian Pivot in the long run.

‘The quintessential Chinese dream’? Homeownership and the subjective wellbeing of China's next generation

Owning one's own home is an important objective for many people and homeownership potentially has important economic and social implications for both the homeowner and their children. Yet, while the effects of homeownership on various aspects of children's objective wellbeing are well documented,1 the effect of homeownership on children's subjective wellbeing (SWB)2 has received very little attention in the literature. Some studies have considered the SWB of children (see e.g. Casas & Rees 2015; Migliorini, Tassara, & Rania 2018; Rees & Bradshaw 2018; Tomyn & Cummins 2011; Tomyn, Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, Cummins, & Norrish 2017). There is only one study that considers the relationship between homeownership and SWB of children. In a cross-sectional study of the determinants of SWB of 11 years old children in the UK, Rees and Bradshaw (2018) find that children living in rental houses had lower SWB than those living in houses owned by their parents. We test whether homeownership status has a causal effect on the SWB of children in China and examine the channels or mediators via which it may affect the child's SWB. To do so, we use nationally representative longitudinal data from China Family Panel Studies (CFPS). Compared with other national datasets that contain information on children, such as the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), CFPS has the advantage that it contains data on both the SWB of children and whether their parents own their home, along with a rich set of controls that are potentially correlated with the child's SWB.

The Many Faces of the Feminine

This article explores the basic nature of the feminine, beginning with a description of the feminine from many sources: ancient Chinese philosophy, Greek myth, Biblical sayings, contemporary psychology and dreams, and a Siberian fairy tale. The author also discusses a psychological analysis by Toni Wolff, a student and colleague of Jung, of four basic inborn types of feminine functioning, known as “mother,” “hetaira,” “amazon,” and “medial.” Then, an African story depicts a girl’s journey in the process of seeking her own feminine nature.

Tourism studies is a geopolitical instrument: Conferences, Confucius Institutes, and ‘the Chinese Dream’

Tourism scholarship can advance the multifarious geopolitical projects of state actors and aligned commercial entities. Such effects are achieved not only through tourism itself, but through the production and circulation of politically-inflected forms of knowledge. Such work is conducted by tourism scholars and allied industry and state actors. A first-person account of a 2017 tourism studies conference held at an Australian university demonstrates the argument by examining the ways in which scholars, industry, and state actors navigated and facilitated the geopolitical and geoeconomic agendas of not only domestic but potentially contentious international regimes. The conference received financial and administrative support from state, industry, and academic agencies from both Australia and China. Hosted by the Griffith Institute for Tourism (GIFT) and the Griffith University’s Tourism Confucius Institute (TCI), the conference was the third in a series of ‘East-West Dialogues on Tourism and the Chinese Dream’. By actively positioning the international collaboration within the rhetorical bounds of the ‘Chinese Dream’, and by conducting the conference in collaboration with the Tourism Confucius Institute, a quasi-educational operation directly managed by the Chinese party-state, the Australian and international tourism academy implicitly supported the geopolitical designs of the Chinese Communist Party. Renewed attention to academic ethics and increased areal expertise are a necessary response, especially in a time of global geopolitical instability and structural economic transformation in the academy.