Chinese Dream Research Articles

Multi-Dimensional Approach of “Party Building + Ideological and Political Curriculum” in Colleges and Universities from the Perspective of Network

In the new era, with the continuous improvement of China's socialist market economy construction, all kinds of colleges and universities shoulder the heavy responsibility of delivering high-quality skilled and compound talents to the society, and the party building and ideological and political education in colleges and universities will also play a key role in it. In carrying out various teaching activities, colleges and universities should be more clear about the status and role of ideological and political courses, and they should lay a firmer ideological foundation for realizing the Chinese dream under the guidance and inspiration of Marxism. Under the network perspective, colleges and universities should fully realize the importance and necessity of realizing the multi-dimensional approach of “party building + ideological and political courses”, and work out more targeted innovative strategies to realize the multi-dimensional approach based on the current work of party building and ideological and political education in colleges and universities, so as to truly play an important role in the collaborative education of “party building + ideological and political courses”.

The Theory and Practice of Completing a Moderately Prosperous Society in All Respects

Moderate prosperity is a social ideal for which the Chinese people have been striving for thousands of years. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, and especially since the reform and opening-up policy was implemented in the late 1970s, the Communist Party of China deepened its understanding of the laws governing the building a moderate prosperous society in practice and wrought brilliant achievements in completing a moderate prosperous society in all respects. Completing such a society is a key step in realizing the Chinese dream of national rejuvenation, making scientific socialism radiate strong vitality in the 21st century and greatly expanding the way developing countries modernize. The great practice of completing a moderately prosperous society in all respects has accumulated precious experience for building a modern socialist country in all respects.

The Translation of Chinese Diplomatic Neologisms: a Case Study of “Zhongguomeng”

Diplomatic translation features as the strong political nature and high policy sensitivity, which is an important vehicle for the efficient dissemination of China's diplomatic ideas but also has always been a difficulty. This paper discusses the translation of new diplomatic words proposed by Xi Jinping in 2012 “Zhongguomeng”(the Chinese Dream), which has always been inconsistent translation. By investigating its meaning and collocation, reports of western mainstream media and scouring corpus, it can be found that “Chinese Dream” as a noun modifier is more in line with the connotation of Zhongguomeng It is used more frequently in Western media and has fewer negative reports when it appears. Therefore, the author concluded that Zhongguomeng should be translated into “Chinese Dream” in a unified and standardized manner.

Linking global leadership to domestic legitimacy: Comparative analysis of perceptions of Xi and Obama

AbstractObjectivesAs a one‐party state, the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party rule and the leader, Xi, stems from unique sources. This article examines those sources of legitimacy in China and compares those with the United States and its leader, President Obama.MethodsData from the 2014 Pew Global Attitude Survey are analyzed using ordered logistic regressions to test three main hypotheses: the vertical trust leakage hypothesis, the new Cultural Revolution hypothesis, and the parallel upward mobility hypothesis.ResultsXi's anti‐corruption efforts against governmental officials create perceptions of Xi as a moral leader who protects citizens from corrupt local officials. Growing censorship in China prevents intellectuals from questioning Xi's power. The Chinese Dream campaign spearheaded by Xi blends nationalism and populism.ConclusionThe findings suggest that Xi's strategy to portray him as a moral leader, the suppression of intellectuals and advocacy of the Chinese Dream campaign yields strong confidence from Chinese citizens.

Branding the Chinese Dream: Reception of China’s Public Diplomacy in Britain’s “Cultural China”

Over four decades, China’s transformed propaganda system has embraced public diplomacy to dispel its perceived “threat.” The most recent strategy has been the branding of the Chinese Dream narrative. Although there has been some academic focus on China’s nation branding, little has been written about its reception by overseas audiences. Accordingly, this article draws on focus-group data and employs Tu Wei-ming’s “cultural China” framework in exploring how the Chinese Dream is received and interpreted in the United Kingdom. This article contributes to understandings of nation branding by recognising how Chinese diaspora communities and British intellectual and professional elites engage with and promote brand values. It argues that the socio-cultural aspect of branding is important for China’s identity and that using the Chinese Dream as a branding narrative is successful when it focuses on cultural and economic messaging but divides opinion when political ideology is used.
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STUDENTS AT THE NEXUS BETWEEN THE CHINESE DIASPORA AND INTERNATIONALISATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION: THE ROLE OF OVERSEAS STUDENTS IN CHINA’S STRATEGY OF SOFT POWER

ABSTRACT In recent years, an increasingly assertive People’s Republic of China (PRC) leadership has sought to extend the PRC’s influence globally. To this end, it has developed diverse strategies ranging from soft power to more coercive means. The more visible strategies include the Belt and Road Initiative, the Chinese Dream, and ‘wolf warrior’ diplomacy. At the soft power end of the spectrum, Chinese overseas students are at the nexus between two strategies of soft power – the Chinese diaspora and the internationalisation of higher education. While there is an established literature analysing China’s soft power worldwide, relatively little has been done on the role of higher education, particularly where this concerns overseas Chinese students. The article will examine China’s use of overseas students to project its soft power. It then identifies the strategies that support this, viz. ideological and political education to prepare young people for this role and, once overseas, an appeal to a conception of the Chinese diaspora, as well as the organisations (e.g. embassies and student associations) that form potential channels to students and monitor and support them in their role.

Xi Jinping’s doctrine of power

The development of modern China, the growth of its economic power and the strengthening of its influence in the international arena cannot be separated from the leadership of the CCP. To some extent, Xi Jinping’s rise to power marks the beginning of a “new era.” Xi Jinping was guided by the slogan of “comprehensive deepening and acceleration of reforms.” In the introduction to the Constitution of the concepts of state structure of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping’s “guiding ideas” were added to the contributions of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. The article examines the evolution of the formation of the CCP’s power doctrine under the leadership of Xi Jinping, as well as the basic concepts and principles. The main aspects of the theory of “socialism with Chinese characteristics in a new era” and the ideas of Xi Jinping are analyzed, new features of socialism and the innovative path of China, the ideology of classical Marxism are analyzed. At the same time, China’s strategic domestic and foreign policy is aimed at realizing the “Great Renaissance of the Chinese Nation” and “China Dream” through the implementation of ideological and economic mega-projects that contribute to the global process. This topic is one of the most relevant today. Therefore, the main purpose of this article is to reveal the doctrine of Xi Jinping’s rule. Key words: Xi Jinping, XIX Congress of the Communist Party, Socialism with Chinese features in a new era, great revival, Chinese dream.

Thoughts on China's Construction of Community of Shared Future for Mankind under the New Situation

On July 1, 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the conference celebrating the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China(CPC). 4The July 1st Speech is a programmatic document that fully exudes the charm of Marxism. It is a political declaration and action guide that stands at the historical intersection of the two centennial goals, focuses on the theme of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, learns from history, creates the future, and mobilizes and inspires us to move forward towards the goal of the second centennial. In the past 100 years, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and with the joint efforts of generations of Chinese people, we have witnessed the ambiguous Chinese Dream , which has gradually gained a clear outline. In the past one hundred years, the Communist Party of China(CPC) has created countless human miracles, and has set heavy footprints on the historical land. At the centenary of the founding of the Party, which is the node of the next century, how to presume the construction of human community is a major goal of our struggle.

The aesthetic scene: A critique of the creative economy in urban China

ABSTRACT As a useful tool for studying urban lives, the scene is irreducible to economic experience and contains an aesthetic dimension of critical understanding. This article engages the scholarship on the creative city/economy and seeks to expand the critique of the creative city/economy through an articulation of an aesthetic theory of the urban scene. It proposes three kinds of scenes (creative, mediated, and aesthetic) to examine ways in which new urban forms and spaces are created to address both local and global issues of the creative economy. This is illustrated by focusing on how newly developed creative zones or spaces in Chinese cities like Chengdu (a model creative city in China) negotiate the meanings of existing urban spaces and displace spatial relations reminiscent of socialist legacies (e.g., modes of living standardized by the socialist state) through the production of a particular set of norms and values about the “Chinese dream” situated in the global creative economy. Ultimately, the article argues that it is only at the level of the aesthetic that we may speak of the scene’s multiplicity, alterity, and potentiality.

CPEC and Geo-Security Behind Geo-Economics: China’s Master Stroke to Counter Terrorism and Energy Security Dilemma

The paper employed a geo-economics approach to investigate the twofold Chinese geopolitical intentions behind the execution of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. China financed the CPEC project to overcome energy security and terrorism in Xinjiang. The paper examines the correlation between economic development and security objectives by answering the following key questions. (a) Whether CPEC has the potential to alleviate China’s energy and security dilemma? (b) To what extent CPEC can act as a lever to achieve security interests? The paper argues that geopolitical and geo-security concerns motivate Chinese leadership to use the geo-economics approach. The $65 billion investment in the construction of CPEC has mammoth potential to revitalize the Chinese dream to achieve security through economic and infrastructure development. For Beijing, infrastructure and economic development along the corridor belt would guarantee peace and security in Xinjiang and an overland route of CPEC for energy supplies will circumvent the Malacca dilemma alleviating the threat to the Chinese energy lifeline.

Does poverty-alleviation-based industry development improve farmers’ livelihood capital?

Targeted poverty alleviation is a unique approach adopted in China to help achieve the vision of a moderately prosperous society in all aspects and the “Chinese Dream”. Industrial development as a means of poverty alleviation is an integral part of the “Five-pronged Poverty Alleviation Measures” Project of targeted poverty alleviation, and a critical foundation for other poverty alleviation measures. In this study, a comprehensive evaluation method was used to measure farmers’ livelihood based on the framework of sustainable livelihood. Specifically, the effects of industrial development on farmers’ livelihood capital were estimated by employing the propensity score matching combined with the difference-in-differences (PSM-DID) approach. Findings suggest that industrial development had a significantly positive effect on the livelihood capital of farmers. Industrial development can significantly enhance farmers’ human, social and financial capital, while it cannot significantly affect the natural and physical capital. Industrial development had heterogeneous effects on farmers’ livelihood capital, more efficiently impacting on the non-poor than the poor. The effects on farmers’ livelihood capital varied across regions, with Guizhou experiencing a larger effect than Sichuan. However, the effect was insignificant for farmers in Gansu. To improve farmers’ livelihood capital, it is necessary to take measures to strengthen their human capital, promote the innovation of financial products, and make good use of their social capital; it is also essential to strengthen the support of industrial development to the poor.

Chinese dream, emerging statecraft, and Chinese influence in the Mekong region

AbstractIt has become known that the Confucius Institute (CI) and the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office (Qiaoban) are operated as tools of state-led mechanism, or Chinese statecraft with the ultimate goal of expanding China's cultural soft power. Following the direction, Xi Jinping has been pushing the notion of the “Chinese dream,” focusing on the realm of Chinese traditional culture and launching a new state-led mechanism. This article examines an emerging state-led mechanism known as “Chinese Homeland Bookstores” (CHBs), which was proposed by a provincial government-financed state-owned enterprise, and recently expanded to Thailand and various Mekong countries. I contend that the entities, such as CHBs and also CI and Qiaoban, are being extensively utilized as part of a larger state apparatus supporting the regime's Chinese traditional culture campaign. However, the CHB case and those of other government-led institutions illustrate how they combine nation-state work with market-oriented business strategies, to effectively promote Chinese culture “going out” with a focus on financial sustainability.

US media’s coverage of China’s handling of COVID-19: Playing the role of the fourth branch of government or the fourth estate?

The present study is an analysis of a sample of reports on China’s handling of COVID-19 by several major US media with a focus on a controversial op-ed by the Wall Street Journal. It is found that instead of covering it objectively as a public health crisis, these media reports tend to adopt the strategy of naming, shaming, blaming, and taming against China. In other words, they seize the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan as an opportunity to serve Trump’s “America First” doctrine by a coordinated attempt to destroy the Chinese dream and arresting China’s ascendency. First, the naming/shaming technique is used to tarnish China’s image as a virus. The op-ed on the Wall Street Journal describes China as “the real sick man of Asia.” In addition, a cluster of ferociously negative names are slung onto China to describe the coronavirus as “the Wuhan virus,” “the Belt & Road Initiative pandemic,” “the China virus,” and so on. Second, the blaming technique is applied. On top of such negative name-calling, these media tend to blame the Chinese leadership, the political system, and finally Chinese food culture for eating pangolins. Finally, the taming technique is used to constrain, isolate, or quarantine China. One goal behind such a China threat strategy is to fan American or foreign businesses to move (back) to the United States out of China. Another goal is to create the public opinion environment that would be conducive to some American groups’ litigations against China. It is concluded that American mainstream media while quarreling with the Trump administration for domestic affairs seem to be colluding with the conservative intellectual base in the United States in supporting Trump’s strategy to knock down and divide China.

Introduction to special issue: unpacking the Chinese dream of homeownership

Introduction to special issue: unpacking the Chinese dream of homeownership

Research on the Practice Information System of University Students’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Based on the New Computer Technology Support

With the quick growth of computer new technology, under the background of China’s Ministry of Education’s active promotion of “my Chinese Dream” theme education activities, many universities vigorously guide college scholars to design, realize “innovative dream”, “entrepreneurial dream”, in-depth development of innovation and entrepreneurship education, and achieve the vision of a better life for college students. For foster more and better new talented person who can adapt to the challenges of the future, the Ministry of Education of our country has also put forward 30 items to improve the overall quality of university education, will run through the entire procedure of talent teaching and support students to achieve innovative entrepreneurship teaching. At present, in order to university students, the activities of innovative entrepreneurship education are widely carried out in colleges and universities, but there are still some problems such as inaccurate grasp of the goal and connotation of innovative entrepreneurship education, incomplete and incomplete teaching information, and disconnection with discipline and specialty education. Starting from science and reality, we can adapt to the changing new era and make a contribution to the growth of the new time.

The New Development of the Party’s United Front Theory Based on Big Data Analysis

United front has always been an important line of work of the Party and an important magic weapon for the Party to unite the people and lead them to victory in the revolutionary war and advance the construction, reform and development of new China. With the development of different historical periods, the party’s united front theory has been constantly enriched and perfected. Big data analysis shows that entering a new era, the realization of the “two centenary goals” and the Chinese Dream requires further consolidation and development of the united front, and the Party Central Committee with Xi Jinping as its core has also made a series of new strategic arrangements for the united front work, and the Party’s united front theory has gained new development in the new era. United front work has always been an important work of the party. Consolidating and developing the broadest united front have always been an important line of the party’s policy. The united front theory of the Party, based on the basic principles of Marxism, was founded in the Second Sino-Japanese War period in combination with China’s revolutionary practice. It’s gradually enriched and developed in combination with the different practices and tasks of each historical period. It has become an important ideological guide for the Party to lead the people to win revolutionary victory, speed up the building of socialism with Chinese characteristics, unite the people of all ethnic groups and lead them to realize the Chinese dream of great rejuvenation[1-2].

Culture, Music Education, and the Chinese Dream in Mainland China, by Wai-Chung Ho. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2018.

<i>Culture, Music Education, and the Chinese Dream in Mainland China</i>, by Wai-Chung Ho. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2018.

Chinese Oppressive Policies Towards the Muslims in East Turkistan

Nazi concentration camps were considered to be the worst humanitarian crisis in the twentieth century and the world believed that this scenario will never happen again. In today’s modern world, in the twenty-first century, the Chinese Communist Party has imprisoned millions of indigenous Turkics in concentration camps in which they are being forced to deny their faith, abandon their own culture, and assimilate to Chinese culture as a whole nation. This paper, initially evaluates the development of China and East Turkistan relations and Beijing’s policies towards this region. Then, it examines the situation of concentration camps and who is being held captive and what crimes they have committed in the eyes of the Chinese government. Last but not least, it examines how the Chinese dream, nationalist policies, and developments of international politics played an important role in the establishment of these concentration camps.

Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era: updating the official ideology of the CCP

The article examines the updated official ideology of the CCP in the form of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. The author analyzes the formation of Xi Jinping Thought, as well as their theoretical content and practical significance, based on the analysis of the official documents of the CCP. It was noted that the emergence of Xi Jinping Thought was caused by the need for a new ideological consensus to overcome the crisis in the CCP and the social and economic development of the PRC. It was analyzed in details the central concept of the renewed ideology (Chinese Dream), its components as the revival of the Chinese nation, socialist spiritual civilization, the community of the common destiny of mankind and the geo-economic initiative One Belt, One Road. It was noted that the Chinese Dream is aimed at consolidating Chinese society, expressing ideals and values within China, restoring China’s status as a world leader. It is shown that Xi Jinping’s ideas revived Maoism in China at a theoretical and practical level by strengthening the role of ideology in party leadership and government. This was caused by the need to further adaptation of socialism with Chinese characteristics to the new socio-economic and international conditions, which led to the return of the priority of politics over the economy and the restoration of the previously lost positions of the official ideology of the CCP in the style of Mao Zedong, but while maintaining the use of the ideas of premodern China, revived and transformed in a new political context. The article revealed the main provisions of the Four-pronged Comprehensive Strategy as a new ideological consensus of the CCP – the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist state, deepening of reforms in all-round way, rule of the country in accordance with the law in all respects, observance of strict party discipline in all-round way. In general, the China Dream and the Four-pronged Comprehensive Strategy, like the Three Represents, the Scientific Outlook on Development, the Socialist Harmonious Society, express the deepening of economic reforms combined with the conservative political authoritarianism. Thus, the new version of the official ideology in the form of Xi Jinping Thought pursue achieving the higher quality and more efficient, equitable and sustainable development; improvement and development of socialism with Chinese characteristics; modernizing the public administration system; aiming for more systematic, holistic and coordinated implementation of reforms.

NR Kina kao "odgovorna velika sila" - kineski model investicija i pomoći inostranstvu

Shortly after its establishment, the People's Republic of China began to implement a policy of providing investments and assistance abroad. Although the motives for this were different in the decades that followed, the Chinese leadership never gave up on the decision to make foreign investment and assistance a central part of Chinese foreign policy. The author employs a structural-functional analysis and comparative analysis to prove the basic hypothesis that the main reason for the development of the Chinese model of foreign investment and assistance is the intention of the Chinese leadership to show that the People's Republic of China is a "responsible great power", one which contributes to the solving important global problems, while simultaneously working to achieve its most important goal, the "Chinese dream", by 2049.