Scholarship In China Research Articles

Appendix: Huizhou Studies in China: Scholarship and Sources

This appendix essay surveys the rise of Huixue (Huizhou scholarship) in post-Mao China as background for the main theme of this special Nan Nü issue: the chastity cult in Huizhou. It discusses works by China’s leading Huizhou specialists on a number of key aspects of Huizhou socioeconomic history, especially lineage institutions and mercantile groups in the late imperial period. It also calls attention to the enormous richness of Huizhou source materials, especially the newly uncovered Huizhou wenshu (Huizhou documents) which include contracts, wills, personal letters, tax records, rent books, and local liturgies.

Comparative Law Scholarship in China in 2014

The comparative law scholarship in China in 2014 can be defined by two key words, namely, the rule of law and globalization. The fourth Plenary Session of the eighteenth Communist Party of China’s Central Committee set out a new blueprint for the rule of law in 2014, promising sweeping judicial reforms while enhancing the overarching role of the Constitution in the country’s legal system. According to the communiqué, the overall target is to establish a system serving ‘the socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics’ and building up the country under the ‘the socialist rule of law’. 1 Against this background, it is expected that comparative law will continuously play a significant role in the development of Chinese laws and legal processes, particularly in the processes of deepening the legal and judicial reforms. On the other hand, it is recognized that globalization has influenced every aspect of the society, including law. Legal traditions, systems, and rules have to be changed in response to the significant challenges brought about by globalization. Against this background, comparative law not only provides the possibility for communication among different legal traditions and cultures, but it also helps to identify legal problems and solutions in both national and international contexts. China and other countries have to rethink and reconsider their laws and make good use of comparative law as a significant legal method.

Mapping science communication scholarship in China: Content analysis on breadth, depth and agenda of published research.

This study attempted to illuminate the cause and relation between government, scholars, disciplines, and societal aspects, presenting data from a content analysis of published research with the key word "science communication" (Symbol: see text) in the title or in the key words, including academic papers published in journals and dissertations from the China National Knowledge Infrastructure database. Of these, 572 articles were coded using categories that identified science topics, theory, authorship, and methods used in each study to examine the breadth and depth that Science Communication has achieved since its inception in China. This study explored the dominance of History and Philosophy of Science scholars rather than Communication scholars. We also explored how science communication research began from theories and concepts instead of science report analysis and the difficulties of the shift from public understanding of science to public engagement in China.

A Humanist Analysis on Periodicals of Chinese Medicine from the Late Qing and Republican Periods

This article introduces English-language scholars to The Compilation of Chinese Medicine Periodicals from the Late Qing and Republican Periods, a valuable new scholarly resource edited by Wang Youpeng. Compilation projects like this one have been a major field of scholarship in China from imperial times and serve the purpose of both preserving and selecting texts from around the empire. The medical journals included in this compilation took advantage of the newly available technology of print capitalism in Shanghai to respond to the challenge posed by a rapidly organizing Western medicine that sought to regulate and abolish Chinese medical practitioners. This article is a translation of Wang Youpeng’s introduction to The Compilation and was first published in the China Reader’s Journal (Zhonghua dushu bao) in August 2012. Wang argues that Chinese medical journals of this period are one of the best sources for observing the changing nature of medical practice and education during the late Qing and Republican eras so crucial to the development of medicine and science in China. The Compilation is a massive primary source not only for understanding the modern transformation of Chinese medicine from a private to a public endeavor, but also the larger role of medicine in Chinese society, seen through published documents on the battle between proponents and enemies of Chinese medicine. Literature specialists will be interested in the many short stories on medicine by important Chinese writers like Bing Xin. Ultimately, Wang argues, The Compilation should stimulate a multitude of new research projects. Given its importance in bringing together these journals from repositories all over China, we might add that research libraries and specialists may consider acquiring this substantive source and the separate index and abstracted table of contents.

A HUMANIST ANALYSIS ON PERIODICALS OF CHINESE MEDICINE FROM THE LATE QING AND REPUBLICAN PERIODS

This article introduces English-language scholars to The Compilation of Chinese Medicine Periodicals from the Late Qing and Republican Periods, a valuable new scholarly resource edited by Wang Youpeng. Compilation projects like this one have been a major field of scholarship in China from imperial times and serve the purpose of both preserving and selecting texts from around the empire. The medical journals included in this compilation took advantage of the newly available technology of print capitalism in Shanghai to respond to the challenge posed by a rapidly organizing Western medicine that sought to regulate and abolish Chinese medical practitioners. This article is a translation of Wang Youpeng’s introduction to The Compilation and was first published in the China Reader’s Journal (Zhonghua dushu bao) in August 2012. Wang argues that Chinese medical journals of this period are one of the best sources for observing the changing nature of medical practice and education during the late Qing and Republic...

Comparative Law Scholarship in China in 2013

This report attempts to provide a full picture of the comparative law scholarship in China. The report depicts the general course of the development by examining the noted publications and academic activities conducted throughout 2013. To be specific, the report first addresses issues studied on comparative law by Chinese scholars by examining sample articles. It then presents noted publications and other scholarly activities, including exchanges and legal educations on comparative law. The report concludes that there was much success in the various aspects of comparative law scholarship in China in 2013 with expanded and in-depth studies and frequent co-organized academic activities. Comparative legal studies play a significant role in the legal modernization of China and will contribute to the promotion of the rule of law in China.

History, Culture, and Politics: On Historical Formation and Identity Dilemmas of “China”

This lecture is concerned with some historical issues of “China,” “territory,” “culture” and “identity” that are placed against the background of politics, culture and scholarship in contemporary China. I want to draw attention to the question of how historians understand and interpret “China.” It addresses the following questions. First, where did the idea of “China” come from? and how did it become a topic of scholarly research? What kind of dilemmas does “China” confront in its current condition and historical interpretation? Second, how do various new historical theories and methods in international academic circles enrich our understanding of “China”? Third, how does China’s history and reality challenge the theories of “empire” and “nation-state”? Fourth, is it possible to write “East Asian history”? Does “national history” prove still effective in describing China or East Asia?

Debating international institutions and global governance: The missing Chinese IPE contribution

ABSTRACTOne of the fundamental questions in the study of international political economy (IPE) is the foundation of order, stability and justice in international politics and economy. The study of international institutions and global governance is part of this larger inquiry. With China's rising importance in the global economic system, it might be expected that IPE scholarship in China would give rise to uniquely ‘Chinese’ approaches to this area of inquiry, approaches informed by China's position in the world and China's rich cultural and intellectual traditions. However, our examination of Chinese scholarship shows that thus far, it has produced little new knowledge and theoretical innovation. Why has this been the case? We argue that it is because (1) as a new field of study, IPE in China – including the study of international institutions and global governance – is still under the strong socialization effect of Western scholarship; and (2) the institutional environment in China constrains the kind of research that promises new insights and innovative perspectives. We also discuss how scholarship in China could contribute to the positive evolution of IPE globally in the future, and the obstacles that may hinder this development.

Comparative Law Scholarship in China in 2012

This report confines its examination to a limited number of leading ‘sample’ comparative law articles published in Chinese journals in 2012. Comparative law is widely used as a research method by academics in almost all subject areas. One may argue that most, if not all, legal research is ‘comparative’ as all of it employs to some degree a comparative law method. However, it would be impossible for this report to examine all such publications. Instead, this report focuses mainly on the scholarship about comparative law rather than on work that merely uses comparative law as a research method. This report focuses on comparative legal studies in China and uses sample articles published in Chinese journals from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2012. However, a general search of the Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) Database returned 143 articles that investigated ‘comparative law’ in 2012 and 154 articles...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Literary Giant: Thirty Years of Joyce Scholarship in China

This paper presents “a portrait of the artist” as a literary giant, based on the thirty years of Joyce scholarship in China, with the focus on translations and criticism of his fiction. Joyce’s works have received a diversity of competing Chinese translations, which, in turn, have influenced his reception and criticism, as well as more general translation theories in China. In the last thirty years, there have been continuous outpourings of monographs, articles, and dissertations on Joyce in China. The progress of these publications not only follows significant national and cultural events from the early 1980s to the present but also reflects the changing trends of ideology, politics, and aesthetics in the country. By reviewing the reception of Joyce in a relatively heterogeneous cultural environment, this essay critically examines the development of Chinese scholars’ academic interest in this legendary literary figure since the 1980s.

REFORM AND TRANSITION IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION THEORY AND PRACTICE IN GREATER CHINA

AbstractPublic administration has undergone a fundamental change in China since Deng Xiaoping initiated a process of openness and reform in the late 1970s. While reform is widespread in Greater China (China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau), only limited scholarship has been conducted to theorize these changes and empirically document them. This is somewhat surprising given the growing international prominence of China as a major powerhouse in the world economy and a political leader. This symposium seeks to contribute towards building knowledge and evidence on the changing nature of public administration in Greater China. In this article, key themes unique to Greater China are drawn out, the emergent status of public administration scholarship in China is discussed, and the key ingredients of a research agenda are presented.

2012 Presidential Address—On Compassion In Scholarship: Why Should We Care?

2012 Presidential Address—On Compassion In Scholarship: Why Should We Care?

Calling for Humanistic Scholarship in China

Scholarship refers to the formal and serious study of subjects such as medicine,physics, biology, history, philosophy, and business. Good scholarship demandsthat researchers apply rigorous scientific methods to find valid knowledge thatcan improve life, both human and nonhuman. Hence, scholarship and scienceshare the common ideal of contributing to the development of a better society anda better world. Albert Einstein said, ‘Concern for making life better for ordinaryhumans must be the chief objective of science’ (Einstein qtd. in Isaacson, 2008:374). Similarly, Oscar Handlin, one of the greatest contemporary historians,argued ‘Scholarship has to prove its worth not on its own terms, but by its serviceto the nation and to the world’ (Handlin qtd. in Boyer, 1996: 17). Clearly, schol-arship, science, and the idea of ‘humanism’ are connected. In this editorial, wediscuss the importance of humanistic scholarship – scholarship for the purpose ofimprovinghumanwelfarebyfocusingonthesocialoutcomesoforganizations–forbusiness research and particularly for Chinese management research.We begin by analyzing the current status of humanistic studies in generalmanagement research and then provide data on humanism-oriented research inChinese management over the past thirty years. Results show a dramatic domi-nance of economic focus relative to human welfare focus, especially in the studiespublished in the Chinese journals. We conclude with a call for more researchon humanism-related topics to counterbalance the dominant economic focus.

Using Evolutionary Game Theory to Analyze Competing Behaviors for Graduate Scholarship in China

Using Evolutionary Game Theory to Analyze Competing Behaviors for Graduate Scholarship in China

‘Rise of the Great Powers’=Rise of China? Challenges of the advancement of global history in the People's Republic of China

Ever since it was first broadcasted in 2006, the Rise of the Great Powers, a popular Chinese TV mini-series of 12 episodes, has received great attention both at home and abroad. Some have suggested that the showing of this series marked a new orientation in China's foreign policy and a new perception of its position in the world. Using oral interviews and written works by the historians who masterminded the project, this article analyzes the view of the Chinese historian, and of current Chinese leadership, about the globalizing world today and China's position in and relation to it. Using the documentary as a starting point, it discusses the status quo of world-history study in China today and argues that though receptive to the incentive for globalizing history writing, historical scholarship in China remains grounded in a Eurocentric understanding of modern world history. China's recent economic expansion has paradoxically reinforced this tradition, as the country is bracing for its own world power status.

Examining scholarship in China’s academe: an exploratory study

We selected five Chinese university-based journals and five Western university-based journals to examine the extent of contributions by editorial board members and faculty from the universities in which the journals are published over a 6-year period from 2001 to 2006. A disproportionate contribution of faculty papers was from editorial board members in the Chinese university-based journals and faculty in the universities the journals are affiliated to. We speculate that this could be attributed to various reasons, including issues of protectionism, academic accountability, and the social capital of guanxi in the specific context of China. We suggest that editorial review boards of university-based journals in China may need to re-examine professional roles, responsibilities and ethics that may require new thinking on scholarship in higher education.

Police scholarship in China

Currently there is no systematic investigation into police scholarship in China. This is a first attempt to provide one. Specifically, this paper reports on the historical development, current status, and emerging issues of police research studies and research in China. It finds that police scholarship in China suffers from long neglect and has only recently started to take off with the establishment of Public Security Studies as an academic discipline.

Guest editor’s words

Following the aim of Synthese, which tries to bring together diverse research foci and methods within the analytic tradition in a broad sense, John Symons and I started this project of compiling a special issue of Synthese called “Analytic Philosophy in China.” The greatest help came from Dr. Xiangdong Xu, who organized a conference, which beared the same title as the special issue in May 2005 at Peking University in China. He solicited contributions from a few of the best analytic philosophers in China for the conference, and later for the special issue. Four of the six research articles in this special issue were based on talks given at this conference. Due to many technical problems, we could not access the editing tools available at the Synthese website. We, especially John, took a lot of effort to find reviewers for the original submissions. We are grateful to the reviewers for their great work. We wish to thank them by mentioning their names, but we cannot, due to our observance of the blind review process. We aimed to have an inclusive and representative issue of the analytic scholarship in China. But we are not sure how successful our efforts were. We decided to reject some articles due to reviewers’ strong objections. But some contributions were not included because their methods and foci are too different from the usual scope of Synthese to be included even in a special issue that is aimed to broaden that scope. But these rejections say nothing of the quality of the contributions, and we are sorry to have to exclude them from this special issue. This uneasy feeling is more intense when we consider the fact that we put this issue together in order to broaden the scope and vision of analytic philosophy in the English-speaking world. I would like to mention a few articles that were not included. Prof. Jiaying Chen gave a talk at the conference. He was among the first generation of young Chinese scholars who studied Western philosophy after

The Printed World: Books, Publishing Culture, and Society in Late Imperial China

Beginning in the late Ming period, China experienced a surge in the production and consumption of books. Printed pages bound into fascicles and housed in cases moved across space and through the social landscape. Their trajectories illuminate larger social, intellectual, economic, and cultural patterns. They also reveal identities under construction—by readers, writers, publishers, and consumers. This article assesses the expanding field of late imperial Chinese book history in the United States and Japan, with some reference to scholarship in China and Taiwan. It looks at the field's move away from its origins in the history of technology and its increasing engagement with social and cultural questions. In particular, the article highlights the field's focus on the “place” of publishing in late imperial China, construed both in terms of regional orientation and the social position of readers and producers of books.

Politics, Culture, and Scholarly Responsibility in China: Toward a Culturally Sensitive Analytical Approach

The relationship between knowledge and has always been acutely problematic, particularly in the study of international relations. Inspired by an address by Ann Tickner, this article urges the need to develop culturally sensitive approaches to the question of scholarly responsibility in the realm of in different historical, cultural, social, and intellectual contexts. Taking international relations scholarship in China as an example, I suggest that the expanding political space and the weakness of critical scholarship in China, combined with a historically induced intellectual predicament and inherited cultural legacies, constitute a useful analytical framework for making sense of Chinese understandings of scholarly responsibility. This framework also helps to understand the perpetual agony of Chinese intellectuals in coming to terms with the turbulent relations between knowledge and in China today. Key words: China, sociopolitical development Introduction: The Proper Role of Scholars The role and function of intellectuals and how the intellectual confronts the question of and authority have seen some perennial debates. In his 1993 Reith Lectures, Edward Said argued that the intellectual obliged to speak truth to power. One of the principal intellectual activities in the twentieth century, in his words, is the questioning, not to say undermining of authority.1 For Noam Chomsky, intellectuals and academics should aspire to be moral agents, not servants of power.2 Other cultural, social, and political traditions have historically embedded the tricky relationship between knowledge and power. While the Russian intelligentsia in the nineteenth century developed a strong sense of responsibility for the fate of Mother Russia and an adversarial relationship with the political establishment, Confucian literati as action intellectuals deeply immersed in 'managing the world' (jingshi) of economics, politics and society remained an integrated mainstay of Imperial Chinese political and bureaucratic establishments the Han (206 BC-220 AD) to the Qing (1644-1911) dynasties.3 What unites Confucian literati, the Russian intelligentsia, and modern (Western) intellectuals, however, their ultimate concern for the improvement of human condition and their perceived role as being the conscience of the society. In the discipline of international relations, the question of an appropriate relationship between knowledge and and between scholarly responsibility and the policy arena has been repeatedly raised and long debated. Wary of the visible tie between the scholarly world and the world of power, which puts academics and researchers not only in the corridors but also the kitchens of power in the United States, Stanley Hoffmann warned three decades ago that the discipline of international relations in the United States must guard itself from the glide into policy science.4 Two decades later, this time in Britain, Willliam Wallace issued a call to consider the appropriate degree of detachment or of engagement which academics in International Relations should practise towards the policy arena. He argued for a balance between the two extremes of total cooption into the policy-making arena and the passionate detachment it.5 The spirited debates that ensued only highlighted the uncompromising disagreements among British international relations (IR) scholars on scholarly responsibility in the realm of knowledge and power, a question that remains perpetually controversial.6 Ann Tickner, president of the International Studies Association in 2006, recently articulated the disquiet about the uneasy relationship between knowledge and in the United States. Concerned about the shrinking space for political dissent and increasing intolerance of other world views after the 9/11 attacks, Tickner asserted that many international relations scholars are profoundly uneasy about the direction of U. …