Chinese Social Transformation Research Articles

Chinese Social Transformation and Its Implications for African Reconstruction

Since the start of the twenty-first century, there has been a revitalization of the energies of the African peoples. This revitalization has been shaped by two episodic events at the end of the 20th century. These were the defeat of the apartheid army at Cuito Cuanavale in 1988 and the process of returning the peoples to majority rule in South Africa after 1994. With this revitalization, have come many challenges of the reconstruction African societies. This paper argues that the reconstruction is being driven by the demographic asset of Africa at the current conjuncture and by the demands of this growing population for the fundamentals: food, shelter, clothing, reliable sources of energy, a decent environment and proper health care. This reconstruction process is occurring at a moment of tremendous transformations, essentially, a period of the bio-economy, internet and renewable energy sources. The paper focuses on the two sides of Chinese Social Transformation and African Reconstruction seeking to draw out how the ‘sovereign project’ of China converged with the accelerated revitalization of Africa. The literature on social transformation is very large but there are great differences between the conclusions as to the real foundations of the transformation of Chinese society since 1978. What is significant from the point of view of this paper is that China is new in the field of intense economic relations with Africa. China and Africa are not simply passive rules recipients at the seat of international economics and politics.

Beijing Voices

From the innovative experiments of the 1980s avant-garde to the probing social commentaries of the 1990s, and from the search for identity in the rapidly transforming metropolis of Beijing in the new millennium to the complex new geography of women's writing, the literature of Beijing has continually set itself on the cutting edge of Chinese social transformation.

The Cultural Politics of Eating in Shenzhen

Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, construction in Shenzhen symbolized both the transformation of Chinese socialism and the concomitant integration of Chinese society into global capitalist networks. This article tells the story of Shenzhen from the perspective of this first generation of immigrants, the so-called Old Shenzheners, who use nostalgia about food to define, debate, and ultimately retreat from conversations about what Shenzhen culture was and what it ought to be. Their food nostalgia is part of a larger cultural tradition of Chinese alimentary politics and has allowed Shenzheners to indigenize capitalist globalization to make the city their own. Old Shenzheners' food nostalgia represents an important moment in the Chinese transition to a post socialist political economy, redefining what it means to be both Chinese and global in a post–cold war world order.

The Transformation of Chinese Socialism

The Transformation of Chinese Socialism

The Transformation of Chinese Socialism. Lin Chun

Previous articleNext article No AccessReviewsThe Transformation of Chinese Socialism. Lin Chun Thomas P. BernsteinThomas P. Bernstein Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The China Journal Volume 58Jul., 2007 Published on behalf of the Australian Centre on China in the World at the Australian National University Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/20066342 Views: 9Total views on this site Copyright The China JournalPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

The transformation of Chinese socialism

Volume I - Modernizing Chinese Policy: sample classical texts the Chinese Revolution and its consequences state institutions and bureaucracy power, structure, political culture and the patterns of politics. Volume II - The Transformation of Chinese Socialism: social organization and control legitimacy, legality and democracy ideologies and cultural politics women and citizenship the political economy of transition regional development and local government. Volume III - Defining a Changing in Global Politics: the facets of Chinese nationalism questions of ethnicity and religion the military and foreign relations the concept of China - one country, multi-systems? Chinese communism in a post-Communist world - comparisons and conceptualization.

Social development of 21st century and reform of China’s elementary education

The Chinese society of the 21st century is at a critical period of transformation. The emergence of globalization and informationalization are the most striking changes of the current Chinese society. The profound change in the social transformation and its penetrating influence on people’s lives has revealed the disadvantages of the present education. For 10 years, the “New Elementary Education”, based on the background of Chinese society, and the demand for school education reform clearly puts forward the necessity of education reform in the period of social transformation, in other words, education should achieve its transformational development. This paper presents a deep research of globalization and informationalization, which are the background of Chinese social transformation. On this basis, the paper examines the implication of ‘school transformational reform” of the present-day Chinese elementary education, and finally proposes some steps for achieving “school transformational reform”.