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The Democratic Potential of China's Grassroots Intellectuals
SOURCE: Dissent 5/1/2022 Roundup tags: China, Chinese history, intellectual history by Sebastian Veg Sebastian Veg is a professor of intellectual history of modern and contemporary China at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris, France. Is there any point in still paying attention to intellectuals in China? Today, educated young people like to dismiss intellectuals as nothing more than mouthpieces for various private interests.
The Grassroots Intellectuals
The Grassroots Intellectuals China’s social and intellectual spheres remain less monolithic than the tightly controlled public transcripts would suggest, and their possibilities deserve our continued attention. Sebastian Veg ▪ Spring 2022 Is there any point in still paying attention to intellectuals in China? Today, educated young people like to dismiss intellectuals as nothing more than mouthpieces for various private interests.
The Rise of “Localism” and Civic Identity in Post-handover Hong Kong: Questioning the Chinese Nation-state
Hong Kong's identification with the Chinese nation-state has been the subject of much discussion for over a century. Some of these debates are grounded in the ambiguous nature of the Chinese nation-state itself, others are connected to Hong Kong's distinctive historical path.
Hong Kong Through Water and Fire
Features | Politics | Society | East Asia From the mass protests of 2019 to the national security law of 2020. Police detain protesters after a protest in Causeway Bay before the annual handover march in Hong Kong, July. 1, 2020. Credit: AP Photo/Kin Cheung It has been a year since the beginning of the anti-extradition law movement, and it seems safe to say that Hong Kong will never be the same.
The “Restructuring” of Hong Kong and the Rise of Neostatism
For several years, observers have noted that many Chinese intellectuals who identified as “new left” critics of the PRC’s market reforms in the 1990s and 2000s have since then not only endorsed state capitalism, but also argued in favor of sovereignism and nationalism.
Hong Kong: A Path to De-escalation?
Révolte ! / Le Club / Focus Hong Kong’s protest movement has now been developing for more than half a year. In its early stages, the movement brought success for the protesters, in the form of massive mobilizations (June 9 and 16), the suspension (June 15) and later withdrawal (September 4) of the Extradition Bill that had originally sparked the controversy.
What Role Will Intellectuals Play in China’s Future?
As we commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of China’s 1989 democracy movement, it is hard to imagine students and intellectuals playing a similar role today. In China’s highly marketized and politically controlled society, the space for intellectual inquiry and public intervention seems to have dwindled almost to the point of disappearing.
The Limits of Civil Disobedience in Hong Kong - Tocqueville21
On 9 April 2019, a district court in Hong Kong found nine participants in the 2014 Umbrella Movement guilty of several charges of causing, conspiring and inciting a public nuisance. The same court then sentenced four of the nine defendants to prison sentences of up to 16 months on 24 April.
May 4, 1919: The Making of Modern China
By Sebastian Veg for The Diplomat May 01, 2019 As China marks the 100th anniversary of the 1919 May Fourth demonstrations, it is certainly a challenge to write anything new about this unanimously celebrated event. May Fourth has been studied and discussed from every imaginable angle and political perspective over the last century.
No, Hong Kong’s Democracy Movement Is Not Anti-Mainland
In a November 29 essay, “The Anti-Mainland Bigotry of Hong Kong’s Democracy Movement,” published in Foreign Policy, Taisu Zhang tries to make the case that Beijing’s hardline attitude toward Hong Kong is traceable to what he calls the “bigotry of Hong Kong’s democracy movement.” While I believe there is room for reasonable disagreement on many other issues related to Beijing-Hong Kong relations, this piece is not well informed.
Resisting dissolution: the stalemate between Hong Kong civil society and China’s central government
On 7 November 2016, China’s Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC–SC) handed down an unsolicited interpretation of Hong Kong’s Basic Law, the legal text which guarantees the territory’s autonomous status and governance. This is only the second time since the 1997 ‘handover’ of the city-state to China, that it has made use of this constitutional prerogative, which has always sat uneasily with the independence of Hong Kong’s judiciary.
Minjian | Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231191418 368 Pages Format: Paperback List Price: $30.00£25.00 ISBN: 9780231191401 368 Pages Format: Hardcover List Price: $65.00£50.00 ISBN: 9780231549400 368 Pages Format: E-book List Price: $64.99£50.00 Main Reviews Contents Excerpt Links Awards Who are the new Chinese intellectuals? In the wake of the crackdown on the 1989 democracy movement and the rapid marketization of the 1990s, a novel type of grassroots intellectual emerged.
Cindy M. Carter
worldcat | contact Cindy M. Carter is a Beijing-based American translator of Chinese fiction and film. Since coming to China in 1996, she has translated over 50 award-winning independent Chinese films and documentaries, dozens of scripts, short stories, essays and poems and 2 novels. She is currently the in-house translator and editor at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in 798 Art District, Beijing. Fiction Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke. 2011.
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