http://hdl.handle.net/2440/13908 2013-05-21T14:10:20Z 2013-05-21T14:10:20Z Yoneyama, Shoko http://hdl.handle.net/2440/77858 2013-05-20T07:30:20Z 2011-12-31T13:30:00Z

Title: Life-world: beyond Fukushima and Minimata Author: Yoneyama, Shoko

2011-12-31T13:30:00Z Groot, Gerald O'Brien, Roderick http://hdl.handle.net/2440/77854 2013-05-20T06:30:32Z 2011-12-31T13:30:00Z

Title: The Chinese Communist Party's united front work with the legal profession Author: Groot, Gerald; O'Brien, Roderick Abstract: This article traces the involvement of lawyers in the Chinese Communist Party's united front work from the 1930s until today. It outlines the disappearance of the legal profession under Maoism, its revival as part of the economic reforms of the late-1970s and its increasing importance since. We detail how lawyers have therefore become a particular target of united front work aimed at monitoring, educating, influencing and channelling their involvement in politics in ways that minimise their potential to become critical of the Party-state system and maximise their contribution. Co-optation is secured through public recognition, as well as access to the political system and the valuable business connections this access can involve. The role of non-Party personages and the corporatist bodies underpinning much united front work, such as the All China Lawyers Association and the minor parties and groups is discussed while the role of these in the National Peoples' Congress and Chinese Peoples' Political Consultative Conference are explained and key examples provided.

2011-12-31T13:30:00Z Groot, Gerald http://hdl.handle.net/2440/77768 2013-05-15T04:30:36Z 2011-12-31T13:30:00Z

Title: The History of the Centre for Asian Studies at the University of Adelaide Author: Groot, Gerald

2011-12-31T13:30:00Z Lin, Delia Qinghong http://hdl.handle.net/2440/77262 2013-04-29T06:30:24Z 2008-12-31T13:30:00Z

Title: Amnesia and memory: Does classical ideology matter? Author: Lin, Delia Qinghong Abstract: In China’s quest for modernity since the early Republican era, classical ideology such as Confucianism has either been seen as the spectre of a reactionary and repressive past whose memory ought to be erased, or the quintessence of an ageless ancient wisdom whose remembrance ought to be restored. Today, revitalisation of Confucianism as a political ideology and social ethic is called upon by not only the government, but also by social scientists and educators. This calls for a critical and nuanced examination of relevance of Confucianism to current day political thinking in China. This paper offers a three-layered reading of classical Confucianism as a political ideology and examines its relevance to the suzhi discourse in post-Mao China. The three layers are (1) the Utopian perspective, (2) the approach to realising the utopian ideal – combing politics and education into one and (3) the psychological foundation of Confucianism – the sense of shame (chigan). It argues that the three-layered framework forms the basis of the paradigm of suzhi. Based on the case of suzhi, this paper further argues that contemporary China’s focus on enlisting civilising programs such as suzhi in the quest for modernisation and national development echoes millennium-old Confucian governance principles. This paper draws particular attention to the psychological foundation of Confucian governance principles and argues that when advocating for reviving Confucian values, it is important to take into account the psychology of Confucianism.

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