Contradiction

by Jaivin, Linda Klein, Esther Sunkyung Strange, Sharon

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Title Statements

Full title :Contradiction / edited by Linda Jaivin and Esther Sunkyung Klein with Sharon Strange.

Summary

In the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the many facets of crisis—the theme of last year’s China Story Yearbook—fractured into pictures of contradiction throughout Chinese society and the Chinese sphere of influence. Contradiction: the ancient Chinese word for the concept holds within it the image of an unstoppable spear meeting an impenetrable shield. It describes a wide range of phenomena that English might express with words like conflict, clash, paradox, incongruity, disagreement, rebuttal, opposition, and negation. This year’s Yearbook presents stories of action and reaction, of motion and resistance. The theme of contradiction plays out in different ways across the different realms of society, culture, environment, labour, politics, and international relations. Great powers do not necessarily succeed in dominating smaller ones. The seemingly irresistible forces of authoritarianism, patriarchy, and technological control come up against energised and surprisingly resilient means of resistance or cooptation. Efforts by various authorities to establish monolithic narrative control over the past and present meet a powerful insistence on telling the story from an opposite angle. The China Story Yearbook: Contradiction offers an accessible take on this complex and contradictory moment in the history of China and of the world.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2022

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Australian National University, ANU Press
Place of Publication:Acton ACT, Australia
Language:eng
Publication Date:2022

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781760465230, 1760465232, 9781760464394, 1760464392, 9781760464387, 1760464384
oclc:on1333440616
LC Classification:DS779.47
Dewey Decimal:327.51

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Subjects

China China -- Economic conditions -- 2000- China -- Foreign economic relations -- … China -- Foreign relations -- 21st cent… China -- Politics and government -- 21s… China -- Social conditions -- 2000- Chine -- Conditions économiques -- 2000- Chine -- Conditions sociales -- 2000- Chine -- Politique et gouvernement -- 2… Chine -- Relations extérieures -- 21e s… COVID-19 -- Aspect politique -- Chine COVID-19 (Disease) -- Political aspects COVID-19 (Disease) -- Political aspects… Diplomatic relations Economic history International economic relations Politics and government Since 2000 Social conditions