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中国报道 Pub Date : 2022-05-01 DOI: 10.1177/00094455221082527

Jelvin Jose

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Gendered Governance: Is China Taking a U-Turn on Its Women’s Liberation Movement to Solve the Problem Left Over by It: ‘The Leftover Women’? 性别治理：中国的妇女解放运动是否正在转向解决其遗留问题：“剩女”？

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中国报道 Pub Date : 2022-04-08 DOI: 10.1177/00094455221082513

U. Chandran

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Can the Periphery Speak: The Self-Representation of Tokugawa Japan’s Periphery in Suzuki Bokushi’s Hokuetsu Seppu 外围能说话吗:德川日本外围在铃木博志的《北越世报》中的自我再现

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中国报道 Pub Date : 2022-03-30 DOI: 10.1177/00094455221082503

Tariq Sheikh

{"title":"Can the Periphery Speak: The Self-Representation of Tokugawa Japan’s Periphery in Suzuki Bokushi’s Hokuetsu Seppu","authors":"Tariq Sheikh","doi":"10.1177/00094455221082503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00094455221082503","url":null,"abstract":"Suzuki Bokushi (1770–1842) was a peasant-entrepreneur, essayist and amateur haikai poet who lived in the Echigo province of Tokugawa period Japan, a region which gets the highest amount of snowfall in the world. Bokushi wrote about the people of his region, their customs, their lifestyle, their relationship with the natural world and the folklores of the region in a book entitled Hokuetsu Seppu (1837). This essay will examine the ways this book interrogated the dominant cultural discourse and offered new ways of thinking about centre and periphery, urban and rural. An analysis of the text and context of the book will show how ‘provinciality’ was deployed to question and de-centre prevailing cultural norms, and how a new aesthetic sense was developed that contrasted and questioned the urban sensibilities prevailing in the political centre. This essay will argue that Bokushi’s book articulates a significant critique of the urban-centric discourse of classical Japanese literature, while also offering an alternative rural aesthetic, thereby countering the hegemonic tendency to read the Japanese past through the lens of urban-centric literature. His writings are what Fredric Jameson would call a ‘nonhegemonic cultural voice’.","PeriodicalId":44314,"journal":{"name":"中国报道","volume":"58 1","pages":"228 - 243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49003628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Between Geopolitics and Development: The Belt and Road Initiative and the Limits of Capital Accumulation in China 地缘政治与发展之间:“一带一路”倡议与中国资本积累的极限

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中国报道 Pub Date : 2022-03-28 DOI: 10.1177/00094455221080313

Tolga Demiryol

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New Media Activism and Politics of Ecology in the People’s Republic of China 中华人民共和国新媒体行动主义与生态政治

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中国报道 Pub Date : 2022-03-25 DOI: 10.1177/00094455221080320

J. Joseph, Joe Thomas Karackattu

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Book review: Tonio Andrade, The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China 书评：托尼·安德拉德，《最后的大使馆：1795年荷兰使团与被遗忘的西方与中国相遇史》

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中国报道 Pub Date : 2022-02-01 DOI: 10.1177/00094455221074288

Ayushman Baruah

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Party Literature Work, Ideology, and the Central Party Literature Office of the Communist Party of China 党的文献工作、意识形态与中共中央文献办公室

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中国报道 Pub Date : 2022-02-01 DOI: 10.1177/00094455221074199

N. C. Bing

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Vanguard to Periphery: The CPC’s Changing Narrative on the Labour Question 先锋到边缘：中国共产党关于劳工问题的叙事变化