The Chinese Art of Elegant Bribery
BY ANTONY OU | 15.07.2011 "There is more than aesthetics and investment in today's demand for Chinese art. Art has become an “invisible cloak” that helps businessmen navigate Chinese corruption."...
An Analysis Of Chinese Naval Deployments In International Waters
Is There A Significant Policy Change With The PRC’s Recent Deployment Of Ships To The Gulf Of Aden?* BY DR. JEAN-PAUL GAGNON** | 08.06.2011 The central aim of...
Rare Metals Industry and Pollution: Assessing Chinese Authoritarianism in the 21st Century
BY NICHOLAS MILLER** AND ANTONY OU*** | 08.06.2011 Economic Progress, Political Stability and Environmental Degradation in China It is common sense amongst political analysts that China in the 21st century is...
China and Argentina: A Brief Review of The Literature
Exploring Sino-Latin American Relations, Part 1 By JEAN-PAUL GAGNON | 23.05.2011 Two and a half centuries ago, the French Sinologist De Giognes proposed that the New World was discovered not...
China’s Rising Stars
By NICK MILLER | 18.05.2011 Who Are the Fifth Generation Leaders? The Fifth Generation elites are the leaders that will be taking power during the 18th National Party Congress in...
Women’s Empowerment through Self-help Groups and its Impact on Health Issues: Empirical Evidence
BY ASSIST. PROF. SUDIPTA DE & PROF. DEBNARAYAN SARKER Introduction Why lend to women rather than to men? Nobel laureate Prof. Yunus is of the view that if the goals...
Madness and Peking University: A Review of Insanity in the Age of Harmonious Society
Written by ANTONY OU Sunday, 03 April 2011 16:00 On 4th May 1919, over 3000 students of Peking University and other colleges demonstrated at Tiananmen. They condemned their current government for...
Constitutional Legitimacy An International ill and Gap in the Literature?
By Dr. Jean-Paul Gagnon [1] | 25 February 2011 The central argument of this work is that “democratic constitutional legitimacy”[2] probably does not currently exist in the politics of any...
Suppressed Democracy in China: Theoretical Rationalisation using a Cosmopolitan Methodology
Written by DR. JEAN-PAUL GAGNON Wednesday, 09 February 2011 09:49 The intention of this work is to explain theoretically that democracy logically exists in China, despite the statements to the...
When Money Speaks, Justice is Silent
By Antony Ou | 31 January 2011 In late January this year, I was suffocated by the fact that China and Hong Kong were flooded by the news and images of the...
Pragmatic Nationalism and Confucianism: The New Ideology of the CCP
By Nicholas J.S. Miller | 28 January 2011 Confucianism was one of the dominant political philosophies of Imperial China. Confucianism’s influence declined throughout the 19th century coinciding with the end of the...
Labor Law in China: in the context of China’s cultural traditions
Written by OSCAR J. BARBOSA Thursday, 27 January 2011 23:34 1. Introduction Labor relations in the People’s Republic of China has been determined by the government since the Communist Party...
The Confucian Academy, Soft Power and Patriotism
By Antony Ou | 31 December 2010 Since the beginning of the 20th century, Confucianism has been fundamentally challenged. The crucial concepts like filial piety, imperial loyalty and social harmony were...
Confucius Peace Prize: What does China Think?
Written by ANTONY OU Thursday, 09 December 2010 10:35 Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese public intellectual, has drafted the Charter 08. It is a manifesto co-signed by other 350 human rights...
Korea: The Cold War’s Deformed Legacy
By Prof. Inderjeet Parmar | 24 November 2010 The most recent 'skirmish' or 'incident' in the continuing 'cease-fire' between the northern and southern parts of Korea raises the broader question...