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发布时间：2005-11-17 浏览次数：2000
School of International Studies
Institute of Discourse and Cultural Studies
Lecture Series No. 06
Nov 21, 2005, 14:00-15:00 Block East 227 Zijinggang Campus
Dr. Gary Sigley
‘Rethinking ‘China’s Rise’: Governmental Reasoning, the Socialist Market Economy and the End of History’.
Abstract:
In recent years the volume of commentary discussing the significance and implications of China’s global debut as an economic behemoth has increased considerably. The vast bulk of comment centres on the challenges and opportunities a rising China presents to the Asia-Pacific region and the global community of nation-states more generally. Will this be a ‘peaceful rise’ or will the changing geopolitical balance lead to hostility and confrontation in a ‘clash of civilisations’? In this paper I argue that the challenge, and indeed the opportunity, of ‘China’s rise’ is not merely restricted to the empirical and hypothetical tasks of measuring the so-called ‘China effect’. The challenge that confronts scholarship is not just geopolitical, it is also conceptual.
In particular the paper will foucs on how governmental discourse has transformed since China officially embraced the ‘socialist market economy’ in 1992. The central argument is that there has been a significant epistemic shift at the level of governmental discourse that marks a major watershed in the process of thickening the networks of global integration and imagining. This epistemic shift represents a significant rupture in the dominant way in which government, and its constitutent elements and their various relations, were understood both in the Maoist and early Reform periods. It represents the emergence of new ways of imagining the world and China’s place within in it at a crucial moment in the global present that some have heralded as the very ‘end of history’. Through examining this epistemic shift in China and its concomitant connections to a global discourse of governance, civil society and neoliberalism, we will be better equipped to understand the discursive implications of ‘China’s rise’.
Dr. Gary Sigley is a Lecturer in Asian Studies and Director of the Confucius Institute at The University of Western Australia. His research interests centre on governmentality in contemporary China.
Institute of Discourse and Cultural Studies
Lecture Series No. 06
Nov 21, 2005, 14:00-15:00 Block East 227 Zijinggang Campus
Dr. Gary Sigley
‘Rethinking ‘China’s Rise’: Governmental Reasoning, the Socialist Market Economy and the End of History’.
Abstract:
In recent years the volume of commentary discussing the significance and implications of China’s global debut as an economic behemoth has increased considerably. The vast bulk of comment centres on the challenges and opportunities a rising China presents to the Asia-Pacific region and the global community of nation-states more generally. Will this be a ‘peaceful rise’ or will the changing geopolitical balance lead to hostility and confrontation in a ‘clash of civilisations’? In this paper I argue that the challenge, and indeed the opportunity, of ‘China’s rise’ is not merely restricted to the empirical and hypothetical tasks of measuring the so-called ‘China effect’. The challenge that confronts scholarship is not just geopolitical, it is also conceptual.
In particular the paper will foucs on how governmental discourse has transformed since China officially embraced the ‘socialist market economy’ in 1992. The central argument is that there has been a significant epistemic shift at the level of governmental discourse that marks a major watershed in the process of thickening the networks of global integration and imagining. This epistemic shift represents a significant rupture in the dominant way in which government, and its constitutent elements and their various relations, were understood both in the Maoist and early Reform periods. It represents the emergence of new ways of imagining the world and China’s place within in it at a crucial moment in the global present that some have heralded as the very ‘end of history’. Through examining this epistemic shift in China and its concomitant connections to a global discourse of governance, civil society and neoliberalism, we will be better equipped to understand the discursive implications of ‘China’s rise’.
Dr. Gary Sigley is a Lecturer in Asian Studies and Director of the Confucius Institute at The University of Western Australia. His research interests centre on governmentality in contemporary China.
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