Outputs (154)

The Discourse of Guohua in Wartime Shanghai (2020)
Journal Article
Chan, P. (2020). The Discourse of Guohua in Wartime Shanghai. European Journal of East Asian Studies, 19(2), 263-296. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700615-01902010

This article looks at artists’ engagement with artistic activities carried out in wartime Shanghai, with a particular focus on guohua (lit., ‘national painting’). Drawing on primary sources such as archival materials, diaries, paintings, magazines an... Read More about The Discourse of Guohua in Wartime Shanghai.

Picturing Mount Yandang: The Travel Albums and Landscape Aesthetics of Yu Jianhua (1895-1979) (2020)
Journal Article
Chan, P. (2020). Picturing Mount Yandang: The Travel Albums and Landscape Aesthetics of Yu Jianhua (1895-1979). Burlington magazine, 162(1411), 840-849

From Japanese Colony to Sacred Chinese Territory: Taiwan’s Geostrategic Significance to China Historicized (2020)
Journal Article
Tsang, S. (2020). From Japanese Colony to Sacred Chinese Territory: Taiwan’s Geostrategic Significance to China Historicized. Twentieth-century China, 45(3), 351-368. https://doi.org/10.1353/tcc.2020.0029

This paper shows that while China now attaches geostrategic importance to Taiwan, it has not always done so. It has only accorded such significance to Taiwan in the post-Mao era. By reviewing how Taiwan became a Japanese colony, how it came under the... Read More about From Japanese Colony to Sacred Chinese Territory: Taiwan’s Geostrategic Significance to China Historicized.

Review of Shang Yang, The Book of Lord Shang: Apologetics of State Power in Early China Edited and translated by Yuri Pines. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. (2019)
Journal Article
Caldwell, E. (2020). Review of Shang Yang, The Book of Lord Shang: Apologetics of State Power in Early China Edited and translated by Yuri Pines. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. Journal of Chinese history, 4(1), 223-225. https://doi.org/10.1017/jch.2019.24

Preface: Promoting Taiwan's Transitional Justice Experience (2019)
Journal Article
Caldwell, E. (2019). Preface: Promoting Taiwan's Transitional Justice Experience. Washington international law journal, 28(3), 605-608

Party-state Realism: A Framework for Understanding China’s Approach to Foreign Policy (2019)
Journal Article
Tsang, S. (2020). Party-state Realism: A Framework for Understanding China’s Approach to Foreign Policy. Journal of Contemporary China, 29(122), 304-318. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2019.1637562

The author puts forth an analytical framework called party-state realism for understanding how policy makers in the People’s Republic of China approach foreign policy. It has four defining characteristics. In order of importance, they are: putting t... Read More about Party-state Realism: A Framework for Understanding China’s Approach to Foreign Policy.

China’s Grand Strategy: Coordinating the Belt and Road Initiative (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cheung, O. (2019, March). China’s Grand Strategy: Coordinating the Belt and Road Initiative. Presented at “The Belt and Road Initiative @Five”, and “BRI and the Silk Road” Comprehensive Capacity-Building in the Eastern Neighbourhood and Central Asia (COMPASS) Workshop Proceedings, June 2019, University of Kent and University of Cambridge, pp. 8-10., University of Kent

The Control Yuan and Human Rights in Taiwan: Towards the Development of a National Human Rights Institution? (2019)
Book Chapter
Caldwell, E. (2019). The Control Yuan and Human Rights in Taiwan: Towards the Development of a National Human Rights Institution?. In W. Alford, J. Cohen, & C.-F. Lo (Eds.), Taiwan and International Human Rights: A Story of Transformation (155-172). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0350-0_10

This chapter contributes to the growing literature on international human rights and National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) in Taiwan. Despite decades of debate, Taiwan has never established a NHRI that complies with international human rights no... Read More about The Control Yuan and Human Rights in Taiwan: Towards the Development of a National Human Rights Institution?.

Visualising Socialism in Postsocialist China (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cheung, O. (2018, September). Visualising Socialism in Postsocialist China. Presented at Visualising Asia: Deciphering 'Otherness' in Visual and Material Cultures, SOAS University of London, UK

In today's China, collective villages—that is, villages that maintain a highly centralised model of production, income distribution and redistribution—are the 'socialist other' at odds with the post-Mao market reforms. They are counter-hegemonic expr... Read More about Visualising Socialism in Postsocialist China.

Rural Decollectivisation in China (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cheung, O. (2018, September). Rural Decollectivisation in China. Presented at British Association for Chinese Studies Annual Conference, King's College London, UK