Results for “Chinese Academy of Social Sciences”

34 Sing, one of San Francisco’s six major community organizations representing Chinese immigrants, became the first major Chinese group to fly the flag of the PRC on its building. Then a second Tong declared its fealty to Beijing, and a competition broke out between the PRC and...

SECTION 3 The Chinese American Community Chinese Americans have made essential contributions to almost every aspect of American life for over a century. Although they form a vital strand in the social fabric of the United States, Beijing also views Chinese Americans as members...

48 Such cases establish a worrying precedent of Chinese intrusion into American academic life. The message from China to US universities is clear: Do not transgress the political no-go zones of the Chinese Communist Party or government, or you will pay a price. Sometimes the pre...

168 Chinese Race.”* Hong Kong has long been a base for flag-waving Chinese activists agitating on the issue of the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands. “The Chinese race does not fight wars. The Chinese race only safeguards peace!” runs one pronouncement which was designed as an outreach to...

…ts, do occur, the majority of the country will acquiesce to a nondemocratic government. The best example of this is the Chinese government, which has managed economic growth without any accompanying political liberalization. Eventually, either a government will improve conditions...

Endnotes: Chapter 3 Recommended books: Baron-Cohen, S. (2011). The Science of Evil. New York: Basic Books. Hamburg, D. (2008). Preventing Genocide. Denver: Paradigm Publishers. Johnson, D. P. (2004). Overconfidence and war. Cambridge, Harvard University Press. Kelman, H.C.,...

Vive L’Oscars Winner Woody Allen may have missed Hollywood’s biggest lovefest, but intrepid über movie publicist Peggy Siegal was there for every single party and every single step of the red carpet way. This year, her exclusive Oscar diary chronicles close encounters with Miche...

…to do, and what China envisages as necessary to become a great nation. Xi’s grand vision is famously expressed as “the Chinese Dream’; described as “the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation’, which has personal and national implica- tions. It is specified by two overarching...

… basic goods to citizens than free markets were, but today such a view would be laughed at. The market economy has made Chinese and Indian workers today far more productive than they were under Mao Zedong or Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister. Societies now accept the...

…ited States and China. Ever since the Carter administration first explored the possibility with Deng Xiaoping and other Chinese counterparts of sending Chinese students to the United States in 1977—78,1 PRC government authorities (like their Republican-era predecessors) have seen...

…erican federal and state politics, China seeks to identify and cultivate rising politicians. Like many other countries, Chinese entities employ prominent lobbying and public relations firms and cooperate with influential civil society groups. These activities complement China’s l...

…or the harshest congressional critics of China’s crackdown. One trip in December 1989 featured very heated debates with Chinese officials, especially after it was announced that National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger were als...

…f affairs began to change after President Nixon’s historic trip to China in 1972.'On February 24, 1973, more than forty Chinese on the East Coast, most of them immigrants from Taiwan, established the Washington Association to Promote China Unification to help advocate for Beijing...

APP ENDIX 3 Chinese-Language Media Landscape Official and Semi-Official Chinese-Language Media By 2018, all of the major official Chinese media outlets had embedded themselves deeply into the communications and broadcasting infrastructure of the United States. CCTV or CGTN...

…2011). PLoS ONE: Who's afraid of the boss: Cultural differences in social hierarchies modulate self-face recognition in Chinese and Americans. PLoS ONE, 6(2), 1-8; PLoS ONE, 4(5), 1-8; Watson, K. K., & Platt, M L. (2008). Neuroethology of reward and decision making. Philosophical...