A new Chinese discourse of India

Journal of Contemporary China

Volumn 14, Issue 45, 2005, Pages 631-641

  Huang, Jinxin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; INTERNET; POLITICAL DISCOURSE; TRADE RELATIONS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 29344445700     PISSN: 10670564     EISSN: 14699400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10670560500205217     Document Type: Article

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2. In several articles published in the People's Daily [Renmin Ribao] after 4 June 1989, editorials warned Chinese readers that China would have slipped into chaos like that in India and some other East European countries if democracy was allowed.
3. All the textbooks use official Chinese governmental numbers which are criticized by economists elsewhere. Frederick Wu, 'Chinese economic statistics-caveat emptor!', Post Communist Economies, 15(1), (2003), pp. 127-145
4. Professor Aseema Sinha discussed the inflation of Chinese statistical figures in her paper 'Political foundations of market-enhancing federalism: Theoretical lessons from India and China', Comparative Politics, 37(3), (2005).
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7. Professor Assema Sinha argues that 'within a nation, the states play an increasing role in bargaining with international actors with respect to attracting foreign direct investment and pursuing global integration': Sinha, 'Political foundations of market-enhancing federalism'; one of the discussants at the Kelara roundtable, Liu Jianzhi, suggested that Kelara state didn't gain autonomy from the central government until 1996.
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9. Ibid.
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11. Wen Tiejun, participant at the roundtable discussion 'Lessons from Kerala - India through Chinese intellectuals' eyes', available at http://www.cc.org.cn/wencui/030728200/0307282000.htm, (accessed 7 August 2003).
12. For instance, in the roundtable discussion, Ibid., participants discussed pre-reform (before 1991) policies in India that have resulted in poverty and stagnation.
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14. Nobel Laureate, economist Amartya Sen's 'famine theory' is very popular among Chinese scholars. He asserts that 'no [mass] famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy': Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (Anchor, 1999).
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29. Whether China had the high literacy at the time when it embarked on economic reform in 1978 is debatable. Some scholars argue that the Cultural Revolution dismantled any educational advantage China had before the Great Leap; see Friedman, 'Is China a success, while India a failure?'.
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47. Wen Tiejun, China Reform Magazine;
48. Dai Jinhua, Comparative Literature, Beijing University;
49. Sun Ge, Literature Institute, China Social Science Academy;
50. Wu Xiaoli, Modern Literature Institute; Xu Zhaolin, China Social Service and Development Research Center;
51. and Liu Jianzhi, Linnan Cultural Research Institute.
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57. Ibid.
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