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ItemNo Preview AvailableSocial Mobilisation in Post-Industrial China: The Case of Rural UrbanisationGao, J ; Su, Y (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019-01-25)In recent years China has experienced intense economic development. Previously a rapidly urbanising industrial economy, the country has become a post-industrial economy with a service sector that accounts for almost half the nation’s GDP. This transformation has created many socio-political changes, but key among them is social mobilisation. This book provides a full and systematic analysis of social mobilisation in China, and how its use as part of state capacity has evolved.
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ItemChinese Australians Face a Foreign Influence PanicGao, J (CURRENT HIST INC, 2018-08-24)Fears that China has infiltrated Australia's institutions and government are stigmatizing Chinese immigrants, who entrepreneurial spirit has been misunderstood. The most disturbing aspect of the debate is the impact it is having on Chinese Australians who want to successfully integrate into Australian society.
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ItemSocial mobilization in a changing China: A critical review of the literatureGAO, J ; Su, YY (SAGE Publications, 2018-10-01)Social mobilization has long been considered a major characteristic of Chinese life and, more recently, a key aspect of China’s state capacity. The existing literature on social mobilization in the country, however, is characterized by studies of pre-1978 China, many of which are scattered and fragmentary. This problem has not only resulted in misjudging the vital role of social mobilization as a process of change and an analytical construct, but has also overlooked the work of other researchers, especially those in China, studying a wide range of aspects of socio-economic and socio-political activities in present-day China. As a result, the research literature has not kept pace with the profound changes occurring in the country, providing no adequate theoretical foundation and capability for analyzing and theorizing the dynamics at work in contemporary China. This analytical article seeks to critically review the current state of knowledge relating to social mobilization in China and the main theoretical problems in the literature, paying special attention to the missing links between different perspectives.
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ItemThe new migrant-led transformation of the Chinese community media in AustraliaYang, YL ; Pan, QP ; Gao, J ; L, QR (China Social Sciences Press ~ Zhongguo Shehui Kexue Chubanshe, 2017)Overseas Chinese media is an essential part of the international media system. Due to the close relationship between Australia and China and the huge population of Chinese Australians, overseas Chinese media is more typical in Australia than in other countries or regions. This research adopts a multi-methodology approach which combines long-term observations, interviews, and textual analyses. It seeks to examine the changes that resulted from the resumption of the significant immigration from the mainland China to Australia in the early 1990s, with the purpose to provide a comprehensive analysis of the Chinese mediascape in Australia from a political economic perspective. Specifically, the changing dynamics of the Chinese community media will be divided into three stages, which are the ‘re-establishment’ phase from the early 1990s to the late 1990s, the ‘diversification’ phase from the late 1990s to the late 2000s and the ‘transformation’ phase since the late 2000s. Factors such as the Sino-Australian relationship, the constitution of the Chinese Australians, economic activities of the Chinese community and technological globalisation will be considered when discussing the driving forces, characteristics, development patterns and typical cases of the Chinese community media in different stages
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ItemThe Australian Chinese community reshaped by two historical trends: A dual-embeddedness perspectivePan, QP ; Yang, YL ; Gao, J ; Li, QR (China Social Sciences Press ~ Zhongguo Shehui Kexue Chubanshe, 2017)With China continuing its policy of reform and opening and Australia strategically turning to Asia, the period since the mid-1980s has witnessed escalating Chinese immigration to Australia. Against this backdrop, the ethnic Chinese community in Australia has changed significantly, particularly in respect of its demographic characteristics, socio-economic activities, and status, and is now widely perceived as a model and middle class ethnic community. Adopting a “dual-embeddedness” framework, this chapter offers a political-economic analysis of the ethnic Chinese community's transformation over the past three decades or so, highlighting the influence of socio-economic and political macro-contexts and ever-increasing inflows of Chinese migrants, students, investors, and tourists. This chapter details the expression and mechanism of Australian Chinese community’s dual embeddedness. It shows that the ethnic Chinese community in Australia has been simultaneously embedded in the nation building processes in both Australia and China and suggests that the community is not merely a beneficiary of these processes, but also an active agent and contributor.
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ItemFrom multicultural ethnic migrants to the new players of China’s public diplomacy: The Chinese in AustraliaSun,, WN ; Fitzgerald,, J ; GAO, J ; Wong, BP ; Tan, CB (Routledge, 2018-03)Since the 1978 opening up of China and her active engagement in economic reformation and modernization, China has become a truly global economic power. These developments have, consequently, had an impact on ethnic Chinese people living across the world. Traditionally, the study of immigrant communities has focused on internal factors, such as the leadership and social organization of the actors inside the communities. This book, however, turns attention to the exogenous factors, which have helped shape the lives of the Chinese diaspora. In doing so, it provides a valuable contribution to the recent literature, which focuses on the effect of globalisation on the Chinese overseas. Using a number of empirical case studies, including the San Francisco Bay, Canada, South Africa and Hungary, it provides an investigation into how China’s contemporary position in the world has affected the identity of the various locales of the Chinese in different continents. Whilst demonstrating the implications of China’s rise on patterns of circular migration and transnational movements, it also explores how the social and economic relations between Chinese communities and their host and ancestral countries have changed. Ultimately, it highlights how China’s rise has brought new economic opportunities and political clout for the Chinese overseas, but at the same time, has created new stereotypes and racial images by association.
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ItemThe changing Chinese community mediascape since the early 1990sGAO, J ; Zhang, L ; Budarick, J ; Han, GS (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017-03-03)This book examines the relationships between ethnic and Indigenous minorities and the media in Australia.
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ItemRediscovering the New Gold Mountain: Chinese immigration to Australia since the mid-1980sGAO, J ; Zhou, M (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017-10-21)
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ItemMiddle-class status of Chinese Australians and their demands for political participation: Changes since the 2007 electionGAO, J ; Feng, CY ; He, YH ; Chen, QS (Heilongjiang People's Publishing House, 2016)
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ItemGlobal media and public diplomacy in Sino-Western relationsGao, J ; Ingram, C ; Kee, P ; Gao, J ; Ingram, C ; Kee, P (Routledge - Taylor & Francis, 2017)Many researchers and China observers would agree that understanding how China pursues global communication is critical for assessing its growing soft power. While soft power as a concept has, in many ways, become almost inextricably linked with the PRC’s (People’s Republic of China) international diplomacy of the twenty-first century, the specific role of global media within soft power diplomacy and the corresponding influence of Western mediated public diplomacy within China is a lacuna that has remained largely unexplored. Moreover, the different Chinese and Western perspectives on the influence of global media and public diplomacy on Sino-Western relations, and the changing role of global media on this crucial aspect of international politics, have not yet been critically examined. This volume presents a broad social science audience with recent innovative scholarship and research findings on global media and public diplomacy concerning Sino-Western relations. It focuses on the implicit nexus between global media and public diplomacy, and their actual utilisation in and impact on the shifting relationships between China and the West. Special attention is given to the changing nature of globalised media in both China and Western nations, and how globalised media is influencing, shaping and changing international politics. The contributions delve deeply into both theory and practice, and focus especially upon the analysis of several key aspects of the issue from both Chinese and Western perspectives. This combination of approaches distinguishes the volume from most other published works on the topic, and greatly enriches our knowledge base in this important contemporary field.