The impact of culture and governance on corporate social reporting

Spectacular economic growth in China suggests the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has somehow gotten it right. A key hypothesis in both economics and political science is that the CCP's cadre evaluation system, combined with China's geography-based governing logic, has motivated local administrators to compete with one another to generate high growth. We raise a number of theoretical and empirical challenges to this claim. Using a new biographical database of Central Committee members, a previously overlooked feature of CCP reporting, and a novel Bayesian method that can estimate individual-level correlates of partially observed ranks, we find no evidence that strong growth performance was rewarded with higher party ranks at any of the postreform party congresses. Instead, factional ties with various top leaders, educational qualifications, and provincial revenue collection played substantial roles in elite ranking, suggesting that promotion systems served the immediate needs of the regime and its leaders, rather than encompassing goals such as economic growth.

https://faculty.washington.edu/cadolph/articles/ChinaRank.pdf

Getting Ahead in the Communist Party: Explaining the Advancement of Central Committee Members in China

Language endangerment has been the focus of much attention and as a result, a wide range of people are working to revitalize and maintain local languages. This book serves as a general reference guide to language revitalization, written not only for linguists and anthropologists, but also for language activists and community members who believe they should ensure the future use of their languages, despite their predicted loss. Drawing extensively on case studies, it sets out the necessary background and highlights central issues such as literacy, policy decisions, and allocation of resources. Its primary goal is to provide the essential tools for a successful language revitalization program, such as setting and achieving realistic goals, and anticipating and resolving common obstacles. Clearly written and informative, Saving Languages will be an invaluable resource for all those interested in the fate of small language communities around the globe.

Saving Languages: An Introduction to Language Revitalization

Tourism development and cultural policies in China

Tourism and Indigenous Peoples is a unique text examining the role of indigenous societies in tourism and how they interact within the tourism nexus. Unlike other publications, this text focuses on the active role that indigenous peoples take in the industry, and uses international case studies and experiences to provide a global context to illustrate best practice and aid comparison. First published over ten years ago the editors, Butler and Hinch, have thoroughly revised and updated the text to bring together a new collection of contributions and case studies from recognised international authors and those with first hand experiences in this area. Divided into five main sections, the text looks at this topic under the following headings: Involvement: Uses case studies to discuss and compare such as 'campfire' programmes in east Africa, and the employment of indigenous peoples as guides, amongst other cases, Turbulence: Host guest relationships, conflicts on communities and contrasting strategies and results of tourism in indigenous villages in South Africa. Issues: Discusses issues such as authenticity, religious beliefs and managing indigenous tourism in a fragile environment. Progress: Looks at tourism education, tourism and cultural survival and examples of the policy and practice of indigenous tourism. Conclusions: Five contributions from indigenous people on North America, Australasia and Europe to discuss implications and experiences. Each section uses international case studies from, for example, Australia, New Zealand, Nepal, Namibia, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and South America.

Tourism and indigenous peoples : issues and implications

Maoist Model Theatre: The Semiotics of Gender and Sexuality in the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–1976). By Rosemary A. Roberts. Leiden: Brill, 2010. xxii, 285 pp. $132.00 (cloth).

This article considers two sets of social relations in the regions of Xinjiang, Ningxia and Gansu: first, relations among the various Muslim communities and, secondly, relations between the Muslims and the majority Han. It analyzes these relations within the context of minority policies instituted and implemented in these regions, as well as of certain other realities such as population and the emerging narcotics problem in Xinjiang. Additionally, it comments on the relation between religion on the one hand and modernity on the other, with some illustrative examples taken from matters relating to the population policy and gender relations. It concludes with some speculation over the likely prospects for the future.

Han‐Muslim and intra‐Muslim social relations in northwestern China

According to the 1990 census, the ethnic breakdown of the People's Republic of China (PRC) showed that 91.96 percent of the population was Han, while the other 8.04 percent, or 91,200,314 people, belonged to the fifty-five minority nationalities (State Statistics Bureau 1990, 18). These nationalities have their own history, language, economic life, and culture. Some are extremely different-ethnically, culturally, and in other ways-from the Han; these include the Turkic and Islamic peoples of Xinjiang like the Uygurs and Kazakhs. Others have been to varying degrees integrated with the Han for centuries, such as the Bai of Yunnan and the Zhuang of Guangxi. Since the minorities tend to live in the border regions, there are populations of most of the more populous nationalities outside the PRC itself. Some of them, like the Kazakhs, have their own Soviet republics on the other side of the Sino-Soviet border, and a few run their own independent states, in particular the Mongolians and Koreans. 1

Integration and the Dramas of China's Minorities

The encyclopedia covers the theatre of East, Southeast and South Asia, past and present My role was editor of entries on Chinese traditional theatre I was also author of entries entitled 'Ache Lhamo', 'Bangzi qiang', 'Censorship: China, Xiqu Censorship', 'Censorship: Vietnam', 'Cheng Changgeng (1811-1880)', 'China', 'China: Ethnic Minorities Theatres and Regional Theatre', 'Folk Theatre: Vietnam', 'Masks: China', 'Mongolia', 'Politics in Theatre: China', 'Politics in Theatre: Vietnam', 'Religion in Theatre: China', 'Storytelling: China', 'Tan Xinpei', ' Theatre Companies: China', 'Tibet', 'Wei Changsheng', 'Women in Asian Theatre: China', 'Xinbian lishi ju', 'Yueju, Cantonese Yueju', 'Yu Sansheng (1802-1866)', 'Yu Shuyan (1890-1943)', 'Zhang Erkui (1814-1864)' In addition I was co-author of entries on the following: 'Actors and Acting: China', 'China: Post-1949 Reform', 'Jingju', 'Playwrights and Playwriting: China', 'Puppet Theatre: China', 'Stages: China', 'Theatres: China', 'Theory: China', 'Training: China'

Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre

This contribution begins with some major points about a number of policies towards China’s ethnic minorities and their population, with some attention given to Yunnan Province. It points out the ma...

Colin Mackerras

Papers

Maoist Model Theatre: The Semiotics of Gender and Sexuality in the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–1976). By Rosemary A. Roberts. Leiden: Brill, 2010. xxii, 285 pp. $132.00 (cloth).

Han‐Muslim and intra‐Muslim social relations in northwestern China

Integration and the Dramas of China's Minorities

Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre

Conclusion Some Major Issues in Ethnic Classification