Place attachment, identity and community impacts of tourism - the case of a Beijing Hutong

This study focuses on the problems in teaching tenses to Turkish students at university level in Turkey. Some of the problematic and confusing tenses such as Past Simple and Present Perfect Tense, Present Continuous and Present Simple, Past Simple and Past Continuous Tense Teaching grammar have been handled throughout this study with the data obtained from the written exams of the learners. Most frequently occurred errors have been listed and they have been analyzed in detail. The findings reveal that the reasons for these errors mostly derive from mother tongue interference and lack of adequate linguistic background. The other component of this article is to offer remedial teaching activities for foreign language learners to compensate the shortcomings.

Theory and Practice in Language Studies

Contemporary China has recently been seen as in the throes of `neoliberal restructuring'. This claim is contested on theoretical and methodological grounds. During the period of economic liberaliza...

Is China Becoming Neoliberal

Friends and Interests: China's Distinctive Links with Africa

China's expanded links to Africa have created a discourse of how to characterize those ties. Western political forces and media have criticized every aspect of China's activities in Africa, while Chinese, with significant support from Africans, have mounted a spirited defense. This article examines several factors that make China's links with Africa distinctive, including China's aid and migration policies, the distinctive "Chinese model" of foreign investment and infrastructure loans, and the development model known as the "Beijing Consensus." It argues that particular aspects of China's links with Africa make the People's Republic of China (PRC) seem a lesser evil than the West in terms of support for Africa's development and respect for African nations.

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As the world is drawn together with increasing force, our long-standing isolation from - and baffling ignorance of - China is ever more perilous. This book offers an analysis of China and the transformations it has undertaken since 1989. Wang Hui is able to synthesize an insider's knowledge of economics, politics, civilization and Western critical theory. A participant in the Tiananmen Square movement, he is also the editor of an intellectual journal in contemporary China. He goes beyond contemporary debates allowing him to connect the events 1989 witha long view of Chinese history. He argues that the features of contemporary China are elements of the new global order as a whole in which considerations of economic growth and development have trumped every other concern, particularily those of democracy and social justice. At its heart, this book represents an impassioned plea for economic and social justice and an indictment of the corruption caused by the explosion of "market extremism". As Want Hui observes, terms like "free" and "unregulated" are largely ideological constructs masking the intervention of highly manipulative, coercive governmental actions on behalf of economic policies that favour a particular scheme of capitalist acquisition - something that must be distinguished from truly free markets. He sees new openings toward social, political and economic democracy in China as the only agencies by which the unstable conditions thus engendered can be remedied.

China's New Order: Society, Politics, and Economy in Transition

In this bold, provocative collection, Wang Hui confronts some of the major issues concerning modern China and the status quo of contemporary Chinese thought. The book's overarching theme is the possibility of an alternative modernity that does not rely on imported conceptions of Chinese history and its legacy. Wang Hui argues that current models, based largely on Western notions of empire and the nation-state, fail to account for the richness and diversity of pre-modern Chinese historical practice. At the same time, he refrains from offering an exclusively Chinese perspective and placing China in an intellectual ghetto. Navigating terrain on regional language and politics, he draws on China's unique past to expose the inadequacies of European-born standards for assessing modern China's evolution. He takes issue particularly with the way in which nation-state logic has dominated politically charged concerns like Chinese language standardization and "The Tibetan Question." His stance is critical--and often controversial--but he locates hope in the kinds of complex, multifaceted arrangements that defined China and much of Asia for centuries. The Politics of Imagining Asia challenges us not only to re-examine our theories of "Asia" but to reconsider what "Europe" means as well. As Theodore Huters writes in his introduction, "Wang Hui's concerns extend beyond China and Asia to an ambition to rethink world history as a whole."

Hui Wang

Papers

China's New Order: Society, Politics, and Economy in Transition

The Politics of Imagining Asia

3. Local Forms, Vernacular Dialects, and the War of Resistance against Japan: The “National Forms” Debate

6. Weber and the Question of Chinese Modernity

2. How to Explain “China” and Its “Modernity”: Rethinking The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought