Patricia Uberoi

Bio: Patricia Uberoi is an academic researcher from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The author has contributed to research in topics: China & Intellectual history. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 20 publications receiving 108 citations.

From Empire to People's Republic JACK GRAY (ed.) Modern China's Search for a Political Form, London: Oxford University Press for Royal Institute of Internationl Affairs, 1969, pp. xii, 379. sh. 75:

Abstract: IN 1 HE 1950’s and early 1960’s, when the monographic monuments to the American investment of manpower and resources in the infant field of Sinology were mostly still to come, there appeared a series of collections of papers on important general themes which conveniently and speedily made available to the wider public the results of specialist research being undertaken in various separate but related fields. The several publications of the Committee

India–China Initiatives in Multilateral Fora Two Case Studies

Abstract: This article reflects on the experience of India's engagement with China in two multilateral forums: the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM) Forum for Regional Economic Cooperation, formerly known as the ‘Kunming Initiative’, and the China-India-Russia Academic Trilateral Conference. Though both forums are so-called ‘Track Two’ ventures, the dynamics of the two exercises are rather different. As of now, the ‘Trilateral’ is rated relatively successful in so far as it has shown more substantial progress from ‘Track Two’ to ‘Track One’. Tracing these brief histories, this article argues that academic cooperation should be seen to have value in and of itself, and not merely as the mechanism that propels a speculative, academic exercise into state-to-state policy.In social science terms, the two exercises afford very different challenges, which are still to be realised in effective academic collaboration and a substantive agenda of research. In particular, the BCIM framework commends a perspective on transna...

Special Issue on ‘Hong Kong: Identity, Intellectual History and Culture’:

Abstract: It is now just over two decades since the former British Crown colony of Hong Kong was returned to China, thus bringing to an end the ‘century of humiliation’ that has scarred the Chinese psyche and energised China’s quest for regaining its legitimate role in the scripting of world history. Over the years, China Report has carried numerous articles on Hong Kong, both its internal politics and the politics of its return to mainland control, as well as its critical role in enabling China’s ‘going out’ strategy of economic reform. More recently, world attention has focused on the demand for the genuine devolution of power, on the youthful popular uprising signified in the spectacle of the 2014 ‘umbrella movement’, and on the future of Hong Kong in the context of the ‘One Country Two Systems’ framework for China’s reunification. This special issue’s focus on the complexities of ‘Hongkongese’ identity, compiled and edited by political psychologist Shih Chih-yu, steps back somewhat from the immediacy of contemporary events to speculate, on a broader canvas and in a longer historical frame, on the identity challenges of being simultaneously ‘Hongkongese’ and ‘Chinese’. For the moment, the default geo-political/geo-strategic framework is kept somewhat (though not completely) aside. So is the rather wishful ‘geo-civilisational’ perspective that assumes a shared Asian ethic shaped by Buddhism and by millennia of trade and pre-modern cultural interactions. Instead, Shih proposes what he calls a ‘geo-cultural’ perspective that links the China mainland with its ethnic diasporas in a broad culture region cemented by the ethic of Confucianism. In so doing, the British colony of Hong Kong—now the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Trends in the Sociology and Anthropotogy of Modern China

Abstract: sm in east and south-east Asia, have provoked a crisis of conscience among anthropologists of the developed world, in the wake of which has come a re-examination of the foundations of the disciplines of anthropology (social and cultural) and sociology. For a number of anthropologists, this re-appraisal has yielded an awareness that anthropological studies of primitive peoples have been, and often still are, an adjunct to or a manifestation of a colonial relationship between the anthro-

萨义德的“Orientalism”释义

Abstract: 萨义德以其独特的双重身份,对西方中心权力话语做了分析,通过对文学作品、演讲演说等文本的解读,将O rie n ta lis m——"东方学",做了三重释义:一门学科、一种思维方式和一种权力话语系统,对东方学权力话语做了系统的批判,同时将东方学放入空间维度对东方学文本做了细致的解读。

Chinese culture and successful implementation of partnering in Singapore's construction industry

Abstract: Partnering is based on the principles of trust, mutual respect and cooperation towards the achievement of a common goal. Although partnering can help to resolve the problems of Singapore's construction industry, its usage is relatively low. This paper examines whether Chinese culture can facilitate partnering implementation in Singapore's construction industry. This is because Chinese culture contains some values that are important determinants of success of partnering. A postal survey on Chinese-owned large contractors in Singapore was undertaken to ascertain how Chinese culture influences their way of conducting business and the implementation of partnering. The study showed that Chinese contractors understand their culture as comprising certain core values that influence the operations of their businesses and their relationships with others, and that Chinese culture aids the implementation of partnering. It is suggested that Chinese construction entrepreneurs should apply the elements of their culture ...

The diaspora comes home: Disciplining desire in DDLJ:

Abstract: A significant new development in the field of Indian family and kinship, and one which has so far barely been addressed in the sociology of India, is the internationalisation of the middle-class family. This paper analyses two popular Hindi films of the mid-1990s, Dilwale dulhania le jayenge (DDLJ) and Pardes, that thematise the problems of transnational location in respect of courtship and marriage. The two films share a conservative agenda on the family, but differ in their assessment of the possibility of retaining Indian identity in diaspora. DDLJ proposes that Indian family values are portable assets, while Pardes suggests that the loss of cultural identity can be postponed but ultimately not avoided. These discrepant solutions mark out Indian popular cinema as an important site for engagement with the problems resulting from middle-class diaspora, and for articulation of Indian identity in a globalised world.

Technologies of the spirit: Devotional Islam, sound reproduction and the dialectics of mediation and immediacy in Mauritius

Abstract: Users of contemporary media technology in religious settings often oscillate between immediacy in spiritual interaction and the increasing complexity and visibility of media technology as human art...