Cultural intellectuals and the politics of the cultural public space in communist China (1979-1989): A case study of three intellectual groups
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The period from 1979 to 199 in China was a time of thawing and awakening, with a move away from the political winters of Mao's time. A major change occurred in the cultural arena, with many Chinese cultural intellectuals caught up in the cultural movement in the mid and late 1980s. A case study of three intellectual groups, the International Academy of Chinese Culture, the editorial committee of the Towards the Future series and the editorial committee of the Culture: China and the World, is presented, providing an examination of how Chinese cultural intellectuals created a new cultural public space and a consideration of the changing relationship between community and party state.
Publication Name: The Journal of Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-9118
Year: 1999
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Village-state relations in Vietnam: the effect of everyday politics on decollectivization
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Vietnam's major policy change in 1988 to encourage family farming and deemphasize collectivized production was not merely a consequence of national economic restructuring, imitating China, or due to changes in the Soviet Union, but can be seen in the light of constant local pressure from the villages over the years. The collectives had become unpopular as there were no incentives for the peasantry. Moreover, the collective property was not taken care of, living conditions stagnated, the administrative burden was too great, and the family was being undermined. Attempted administrative reforms and formation of larger cooperatives were unsuccessful.
Publication Name: The Journal of Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-9118
Year: 1995
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Philippine politics in town, district, and province: bossism in Cavite and Cebu
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Bosses have gained local power in Cebu and Cavite in the Philippines in areas where the political economy has been open to monopolistic control. The bosses have largely relied on superordinate power brokers or have failed when opposed by them in areas where state-based discretionary and derivative powers have determined monopolistic control of the local economy. Bosses have succeeded despite the superordinate power brokers' opposition in areas where control of the local economy has been determined by a firm foundation of proprietary wealth which is impervious to state intervention.
Publication Name: The Journal of Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-9118
Year: 1997
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