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Title Crisis = duo shi zhi qiu / by edited by Jane Golley and Linda Jaivin, with Sharon Strange.

Publication Info. Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 365 pages) : chiefly colour illustrations.
text file PDF
Physical Medium polychrome
Series China story yearbook ; 2020
China story yearbook ; 2020.
Contents Introduction. The Year of Crisis/ Linda Jaivin -- Forum: Standing on a Precipice. The Etymology of the Character of Wei / Jingjing Chen -- ch. 1. The Construction of Political Superiority / Delia Lin -- Forum: Masks and Wolves. Mask Diplomacy: Shifting the COVID-19 Narrative?/ Verónica Fraile Del Álamo and Darren J. Lim ; The Rise and Fall of the Wolf Warriors/ Yun Jiang -- ch. 2. Beating the Virus in the Chinese Countryside / Wuna Reilly -- Forum. Down and Out in Hong Kong. Hong Kong's National Security Law / Antony Dapiran ; Waste and the Elderly Working Poor in Hong Kong / Trang X. Ta -- ch. 3. Women's Bodies, Intimate Politics, and Feminist Consciousness Amid COVID-19 / Pan Wang -- Forum: Cultural Communication. The Language of Trust / Gerald Roche -- ch. 4. The Chinese Economy: Crisis, Control, Recovery, Refocus / Jane Golley and James Laurenceson -- Forum: Coping Through Laughter and Prayer. Humour in Crisis / Linda Jaivin ; The Power of Compassion: The Buddhist Approach to COVID-19 / Yu Sang -- ch. 5. China's Post-COVID-19 Stimulus: Dark Clouds, Green Lining / Jorrit Gosens -- Forum: Broken River Shattered Mountain. The Three Gorges Dam: A Deluge of Doubts / Annie Luman Ren-- ch. 6. The Future Repeats Itself: COVID-19 and Its Historical Comorbidities / Ari Larissa Heinrich -- Forum: Plan for Difficulty. The Dao of Crisis / Esther Sunkyung Klein -- ch. 7. US-China Relations: A Lingering Crisis / Nadège Rolland -- Forum: Difficult Choices. Taiwan's Search for a Grand Strategy / Wen-Ti Sung ; Malaysia: Taking No Side but Its Own / Xu Cheng Chong -- ch. 8. The Sino-Indian Border Crisis: Chinese Perceptions of Indian Nationalism / Andrew Chubb -- Forum: Of Mao and Money. Chinese Loans to Africa: Trap or Treasure? / Beyongo Mukete Dynamic ; Off the Prachanda Path: Nepali Communists' Crisis of Legitimacy / Matthew Galway -- ch. 9. Economic Power and Vulnerability in Sino-Australian Relations / Victor Ferguson and Darren J. Lim -- Forum: Playing the Game? China and the Multilateral Trading System: Misunderstandings, Criticisms, and Options / Weihuan Zhou -- ch. 10. Chinese Students Abroad in the Time of Pandemic: An Australian View / Yu Tao.
Summary The year 2020 was marked by a series of rolling crises. The Australian wildfires at the start of the year were a catastrophic sign of the global climate crisis. Xi Jinping's announcement in September that the People's Republic of China would become carbon neutral by 2060 could help alleviate the crisis, but China has to fix its coal problem first. The big story was, of course, the global COVID-19 pandemic. Appearing to originate in a Wuhan wet market, by year's end the pandemic had claimed nearly 2 million lives worldwide, put whole countries into lockdown, and sent economies around the world tumbling into recession. China itself successfully suppressed the disease at home and recorded positive economic growth for the year -- proving, at least according to the Chinese Communist Party, the 'superiority of the socialist system'. Not everyone was convinced, with persistent questions about the CCP's initial cover up of the outbreak, and how the lack of transparency helped it become a pandemic in the first place. The China Story Yearbook 2020: Crisis surveys the multiple crises of the year of the Metal Rat, including the catastrophic mid-year floods that sparked fears about the stability of the Three Gorges Dam. It looks at how Chinese women fared through the pandemic, from the rise in domestic violence to portraits of female sacrifice on the medical front line to the trolling of a famous dancer for being childless. It also examines the downward-spiralling Sino-Australian relationship, the difficult 'co-morbidities' of China's relations with the US, the end of 'One Country, Two Systems' in Hong Kong, the simmering border conflict with India, and the rise of pandemic-related anti-Chinese racism. The Yearbook also explores the responses to crisis of, among others, Daoists, Buddhists, and humourists -- because when all else fails, there's always philosophy, prayer, and laughter.
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Subject China -- Foreign relations -- 21st century.
China.
International relations.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject China -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
Politics and government.
COVID-19 (Disease) -- Political aspects -- China.
COVID-19 (Disease) -- Political aspects.
COVID-19 (Disease)
China -- Economic conditions -- 2000-
Economic conditions.
Chronological Term 2000-
Subject China -- Foreign economic relations -- 21st century.
International economic relations.
China -- Social conditions -- 2000-
Social conditions.
Chronological Term Since 2000
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Golley, Jane, 1971- editor.
Jaivin, Linda, editor.
Strange, Sharon, editor.
Australian National University Press.
Australian Centre on China in the World.
Added Title Duo shi zhi qiu
Other Form: Print version: Crisis. Canberra, ACT, Australia : ANU Press, 2021 9781760464387 (OCoLC)1241726045
ISBN 9781760464394 (electronic book)
1760464392 (electronic book)
9781760464387 print
1760464384 print