Journal articles: 'Rhetoric – Social aspects – China'

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Liu, Donghong, and Jing Huang. "Rhetoric Construction of Chinese Expository Essays: Implications for EFL Composition Instruction." SAGE Open 11, no. 1 (January 2021): 215824402098851. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244020988518.

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Recent scholarship on Chinese students’ English expository essays tends to blur or mitigate the differences between English and Chinese writings. This alleged convergence of English and Chinese rhetorical norms gives rise to a view that rhetorical aspects in second language writing instruction and research in China should be de-emphasized. Drawing on data from full-score Chinese compositions of College Entrance Examination, this study examines how Chinese expository paragraphs are developed. Results show great disparities between English and Chinese expository writing at paragraph level such as non-English rhetorical mode, reliance on authorities, rhetorical paragraph, and figurative language in topic sentence. We argue that Chinese rhetorical strategies are likely to be transferred to English writing if English rhetoric is not taught and reinforced in college.

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Yeoh, Friven. "The People’s Courts and Arbitration A Snapshot of Recent Judicial Attitudes on Arbitrability and Enforcement." Journal of International Arbitration 24, Issue 6 (December 1, 2007): 635–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/joia2007047.

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The legislative regime in mainland China is often said to be pro-arbitration. Yet, the People’s Courts retain significant jurisdiction to make rulings with regard to the arbitration process as well as the resulting arbitral award. This article examines a number of recent Chinese court decisions and considers how well the proarbitration rhetoric has played out in reality. The authors observe that certain aspects of the People’s Courts’ recent rulings are already in conformity with international norms, such as the arbitrability of tortious claims in China and its adherence to the doctrine of separability of the arbitration clause. Nevertheless, other aspects of the system remain troubling for foreign parties. These aspects include the Supreme People’s Court’s restrictive approach to intervention by or joinder of parties who are not signatories to the arbitration agreement, uncertainty over the “public policy” and “social and public interest” exceptions to enforcement of arbitral awards and the status of awards issued by foreign arbitration institutions in China.

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Hooijmaaijers, Bas. "The BRICS Countries’ Bilateral Economic Relations, 2009 to 2019: Between Rhetoric and Reality." SAGE Open 11, no. 4 (October 2021): 215824402110541. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21582440211054128.

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After Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC) started meeting in the BRIC countries format, and since 2011 with South Africa in the BRICS format, these countries’ leaders made several pledges for strengthening intra-BRICS economic cooperation. This article examines the degree this is reflected in the increase of Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment (COFDI) in the other four BRICS countries, the value of Chinese construction contracts, and bilateral trade between China and Brazil, India, Russia South Africa in 2009 to 2019. Focusing on these aspects contributes to the ongoing debate about the institutionalization of the BRICS political grouping. This article demonstrates that, thus far, despite the various pledges, the intensification of intra-BRICS economic cooperation is very limited. With some exemptions due to mega investment deals, COFDI in the other BRICS partners is still reasonably modest and shows no clear trend of increase over time in both absolute and relative figures. There is no significant increase in total trade, and various imbalances and asymmetries remain. Thus, the reality does not mirror the BRICS rhetoric on the intensification of economic cooperation.

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Chen, Kaiping, and Yepeng Jin. "How issue entrepreneurs shape public discourse of controversial science: examining GMO discussion on a popular Chinese Q&A platform." Journal of Science Communication 21, no. 06 (September 28, 2022): A01. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/2.21060201.

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Social media have become popular channels for sharing and discussing science issues. Drawing from the classic communication theory, Public Arena Model, this paper examines how issue entrepreneurs influenced the Chinese public's cognition of GMO, especially the role of celebrities and scientists in controversial science communication. To answer this question, we used the structural topic modeling method to examine public discussion about GMO on a popular Q&A site in China (Zhihu) from 2014 to 2019 (N=40,101). In study 1, we investigated what the major themes of public discourse are about GMO and the evolution of these themes in general. In study 2, we investigated public discourse in a more specific context, an iconic event in China's GMO history, a debate between a TV celebrity and a scientist, to examine how two major issue entrepreneurs influenced what and how the public deliberated GMO\@. We found that the issue entrepreneurs' debate increased public discussion on the ‘science communication’ aspect of GMO yet decreased public discussion on the ‘science’ of GMO. Supporters of different entrepreneurs are divided in their attitudes and rhetoric toward GMO. These findings shed new light on how social media is a digital embodiment of the public arena where public deliberation about controversial science occur and evolve.

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Leung, Terry Tse Fong, and Cherry Hau Lin Tam. "The ‘Person-Centred’ Rhetoric in Socialist China." British Journal of Social Work 45, no. 5 (January 31, 2014): 1489–507. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bct192.

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Mikhalev, M. "Russia-China Transborder Area: Ethno-Social Aspects." Problemy Dalnego Vostoka, no. 6 (December 2018): 123–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s013128120002696-6.

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Garcia, Lermie Shayne. "THE PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT’S RHETORIC ON JAPAN-CHINA RIVALRY AND INDEPENDENT FOREIGN POLICY." Journal of Nusantara Studies (JONUS) 3, no. 2 (December 28, 2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/jonus.vol3iss2pp1-16.

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This study examines the Japan-China rivalry and independent foreign policy (IFP) rhetoric of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Using both AntConc (concordance program) and conventional reading, this study identifies the themes and aspects as to how he used words related to China and Japan in his speeches. Data analysis reveals that his rhetoric centered on several themes, such as historical relations, brotherly and friendly relations, strategic partnership, China as an economic and military superpower, development assistance, and as point of reference, among others. Contrary to what Duterte portrays as IFP, the study shows that even after two years into his presidency, nothing has really changed in the Philippines. His promise of pursuing an IFP policy has neither taken the form of a concrete plan nor materialized as a policy. This paper argues that the ambivalence in Duterte’s foreign policy rhetoric is just a strategy to accommodate China’s influence while maintaining his nationalist narrative. His IFP rhetoric is just a manifestation of continuing dependency to outside powers. No matter how different it initially seemed to be from previous administrations in the way that it entertains other powers such as China and Japan apart from the US, it still cannot be considered as IFP.Keywords: Independent foreign policy, Japan-China rivalry, Philippine foreign policy under Duterte, presidential speech analysis, Rodrigo DuterteCite as: Garcia, L.S.S. (2018). The Philippine president’s rhetoric on Japan-China rivalry and independent foreign policy. Journal of Nusantara Studies, 3(2),1-16.http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/jonus.vol3iss2pp1-16

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Nylan, Michael. "On the antique rhetoric of friendship." Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques 68, no. 4 (December 19, 2014): 1225–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/asia-2014-0052.

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Abstract Rhetorical tropes of intimate friendship (you 友) employed in the classical era in China present a stark contrast to those that survive in Latin and classical Greek sources. For this ideal form of friendship was described far less often in terms of the material and psychic advantages that can accrue from alliances outside the immediate family circle than in terms of the propensity for true friendships to foster the development of the singular traits and potentials of each partner in the intimate friendship. This essay argues, contra many social historians, that moderns cannot extract any underlying social realities from the early discussions of the theme, even if our sources allow us to see how certain social exchanges were construed, valued, and promoted by members of the governing elite.

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Zhan, Zhang. "Social Aspects of “Gaokao Migration” in Contemporary China." DEMIS. Demographic Research 2, no. 1 (March 23, 2022): 142–0. http://dx.doi.org/10.19181/demis.2022.2.1.11.

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This article examines the special phenomenon of “Gaokao migration”, points out their specifics and differences from the general educational migration. The reasons and consequences of this phenomenon are analyzed. Based on the laws and regulations adopted in China, possible ideas for solving this problem are proposed. The article points out that, in addition to carefully analyzing the qualifications of candidates to ensure fair admission to universities, the development of large-scale, diversified and high-quality higher education is a more realistic way in the long term. Proposed through the joint creation and use of digital educational resources, as well as strengthening international cooperation to address future migration challenges in education.

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Le May, Denis. "La Rhétorique d'Aristote et les études de droit." Les Cahiers de droit 29, no. 1 (April 12, 2005): 247–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/042876ar.

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This paper attempts to link Aristotle's Rhetoric and the contemporary study of law. In the first part, Aristotle's Rhetoric is presented generally, with emphasis on its objective, scope and methodology ; the field of study also delimited in relation to logic and dialectics. The second part shows the relevancy and interest of the Rhetoric in three fundamental areas of the study of law, namely, openness of mind towards psychological and social aspects of law, learning the art of argumentation and methodology of intellectual work in general. The conclusion invites the reintroduction of the teaching of rhetoric in the curriculum.

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Carrai, Maria Adele. "Chinese Political Nostalgia and Xi Jinping's Dream of Great Rejuvenation." International Journal of Asian Studies 18, no. 1 (July 29, 2020): 7–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1479591420000406.

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China's emergence as a great power has been accompanied by the official rhetoric of the China Dream of Great Rejuvenation (weida fuxing 伟大复兴). Although there are conflicting views among academics and political elites about the exact content of the China Dream, one of its features is the nostalgia for China's past and its five-thousand-year-old civilization. Xi Jinping's current rhetoric of a China Dream of Great Rejuvenation uses a reinvented history as an asset for the future, linking China's natural progress as a global power with a selective re-reading of its millennial history. While much existing literature already discusses China's Great Rejuvenation, this article looks more specifically at the role of historical memory and deconstructs the key interconnected components that support Xi's rhetoric, namely, the chosen trauma, glory, and amnesia. The conclusion offers some general remarks about the effect of this rhetoric on China's domestic and foreign policy and some of the risks that accompany it. This article contributes to the debates on the influence of memory in International Relations (IR), showing how constructed memories of history can significantly impact both national identity and foreign policy.

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Liu Lihua. "Discourse construction of social power: interpersonal rhetoric in editorials of the China Daily." Discourse Studies 11, no. 1 (February 1, 2009): 59–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461445608098498.

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Alvarenga, Claudia Helena Azevedo, and Tarso Bonilha Mazzotti. "Samba as Representation of Brazilianness in the Popular Songs Rhetoric." Per Musi, no. 39 (September 12, 2019): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.35699/2317-6377.2019.15152.

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This article aims to examine the hegemonic representations of what is said “to be Brazilian”. It proposes the rhetorical analysis of the lyrics of a couple of Brazilian popular songs in order to present the psychosocial aspects that bring to light the representations of social identity. The statement of identity and symbolic bonds through musicality exposes the desirable of the groups who share their value. The construct of social identity linked to nationality is a belief reinforced by social practices which relies on the metaphor that defines Music as the “people’s soul”.

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Cahill, Lisa Sowle. "'Abortion Pill' RU 486: Ethics, Rhetoric, and Social Practice." Hastings Center Report 17, no. 5 (October 1987): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3562662.

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Padilla, José David. "New Rhetoric and the Socio-Rhetorical Method: As a Modern Approach to Biblical Literary Criticism." Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal 7, no. 7 (July 19, 2020): 178–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.14738/assrj.77.8596.

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The new rhetoric studies the discursive practices present in a text and tries to understand them as a literary method to persuade a specific audience to accept a new law or change their behavior, assuming a worthy moral, philosophical or religious truth. The new rhetoric covers the literary or rhetorical analysis of discourse while analyzing the elements proper to the social and cultural milieu of its intended audience. The aid of the human sciences, especially cultural anthropology and the sociology of religion, is necessary to capture better the world the loci of the speaker and the audience of the text. The method, which combines social and anthropological analysis with the new rhetorical analysis, is called social rhetoric. The social rhetoric analysis aims to hit the socio-cultural context in which the texts were conceived, especially when the text does not give any clues of it. In Biblical interpretation, these two forms of literary analysis will help to understand the relationships existent between the author of a discourse and its readers (the intended audience). Such an approach will not only study the social history and social aspects where the books of the Bible were born, but will also see the rhetoric of the texts as an essential component of the text’s social, political, cultural, and ideological context. After all, the Word of God became flesh and dwelt in a particular culture, with a specific language and in a precise historical time.

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Bengtson, Erik, and Mats Rosengren. "A Philosophical-Anthropological Case for Cassirer in Rhetoric." Rhetorica 35, no. 3 (2017): 346–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rh.2017.35.3.346.

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In this article we argue that Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms is an indispensible philosophical-anthropological companion to rhetoric. We propose that appropriating Cassirer's understanding of symbolic forms enables rhetoric to go beyond the dominant perspective of language oriented theory and fully commit to a widened understanding of rhetoric as the study of how social meaning is created, performed and transformed. To clearly bring out the thrust of our enlarged rhetorical-philosophical-anthropological approach we have structured our argument partly as a contrastive critique of Thomas A. Discenna's recent (Rhetorica 32/3; 2014) attempt to include Cassirer in the rhetorical tradition through a reading of the 1929 debate in Davos between Cassirer and Martin Heidegger; partly through a presentation of the aspects of Cassirer's thought that we find most important for developing a rhetorical-philosophical-anthropology of social meaning.

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Bricocoli, Massimo, and Alessandro Coppola. "Sguardi oltre le retoriche. Politiche e progetti per la casa a Milano." TERRITORIO, no. 64 (February 2013): 138–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/tr2013-064023.

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In the 1990s and 2000s, the rise (and the real influence) of mass home ownership rhetoric was wound up with the massive impacts that privatisation and government reorganisation processes had in the field of housing policies. On the one hand, with the generalisation of negotiation as a key principle in the promotion and governance of urban change, the supply of housing for populations groups considered ‘excluded from the market' was relegated to old and new players in the social economy and to their role in contracted schemes of urban change. On the other hand, with the emergence and spread of social mixité rhetoric, new urban development was accompanied by a new emphasis on the broader urban and social aspects of urban development for residential use.

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Gul, Shabnam, Zainab Asif Dar, and Kishwar Munir. "The Interplay of Rhetoric and Voting Behavior in Pakistan: The Perspective of Youth." Global Regional Review V, no. II (June 30, 2020): 215–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/grr.2020(v-ii).23.

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Political communication is one of the major aspects of any political system. The speeches of politicians, especially the political party leaders, are an important source of political awareness regarding pertinent issues facing any country. However, politicians often rely on political rhetoric to appeal to the emotions of prospective voters. This paper explored the use of political rhetoric in political discourse in Pakistan. Political rhetoric pertains to exaggeration of reality and distortion of facts to change the views and perception of the public. Politicians actively use this as a tool to gain the support of their potential voters in their electoral campaigns. The researchers analyzed the statements of leaders of three major political parties in Pakistan. It has been concluded from this research that politicians focus on populist political rhetoric when they address their voters to garner support rather than educating them about real political, social, and economic challenges. Thus political rhetoric is a significant factor in voting behavior.

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Ponzio, Augusto. "Rhetoric and Ideology in Communication Today." International Journal of Semiotics and Visual Rhetoric 2, no. 1 (January 2018): 107–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijsvr.2018010107.

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This article describes how the concept of communication is reconsidered under two aspects, theoretical and historical-social relatively to today's world. The first: communication cannot be reduced to a process of exteriorisation according to a limited view of communication. This contrasts with global semiotics (Sebeok) and the fact that being, life is communication. The second: with respect to economic reality, the industrial revolution of automation, globalisation of communication, universalisation of the market, communication in the production, exchange, consumption cycle is present in all three phases and not only in exchange. The dominant communication-production system tends to present itself through massmedial communication, and through the rhetoric of its ideo-logic as the only system possible, to maintain and reproduce at all costs, despite its openly destructive character. Semiotics must cultivate a global vision, which as semioethics and in a “semio-dialogic” perspective will interrogate dominant ideo-logic and propose new forms of living together.

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Warnock, Baroness Mary. "Bioethics: The Dangers of Rhetoric." Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2, no. 2 (1993): 127–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963180100000815.

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After the second World War, a cliché was repeated so often as to provoke, I fear, either yawns or giggles: “our moral sense was lagging behind our technical invention,” i.e., science had, as it were, outstripped morality. In those days, of course, the bogey scientists thought to have left morality behind were physicists, especially those who had made possible the nuclear bomb. A wholly new kind of war weapon did indeed seem to have changed the world and to require a new dimension of moral thought and moral philosophy, if we were not all to be destroyed.

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Hillier, Sheila. "HIV in China: Understanding the Social Aspects of the Epidemic." Sociology of Health & Illness 33, no. 6 (September 2011): 969–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2011.01397.x.

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Deng, Hongmei, and Peter O'Meara Evans. "Social and environmental aspects of abandoned chemical weapons in China." Nonproliferation Review 4, no. 3 (September 1997): 101–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10736709708436684.

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Sіuta, Halyna. "Precedent statements in contemporary Ukrainian political rhetoric." Culture of the Word, no. 90 (2019): 120–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.37919/0201-419x-2019.90.11.

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Political rhetoric is a clearly socio-centric discourse. In the texts that exemplify this discourse, there is a manipulative-speculative experience of interpretation the texts of the previous culture. The main aspects of the pragmatics of precedent statements in the texts of political rhetoric are argumentativeness, manipulativeness and polemicality. Political language units of communication are: 1) unknown to the general public (they testify to the intelligence, education of political speakers), 2) recognizable precedent statements. The using of the latter provides the effect of communicative proximity, the realization of the communicative situation in axiological coordinates «one’s own – another’s». The using of precedent statements in the language of the policy and their receptiveness to the target audience is an indicator of the proportionality of individual, social or national cultural spheres.

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Nikolaeva, O. V. "Коммуникативные практики реализации риторики патриотизма в китайских СМИ на английском языке." Известия Восточного института 45, no. 1 (2020): 23–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.24866/2542-1611/2020-1/23-33.

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Работа посвящена вопросам прагматической эффективности патриотической риторики Китая в англоязычных китайских СМИ. Выявлены китайские традиционные и современные масс-медийные коммуникативные практики. Определена роль фигуральной актуализации концепта внешней угрозы посредством метафоры войны в отношении критических экономических и социальных факторов, и образа великого преодоления для поднятия патриотического духа. Исторические аллюзии и народная мудрость представлены как инструменты традиционной патриотической риторики Китая. Современные масс-медийные коммуникативные практики КНР включают конкретные ресурсы английского языка и англоязычной речевой традиции The paper is devoted to the issues of pragmatic effectiveness of China's patriotic rhetoric in the Chinese media in English. Chinese traditional and modern mass-media communication techniques are identified. The author defines the role of figurative actualization of the external threat concept through the metaphor of war in relation to critical economic and social factors, and the image of the great overcoming used to raise the patriotic spirit of the nation. Historical allusions and folk wisdom are presented as tools of traditional patriotic rhetoric in China. Modern mass-media communication practices of China include specific resources of the English language and the English-language speech tradition. In the coverage of critical events China employs harsh warning rhetoric, pun, and sarcasm. In light of the harsh attacks from the United States and the demonization of China in the American press and American politics, the communication practices of China's patriotic rhetoric, despite their deliberate external aggressiveness, are viewed as the reaction of a defensive nature

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Bonet, Eduard. "Narratives: the rhetoric of intentional action." Journal of Organizational Change Management 33, no. 4 (December 24, 2019): 591–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jocm-10-2019-0308.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to clarify that narratives have a rhetorical dimension, whose study has to be considered an important part of rhetoric (this claim is not accepted by important scholars). The arguments are based on the properties that narratives are very persuasive and that they are implicitly involved in the three species of rhetoric (deliberative, judicial and celebrative) introduced by Aristotle in his Rhetoric. Second, narratives are strongly related to the concept of intentional action or human action that has a purpose, a mental project and the execution of the act, such it is defined in the classical paper by Alfred Schutz common-sense and scientific interpretation of human action (1953). This property relates narratives with phenomenology, epistemology of social sciences and management research and practice. Design/methodology/approach This research is a theoretical work based on the study of central concepts of rhetoric, narratives, historiography and epistemology of social sciences and it uncovers the narrative aspects involved in intentional action. As a theoretical study, it does not include empirical studies, but it points out some kinds of management activities, such as creating projects and case studies. Findings It uncovers the relationships between rhetoric and narratives, and between narratives and intentional action. If offers a new conceptual frame that can be very productive. Originality/value This conceptual approach is new. It clarifies important misunderstandings about narrativity, facts, meanings and interpretations.

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Powers, Paul R. "You Say You Want a Reformation? Parsing the Ubiquitous Rhetoric of an “Islamic Reformation”." Comparative Islamic Studies 4, no. 1-2 (June 9, 2010): 37–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/cis.v4i4.1-4.2.37.

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The ideas of an “Islamic Reformation” and a “Muslim Luther” have been much discussed, especially since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. This “Reformation” rhetoric, however, displays little consistency, encompassing moderate, liberalizing trends as well as their putative opposite, Islamist “fundamentalism.” The rhetoric and the diverse phenomena to which it refers have provoked both enthusiastic endorsement and vigorous rejection. After briefly surveying the history of “Islamic Reformation” rhetoric, the present article argues for a four-part typology to account for most recent instances of such rhetoric. The analysis reveals that few who employ the terminology of an “Islamic Reformation” consider the specific details of its implicit analogy to the Protestant Reformation, but rather use this language to add emotional weight to various prescriptive agendas. However, some examples demonstrate the potential power of the analogy to illuminate important aspects of religious, social, and political change in the modern Islamic world.

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Davenport, Christian, and Marci Eads. "Cued to Coerce or Coercing Cues? An Exploration of Dissident Rhetoric and its Relationship to Political Repression." Mobilization: An International Quarterly 6, no. 2 (September 1, 2001): 151–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.17813/maiq.6.2.4671141747x2k660.

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This article explores whether and how state repression is influenced by a social movement organization's rhetoric; and, conversely, if dissident rhetoric is responsive to authorities' repressive efforts. These relationships are examined with data generated from several newspapers within the Bay area, across 253 weeks from 1969 to 1973, concerning rhetoric of the Black Panther Party (BPP) as well as police and court repression directed against the Panther organization. The results of the statistical analysis are mixed. Several aspects of BPP rhetoric increase both police and court-ordered repression, albeit at different magnitudes and lags. Moreover, results disclose that only police repression influences the discussion of particular topics in the Panther newspaper—the same topics that induce protest policing (again, across different lags). The analysis complements existing research on the conflict-repression nexus, but it also forces us to consider state-dissident interactions in a more comprehensive manner.

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Colantuono, Gaetano. "Quid faciunt hirci in grege Dei? Parenética, polémica e historia social en el s. 47 de Agustín." Augustinus 64, no. 1 (2019): 61–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/augustinus201964252/2534.

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The article deals with s. 47, stressing the lexical, linguistic, rhetoric, symbolic, argumentative aspects, related to three main topics: 1) The exegetical and controversial elements of the symbolic value of goats (hirci); (2) the analysis of the vocabulary and of the polemical antidonatist motives in the homily; (3) the legal influence (also at the lexical level) as part of the controversial christian homiletics in post-Theodosian age.

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Nelkin, Dorothy, Thomas F. Lee, and Sheldon Krimsky. "The Rhetoric of Scientific Revolution." Hastings Center Report 22, no. 4 (July 1992): 38. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3563023.

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Latham, Kevin. "Nothing but the Truth: News Media, Power and Hegemony in South China." China Quarterly 163 (September 2000): 633–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305741000014594.

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The post-Mao reform era in China has seen the demise of utopianism. Where once the rhetoric of an unfolding socialist utopia worked to spur on the masses in their subjugation to a national cause, since the 1980s the rhetoric has entailed varying degrees of hedonism with the proliferation of consumerism, individualism, self-reliance and personal responsibility devolved to the individual or family. This has produced Chinese worlds increasingly riven with anachronisms represented by the apparent contradictions of a “planned market” or “socialist market” economy. The realm of media production in the 1990s has found itself caught in the middle of this sphere of social and rhetorical contention, engendering its own contradictions. Indeed the contradictions exhibited there may be more exaggerated than elsewhere; most notably in how Party control of the media has continued alongside increasing pressures on media organizations to compete for readerships, audiences and advertisers on an open market. Characteristic of this situation has been the emergence of new forms of media populism.

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Prus, Robert. "Kenneth Burke’s Dramatistic Pragmatism: A Missing Link between Classical Greek Scholarship and the Interactionist Study of Human Knowing and Acting." Qualitative Sociology Review 13, no. 2 (April 30, 2017): 6–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.13.2.01.

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The term “rhetoric” often has been maligned by those lacking familiarity with classical Greek and Latin scholarship. However, a more sustained, historically-informed examination of persuasive interchange is of fundamental importance for the study of human knowing and acting across the humanities and social sciences, as well as all other realms of community life. While acknowledging several contemporary scholars who have reengaged aspects of classical Greek and Latin rhetoric, this statement gives particular attention to the works of Kenneth Burke and the linkages of Burke’s writings with Aristotle’s Rhetoric, as well as American pragmatist thought and the ethnographically, conceptually-oriented sociology known as symbolic interactionism (Blumer 1969; Strauss 1993; Prus 1996; 1997; 1999; 2015; Prus and Grills 2003). Because scholarship does not exist as isolated instances of genius, even the productions of highly accomplished individuals such as Kenneth Burke are best understood within the context of a horizontal- temporal, as well as a vertical-historical intellectual community. Accordingly, Burke’s contributions to the human sciences more generally and pragmatist social theory (along with its sociological extension, symbolic interaction) more specifically are best comprehended within this broader, historically-enabled scholarly context. Kenneth Burke’s dramatistic pragmatism is not the only missing link between classical Greek thought and symbolic interactionism, but Burke’s work on rhetoric represents a particularly important medium for extending the conceptual and analytic parameters of contemporary symbolic interaction. Indeed, Kenneth Burke’s scholarship has important implications for the fuller study of community life as implied in the most fundamental and enabling terms of human knowing and acting.

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Lee, Yun Kuen, and Naicheng Zhu. "Social integration of religion and ritual in prehistoric China." Antiquity 76, no. 293 (September 2002): 715–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x0009116x.

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Huang, Yinxuan. "Social capital and social trust in urban China." Chinese Journal of Sociology 4, no. 4 (September 4, 2018): 481–505. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2057150x18790083.

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Owing to the dynamics of internal migration and the hukou system, urban areas in China always consist of a four-tiered structure of urban locals, urban migrants, new urbanites and rural migrants. This paper aims to examine the differences among these four groups in terms of social capital and to explore how the association between social capital and social trust may vary across the four groups. Data are based on the 2014 China Labour-force Dynamics Survey. Our analysis of 7662 responses first indicates that patterns of social capital in the four urban groups appear to be largely distinct. Second, we find a clear rural–urban division in social trust in the Chinese city: rural migrants and new urbanites tend to be less trusting than urban locals and urban migrants. Among the aspects of social capital under consideration, social network support and neighbourhood attachment are associated with higher levels of social trust, whereas the effects of bonding and bridging civic organizations on social trust are relatively weak. However, these patterns indeed tend to vary across the four groups of urban residents in the cases of civic engagement and social network support. Consequently, these findings suggest that the interplay of individuals’ hukou identities and migration experiences in urban China has an important impact on their social connectedness, which also presents distinctive implications for social trust.

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Oyen, Meredith. "“Artless Dealing: The First Year of Trump’s Relations with China”." Journal of American-East Asian Relations 25, no. 2 (July 4, 2018): 113–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18765610-02502005.

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Entering the presidency, Donald J. Trump made clear his primary agenda with respect to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was altering the trade relationship between the two countries. As the challenge of a nuclear North Korea came to dominate his interactions with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, however, Trump was forced temporarily to put his economic complaints on the backburner. Despite his fiery rhetoric, prolific tweeting, and early missteps with respect to Taiwan, other aspects of the relationship looked to maintain the status quo. By the end of the year, Trump’s incoherent policy neither had improved nor irrevocably damaged Sino-American ties, but it did have the effect of altering the leadership position of the United States in East Asia, ceding a great deal to an increasingly internationally engaged China.

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Feng, Chen. "Order and Stability in Social Transition: Neoconservative Political Thought in Post-China." China Quarterly 151 (September 1997): 593–613. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305741000046841.

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With the end of the Deng Xiaoping era, China is struggling to define its future. Ongoing socioeconomic changes, impelled by Deng's reform since 1979, pose an unprecedented challenge to the post-Deng political leaders in terms of how to govern an increasingly open and economically prosperous but tension-ridden and potentially unstable society. This question also concerns many Chinese intellectuals and has actually become a new locus of intellectual political thinking. Contrary to the conventional wisdom that expanded economic freedom would foster the demands of political liberalization, the view prevailing in current Chinese intellectual circles is that of so-called neoconservatism.1 This term is loosely used to label a body of arguments calling for political stability, central authority, tight social control, role of ideology and nationalism.2 Such calls are also made by the government, but neoconservatism distinguishes itself from the official statements by defending the current political order from somehow different approaches and with very different rhetoric.

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Hess-Lüttich, Ernest W. B. "‘Evil tongues’: the rhetoric of discreet indiscretion in Fontane’s L’Adultera." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 11, no. 3 (August 2002): 217–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/096394700201100302.

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‘Gossip’ is yet to be discovered as a genre of everyday talk in the study of German language and literature. So far, it has been described in detail only in sociology, anthropology, ethnography of communication, and feminist linguistics. The focus of study in these fields has been on aspects of conversation analysis, social function, psychological implications, constellation of relationships, and the like. By contrast, based on a broadly established methodological foundation, linguistic tools of dialogue analysis are applied in this article to various forms of gossip in Theodor Fontane’s society novel L’Adultera. The main interest here is the way in which the author creates these forms of fictive, simulated, literary gossip in order to structure the course of the action, to give an indirect sketch of the characters, to include critical comments on the society of the time and to present literary means of negotiating social relationships.

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Lin, Yuting. "Legitimating Negative Aspects in Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting: Evidence From China." IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 62, no. 3 (September 2019): 263–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tpc.2019.2913917.

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Ostrovskiy, Andrey V. "Social Aspects of Economic Reforms in State-owned Enterprises in China." China Report 39, no. 1 (February 2003): 57–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000944550303900104.

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HASMATH, REZA, and ANDREW W. MACDONALD. "Beyond Special Privileges: The Discretionary Treatment of Ethnic Minorities in China's Welfare System." Journal of Social Policy 47, no. 2 (July 3, 2017): 295–316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279417000381.

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AbstractThe social welfare of ethnic minorities is a contested subject with a deep politicalised history in contemporary China. This article uses a new large dataset solely looking at ethnic minorities in China, to analyse the impact and outcomes that new urban social and welfare schemes – with notable attention to the basic medical insurance, and the minimum livelihood guarantee allowance (dibao) – have on the livelihoods of minorities. The data suggests that, contrary to the pro-minority rhetoric of the state, minority participation in social welfare programmes is predicated on the incentive set of local government officials. These findings have strong implications for constructing future social welfare policies, and for understanding their potential differential impact on ethnic minority cohorts.

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Ferraz de Matos, Patrícia. "Racial and Social Prejudice in the Colonial Empire." Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 28, no. 2 (September 1, 2019): 23–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2019.280203.

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This article analyses the issue of miscegenation in Portugal, which is directly associated with the context of its colonial empire, from late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. The analysis considers sources from both literary and scientific fields. Subsequently, aspects such as interracial marriage, degeneration and segregation as well as the changes brought about by the end of World War II and the social revolutions of the 1960s are considered. The 1980s brought several changes in the attitude towards Portuguese identity and nationality, which had meanwhile cut loose from its colonial context. Crossbreeding was never actually praised in the Portuguese colonial context, and despite still having strong repercussions in the present day, lusotropicalism was based on a fallacious rhetoric of politically motivated propaganda.

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Mautner, Gerlinde, and Mark Learmonth. "From administrator to CEO: Exploring changing representations of hierarchy and prestige in a diachronic corpus of academic management writing." Discourse & Communication 14, no. 3 (December 27, 2019): 273–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750481319893771.

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We explore the lexical choices made by authors published in Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ), a major academic journal in business and management studies. We do so via a corpus constructed from all the articles published in ASQ from its first publication in 1956 up until the end of 2018. Specifically, our focus is on lexical items that represent social actors. Our findings suggest that, compared with earlier work, recent articles typically ascribe greater status and prestige to organizational elites. Relatively contemporary papers are also more likely to use language that obfuscates or ignores unpalatable aspects of organizational life, such as power asymmetries, hierarchy and control through identity regulation. We suggest that these changes in word choices can be understood to reflect a wider trend towards neo-liberal rhetoric – a rhetoric increasingly pervading contemporary social life more generally.

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YANG, LICHAO, and ROBERT WALKER. "Poverty, Shame and Ethics in Contemporary China." Journal of Social Policy 49, no. 3 (August 13, 2019): 564–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279419000667.

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AbstractTaking China as a critical case, this article questions recent literature that asserts that shame attached to poverty is both ubiquitous and always problematic. In China, the concepts of shame, loss of face, lian (integrity) and mian (reputation) once provided an ethical framework under which the existence of poverty both indicated ineffective governance and provided individuals in poverty with opportunities to demonstrate virtuous behaviour in coping with life’s hardships. Maoist rhetoric went further presenting poor peasants as national heroes albeit the outcome of Maoist policies was often to hurt the most disadvantaged most. Subsequent marketisation has transformed poverty into a manifestation of personal failing with poverty-related shame having the same likely negative consequences as found elsewhere.

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Bauerline, Mark, and Agnieszka Kluba. "Social Constructionism: Philosophy for the Academic Workplace." Tekstualia 4, no. 35 (April 1, 2013): 37–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.4626.

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Social constructionism – currently dominant and passing for philosophical wisdom – an academic belief that any social object, institution, idea etc. is dependent on contingent, historical and social conditions, examined by Mark Bauerlein reveals its limited justifi cation. The author refers to the fundamental epistemological distinction between the contents of knowledge and the context of their emergence. He demonstrates how confusing those two different aspects lead to a well known logical mistake, the genetic fallacy. Yet, Bauerlein aims at reasoning that the actual rationale of social constructionism is far-distant from its declared epistemological quest and that in reality it consists in mere institutional benefi ts. Simplifying rhetoric, predictable conclusions and a chance to reduce research time predestine social constructionism to be the excellent methodology for „scholarship in haste”, when productivity standards replaced the model of erudition, refl ection and thorough studying.

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Lim, Elisha. "Personal Identity Economics: Facebook and the Distortion of Identity Politics." Social Media + Society 7, no. 2 (April 2021): 205630512110174. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20563051211017492.

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This article examines Facebook’s role in the treatment of marginalized identity as currency. Recent examples of solidarity statements and corporate social responsibility rhetoric treat disenfranchised racial and gender identities as value-added competitive market quantities to boost brands. This trend also incentivizes marginalized actors to capitalize on their own disenfranchisement in pursuit of visibility and career advancement. The resulting identity politicking replaces communal care, grassroots social ties, solidarity, and interdependence with isolating market competition. This article diverges from scholars who trouble the differential value of identity—by troubling the valuation of identity itself. Facebook normalizes identity as private property in what I call a transition from identity politics to “personal identity economics.” I coin this concept and break it down into the following four factors: (1) The optimization of difference beginning in the 1970s, (2) Facebook’s algorithmic invasion of market logic into intimate aspects of life starting in the mid 2000s, (3) Ads Manager’s economization of identity into legible economic units, and (4) neoliberal corporate social responsibility rhetoric of “social good” as a profitable asset.

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Lukonin, S. A., and B. A. Anosov. "China: Decarbonising the Economy and Adhering to the ESG Principles." Federalism 26, no. 3 (October 4, 2021): 192–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.21686/2073-1051-2021-3-192-205.

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In China, as in other countries, ESG factors are becoming more and more important in the investment discourse and, in particular, in the reporting of public companies. However, if factor E (environmental) is actively discussed both within public companies and by the Chinese government, then reporting on factors S (social) and G (governance) is still in its infancy, since it must be borne in mind that the Chinese private sector is in in conjunction with the official rhetoric of the Chinese government, and the difference in the perception of social and managerial factors between Chinese business and Western companies determines the inconsistency of Chinese reporting with Western standards. This article analyzes the use of ESG principles by Chinese companies, the impact of decarbonization on China’s Belt and Road investment project, as well as China’s international cooperation on decarbonization and ESG principles.

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Lukonin, S. A., and B. A. Anosov. "China: Decarbonising the Economy and Adhering to the ESG Principles." Federalism 26, no. 3 (October 4, 2021): 192–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.21686/2073-1051-2021-3-192-205.

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In China, as in other countries, ESG factors are becoming more and more important in the investment discourse and, in particular, in the reporting of public companies. However, if factor E (environmental) is actively discussed both within public companies and by the Chinese government, then reporting on factors S (social) and G (governance) is still in its infancy, since it must be borne in mind that the Chinese private sector is in in conjunction with the official rhetoric of the Chinese government, and the difference in the perception of social and managerial factors between Chinese business and Western companies determines the inconsistency of Chinese reporting with Western standards. This article analyzes the use of ESG principles by Chinese companies, the impact of decarbonization on China’s Belt and Road investment project, as well as China’s international cooperation on decarbonization and ESG principles.

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LUO, Yong. "Green Transformation in China." Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies 01, no. 01 (December 2013): 1350005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s234574811350005x.

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China's economic and social development not only faces common challenges in the stage of growth, but also has to address the special resource and environmental challenges. In the future, China should demonstrate the greenness of economic and social development, and carry out holistic green transformation of all aspects including the social system and thinking. In the course of industrialization and urbanization, China should promote ecological harmony and social progress and enhance the greenness of the whole economy. Environmental conditions should be improved according to people's will. China should explore new social management modes, alleviate the resource and environmental pressure brought by the high-consumption lifestyle, and realize green social progress. The government, industrial and commercial enterprises and the public should implement the concept of green development in economic strategies, policies and actions unswervingly and persistently.

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Shao, Chenyun. "The Social and Cultural Implications of the Egg Freezing Policy in China." International Journal of Social Science Studies 8, no. 6 (October 22, 2020): 86. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/ijsss.v8i6.5014.

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The technology of egg freezing has become increasingly popular and has caused heated scholarly debates. However, most scholarships focus on egg freezing exclusively in the United States. This paper fills in the gap by investigating the social and cultural implications of the egg freezing policy in China. This paper first examines feminist rhetoric used by both sides in the global egg freezing debate. The paper then introduces the current Chinese egg freezing policy. This section addresses the question, “Why does the Chinese government implement the current egg freezing policy?” by analyzing how the Chinese culture views reproduction and single women. By analyzing egg freezing in context of the Chinese culture, I concluded that the older and younger generations have different views on egg freezing. Finally, I share the results from a survey that I designed and distributed to see how Chinese people perceive egg freezing. I found that most respondents support universal access to egg freezing in China but have questions on the risks and disadvantages of egg freezing. Many respondents also perceive egg freezing as a technology to “preserve/guarantee motherhood” for women, which ironically serves to pressure women into motherhood instead of giving them true reproductive freedom.

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Reis, Alessandro Vieira dos, and Livia Topper Press. "Sesame Credit: Social Compliance Gamification in China." Journal of Games, Game Art, and Gamification 4, no. 1 (October 19, 2021): 7–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.21512/jggag.v4i1.7239.

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Sesame Creditis the gamified Chinese social credit. It aims at monitoring and controlling the behavior of more than a billion citizens until 2020. Basing itself on the distribution of rewards and punishments to individuals, upon scoring based on the compliance of the aforementioned citizens towards laws and government interests. The present study probes Sesame Credit from data collected from academic papers, Chinese government official documents, as well as media articles.An interpretative analysis is conducted based on the Octalysismethod of gamification and the motivational method known as the Self-Determination Theory. Residing as main conclusions: a) the efficiency of the Sesame Credit depends on extensive and continual monitoring of the population by the Chinese government; b) despite the coercive aspects, such gamification is observed to be as popular in China, due to a millenary tradition of people’s compliance to the social and those of authority obedience

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Gries, Peter, and Tao Wang. "Taiwan’s perilous futures: Chinese Nationalism, the 2020 Presidential Elections, and U.S.-China Tensions Spell Trouble for Cross-strait Relations." World Affairs 183, no. 1 (March 2020): 40–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0043820020907673.

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The Taiwan Strait is heating up, as Mainland Chinese netizens, generals, and politicians increasingly talk about ‘forceful’ rather than ‘peaceful’ reunification. While Xi Jinping and Chinese nationalists desperately desire Taiwan’s reunification, Trump’s isolationist “America First” rhetoric has only encouraged reckless Chinese thinking about forcing reunification, and the Taiwanese remain largely passive, unable to confront an overwhelming threat. Wishful thinking in Beijing, Taipei, and Washington is increasing the odds of miscalculation. The 2020 presidential elections in Taiwan and the United States, and the ongoing U.S.-China trade war, furthermore, bode ill for peace in the Taiwan Strait.

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