Crisis / edited by Jane Golley, Linda Jaivin, and Sharon Strange.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Golley, Jane, 1971- editor.

Jaivin, Linda, editor.

Strange, Sharon, editor.

Series:

China story yearbook.

China Story Yearbook Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International economic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (398 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Canberra ANU Press 2021

Canberra, ACT : ANU Press, [2021]

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Title Page

Copyright and Imprint Information

Contents

Introduction

The Year of Crisis

Acknowledgements

The Cover Image

Forum · Standing on a Precipice

The Etymology of the Character of Wei 危

Chapter 1

The Construction of Political Superiority

Forum · Masks and Wolves

Mask Diplomacy: Shifting the COVID-19 Narrative?

The Rise and Fall of the Wolf Warriors

Chapter 2

Beating the Virus in the Chinese Countryside

Forum · Down and Out in Hong Kong

Hong Kong's National Security Law

Waste and the Elderly Working Poor in Hong Kong

Chapter 3

Women's Bodies, Intimate Politics, and Feminist Consciousness Amid COVID-19

Forum · Cultural Communication

The Language of Trust

Chapter 4

The Chinese Economy: Crisis, Control, Recovery, Refocus

Forum · Coping Through Laughter and Prayer

Humour in Crisis

The Power of Compassion: The Buddhist Approach to COVID-19

Chapter 5

China's Post-COVID-19 Stimulus: Dark Clouds, Green Lining

Forum · Broken River Shattered Mountain

The Three Gorges Dam: A Deluge of Doubts

Chapter 6

The Future Repeats Itself: COVID-19 and Its Historical Comorbidities

Forum · Plan for Difficulty

The Dao of Crisis

Chapter 7

US-China Relations: A Lingering Crisis

Forum · Difficult Choices

Taiwan's Search for a Grand Strategy

Malaysia: Taking No Side but Its Own

Chapter 8

The Sino-Indian Border Crisis: Chinese Perceptions of Indian Nationalism

Forum · Of Mao and Money

Chinese Loans to Africa: Trap or Treasure?

Off the Prachanda Path: Nepali Communists' Crisis of Legitimacy

Chapter 9

Economic Power and Vulnerability in Sino-Australian Relations

Forum · Playing the Game?

China and the Multilateral Trading System: Misunderstandings, Criticisms, and Options

Chapter 10.

Chinese Students Abroad in the Time of Pandemic: An Australian View

Chronology

Notes

Contributors

Previous China Story Yearbooks.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781760464394

1760464392

OCLC:

1241726456

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access