GIGA Journal Family | 05/11/2023

New Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 2/2023

This year’s second edition of the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs is a special issue covering the politics of memory, heritage, and diversity in modern China, along with two research articles on the Digital Silk Road and the perception of China among Kazakh graduate students.


  • Journal of Current Chinese Affairs Vol. 52, No. 2 (2023)

    Special Issue: Politics of Memory, Heritage, and Diversity in Modern China Guest Editor: Maximilian Mayer

    Special Issue Introduction

    • Maximilian Mayer, Karolina Pawlik: Politics of Memory, Heritage, and Diversity in Modern China

      Abstract | PDF

    Special Issue Articles

    • Christina Maags: State Institutions as Building Blocks of China's Infrastructures of Memory – The Case of Intangible Heritage

      Abstract | PDF

    • Ryoko Nakano: A Geocultural Power Competition in UNESCO’s Silk Roads Project: China’s Initiatives and the Responses From Japan and South Korea

      Abstract | PDF

    • Sandra Gilgan: History, Memory, and Place in the Popular Revival of Confucian Educational Traditions

      Abstract | PDF

    • Andrew Malcolm Law, Qianqian Qin: Reflexive Han-Ness, Narratives of Moral Decline, Manchurian Subjects and “Mass” Societal Others: A Study of the Hanfu Movement in the Cities of Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai, Wuhan, and Xi’an

      Abstract | PDF

    • Melissa Shani Brown, David O’Brien: “Making the Past Serve the Present”: The Testimonial Tourist Gaze and Infrastructures of Memory in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), China

      Abstract | PDF

    • Hendrik W. Ohnesorge, John M. Owen: Mnemonic Soft Power: The Role of Memory in China's Quest for Global Power

      Abstract | PDF

    Research Articles

    • Christiane Heidbrink, Conrad Becker: Framing the Digital Silk Road's (De)Securitisation

      Abstract | PDF

    • Zhanibek Arynov: Educated into Sinophilia? How Kazakh Graduates/Students of Chinese Universities Perceive China

      Abstract | PDF

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