Lauri Paltemaa
Biographic Data
| ID | 127304 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauri Paltemaa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauri |
| FAMILY NAME | Paltemaa |
| SIGNATURE | PALTEMAA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turku |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6192-933X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
China’s Covid-19 Aid Diplomacy in 2020: Patterns and Motivations
This article investigates the determinants underlying the Chinese Covid-19 global humanitarian aid campaign in 2020 by statistical analysis on a novel author-made dataset that tracks Chinese aid across the globe in 2020. The results show that many existing Chinese humanitarian aid practices first followed a policy of near universalism of aid, but then resumed more traditional forms of Chinese humanitarian aid targeting the Global South on a bilat…
Building the Image of China as a ‘Responsible Major Country’ in Advanced Economies: Did Beijing’s Covid-19 Aid Campaign Work
Drawing on a novel dataset collecting China’s Covid-19-related donations of personal protection equipment, and PEW survey data from 2019 to 2021, this paper argues that despite the historically unprecedented scale of China’s Covid-19 humanitarian aid to advanced economies in 2020, its country image effects appear in retrospect both mixed and short-lived. The findings help us to better understand the limits of Chinese humanitarian aid and disaster…
Kriittinen esitys Kiinan lähihistoriasta ja talousmallista
Arvio teoksesta: Frank Dikötter: China After Mao. The Rise of a Superpower. Bloomsbury Publishing 2022. 390 s. ISBN 978-163-973-051-3
Meta-information censorship and the creation of the Chinanet Bubble
The question of who controls meta-information online has become a hot-button issue with profound political implications. The present article explores how state-led online censorship in the People’s Republic of China can create information bubbles, and how it is possible to analyze them. The article is based on a systematic comparison between 3,000 Google.com and Baidu.com image search results on a series of selected, potentially sensitive, keywor…
China's changing disaster management regime
This article analyses China's disaster management regime at the local level. The article outlines historic disaster management regimes from the pre-imperial era to the present and ends with an analysis of the ongoing campaign for 'comprehensive disaster relief model communities'. As argued in the article, throughout history Chinese disaster management has been characterized by attempts to combine strong state leadership with active grass-roots pa…
Researching disasters and disaster management in China: Persistent questions and emerging trends
This article offers an introduction to China Information's special issue on disasters and disaster management. It is argued here that studying disasters and disaster management should not only improve our understanding of them as social phenomena and thereby increase our ability to manage disasters better, but also that disasters offer unique windows for researchers to study Chinese society and explain social and political changes therein. The ar…
The Lexicon of Fear: Chinese Internet Control Practice in Sina Weibo Microblog Censorship
This article examines how Chinese practices of security governmentality are enacted in everyday online censorship and surveillance/dataveillance of word flows in the Chinese internet. Our analysis of crowdsourced lists of filtered words on the Sina Weibo microblog shows that search engine filtering is based on a two-layer system where short-lived political incidents tend to be filtered for brief periods of time, while words that are conducive to …
Serve the City! Urban disaster governance in Tianjin city 1958-1962
Using new archival materials, internal publications, and gazetteers as its sources, this article studies the conduct of disaster governance in Tianjin city during the Great Leap Forward famine from 1958-1962. The city was organizationally well able to implement disaster relief efforts, and early on it took a number of measures to control and mitigate the food crisis that began in the city in early 1959. However, Maoist campaign-based disaster man…
The Maoist Urban State and Crisis: Comparing Disaster Management in the Great Tianjin Flood in 1963 and the Great Leap Forward Famine
Popular Protest in China . Kevin J. O'Brien
Regime Transition and the Chinese Politics of Technology: From Mass Science to the Controlled Internet
The article employs the concepts of the politics of technology and regime transition for analysing the connection between political power and the application of technology in contemporary Chinese history. Examining the Maoist policy of 'mass science' and the contemporary Chinese Communist Party (CCP) policies on information and communication technologies, and Internet control, shows how regime-determined policy goals, namely social transformation…
The Democracy Wall Movement, Marxist Revisionism, and the Variations on Socialist Democracy
This article analyses the Beijing Democracy Wall Movement's argumentation on democratic reforms in 1978–1981 from the perspective of the larger genre of international revisionist Marxism critical of Leninist/Stalinist political systems at the time of the movement. The movement's argumentation contained three distinct variations on the same theme of socialist democracy, which the author calls classical Marxist, eclectic Marxist and non-Marxist lin…
Individual and Collective Identities of the Beijing Democracy Wall Movement Activists, 1978-1981
Drawing on the new social movement approach, this study focuses on the construction and uses of collective and individual identities in the Beijing Democracy Movement (1978-1981). The movement's mainstream constructed a progressive Marxist identity and its individual participants used it to prove the movement's historical necessity and justify its democratic agenda. Combined with the related identity of socialist citizens, the proponents defended…
The Lexicon of Fear: Chinese Internet Control Practice in Sina Weibo Microblog Censorship
This article examines how Chinese practices of security governmentality are enacted in everyday online censorship and surveillance/dataveillance of word flows in the Chinese internet. Our analysis of crowdsourced lists of filtered words on the Sina Weibo microblog shows that search engine filtering is based on a two-layer system where short-lived political incidents tend to be filtered for brief periods of time, while words that are conducive to …
Regime Transition and the Chinese Politics of Technology: From Mass Science to the Controlled Internet
The article employs the concepts of the politics of technology and regime transition for analysing the connection between political power and the application of technology in contemporary Chinese history. Examining the Maoist policy of 'mass science' and the contemporary Chinese Communist Party (CCP) policies on information and communication technologies, and Internet control, shows how regime-determined policy goals, namely social transformation…
The Democracy Wall Movement, Marxist Revisionism, and the Variations on Socialist Democracy
This article analyses the Beijing Democracy Wall Movement's argumentation on democratic reforms in 1978–1981 from the perspective of the larger genre of international revisionist Marxism critical of Leninist/Stalinist political systems at the time of the movement. The movement's argumentation contained three distinct variations on the same theme of socialist democracy, which the author calls classical Marxist, eclectic Marxist and non-Marxist lin…
China's changing disaster management regime
This article analyses China's disaster management regime at the local level. The article outlines historic disaster management regimes from the pre-imperial era to the present and ends with an analysis of the ongoing campaign for 'comprehensive disaster relief model communities'. As argued in the article, throughout history Chinese disaster management has been characterized by attempts to combine strong state leadership with active grass-roots pa…
Researching disasters and disaster management in China: Persistent questions and emerging trends
This article offers an introduction to China Information's special issue on disasters and disaster management. It is argued here that studying disasters and disaster management should not only improve our understanding of them as social phenomena and thereby increase our ability to manage disasters better, but also that disasters offer unique windows for researchers to study Chinese society and explain social and political changes therein. The ar…
The Maoist Urban State and Crisis: Comparing Disaster Management in the Great Tianjin Flood in 1963 and the Great Leap Forward Famine
Individual and Collective Identities of the Beijing Democracy Wall Movement Activists, 1978-1981
Drawing on the new social movement approach, this study focuses on the construction and uses of collective and individual identities in the Beijing Democracy Movement (1978-1981). The movement's mainstream constructed a progressive Marxist identity and its individual participants used it to prove the movement's historical necessity and justify its democratic agenda. Combined with the related identity of socialist citizens, the proponents defended…
Individual and Collective Identities of the Beijing Democracy Wall Movement Activists, 1978-1981
Drawing on the new social movement approach, this study focuses on the construction and uses of collective and individual identities in the Beijing Democracy Movement (1978-1981). The movement's mainstream constructed a progressive Marxist identity and its individual participants used it to prove the movement's historical necessity and justify its democratic agenda. Combined with the related identity of socialist citizens, the proponents defended…
The Democracy Wall Movement, Marxist Revisionism, and the Variations on Socialist Democracy
This article analyses the Beijing Democracy Wall Movement's argumentation on democratic reforms in 1978–1981 from the perspective of the larger genre of international revisionist Marxism critical of Leninist/Stalinist political systems at the time of the movement. The movement's argumentation contained three distinct variations on the same theme of socialist democracy, which the author calls classical Marxist, eclectic Marxist and non-Marxist lin…
Popular Protest in China . Kevin J. O'Brien
Regime Transition and the Chinese Politics of Technology: From Mass Science to the Controlled Internet
The article employs the concepts of the politics of technology and regime transition for analysing the connection between political power and the application of technology in contemporary Chinese history. Examining the Maoist policy of 'mass science' and the contemporary Chinese Communist Party (CCP) policies on information and communication technologies, and Internet control, shows how regime-determined policy goals, namely social transformation…
The Maoist Urban State and Crisis: Comparing Disaster Management in the Great Tianjin Flood in 1963 and the Great Leap Forward Famine
The Lexicon of Fear: Chinese Internet Control Practice in Sina Weibo Microblog Censorship
This article examines how Chinese practices of security governmentality are enacted in everyday online censorship and surveillance/dataveillance of word flows in the Chinese internet. Our analysis of crowdsourced lists of filtered words on the Sina Weibo microblog shows that search engine filtering is based on a two-layer system where short-lived political incidents tend to be filtered for brief periods of time, while words that are conducive to …
Serve the City! Urban disaster governance in Tianjin city 1958-1962
Using new archival materials, internal publications, and gazetteers as its sources, this article studies the conduct of disaster governance in Tianjin city during the Great Leap Forward famine from 1958-1962. The city was organizationally well able to implement disaster relief efforts, and early on it took a number of measures to control and mitigate the food crisis that began in the city in early 1959. However, Maoist campaign-based disaster man…
China's changing disaster management regime
This article analyses China's disaster management regime at the local level. The article outlines historic disaster management regimes from the pre-imperial era to the present and ends with an analysis of the ongoing campaign for 'comprehensive disaster relief model communities'. As argued in the article, throughout history Chinese disaster management has been characterized by attempts to combine strong state leadership with active grass-roots pa…
Researching disasters and disaster management in China: Persistent questions and emerging trends
This article offers an introduction to China Information's special issue on disasters and disaster management. It is argued here that studying disasters and disaster management should not only improve our understanding of them as social phenomena and thereby increase our ability to manage disasters better, but also that disasters offer unique windows for researchers to study Chinese society and explain social and political changes therein. The ar…
Meta-information censorship and the creation of the Chinanet Bubble
The question of who controls meta-information online has become a hot-button issue with profound political implications. The present article explores how state-led online censorship in the People’s Republic of China can create information bubbles, and how it is possible to analyze them. The article is based on a systematic comparison between 3,000 Google.com and Baidu.com image search results on a series of selected, potentially sensitive, keywor…
Kriittinen esitys Kiinan lähihistoriasta ja talousmallista
Arvio teoksesta: Frank Dikötter: China After Mao. The Rise of a Superpower. Bloomsbury Publishing 2022. 390 s. ISBN 978-163-973-051-3
China’s Covid-19 Aid Diplomacy in 2020: Patterns and Motivations
This article investigates the determinants underlying the Chinese Covid-19 global humanitarian aid campaign in 2020 by statistical analysis on a novel author-made dataset that tracks Chinese aid across the globe in 2020. The results show that many existing Chinese humanitarian aid practices first followed a policy of near universalism of aid, but then resumed more traditional forms of Chinese humanitarian aid targeting the Global South on a bilat…
Building the Image of China as a ‘Responsible Major Country’ in Advanced Economies: Did Beijing’s Covid-19 Aid Campaign Work
Drawing on a novel dataset collecting China’s Covid-19-related donations of personal protection equipment, and PEW survey data from 2019 to 2021, this paper argues that despite the historically unprecedented scale of China’s Covid-19 humanitarian aid to advanced economies in 2020, its country image effects appear in retrospect both mixed and short-lived. The findings help us to better understand the limits of Chinese humanitarian aid and disaster…
Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (11 works) · China (9 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Management (4 works)