Gary Sigley
Biographic Data
| ID | 321206 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gary Sigley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gary |
| FAMILY NAME | Sigley |
| SIGNATURE | SIGLEY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Beijing Normal University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7615-2412 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 191 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Cultural route heritage as mobility narrative
The Grand Canal is a network which for over one millennium connected the rice growing regions of southern China with the centres of political power in the north. During the 19th and 20th centuries it fell into decline. In the 1980s calls for the Grand Canal’s heritage preservation appeared. China’s heritage system was transitioning from a focus on ‘cultural relics’ to that of ‘cultural heritage’. This transition involved the theorisation, constru…
Caravan Modernity
This article analyses how and why, during the War of Resistance (1937–1945), Nationalist China revitalised the dynastic system of transportation and communication (yiyun zhidu). Due to the blockade by the Japanese Imperial Army, it shows, everything essential to the war effort was in short supply. If essential items were available, the difficulties in securing transportation were overwhelming. This was exacerbated by the transfer of the capital t…
Governing the Digital Economy
In 2019 President Xi Jinping called for the prioritisation of blockchain technology as part of China's next phase of development. In China, blockchain technologies have been experimentally deployed in various areas including court records, securities exchanges, finance, and food supply chains. The emergence of blockchain as a governmental technology raises numerous questions, including: (i) what are the conditions of emergence and existence of Ch…
The Great Tea Road and the Belt and Road Initiative
The Great Tea Road (Wanli chadao) is a 13,000 km trade route that for two centuries connected Qing China and Tsarist Russia. It has been identified in recent years as an important category of China’s route heritage. The rediscovery of the Great Tea Road, and other Chinese route heritage, is being framed in a ‘mobility narrative’, that is, a narrative that describes how mobility and exchange over space and time contribute to the formation of the C…
Reimagining the 'Central Plains' (Zhongyuan) and 'Borderlands' (Bianjiang)
It is thirty years since the concept of the Ancient Tea Horse Road (Chamagudao) (ATHR) was formed. Over time it has developed from a scholarly concept to become a significant item in toponymic branding in the tea and tourism industries of Southwest China. As a mobility narrative, the ATHR tells the story of how the diverse peoples of the Southwest forged a collective identity through the production, exchange and consumption of tea. Since its ince…
Using Social Networks to Analyze the Spatiotemporal Patterns of the Rolling Stock Manufacturing Industry for Countries in the Belt and Road Initiative
The new wave of modern rail transit and the proposal of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) have complicated the business patterns of the rolling stock manufacturing industry (RSMI) and the export of rolling stock products, especially in the case of countries participating in the BRI. Based on the analysis of trade patterns—which focuses on the evolution of trade links, community structures, and intraregional export competitiveness—this study aims…
Tea and China’s rise
Social policy and social work in contemporary China
On the 2 May 2005 in a series of special news reports coinciding with International Labour Day, Focus Point (jiaodian fangtan), China Central Television's (CCTV) premier investigative news programm
Governmentality, governance and China
Governmentality – a term coined by Michel Foucault (1979, 1991) to describe a rethinking of the notion of government – has become a key concept in the humanities and social sciences since the 1990s. Defined as ‘the conduct of conduct’, that is, any more or less calculated means of directing how we behave and act, the concept of governmentality has generated a proliferating body of work on the ‘how’ of governing: how we govern; how we are governed…
Suzhi , the Body, and the Fortunes of Technoscientific Reasoning in Contemporary China
This essay examines how the human body has been variously imagined and acted upon in twentieth-century China. It does so by focusing on one particularly prominent feature of Chinese discourse concerned with the calculation, measurement, and shaping of the human body and human conduct: the notion of suzhi (quality). By examining the position of suzhi in a broader discourse concerning the population and its attributes (which also intersects with ke…
The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism . Tani E. Barlow
Chinese Governmentalities
This paper examines significant changes (and continuities) in the realm of government in contemporary China through drawing upon the insights of governmentality studies. It summarizes the organizing concerns of governmentality studies, arguing that they have functioned, albeit by default, to preclude a consideration of how governmentality is played out in non-liberal contexts. This argument is developed by outlining shifts in the nature of govern…
The Emerging Lesbian
Marketing theory
What does a book on dance halls have in common with a study of eugenics? Sex. More precisely as the title suggest James Farrers Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai locates itself in the hustle and bustle of cosmopolitan Shanghai. Likewise Frank Dikotters Imperfect Conceptions: Medical Knowledge Birth Defects and Eugenics in takes as its field of inquiry eugenic discourse in twentieth-century China. As is no doubt obvious t…
Liberal Despotism
The article discusses liberal despotism, population planning, subjectivity, and government in contemporary China. Liberal Despotism, is a trope for oriental despotism. The image of oriental despotism is a familiar one. The hallmark of despotism in this instance is that one is governed by others and not by oneself. The subject is at the mercy of caprice and not self-will. Whether for reasons of geography, culture, race, or a combination thereof, t…
Middle Kingdom Mentalities
China has a venerable tradition of intellectual concern with the welfare of the country and its people - youmin youguo . The 1980s and 1990s have witnessed something of a revival in writing on the future prospects and hopes of the Chinese nation. At the beginning of the new millennium, Chinese intellectuals are heralding the dawn of a 'Chinese century'. The aim of this paper is to provide a preliminary analysis of this emerging body of literature…
Hunyin, xingbie yu xing
On “sex” and “sexuality” in China
Pan Suiming, a professor at the Institute for Sexological Research (People's University of China, Beijing) is widely regarded, by Chinese and Western scholars alike, as a leading exponent in the newly emerging field of sexological research and sex education in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Besides lecturing in the field of sexological research, he has written various articles on the nature of sexual attitudes and sexual behaviors in China…
Peasants into chinamen”
Guest Editor's Introduction
Museums are fascinating places, not just for their accepted pedagogic value but also for the way they so often stand as monuments to prevailing taxonomic, ontologic, and epistemic discourses. The museum, an invention of the grand imperial project of collection and display, of bridging historical time and geographical distance by centralizing a knowing gaze in one location, has consistently played its part in the civilizing process by informing th…
Governing Chinese bodies
The purpose of this paper is to conduct a preliminary investigation into the possibilities of utilizing some of the methods and concepts developed under the auspices of 'govermentality' in a Chinese context. The way in which the reproductive regularities of the population have emerged as a problem for Chinese governmental reasoning will serve as a point of departure to conduct this investigation. The goverment of reproduction is shown to involve …
Chinese Governmentalities
This paper examines significant changes (and continuities) in the realm of government in contemporary China through drawing upon the insights of governmentality studies. It summarizes the organizing concerns of governmentality studies, arguing that they have functioned, albeit by default, to preclude a consideration of how governmentality is played out in non-liberal contexts. This argument is developed by outlining shifts in the nature of govern…
Suzhi , the Body, and the Fortunes of Technoscientific Reasoning in Contemporary China
This essay examines how the human body has been variously imagined and acted upon in twentieth-century China. It does so by focusing on one particularly prominent feature of Chinese discourse concerned with the calculation, measurement, and shaping of the human body and human conduct: the notion of suzhi (quality). By examining the position of suzhi in a broader discourse concerning the population and its attributes (which also intersects with ke…
Governing Chinese bodies
The purpose of this paper is to conduct a preliminary investigation into the possibilities of utilizing some of the methods and concepts developed under the auspices of 'govermentality' in a Chinese context. The way in which the reproductive regularities of the population have emerged as a problem for Chinese governmental reasoning will serve as a point of departure to conduct this investigation. The goverment of reproduction is shown to involve …
Liberal Despotism
The article discusses liberal despotism, population planning, subjectivity, and government in contemporary China. Liberal Despotism, is a trope for oriental despotism. The image of oriental despotism is a familiar one. The hallmark of despotism in this instance is that one is governed by others and not by oneself. The subject is at the mercy of caprice and not self-will. Whether for reasons of geography, culture, race, or a combination thereof, t…
The Great Tea Road and the Belt and Road Initiative
The Great Tea Road (Wanli chadao) is a 13,000 km trade route that for two centuries connected Qing China and Tsarist Russia. It has been identified in recent years as an important category of China’s route heritage. The rediscovery of the Great Tea Road, and other Chinese route heritage, is being framed in a ‘mobility narrative’, that is, a narrative that describes how mobility and exchange over space and time contribute to the formation of the C…
Social policy and social work in contemporary China
On the 2 May 2005 in a series of special news reports coinciding with International Labour Day, Focus Point (jiaodian fangtan), China Central Television's (CCTV) premier investigative news programm
On “sex” and “sexuality” in China
Pan Suiming, a professor at the Institute for Sexological Research (People's University of China, Beijing) is widely regarded, by Chinese and Western scholars alike, as a leading exponent in the newly emerging field of sexological research and sex education in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Besides lecturing in the field of sexological research, he has written various articles on the nature of sexual attitudes and sexual behaviors in China…
Governing the Digital Economy
In 2019 President Xi Jinping called for the prioritisation of blockchain technology as part of China's next phase of development. In China, blockchain technologies have been experimentally deployed in various areas including court records, securities exchanges, finance, and food supply chains. The emergence of blockchain as a governmental technology raises numerous questions, including: (i) what are the conditions of emergence and existence of Ch…
Peasants into chinamen”
Governing Chinese bodies
The purpose of this paper is to conduct a preliminary investigation into the possibilities of utilizing some of the methods and concepts developed under the auspices of 'govermentality' in a Chinese context. The way in which the reproductive regularities of the population have emerged as a problem for Chinese governmental reasoning will serve as a point of departure to conduct this investigation. The goverment of reproduction is shown to involve …
Peasants into chinamen”
Guest Editor's Introduction
Museums are fascinating places, not just for their accepted pedagogic value but also for the way they so often stand as monuments to prevailing taxonomic, ontologic, and epistemic discourses. The museum, an invention of the grand imperial project of collection and display, of bridging historical time and geographical distance by centralizing a knowing gaze in one location, has consistently played its part in the civilizing process by informing th…
Hunyin, xingbie yu xing
On “sex” and “sexuality” in China
Pan Suiming, a professor at the Institute for Sexological Research (People's University of China, Beijing) is widely regarded, by Chinese and Western scholars alike, as a leading exponent in the newly emerging field of sexological research and sex education in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Besides lecturing in the field of sexological research, he has written various articles on the nature of sexual attitudes and sexual behaviors in China…
Middle Kingdom Mentalities
China has a venerable tradition of intellectual concern with the welfare of the country and its people - youmin youguo . The 1980s and 1990s have witnessed something of a revival in writing on the future prospects and hopes of the Chinese nation. At the beginning of the new millennium, Chinese intellectuals are heralding the dawn of a 'Chinese century'. The aim of this paper is to provide a preliminary analysis of this emerging body of literature…
The Emerging Lesbian
Marketing theory
What does a book on dance halls have in common with a study of eugenics? Sex. More precisely as the title suggest James Farrers Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai locates itself in the hustle and bustle of cosmopolitan Shanghai. Likewise Frank Dikotters Imperfect Conceptions: Medical Knowledge Birth Defects and Eugenics in takes as its field of inquiry eugenic discourse in twentieth-century China. As is no doubt obvious t…
Liberal Despotism
The article discusses liberal despotism, population planning, subjectivity, and government in contemporary China. Liberal Despotism, is a trope for oriental despotism. The image of oriental despotism is a familiar one. The hallmark of despotism in this instance is that one is governed by others and not by oneself. The subject is at the mercy of caprice and not self-will. Whether for reasons of geography, culture, race, or a combination thereof, t…
The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism . Tani E. Barlow
Chinese Governmentalities
This paper examines significant changes (and continuities) in the realm of government in contemporary China through drawing upon the insights of governmentality studies. It summarizes the organizing concerns of governmentality studies, arguing that they have functioned, albeit by default, to preclude a consideration of how governmentality is played out in non-liberal contexts. This argument is developed by outlining shifts in the nature of govern…
Governmentality, governance and China
Governmentality – a term coined by Michel Foucault (1979, 1991) to describe a rethinking of the notion of government – has become a key concept in the humanities and social sciences since the 1990s. Defined as ‘the conduct of conduct’, that is, any more or less calculated means of directing how we behave and act, the concept of governmentality has generated a proliferating body of work on the ‘how’ of governing: how we govern; how we are governed…
Suzhi , the Body, and the Fortunes of Technoscientific Reasoning in Contemporary China
This essay examines how the human body has been variously imagined and acted upon in twentieth-century China. It does so by focusing on one particularly prominent feature of Chinese discourse concerned with the calculation, measurement, and shaping of the human body and human conduct: the notion of suzhi (quality). By examining the position of suzhi in a broader discourse concerning the population and its attributes (which also intersects with ke…
Social policy and social work in contemporary China
On the 2 May 2005 in a series of special news reports coinciding with International Labour Day, Focus Point (jiaodian fangtan), China Central Television's (CCTV) premier investigative news programm
Tea and China’s rise
Using Social Networks to Analyze the Spatiotemporal Patterns of the Rolling Stock Manufacturing Industry for Countries in the Belt and Road Initiative
The new wave of modern rail transit and the proposal of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) have complicated the business patterns of the rolling stock manufacturing industry (RSMI) and the export of rolling stock products, especially in the case of countries participating in the BRI. Based on the analysis of trade patterns—which focuses on the evolution of trade links, community structures, and intraregional export competitiveness—this study aims…
Reimagining the 'Central Plains' (Zhongyuan) and 'Borderlands' (Bianjiang)
It is thirty years since the concept of the Ancient Tea Horse Road (Chamagudao) (ATHR) was formed. Over time it has developed from a scholarly concept to become a significant item in toponymic branding in the tea and tourism industries of Southwest China. As a mobility narrative, the ATHR tells the story of how the diverse peoples of the Southwest forged a collective identity through the production, exchange and consumption of tea. Since its ince…
The Great Tea Road and the Belt and Road Initiative
The Great Tea Road (Wanli chadao) is a 13,000 km trade route that for two centuries connected Qing China and Tsarist Russia. It has been identified in recent years as an important category of China’s route heritage. The rediscovery of the Great Tea Road, and other Chinese route heritage, is being framed in a ‘mobility narrative’, that is, a narrative that describes how mobility and exchange over space and time contribute to the formation of the C…
Caravan Modernity
This article analyses how and why, during the War of Resistance (1937–1945), Nationalist China revitalised the dynastic system of transportation and communication (yiyun zhidu). Due to the blockade by the Japanese Imperial Army, it shows, everything essential to the war effort was in short supply. If essential items were available, the difficulties in securing transportation were overwhelming. This was exacerbated by the transfer of the capital t…
Governing the Digital Economy
In 2019 President Xi Jinping called for the prioritisation of blockchain technology as part of China's next phase of development. In China, blockchain technologies have been experimentally deployed in various areas including court records, securities exchanges, finance, and food supply chains. The emergence of blockchain as a governmental technology raises numerous questions, including: (i) what are the conditions of emergence and existence of Ch…
Cultural route heritage as mobility narrative
The Grand Canal is a network which for over one millennium connected the rice growing regions of southern China with the centres of political power in the north. During the 19th and 20th centuries it fell into decline. In the 1980s calls for the Grand Canal’s heritage preservation appeared. China’s heritage system was transitioning from a focus on ‘cultural relics’ to that of ‘cultural heritage’. This transition involved the theorisation, constru…
China (20 works) · Political science (18 works) · Law (16 works) · Law (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (11 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · History (7 works)