Gloria Davies
Biographic Data
| ID | 3855787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gloria Davies |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gloria |
| FAMILY NAME | Davies |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIES G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Political Enchantments
The special issue’s editors introduce the rationale for the following articles, all of which take up aspects of the relations among the production of artworks, the behavior of audiences, and the state’s interest in assembling, regulating, and transforming what it knows as its people through the responses to art
Lu Xun in 1966
1966, the inaugural year of China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was also the thirtieth anniversary of Lu Xun’s death. Quotations from and praise of China’s best known and preeminent modern writer were in abundance that year and an official commemorative event, reportedly attended by more than seventy thousand people, was held in Beijing. The anniversary date presented the Maoist state with a prime opportunity for boosting the cultural …
Talking (Up) Power
To Prosper or Perish
Posthumously extolled by Mao Zedong as 'the sage of modern China' 现代中国的圣人, Lu Xun (1881-1936), who during his lifetime was widely acknowledged as China's leading writer, has occupied in death a position of unique authority in modern
The China Story Yearbook 2015
Environmental pollution poses serious challenges for China, including to its economy as well as public health. The China Story Yearbook 2015: Pollution looks at how China's Communist Party-state addresses these problems and how Chinese citizens have coped with and expressed their concerns about living with chronic, worsening pollution
Chinese social media, “publicness” and one-party rule
How should we understand the changes brought to China by digital technology and online communications? In what ways does the spectacle of Chinese “netizens” speaking back to “the Party” on social media distract us from seeing the Party’s increasing mastery and command of the mainland cybersphere? Can public culture flourish under one-party rule? These are questions that have and continue to frame a significant debate in the media and scholarship …
Lu Xun's Revolution
"Widely recognized as modern China's preeminent man of letters, Lu Xun (1881-1936) is revered as the voice of a nation's conscience, a writer comparable to Shakespeare and Tolstoy in stature and influence. Gloria Davies's portrait now gives readers a better sense of this influential author by situating the man Mao Zedong hailed as 'the sage of modern China' in his turbulent time and place. In Davies's vivid rendering, we encounter a writer passio…
Certitude and Linguistic Play in Chinese Critical Inquiry
What do we mean by “Chinese thought,” and how should we engage with it? This essay begins with the claim that sixiang, or “Chinese thought,” is best approached as both a mode of critical inquiry and a style of rhetorical persuasion. It argues that Lu Xun's reflections on baihua, the modern Chinese vernacular, offer important insights into the mission-encumbered language of China's present-day intellectual elite. As the critical exemplar of choice…
Korean Cosmetic Surgery and Digital Publicity
This article examines the relationship between digital publicity and cosmetic surgery. While focused on South Korea, it also discusses China because of the conspicuous Chinese demand for Korean cosmetic surgery in recent years. In fact, China has become the largest export market for Korean cosmetic surgery. The analysis is based on the premise that there is a vital link between cosmetic surgery and digital technology in both these countries. We a…
Homo Dissensum Significans, or The Perils of Taking a Stand in China
This essay begins with the proposition that to engage with the idea of the human in Chinese is to encounter, at some point or other, a rhetorical disposition to benevolence, understood as the Confucian virtue ren . The moral affects of this disposition, I argue, have been hardwired into the Chinese language and can be traced to, among other things, the enduring hierarchism of the junzi (gentleman) and xiaoren (small man) as presented in The Anale…
Affirming the Human in China
In engaging with Chinese perceptions of human rights, we must first consider how the human is understood in Chinese. The Confucian idea of the human as synonymous with benevolence is a morally exacting one. Across the centuries, it has found articulation in the enduring demand for educated persons to conduct themselves as moral exemplars. In this essay, the divergent ramifications of this Confucian dictum are explored via several Chinese thinkers…
The “X component” in Shanghai's social security reforms
In 2003, the Shanghai Bureau of Labour and Social Security launched the zhenbao (town insurance) programme, now widely known as 25 plus X. This scheme is regarded as an important experiment in social security reform and has been lauded for extending social security to areas where previously only segments of the population had mandatory coverage. Using data from 103,000 individuals enrolled in 25 plus X, we examine the extent to which the scheme r…
Worrying about China
The compliance challenge
Discussion of social security compliance in developing societies has mainly focused on systemic administrative and operational issues. The article argues that analysis of compliance calls also for frameworks which draw lessons from nation‐specific policy circumstances and comparisons of social protection regime types. Using such an approach, it also examines social security compliance in the context of China. Four considerations are found to be c…
Worrying about China
What can we do about China? Gloria Davies pursues this inquiry through a wide range of contemporary topics, including the changing fortunes of radicalism, the peculiarities of Chinese postmodernism, shifts within official discourse, attempts to revive Confucianism for present-day China, and the historically problematic engagement of Chinese intellectuals with Western ideas
Habermas in China
Cross-Cultural Readings of Chineseness
Zhongguo xiandai sixiang de qiyuan
High Culture Fever
Professing postcoloniality
Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society. Tonglin Lu
Crossing cultural boundaries
K.S. Maniam. The Return. London: Skoob Books Publishing, 1993. xiii, 184 pp. Introduction, afterword. £5.99, paper. K.S. Maniam, In A Far Country. London: Skoob Books Publishing, 1993. xvi, 205 pp. Introduction, afterword. £5.99, paper. Wong Phui Nam. Ways of Exile: Poems from the First Decade. London: Skoob Books Publishing, 1993. xvi, 157 pp. Introduction, afterword. £5.99, paper. S.E. Asia Writes Back!. London: Skoob Books Publishing, 1993. xi…
Recent publications on Chinese poetry
Yoshikawa Kojiro (translated by John Timothy Wixted). Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry, 1150–1650. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1989. xix, 215 pp. US$39.50, hardcover; US$14.95, paper. David R. McCraw. Chinese Lyricists of the Seventeenth Century. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990. xii, 193 pp. Preface, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, Chinese texts, index. US$24.00, hardcover. Wen–Kai Kung. Tu Mu (803–852): His Life an…
Literary Authority and the Modern Chinese Writer
Modern Chinese Poetry
Habermas in China
Korean Cosmetic Surgery and Digital Publicity
This article examines the relationship between digital publicity and cosmetic surgery. While focused on South Korea, it also discusses China because of the conspicuous Chinese demand for Korean cosmetic surgery in recent years. In fact, China has become the largest export market for Korean cosmetic surgery. The analysis is based on the premise that there is a vital link between cosmetic surgery and digital technology in both these countries. We a…
Affirming the Human in China
In engaging with Chinese perceptions of human rights, we must first consider how the human is understood in Chinese. The Confucian idea of the human as synonymous with benevolence is a morally exacting one. Across the centuries, it has found articulation in the enduring demand for educated persons to conduct themselves as moral exemplars. In this essay, the divergent ramifications of this Confucian dictum are explored via several Chinese thinkers…
The “X component” in Shanghai's social security reforms
In 2003, the Shanghai Bureau of Labour and Social Security launched the zhenbao (town insurance) programme, now widely known as 25 plus X. This scheme is regarded as an important experiment in social security reform and has been lauded for extending social security to areas where previously only segments of the population had mandatory coverage. Using data from 103,000 individuals enrolled in 25 plus X, we examine the extent to which the scheme r…
Lu Xun in 1966
1966, the inaugural year of China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was also the thirtieth anniversary of Lu Xun’s death. Quotations from and praise of China’s best known and preeminent modern writer were in abundance that year and an official commemorative event, reportedly attended by more than seventy thousand people, was held in Beijing. The anniversary date presented the Maoist state with a prime opportunity for boosting the cultural …
The China Story Yearbook 2015
Environmental pollution poses serious challenges for China, including to its economy as well as public health. The China Story Yearbook 2015: Pollution looks at how China's Communist Party-state addresses these problems and how Chinese citizens have coped with and expressed their concerns about living with chronic, worsening pollution
The compliance challenge
Discussion of social security compliance in developing societies has mainly focused on systemic administrative and operational issues. The article argues that analysis of compliance calls also for frameworks which draw lessons from nation‐specific policy circumstances and comparisons of social protection regime types. Using such an approach, it also examines social security compliance in the context of China. Four considerations are found to be c…
Professing postcoloniality
Valuing the other
(1993). Valuing the other: institutional investment in Asian studies. Asian Studies Review: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 9-16
The Problematic Modernity of Ah Q
Chinese Literary Studies and Post-Structuralist Positions
Literary Authority and the Modern Chinese Writer
Modern Chinese Poetry
Valuing the other
(1993). Valuing the other: institutional investment in Asian studies. Asian Studies Review: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 9-16
Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society. Tonglin Lu
Crossing cultural boundaries
K.S. Maniam. The Return. London: Skoob Books Publishing, 1993. xiii, 184 pp. Introduction, afterword. £5.99, paper. K.S. Maniam, In A Far Country. London: Skoob Books Publishing, 1993. xvi, 205 pp. Introduction, afterword. £5.99, paper. Wong Phui Nam. Ways of Exile: Poems from the First Decade. London: Skoob Books Publishing, 1993. xvi, 157 pp. Introduction, afterword. £5.99, paper. S.E. Asia Writes Back!. London: Skoob Books Publishing, 1993. xi…
Recent publications on Chinese poetry
Yoshikawa Kojiro (translated by John Timothy Wixted). Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry, 1150–1650. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1989. xix, 215 pp. US$39.50, hardcover; US$14.95, paper. David R. McCraw. Chinese Lyricists of the Seventeenth Century. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990. xii, 193 pp. Preface, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, Chinese texts, index. US$24.00, hardcover. Wen–Kai Kung. Tu Mu (803–852): His Life an…
Professing postcoloniality
High Culture Fever
Cross-Cultural Readings of Chineseness
Zhongguo xiandai sixiang de qiyuan
Worrying about China
What can we do about China? Gloria Davies pursues this inquiry through a wide range of contemporary topics, including the changing fortunes of radicalism, the peculiarities of Chinese postmodernism, shifts within official discourse, attempts to revive Confucianism for present-day China, and the historically problematic engagement of Chinese intellectuals with Western ideas
Habermas in China
The compliance challenge
Discussion of social security compliance in developing societies has mainly focused on systemic administrative and operational issues. The article argues that analysis of compliance calls also for frameworks which draw lessons from nation‐specific policy circumstances and comparisons of social protection regime types. Using such an approach, it also examines social security compliance in the context of China. Four considerations are found to be c…
The “X component” in Shanghai's social security reforms
In 2003, the Shanghai Bureau of Labour and Social Security launched the zhenbao (town insurance) programme, now widely known as 25 plus X. This scheme is regarded as an important experiment in social security reform and has been lauded for extending social security to areas where previously only segments of the population had mandatory coverage. Using data from 103,000 individuals enrolled in 25 plus X, we examine the extent to which the scheme r…
Worrying about China
Affirming the Human in China
In engaging with Chinese perceptions of human rights, we must first consider how the human is understood in Chinese. The Confucian idea of the human as synonymous with benevolence is a morally exacting one. Across the centuries, it has found articulation in the enduring demand for educated persons to conduct themselves as moral exemplars. In this essay, the divergent ramifications of this Confucian dictum are explored via several Chinese thinkers…
Certitude and Linguistic Play in Chinese Critical Inquiry
What do we mean by “Chinese thought,” and how should we engage with it? This essay begins with the claim that sixiang, or “Chinese thought,” is best approached as both a mode of critical inquiry and a style of rhetorical persuasion. It argues that Lu Xun's reflections on baihua, the modern Chinese vernacular, offer important insights into the mission-encumbered language of China's present-day intellectual elite. As the critical exemplar of choice…
Korean Cosmetic Surgery and Digital Publicity
This article examines the relationship between digital publicity and cosmetic surgery. While focused on South Korea, it also discusses China because of the conspicuous Chinese demand for Korean cosmetic surgery in recent years. In fact, China has become the largest export market for Korean cosmetic surgery. The analysis is based on the premise that there is a vital link between cosmetic surgery and digital technology in both these countries. We a…
Homo Dissensum Significans, or The Perils of Taking a Stand in China
This essay begins with the proposition that to engage with the idea of the human in Chinese is to encounter, at some point or other, a rhetorical disposition to benevolence, understood as the Confucian virtue ren . The moral affects of this disposition, I argue, have been hardwired into the Chinese language and can be traced to, among other things, the enduring hierarchism of the junzi (gentleman) and xiaoren (small man) as presented in The Anale…
Lu Xun's Revolution
"Widely recognized as modern China's preeminent man of letters, Lu Xun (1881-1936) is revered as the voice of a nation's conscience, a writer comparable to Shakespeare and Tolstoy in stature and influence. Gloria Davies's portrait now gives readers a better sense of this influential author by situating the man Mao Zedong hailed as 'the sage of modern China' in his turbulent time and place. In Davies's vivid rendering, we encounter a writer passio…
Chinese social media, “publicness” and one-party rule
How should we understand the changes brought to China by digital technology and online communications? In what ways does the spectacle of Chinese “netizens” speaking back to “the Party” on social media distract us from seeing the Party’s increasing mastery and command of the mainland cybersphere? Can public culture flourish under one-party rule? These are questions that have and continue to frame a significant debate in the media and scholarship …
The China Story Yearbook 2015
Environmental pollution poses serious challenges for China, including to its economy as well as public health. The China Story Yearbook 2015: Pollution looks at how China's Communist Party-state addresses these problems and how Chinese citizens have coped with and expressed their concerns about living with chronic, worsening pollution
To Prosper or Perish
Posthumously extolled by Mao Zedong as 'the sage of modern China' 现代中国的圣人, Lu Xun (1881-1936), who during his lifetime was widely acknowledged as China's leading writer, has occupied in death a position of unique authority in modern
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