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Complicities: The People's Republic of China in Global Capitalism
As the People’s Republic of China has grown in economic power, so too have concerns about what its sustained growth and expanding global influence might mean for the established global order. Explorations of this changing dynamic in daily reporting as well as most recent scholarship ignore the part played by forces emanating from the global capitalist system in the PRC’s failures as well as its successes.
China scholar Arif Dirlik reflects in Complicities on a wide range of concerns, from the Tiananmen Square tragedy to the spread of Confucius Institutes across more than four hundred campuses worldwide, including nearly one hundred in the United States. Eschewing popular stereotypes and simple explanations, Dirlik’s discussion stresses foreign complicity in encouraging the PRC’s imperial ambitions and disdain for human rights. Eager for economic gain, the United States, Europe, and other Western countries have been complicit in supporting the PRC’s authoritarian capitalism. Such support has been a key factor in nourishing the PRC’s hegemonic aspirations. Infatuation with the PRC’s incorporation in global capitalism has been important to Communist Party leaders’ ability to suppress all memory and mention of Tiananmen, and their continuing abuse of human rights. More recently, the PRC’s focus has migrated to “soft power” as a means of expanding global influence, with organizations like the Confucius Institutes exploiting foreign educational institutions to promote the political aims of the state.
China scholar Arif Dirlik reflects in Complicities on a wide range of concerns, from the Tiananmen Square tragedy to the spread of Confucius Institutes across more than four hundred campuses worldwide, including nearly one hundred in the United States. Eschewing popular stereotypes and simple explanations, Dirlik’s discussion stresses foreign complicity in encouraging the PRC’s imperial ambitions and disdain for human rights. Eager for economic gain, the United States, Europe, and other Western countries have been complicit in supporting the PRC’s authoritarian capitalism. Such support has been a key factor in nourishing the PRC’s hegemonic aspirations. Infatuation with the PRC’s incorporation in global capitalism has been important to Communist Party leaders’ ability to suppress all memory and mention of Tiananmen, and their continuing abuse of human rights. More recently, the PRC’s focus has migrated to “soft power” as a means of expanding global influence, with organizations like the Confucius Institutes exploiting foreign educational institutions to promote the political aims of the state.
86 pages, Paperback
Published June 15, 2017
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Arif Dirlik
45 books21 followers(d: 1940, Mersin), 20. yüzyıl Çin toplumsal ve politik tarihi üzerine çalışmalarıyla tanınmasına karşın küreselleşme ve modernite konularında dünyanın önde gelen düşünürlerindendir. 1964 yılında Robert Kolej (bugünkü Boğaziçi Üniversitesi) Elektrik Mühendisliği Bölümü’nü bitirdi. Nükleer fizik eğitimi için gittiği Rochester Üniversitesi’nde Çin tarihçisi oldu. Özellikle “Çin anarşizmi” tarihçiliğinin önde gelen temsilcilerindendir. 2001 yılına kadar, otuz yıl Duke Üniversitesi’nde antropoloji ve tarih hocalığı yaptı. Sonra Oregon Üniversitesi’ne geçti, 2006’da emekli oldu. Halen, başta Pekin, Amsterdam ve Hong Kong olmak üzere, çeşitli akademik kurumlarda misafir öğretim üyesi olarak görev yapmaktadır. Gelecek üç yıl için, Malezya’da “yetkin araştırmacı” olarak bulunacaktır. Elliye yakın kitabı ve yüzlerce makalesi bulunan Profesör Dirlik’in Türkçe’ye dört kitabı ve dergilerde yayımlanmış on beş kadar makalesi çevrilmiştir. Askerlik yapmadığından Türkiye’ye giremiyor ve “ölüm makinelerine para ödemek istemediği için ‘bedelli’den” yararlanmıyor.
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