2009 Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy - China

7:15 contested modernity
7:45 China - distinctive modernity
8:00 Japan - American occupation on Japan & limited Japanese sovereignty in 1945
9:50 Western modernity and its characteristics are not universal
11:15 civilization state
12:50 the notion or the way the Chinese think of themselves as Chinese
13:20 Western nation state - most of their characteristics or most of the ways in which they think of identity are derived from the nation state period
13:40 nation state = topsoil; civilization state = geological formation
13:50 China is a civilisation, masquerading as a nation state - Lucian Pye
16:15 no.1 = unity & preservation of the civilization
17:00 no.2 = 1 country, 2 systems; Special Economic Zone (SEZ) - the end of central planning and the arrival of capitalist market
20:00 no.3 = civilization state - intimacy with history; tributary state system in East Asia; Sinocentric East Asia economy
25:10 reconfiguration of the East Asia economy to be China-centric / recreation of China's tributary system
33:15 race - Han Chinese; race is a culture construct
35:50 polygenism
38:30 Uyghurs & Tibetans - desire to effectively assimilate into the Han identity
40:00 see the world in terms of their own history
42:00 the state is the embodiment, protector and guardian of Chinese civilization - to preserve the civilization
43:00 the state has had no competitors/rivals
44:45 the state is extremely sophisticated and extremely competent - China is the home of statecraft
46:25 Chinese Democracy with Chinese characteristics (a la Socialism or Authoritarianism with Chinese characteristics)
51:45 the world has been dominated by the colonizers; in the future, it will be increasingly shaped by those who have been colonized
52:25 the beginning of the early stage of Sinification, not Americanization
54:50 the Chinese economy will replaced the American economy as the benchmark, who will become the new source of regulation and standardization
1:07:30 China cannot follow the American model of consumption
1:13:10 private companies/firms depend on state patronage
1:19:50 American identity vs Chinese identity - the Chinese never ask the question, "who they're?" because they know exactly who they're - a wonderful illustration of civilization state culture
1:23:15 the Brits are bitter about their fallen/declined empire - the reason why Britian is so Pro-American in its foreign policy is because it's the only way now that Britian got of thinking of itself as influential in the world

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