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David Ownby, Themes

Translated Texts Regrouped by Themes

David Ownby
 
The themes I have identified are:  Black Lives Matter, the Chinese Communist Party, Civil Religion, Confucianism and New Confucians, Constitutional Rule, the Coronavirus Pandemic, Democracy, Donald Trump, Gender Issues, Globalization, Ideology, the Internet, Intellectuals, Kang Youwei, Liberalism, Minority Ethnicities, Tianxia, China-US Relations.  Please scroll down or use the search command.
 
Texts related to the theme of Black Lives Matter

Lin Yao,“I Beg to Differ with Xu Jilin & Co.:  The Intellectual Trap of the (Anti-) Political Correctness Framing”

Xu Jilin, "Looking at American Political Correctness and Identity Politics through the Lens of the Anti-Racist Movement"

Xu Jilin, "Reflecting on 'Black Lives Matter'"

Zhang Qianfan, “Left and Right in China and the West:  A Trans-Oceanic Misunderstanding”
 
Texts related to the theme of the Chinese Communist Party

Cai Xia, "Advancing Constitutional Democracy Should be the Mission of the Chinese Communist Party"​

Cao Jinqing, "A Centennial Revival:  The Historical Narrative and Mission of the Chinese Communist Party"

Cui Weiping, "Why Does the Spring Breeze Not Warm the Earth?  The 1980s Debate on Humanism in China"

Guo Yuhua, "Original Intentions Start with the People"

Guo Yuhua, "The Shadow of Communist Civilization"

​Jiang Shigong, “Probing the ‘Imaginary World’ and the ‘Real World’ to Understand the Internal Legal Logic of Hong Kong's National Security Law”

​Liang Zhiping, "Liang Zhiping Talks about Law and Traditional Culture"

Qian Liqun, “A Few Questions Concerning Mao Zedong and his Era”

Ren Jiantao, "The Periodicity of Reform" 
 
Texts related to the theme of Civil Religion

Chen Duanhong, “2020 National Constitution Day Symposium Keynote Speech: National Security and the Constitution”

Chen Ming, ​"The Road to Confucian Civil Religion"

​Xu Jilin, “What Body for Confucianism's Wandering Soul?”
 
Texts related to the theme of Confucianism and New Confucians

Chen Lai, “A Century of Confucianism: Looking Back and Looking Forward”

Chen Ming, ​"The Road to Confucian Civil Religion"

Chen Ming, “Transcend Left and Right, Unite the Three Traditions, Renew the Party-State :  A Confucian Interpretation of the China Dream”

Ge Zhaoguang, "If Horses had Wings:  The Political Demands of Mainland New Confucians in Recent Years"

Jiang Qing, “Only Confucians Can Make a Place for Modern Women”

Liang Zhiping, "Liang Zhiping Talks about Law and Traditional Culture"

Qin Hui, ​“Jing Ke Stabs Confucius” and “Zilu Sings the Praises of Qinshihuang”

Xu Jilin, “What Body for Confucianism's Wandering Soul?”

Gan Yang,“Kang Youwei and Institutional Confucianism”

​Zeng Yi, "From Kang Youwei to Deng Xiaoping"
  
Texts related to the theme of Constitutional Rule

Cai Xia, "Advancing Constitutional Democracy Should be the Mission of the Chinese Communist Party"​

Chen Duanhong, “2020 National Constitution Day Symposium Keynote Speech: National Security and the Constitution”

Gao Quanxi,“The Political Maturity of Chinese Liberalism”

Gao Quanxi and Tian Feilong, “A Discussion of Naturalization Law, Liberal Empire, and Conservative Constitutionalism”

​Jiang Shigong, “Probing the ‘Imaginary World’ and the ‘Real World’ to Understand the Internal Legal Logic of Hong Kong's National Security Law”

​Liang Zhiping, "Liang Zhiping Talks about Law and Traditional Culture"

Qin Hui, “Jing Ke Stabs Confucius” and “Zilu Sings the Praises of Qinshihuang”

Ren Jiantao, ​“An Ounce of Prevention:  Technological Revolution and Great Changes to State Governance”

Shi Zhan, “How Many Tweets Would a Trump Thumb Tweet if a Trump Thumb Could Tweet Tweets?!”

Xiao Gongqin, “The Five Logical Steps from Authoritarian Government to Constitutional Democracy: A Macrohistorical Perspective on Deng Xiaoping’s Reforms”

​Xu Jilin, “Modern Politics is Live and Let Live”

Zhou Lian, “Thoughts about Political Philosophy Inspired by the Total Blocking of Trump from Social Media”
 
Texts related to the theme of the Coronavirus Pandemic

Byung-Chul Han, “Asian Countries are Managing this Crisis better than the West"

Huang Qifan, "Three Thoughts on the Reconstruction of World Supply Chains in the wake of the Spread of the Coronavirus"

Qin, Hui, “Globalization after the Pandemic:  Thoughts on the Coronavirus” 

Sun Liping, "Fighting the Virus in China and the West"

Sun Liping, "2021:  What Kind of World Will We Face?"

Xiang Biao, “The Theory of ‘Concentrated Mobility’ and the ‘Gyro-Economy:’ Understanding Social Change in China through SARS and the Coronavirus”

Xu Jilin, ​“Cultural Factors in Different Models of Fighting the Coronavirus”

​Yuan Peng, "The Coronavirus Pandemic and a Hundred-Year Change"
 
Texts related to the theme of Democracy

Chen Duanhong, “2020 National Constitution Day Symposium Keynote Speech: National Security and the Constitution”

Deng Yulin, “Chinese Statism, the Transitional Nature of Xi Jinping’s Regime, and America’s Response”

Jiang Shigong, “Probing the ‘Imaginary World’ and the ‘Real World’ to Understand the Internal Legal Logic of Hong Kong's National Security Law”

Qin Hui, “On the ‘Mainstream Media:’  Replies to a Guest’s Objections Concerning the U.S. Election”

Ren Jiantao,  “An Ounce of Prevention:  Technological Revolution and Great Changes to State Governance”

Ren Jiantao, “Let’s Not Simply Misunderstand China as a ‘Utilitarian Society’” 

Shi Zhan, “How Many Tweets Would a Trump Thumb Tweet if a Trump Thumb Could Tweet Tweets?!”

Wang Shaoguang, “Representative Democracy and Representational Democracy”

Xu Jilin, “Four Chinese Scholars Discuss the United States after the Election”

Zhang Qianfan, “Left and Right in China and the West:  A Trans-Oceanic Misunderstanding”

Zhou Lian, “Thoughts about Political Philosophy Inspired by the Total Blocking of Trump from Social Media”
 
Texts related to the theme of Donald Trump

Cui Zhiyuan, “Comparing the Ideas of Trump’s Former Advisor Steve Bannon and the Legendary Putin Advisor Aleksandr Dugin”

Gao Quanxi and Tian Feilong, “A Discussion of Naturalization Law, Liberal Empire, and Conservative Constitutionalism”

Qin Hui, “On the ‘Mainstream Media:’  Replies to a Guest’s Objections Concerning the U.S. Election”

Sun Liping, "The Whole World May Have Missed This Signal: Trump’s Attack on Political Correctness”

​Sun Liping, "2021:  What Kind of World Will We Face?"

Wang Jianxun, “What Trump Plans Is A Return to the ‘American Spirit’"

Shi Zhan, “How Many Tweets Would a Trump Thumb Tweet if a Trump Thumb Could Tweet Tweets?!”

​Zhang Qianfan, “Left and Right in China and the West:  A Trans-Oceanic Misunderstanding”

Zhou Lian, “Thoughts about Political Philosophy Inspired by the Total Blocking of Trump from Social Media”
 
Texts related to the theme of Gender Issues

Jiang Qing, “Only Confucians Can Make a Place for Modern Women”

​Li Sipan, “Why Don’t Mainland Chinese Liberals Support Women’s Rights?”
 
Texts related to the theme of Globalization

Qin Hui, “Dilemmas of Twenty-First Century Globalization: Reasons and Solutions With a Critique of Piketty’s Twenty-First Century Capitalism”

Qin Hui, "Looking at China from South Africa"

Qin Hui, “Globalization after the Pandemic:  Thoughts on the Coronavirus” 

​Qin Hui, "The Battle of Tariffs and Systems in the “North-South” Relationship in the Antebellum United States"
 
Texts related to the theme of Ideology

Gan Yang, “’Unifying the Three Traditions’ in the New Era:  The Merging of Three Chinese Traditions”

Gan Yang, “The Modernity Critique of the 1980s and the Transformation of the 1990s”

Jiang Shigong, “Philosophy and History:  Interpreting the ‘Xi Jinping Era’ through Xi’s Report to the Nineteenth National Congress of the CCP”

Liang Zhiping, “Imagining ‘Tianxia’:  Building Ideology in Contemporary China" 

Xu Jilin, “After the Great "Disembedding":  Family-State, Tianxia and Self-Identity”

Xu Jilin, ​“What Kind of Civilization?  Decision at a Crossroads”

Xu Zhangrun, “China’s Moment in World History:  A 'Chinese Consciousness' Created by the 'China Problem'"
 
Texts related to the theme of the Internet

Guo Yuhua, "Farewell Sina Weibo"

Liu Xinting, “Why are Contemporary Youth Increasingly ‘Unhappy?’  Focus on the Living Conditions of China’s Youth”

Shi Zhan, “How Many Tweets Would a Trump Thumb Tweet if a Trump Thumb Could Tweet Tweets?!”​Xu Jilin, “Modern Politics is Live and Let Live”

Zhou Lian, “Thoughts about Political Philosophy Inspired by the Total Blocking of Trump from Social Media”
 
Texts related to the theme of Intellectuals

He Weifang, “The Return of the True Scholar:  A Reflection on the University”

Rong Jian, “A China Bereft of Thought”

Rong Jian, “Wang Hui’s ‘Heidegger Moment?’” 

Rong Jian, “What Does the ‘Philosophy of Victory’ of the Revolutionary Mean?  Criticizing Wang Hui’s ‘Revolutionary Personality’ and ‘Philosophy of Victory’”

Wang Hui, “The Revolutionary Personality and the Philosophy of Victory:  Commemorating Lenin’s 150th Birthday”

Xu Jilin, “’I am a Child of the Nineteenth Century:’ The Last Twenty years of Wang Yuanhua’s Life”

Zhang Qianfan, “Left and Right in China and the West:  A Trans-Oceanic Misunderstanding”

​Zhang Yongle, "The Harm of Studying Abroad"
 
Texts related to the theme of Kang Youwei

Gan Yang,“Kang Youwei and Institutional Confucianism”

​Zeng Yi, "From Kang Youwei to Deng Xiaoping"
 
Texts related to the theme of Liberalism

Gan Yang, “Liberalism:  For the Aristocrats or for the People?”

Cui Weiping,  "Why Does the Spring Breeze Not Warm the Earth?  The 1980s Debate on Humanism in China"

Gao Quanxi,“The Political Maturity of Chinese Liberalism”

Lao Dongyan, “The Hidden Dangers of Facial Recognition Technology”

Li Sipan, “Why Don’t Mainland Chinese Liberals Support Women’s Rights?”

Liu Qing, “Liberalism in Contemporary China: Potential and Predicaments”

“Liu Qing:  A Unique Presence in the Chinese Intellectual World”

Ren Jiantao, “Let’s Not Simply Misunderstand China as a ‘Utilitarian Society’” 

​Ren Jiantao, "The Periodicity of Reform"

Shi Zhan, “How Many Tweets Would a Trump Thumb Tweet if a Trump Thumb Could Tweet Tweets?!”

​Xu Jilin, “Modern Politics is Live and Let Live”

​Zhang Qianfan, “Left and Right in China and the West:  A Trans-Oceanic Misunderstanding”

Zhou Lian, “Thoughts about Political Philosophy Inspired by the Total Blocking of Trump from Social Media”
 
Texts related to the theme of Minority Ethnicities

Hu Lianhe and Hu An'gang, "How the Nationalities Question is Handled Outside of China"

​Ma Rong, “The Historical Evolution China’s System of Autonomous Ethnic Regions”

Texts related to the theme of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics

Jiang Shigong, “Philosophy and History:  Interpreting the ‘Xi Jinping Era’ through Xi’s Report to the Nineteenth National Congress of the CCP”
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Ren Jiantao, "The Periodicity of Reform"

Wang Hui, “The Economy of a Rising China and it Contradictions”

Wang Shaoguang, “Representative Democracy and Representational Democracy”

Wang Shaoguang, “Traditional Moral Politics and Contemporary Concepts of Governance”

​Yan Yilong, "Socialism Riding Herd on Capital"
 
Texts related to the theme of Tianxia

Jiang Shigong, ​“The Internal Logic of Super-Sized Political Entities:  ‘Empire’ and World Order”

Ge Zhaoguang, “Imagining 'All Under Heaven:' the Political, Intellectual and Academic Background of a New Utopia”

Liang Zhiping, “Imagining ‘Tianxia’:  Building Ideology in Contemporary China" 

​Liang Zhiping, "Liang Zhiping Talks about Law and Traditional Culture"

​Xu Jilin, “The New Tianxia:  Rebuilding China's Internal and External Order”
 
Texts related to the theme of China-US Relations

Jiang Shigong, "The 'Critical Decade' in the Sino-American Relationship:  the 'New Roman Empire” and the 'New Great Struggle'"

Deng Yulin, “Chinese Statism, the Transitional Nature of Xi Jinping’s Regime, and America’s Response”

Jie Dalei, “Ideology and Sino-American Strategic Competition” 

Shi Yinhong, “The U.S. and Other Major Countries' Policies Toward China and the Future World Configuration”

​Sun Liping, "2021:  What Kind of World Will We Face?"

Wang Jisi, “Abandon the Conventions of Great Power Relations to Grasp the Framework of International Trends”

Xiang Lanxin, "On Wolf Warrior Diplomacy"

Xu Jilin, “Four Chinese Scholars Discuss the United States after the Election”

Yan Xuetong, “Why and How to Prevent the Intensification of Ideological Disputes between China and the US”​

Yao Yang, “Is a New Cold War Coming?”

Yuan Peng, "Political Gamesmanship and American Chaos"

​Yuan Peng, "The Coronavirus Pandemic and a Hundred-Year Change"

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