LEADER 02785nam 2200493z- 450 001 9910585934103321 005 20220819 010 $a9781760465230 010 $a1760465232 035 $a(CKB)5840000000029711 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/91373 035 $a(oapen)doab91373 035 $a(EXLCZ)995840000000029711 100 $a20202208d2022 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aContradiction 210 $aCanberra$cANU Press$d2022 215 $a1 online resource (350 p.) 225 1 $aChina Story Yearbook 311 08$a9781760465223 311 08$a1760465224 330 $aIn the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the many facets of crisis-the theme of last year's China Story Yearbook-fractured into pictures of contradiction throughout Chinese society and the Chinese sphere of influence. Contradiction: the ancient Chinese word for the concept holds within it the image of an unstoppable spear meeting an impenetrable shield. It describes a wide range of phenomena that English might express with words like conflict, clash, paradox, incongruity, disagreement, rebuttal, opposition, and negation. This year's Yearbook presents stories of action and reaction, of motion and resistance. The theme of contradiction plays out in different ways across the different realms of society, culture, environment, labour, politics, and international relations. Great powers do not necessarily succeed in dominating smaller ones. The seemingly irresistible forces of authoritarianism, patriarchy, and technological control come up against energised and surprisingly resilient means of resistance or cooptation. Efforts by various authorities to establish monolithic narrative control over the past and present meet a powerful insistence on telling the story from an opposite angle. The China Story Yearbook: Contradiction offers an accessible take on this complex and contradictory moment in the history of China and of the world. 410 0$tChina Story Yearbook Ser. 517 0 $aChina story yearbook 2021:$eContradiction 606 $aCultural studies$2bicssc 606 $aSocial issues & processes$2bicssc 607 $aChina$xSocial conditions$y2000- 610 $aChina 610 $aCOVID-19 615 7$aCultural studies 615 7$aSocial issues & processes 702 $aJaivin$b Linda 702 $aSunkyung Klein$b Esther 702 $aStrange$b Sharon 712 02$aAustralian Centre on China in the World. 712 02$aAustralian National University Press, 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910585934103321 996 $aContradiction$94166528 997 $aUNINA