Category Archive: PhD

Review of Zheng’s title ‘The Chinese Communist Party as Organisational Emperorship’

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Review of Zheng Yongnian’s title ‘The Chinese Communist Party as Organizational Emperorship: culture, reproduction and transformation’. Please give a few seconds for document to load from Scribd.

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The Gathering Place – A Myth

Many moons ago there was a gathering place that attracted people from all parts of our land. It was a right of this gathering place that any person could go there and say anything they wished. This right had existed since a time before memory. It had simply always been like this.

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An Introduction

I am writing for my doctoral thesis on urban change and media in China. I want to highlight the need for a theoretical reorientation that can overcome Western dichotomies of individual/society object/subject etc. In my research I want to show that many (though not all) approaches to the study of contemporary China lead to contradictory …

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Air Traffic Atlas Flow

Refer to Ethan Zuckerman, mapping infrastructure, mapping flows, mapping intent[?] : medieval cartography all over again?

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