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Modernisation as a national goal or programme to achieve a ‘strongnation’ status has played an influential part in China’s state-building since the country came into substantive contact with the outside world, from the invasion of Western imperialism in the mid-nineteenth century to the current effort to develop the country’s economy. To a greater or lesser extent during the past century or so, modernisation has affected many facets of China’s domestic life as well as its international relations.
No one reforms until he has to.
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Editorial, 8 January 1998, p. 5.
Wang Dong, ‘Chuangjian Zhongguo tese de xiandaihua xinlilun [Create a new theory of modernisation with Chinese characteristics]’, Journal of Peking University, philosophy and social sciences edn, No. 4 (1994), pp. 11–21.
An interesting article on the medical profession in China at the time says that ‘native medical practitioners insisted that what they learned and practiced was part of the natural essence (guocui) and should be protected against the cultural invasion of imperialism (diguo zhuyi wenhua qinlue) including Western medicine’. See Xu Xiaoqun, ‘“National essence” vs “science”: Chinese native physicians’ fight for legitimacy, 1912–37’, Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 31, Part 4 (October 1997), p. 847.
The full text of his speech appears in Beijing Review, 19–25 September 1994, pp. 7–13.
Ibid., pp. 8–9.
Robert Ash, ‘Greater China: an economic overview’, a paper presented at the international conference on ‘Greater China: problems, prospects and policies’ on 25 January 1997 at the Open Learning Institute of Hong Kong, pp. 8–9.
Quoted in Beijing Review, 17 February to 3 March 1997, p. 15.
Li Lanqing in Beijing Review, 8–14 January 1996, p. 16.
The Sino-File, New Zealand Embassy, Beijing, December 1995 to January 1996.
The importance of self-reliance was stressed by Jiang Zemin in his speech at the closing meeting of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 14th CCP Central Committee on 28 September 1995. Jiang said that ‘the introduction [of advanced technology from the outside] must be combined with development and creation so as to develop our own advantages. And it is necessary to utilize foreign funds, but at the same time, importance should be attached to the accumulation of funds on our own’ See Beijing Review, 6–12 November 1995, p. 13.
Beijing Review, 8–14 January 1996, pp. 15–17.
Asiaweek, 29 August 1997, p. 52.
Ye Shuiqiao, ‘Jingji qifei yu daguo xingxi [Economic uplift and the rise of big power]’, China’s National Conditions and Strength, No. 9 (1995), p. 27.
Hu Angang, a member of the Study Group, quoted in ibid. Hu and Wang Shouguang are co-authors of Zhongguo guojia nengli baogao [Report on China’s National Strength] (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1994).
Hu, quoted in Ye, ‘Economic uplift and the rise of big power’, pp. 27–8.
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Chan, G. (1999). Modernisation: Requirements for Development. In: Chinese Perspectives on International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230390201_6
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