Jeffrey Wasserstrom
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385 appearances
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1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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And clearly in Thailand, there were people who looked at things to learn from Hong Kong, even in defeat. There's a New Zealand-based China specialist, Jeremy Bar-May, who talks about the other China, which can exist within China, physical China, or elsewhere, which is this
equally attached to Chinese traditions, but thinking of those traditions as including not just Confucianism but Taoism, not just hierarchy but also openness to cosmopolitanism, not just nationalism but cosmopolitanism. And I think there are some There are some elements of that that even in failure, the Hong Kong movements, the Hong Kong protests of the 2020s were a last flourishing of that.
And we can see some elements of that in, we can think of Taiwan, elements of that as another China as well. And I think recovering, not allowing the particular version of Chineseness that the Chinese Communist Party under Xi Jinping wants to make people think of as the essence of Chinese. China has multiple cultural strands, multiple traditions that people can tap into.
And it's something richer and more admirable, I think, than this narrowed down version.
Thanks for having me on.
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