Youth panda reporters visit Xinjin district in Sichuan province
On June 3rd 2020 Youth panda reporters of four nationalities headed to Xinjin district. They were first received by experienced journalists from Chengdu TV at the renovated rural primary school Jiulian and were given advice on the future reporting on the sights in this district.
On the first afternoon they were already acquainted with two of the attractions of Tianfu culture (lit. Heavenly palace), with which the people of Sichuan province describe the land of plenty. First, the reporters paid a visit to the Baodun archeological site. It’s clay walls concealed by rice fields may in the future reveal many details of the life in this area for the past 4500 years. The reporters’ last visit was Chunyang temple, which preserves some excellent stone-carved calligraphy by molding the three religions of Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism.
The first day enriched the experience of the reporters and gave them new insight on this beautiful land’s attractions.
Film screening: “Eat Drink Man Woman”
On Wednesday, May 16th 2018, at 20:15, the society in cooperation with ASS (Anthropology Student Sessions) will hold a film screening of Eat Drink Man Woman 飲食男女 by director Ang Lee 李安 at Infoshop in Metelkova.
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman, a story about family issues of a widowed chef, is a panegyrical portrayal of the early 90’s. For the Taiwanese middle classes this period of political liberalization and economic growth was a Belle Epoque before the Asian economic crisis.
A discussion about the troubles of the generation of Taiwanese born at the time the film was made will follow after the screening.
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Contextualising the ‘Assertive China’ Narrative
Article written by Neja Štrukelj (nejastrukelj84@gmail.com)
A number of events in the recent years have resulted crucial for the transformation of the public understanding of China’s governmentality and the country’s foreign policy. These events, ranging from an array of maritime territorial disputes between China and its neighbouring countries, the country becoming the largest recipient of foreign direct investment in 2012, Xi Jinping’s 习近平 new development strategy known as ‘One Belt, One Road (Yidai yilu 一代一路) coupled with the official launching of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank or AIIB (Yazhou jichu sheshi touzi yinhang 亚洲基础设施投资银行) and the recent military parade held in Beijing, seem to have prompted a revival of the ‘China threat’ debate which is highly reminiscent of the ‘Yellow Peril’ hysteria of the 19th and early 20th centuries and, perhaps even more so, of the Cold-War mentality and the containment strategy that characterised it.
The so-called ‘assertive China discourse’ is founded on the general belief that China’s foreign policy has been undergoing a significant transformation, especially from 2012 onwards. The widely accepted notion of Xi Jinping’s China growing ever more assertive with respect to its international relations is supported by the fact that China’s foreign policy has, in fact, experienced a shift under the Xi-Li administration.