China risen? Studying Chinese global power

Elliot Ji

doi:10.1093/ia/iiab216

Surviving The Jungle Book: Trans-temporal Ventriloquism in Ian Iqbal Rashid's Surviving Sabu

Journal of British Cinema and Television ◽

10.3366/jbctv.2018.0441 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 15 (4) ◽

pp. 532-552 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ana Cristina Mendes

Keyword(s):

Short Stories ◽

Cultural Studies ◽

First Century ◽

Short Film ◽

Source Text ◽

Temporal Ventriloquism ◽

The Past ◽

Film Maker ◽

Global Power ◽

Political Intervention

The process of screen adaptation is an act of ventriloquism insofar as it gives voice to contemporary anxieties and desires through its trans-temporal use of a source text. Screen adaptations that propose to negotiate meanings about the past, particularly a conflicted past, are acts of ‘trans-temporal ventriloquism’: they adapt and reinscribe pre-existing source texts to animate contemporary concerns and anxieties. I focus on the acts of trans-temporal ventriloquism in Ian Iqbal Rashid's Surviving Sabu (1998), a postcolonial, turn-of-the-twenty-first century short film that adapts Zoltan and Alexander Korda's film The Jungle Book (1942), itself an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's collection of short stories by the same name. Surviving Sabu is about the survival and appropriation of orientalist films as a means of self-expression in a postcolonial present. Inherent in this is the idea of cinema as a potentially redemptive force that can help to balance global power inequalities. Surviving Sabu's return to The Jungle Book becomes a means both of tracing the genealogy of specific orientalist discourses and for ventriloquising contemporary concerns. This article demonstrates how trans-temporal ventriloquism becomes a strategy of political intervention that enables the film-maker to take ownership over existing media and narratives. My argument examines Surviving Sabu as an exemplar of cultural studies of the 1980s and 1990s: a postcolonial remediation built on fantasy and desire, used as a strategy of writing within rather than back to empire.

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Selected Major Issues in Instructional/Communication Technology

American Journal of Islam and Society ◽

10.35632/ajis.v10i3.2489 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 312-325

Author(s):

Dilnawaz A. Siddiqui

Keyword(s):

Instructional Technology ◽

Fiber Optics ◽

Communication Technology ◽

Instructional Communication ◽

Human Beings ◽

Media Communication ◽

Satellite Television ◽

Powerful Learning ◽

Global Power ◽

Physical Limitations

Instructional/Communication Technology has come to mean, in a narrowsense, media hardware or a set of tools enabling human beings toovercome their physical limitations. Etymologically, it means one or moretechniques, both concrete and abstract, that help human beings solveproblems. By extension, instructional technology (IT) means all tools atour disposal for facilitating learning. Tickton (1971) defines the purporeof IT as making "education more productive and more individual, to giveinstruction a more scientific base, and to make instruction more powerful,learning more immediate, and access more equal." While the technologyitself might be neutral as a medium and as a means of instructional communication,it is the natw of its use, in terms of timely and appropriatemessages, that is the key to understanding its consequences. It is this finalfactor upon which society needs to focus.The tecent combination of computer, video, fiber optics, satellite television,and other state-of-the-art technologies has enabled a small groupto control the lives of billions. Instructional technology has also Meritedits own share of this instantaneous global power. As a result traditionalboundaries between IT and mass media communication have blurred somuch that IT sounds like a misnomer.It has now become a platitude to say that the nation that controlledthe sealanes in the nineteenth century, or that controlled the airways inthe twentieth century, controlled the whole world. In the twenty-first century,it appears that whoever controls the airwaves will control the worldand whatever is beyond it. Thus the most explosive confluence of ...

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Imagery Architecture 2000. The Eyes of Global Power

10.21236/ada284695 ◽

1994 ◽

Author(s):

Charles B. Harvey

Keyword(s):

Global Power

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Shaping the Image of China as a Responsible Global Power

International Affairs ◽

10.21557/iaf.54427399 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 65 (004) ◽

pp. 64-73

Author(s):

I. Zarodov

Keyword(s):

Global Power

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Conclusion

10.1093/oso/9780190697518.003.0005 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Roberts Cynthia ◽

Leslie Armijo ◽

Saori Katada

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

South Africa ◽

Bargaining Power ◽

Global Finance ◽

Middle Income ◽

Outside Options ◽

Power Shift ◽

Global Power ◽

Common Interests ◽

Sustainable Economic Growth

The chapter analyzes the prospects for continued BRICS collective financial statecraft. Contrary to initial expectations, the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) have hung together by identifying common aversions and pursuing common interests within the existing international order. Their future depends not only on their bargaining power, but also on their ability to overcome domestic impediments to the sustainable economic growth that provides the basis for their international positions. To continue successfully with collective financial statecraft, the members must tackle the so-called middle-income trap, as well as their preferences for informal rules originating from their own institutional weaknesses or regime preferences. This study shows that, in the context of a global power shift, the BRICS club has operated to protect the member countries’ respective policy autonomy, while also advancing their joint voice in global governance. Recently, the BRICS have made concrete institutional gains, giving them expanded outside options to achieve specific objectives in global finance.

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Global Power Shift

10.1093/oso/9780190697518.003.0002 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Roberts Cynthia ◽

Leslie Armijo ◽

Saori Katada

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

South Africa ◽

Data Analysis ◽

The United States ◽

Rising Powers ◽

Extensive Data ◽

Power Shift ◽

Multiple Dimensions ◽

Global Power ◽

Rise Of China

This chapter evaluates multiple dimensions of the global power shift from the incumbent G5/G7 powers to the rising powers, especially the members of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). Taking note of alternative conceptualizations of interstate “power,” the text maps the redistribution of economic capabilities from the G7 to the BRICS, most particularly the relative rise of China and decline of Japan, and especially Europe. Given these clear trends in measurable material capabilities, the BRICS have obtained considerable autonomy from outside pressures. Although the BRICS’ economic, financial, and monetary capabilities remain uneven, their relative positions have improved steadily. Via extensive data analysis, the chapter finds that whether one examines China alone or the BRICS as a group, BRICS members have achieved the necessary capabilities to challenge the global economic and financial leadership of the currently dominant powers, perhaps even the United States one day.

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Where Great Powers Meet

10.1093/oso/9780190914974.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

David Shambaugh

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Southeast Asia ◽

Soft Power ◽

The United States ◽

Great Power ◽

Stable Region ◽

Power Transition ◽

Global Power ◽

Sphere Of Influence ◽

The Cold War

After the end of the Cold War, it seemed as if Southeast Asia would remain a geopolitically stable region within the American imperious for the foreseeable future. In the last two decades, however, the re-emergence of China as a major great power has called into question the geopolitical future of the region and raised the specter of renewed great power competition. As this book shows, the United States and China are engaged in a broad-gauged and global competition for power. While this competition ranges across the entire world, it is centered in Asia, and here this text focuses on the ten countries that comprise Southeast Asia. The United States and China constantly vie for position and influence in this enormously significant region, and the outcome of this contest will do much to determine whether Asia leaves the American orbit after seven decades and falls into a new Chinese sphere of influence. Just as important, to the extent that there is a global “power transition” occurring from the United States to China, the fate of Southeast Asia will be a good indicator. Presently, both powers bring important assets to bear. The United States continues to possess a depth and breadth of security ties, soft power, and direct investment across the region that empirically outweigh China’s. For its part, China has more diplomatic influence, much greater trade, and geographic proximity. In assessing the likelihood of a regional power transition, the book looks at how ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and the countries within it maneuver between the United States and China and the degree to which they align with one or the other power.

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The Roman Aura in Henry James’s Daisy Miller: A Study (1878)

10.1093/oso/9780198803034.003.0010 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

John Carlos Rowe

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Roman Empire ◽

Civil War ◽

Global Power ◽

Anglo American ◽

And Gender ◽

Classical Culture

Concentrating on Henry James’s Daisy Miller, this chapter reveals its author engaging in arguments over the decline and fall of the Roman Empire among nineteenth-century Anglo-American writers and over the best means of using Rome’s example as a warning to contemporaries. The novella’s Roman setting and frequent references to classical culture both extend Anglo-American Romantics’ emphasis on the Roman failure to develop a comprehensive democracy and allow James to pursue his own interest in post-Civil War America as an emerging global power. Departing from earlier interpretations of Rome’s importance within Daisy Miller, this chapter argues that James employs the character of Daisy to reconceive Rome’s relevance to central issues of class and gender. If James rejects aspects of contemporary American feminism embodied by such classically inspired artists as Harriet Hosmer and Maria Louisa Lander, he nevertheless makes his unsophisticated heroine, Daisy, into a means of expressing his democratic vision.

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