Review Article: The Impact of Communist China on Visitors from India

Fisher, Margaret W.; Bondurant, Joan V.; Sundarlal,; Kumarappa, J. C.; Karanjia, R. K.; Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad; Mujeeb, M[ohammad]; Hutheesing, Raja; Moraes, Frank; Shah, Keval; Shastri, Brajkishore

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“…The latter often contains detailed and, in most cases, accurate accounts of the history, customs, artistic forms, and social system of India. However, compared with the travelogues of their Indian counterparts visiting China, which had widely differing appraisals (Fisher & Bondurant, ), the Chinese travel writings seem to be over‐positive and unanimously uncritical. Yet this lack of critical engagement with and nuanced comprehension of Indian society was to some extent compensated by translating Indian literature and importing Indian films.…”

Section: –1962: Initial Inquiries In a Time Of Political Romanticismmentioning

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The history of the production of India‐related knowledge in post‐1950 China

Jiang¹,

Jia

2018

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This essay surveys the ways in which India‐related knowledge has been produced and disseminated in China since 1950 when diplomatic ties were established between the two nascent nation‐states. The examination proceeds along two differing yet intertwined dimensions: academic knowledge and popular knowledge. At the academic level, both traditional and modern Indology in China have undergone remarkable development, which is mainly charasterised by institutional extension, growing multidisciplinarity, and diversification of languages taught and research subjects. However, confined mostly within the intelligentsia, scholarly knowledge has limited impact on shaping China's public views on India. This task, instead, has been well fulfilled by popular modes of knowledge production that target a wider audience, such as translated literary works, subtitled films, and travel writings. Thanks largely to the rise of Internet and social media in China, recent years have seen gradual convergence of the two modes of production of India‐related knowledge, with junior academics embracing digital mediums to popularise rational thinking about Indian issues, while non‐academics starting to generate well‐studied contents in their creative engagement with Indian culture and society. In light of India's economic growth and China's increasing emphasis on neighbouring countries and those located along the Belt and Road, China's demand and supply for unbiased and specialised knowledge about India are anticipated to grow in the future.

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Section: –1962: Initial Inquiries In a Time Of Political Romanticismmentioning

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The history of the production of India‐related knowledge in post‐1950 China

Jiang¹,

Jia

2018

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“…How else might we explain Herbert Passin's estimate for 1956, when "26 Indian delegations to China were counted and 33 Chinese delegations to India" (Passin 1961, 91)? Accordingly, our reconstruction includes information on the activities of the ICFA and the CIFA compiled from newspapers such as The Times of India, Renmin ribao, and Guangming ribao, in combination with information gleaned from two other sets of sources: contemporary journal articles that discussed Sino-Indian interactions (Fisher and Bondurant 1956;Passin 1961) and discoveries made in various archives and libraries in Beijing, New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, and Toledo.…”

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Before 1962: The Case for 1950s China-India History

Ghosh¹

2017

J of Asian Stud

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China-India history of the 1950s remains mired in concerns related to border demarcations and a teleological focus on the causes, course, and consequences of the war of 1962. The result is an overt emphasis on diplomatic and international history of a rather narrow form. In critiquing this narrowness, this article offers an alternate chronology accompanied by two substantive case studies. Taken together, they demonstrate that an approach that takes seriously cultural, scientific, and economic life leads to different sources and different historical arguments than an approach focused on political (and especially high political) life. Such a shift in emphasis, away from conflict and onto moments of contact, comparison, cooperation, and competition, can contribute fresh perspectives not just on the histories of China and India, but also on the histories of the Global South.

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“…58 Anne-Marie Brady, Making the Foreign Serve China: Managing Foreigners in the People's Republic, Rowman and Littlefield, Maryland, 2003, 8. 59 See Herbert Passin, Chinese Cultural Diplomacy; Nathan White, 'People's Diplomacy: its use by China to influence Japan 1949-76', Journal of Contemporary China, 3, 1979Allen Whiting, China Eyes Japan, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1989;Margaret Fisher and Joan Bondurant, 'The Impact of Communist China on Visitors from India ', Far Eastern Quarterly, 15, 2, 1956; Anne-Marie Brady, Managing Foreigners; Josh Kurlantzick, Charm Offensive, where these terms are used virtually interchangeably to describe the same activities. See also 'Cultural Diplomacy: The Linchpin of Public Diplomacy', Report of the Advisory Committee on Cultural Diplomacy, U.S. Department of State, September 2005. looked at it have tended to use definitions that strongly suggest Chinese or communist exceptionalism:…”

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Telling the Truth about People's China

Shaw¹

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<p>This work is a discussion of the history of the construction and propagation over time (1949- 2002), by New Zealanders, of positive images of the People's Republic of China (PRC). This was done primarily through the New Zealand China Friendship Society. The thesis also looks at China-aligned communist parties, students who went on New Zealand University Students' Association study tours in the 1970s, and key interlocutors such as Rewi Alley. These other groups had cross-membership with the NZCFS but differing engagements with China. The images propagated by the New Zealanders altered over time in response to changes in the PRC, developments in New Zealand, and shifting characteristics amongst the people who were engaged in the practice of producing images of the PRC. The thesis looks at how these observers of the PRC, and the organisations which they are combined, are themselves created, and see themselves, in relation to their process of viewing the PRC. This idea of a shifting sense of China and the changing sense of self is explored using a range of ideas. These include ideology, subjectivity, concepts of truth and practices of truth-telling. The thesis is an attempt to provide a sympathetic reading of a wide range of material and trying to understand what the PRC has meant at different times, in different circumstances and to different people. Accounts of the PRC are examined contextually. This involves the re-reading of a range of texts that have 'written' the PRC for those New Zealanders who, in different circumstances, have themselves been sympathetic to projections of successes taking place in the PRC.</p>

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Review Article: The Impact of Communist China on Visitors from India

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The history of the production of India‐related knowledge in post‐1950 China

The history of the production of India‐related knowledge in post‐1950 China

Before 1962: The Case for 1950s China-India History

Telling the Truth about People's China

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