Globalization accelerates the speed of migration in the world and challenges the traditional citizenship based on nation-state. Similarly, China has been undergoing a huge movement of domestic migration, more than 200...Globalization accelerates the speed of migration in the world and challenges the traditional citizenship based on nation-state. Similarly, China has been undergoing a huge movement of domestic migration, more than 200 million farmers moving into cities and towns from the countryside, under the impact of modernization and globalization; this creates a great challenge to its traditional citizenship. The paper includes five parts and will： 1 ） give an overview of the whole process of this huge migration since the Reform and Opening Up at the end of the 1970s ; 2 ） analyze the internal and international dynamics of migration and particularly its great challenges to citizens＇ civil rights, obhgation, and identity; 3 ） illustrate Chinese policies dealing with the new large migration; 4, ） assess the essential changes in citizenship from this migration; and 5 ） find its meaning and consequence in terms of political philosophy.展开更多
The restoration of political radicalism in China can be attributed to a number of factors; similarly, the successful construction of a civil society to un- tangle the mess caused by the transformation does not rely on...The restoration of political radicalism in China can be attributed to a number of factors; similarly, the successful construction of a civil society to un- tangle the mess caused by the transformation does not rely on spontaneous fulfill- ment of the society itself, for it involves more factors than have been realized and discussed, such as the state （i.e., the government）, the ruling party, society, and the context of globalization. Without a comprehensive study on the cause of this problem, any prescriptive suggestion or discussion on how to go beyond radicalism is no more than an idealistic path for China＇s political reconstruction.展开更多
文摘Globalization accelerates the speed of migration in the world and challenges the traditional citizenship based on nation-state. Similarly, China has been undergoing a huge movement of domestic migration, more than 200 million farmers moving into cities and towns from the countryside, under the impact of modernization and globalization; this creates a great challenge to its traditional citizenship. The paper includes five parts and will： 1 ） give an overview of the whole process of this huge migration since the Reform and Opening Up at the end of the 1970s ; 2 ） analyze the internal and international dynamics of migration and particularly its great challenges to citizens＇ civil rights, obhgation, and identity; 3 ） illustrate Chinese policies dealing with the new large migration; 4, ） assess the essential changes in citizenship from this migration; and 5 ） find its meaning and consequence in terms of political philosophy.
文摘The restoration of political radicalism in China can be attributed to a number of factors; similarly, the successful construction of a civil society to un- tangle the mess caused by the transformation does not rely on spontaneous fulfill- ment of the society itself, for it involves more factors than have been realized and discussed, such as the state （i.e., the government）, the ruling party, society, and the context of globalization. Without a comprehensive study on the cause of this problem, any prescriptive suggestion or discussion on how to go beyond radicalism is no more than an idealistic path for China＇s political reconstruction.
