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_The Contemporary China Centre Spring 2013 Seminar Series_
'Unpacking China's Health Aid to Africa: Problematizing a Hegemonic
Construction of Health Diplomacy'
Dr Paul Kadetz, Arizona School of Health Sciences
Wed 27th Feb 2013, 3-5pm
'Chinese Politics and the Transcendental'
Dr Gerda Wielander, University of Westminster
(co-hosted by Centre for the Study of Democracy)
Tues 12th Mar 2013, 4-6pm
'Cosmopolitan Imaginaries and Outsourcing: An Ethnographic Perspective
on China's Knowledge Factories'
Dr Kimberly Chong, University College, London
Wed 27th Mar 2013, 6-8pm
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Unpacking China's Health Aid to Africa: Problematizing a Hegemonic
Construction of Health Diplomacy
Dr Paul Kadetz
The practice of health diplomacy aims to prioritize the health care
aspects of humanitarian aid as a mechanism for political economic
negotiations between donor and recipient nations. Existing research
concerning health diplomacy has failed to assess the
context-appropriateness of the health care aid transferred, the manner
in which health diplomacy is implemented, and the political and economic
ideologies embedded in such transfers. This presentation examines how
health diplomacy may be understood in terms of the above-mentioned
criteria using specific illustrative examples of Sino-African health
diplomacy over the past sixty years. China's health diplomacy is
contrasted with examples of that of the US in order to assess whether
the former constitutes a distinct alternative to the normative health
diplomacy of the global North.
Biography
Paul is on the faculty of the Arizona School of Health Sciences (United
States) and is an Associate of the China Centre for Health and Humanity
at University College London. He completed his DPhil in Development
Studies at the University of Oxford. He also completed a MSc. in Medical
Anthropology at Oxford and holds a MPH in International Health and
Development; a MSN as an Adult Nurse Practitioner; and a MSOM in
acupuncture and herbology. Paul has served as an external expert
researcher for the Traditional Medicine Unit of the Western Pacific
Region Office of the World Health Organization and assisted in the
development of the current strategy for Traditional Medicine for the
Western Pacific Region. Paul has conducted research on health care and
integrative medicine in China, Cuba, Guatemala, the Philippines and the
United States.
Chinese Politics and the Transcendental
Dr Gerda Wielander
On 10 December 2008 a document called Charter 08 was made public in
China. Inspired by the Charter 77 of Czechoslovakia and published on the
60th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights, the document
proposes nineteen ‘recommendations on governance, citizens’ rights and
social development’. Instead of advocating steady reform, the document
calls for a fundamental change to the political system in China and is
considered to be the embodiment and synthesis of theoretical and
intellectual achievements by Chinese liberal intellectuals over a
decade. One year after the publication of Charter 08 Liu Xiaobo, one of
the men responsible for drafting the document, was sentenced to an
eleven-year prison sentence for subversion. During an earlier prison
sentence in 1999, Liu Xiaobo, an active participant in the democracy
movement of 1989, read and made extensive notes on Christianity and
political action. Two main issues appear to capture Liu’s imagination in
particular: that Christianity made the transition from a persecuted
religion to the official religion of the Roman Empire, and that the
Christian faith became the transcendental basis for the processes of the
rule of law.
This talk focuses on Chinese Christian liberals and the way faith and
politics are linked in their theoretical writings, which emphasize the
importance of a transcendental source of values in the construction of a
polity as well as in the emergence of a true civil society in China. It
also investigates the links between Christian liberals and other liberal
groups such as (non-Christian) liberal intellectuals, democracy movement
activists, liberals within the CCP, human rights lawyers and grassroots
rights activists. As will be shown, the distinctions between these
categories are blurred insofar as Christian liberal thinking has had a
profound influence on and representatives in all these categories of
liberals over the last decade.
Biography
Gerda Wielander is Principal Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the
University of Westminster, London, and researcher at the university’s
Contemporary China Centre. Gerda’s research interests lie with the
intellectual and spiritual influences on social and political change in
contemporary China. Her work on the ‘dissident Christian intellectual’,
on electronic house church publications and activities, and most
recently on the use of ‘love’ in Chinese political discourse has been
published in leading international journals. Her monograph ‘Christian
Values in Communist China’ will be published as part of Routledge’s
Contemporary China Series in late 2013.
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