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According to the Chinese zodiac, 2017 was the year of the 'fire rooster', an animal often associated with the mythical fenghuang, a magnificently beautiful bird whose appearance is believed to mark the beginning of a new era of peaceful flourishing. Considering the auspicious symbolism surrounding the fenghuang, it is fitting that on 18 October 2017, President Xi Jinping took to the stage of the Nineteenth Party Congress to proclaim the beginning of a 'new era' for Chinese socialism. However, in spite of such ecumenical proclamations, it became immediately evident that not all in China would be welcome to reap the rewards promised by the authorities. Migrant workers, for one, remain disposable. Lawyers, activists, and even ordinary citizens who dare to express critical views also hardly find a place in Xi's brave new world. This Yearbook traces the stark new 'gilded age' inaugurated by the Chinese Communist Party. It does so through a collection of more than forty original essays on labour, civil society, and human rights in China and beyond penned by leading scholars and practitioners from around the world. ; The Australian Centre on China in the World is a publicly funded research centre. ; This project has been produced with the financial assistance of the Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW), Australian National University, and the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sk?odowska-Curie grant agreement No 654852.

According to the Chinese zodiac, 2016 was the year of the fire monkey. What better character than Sun Wukong to inspire this inaugural volume of the Made in China Yearbook? In this past year, Chinese workers and activists from all walks of life have struggled under heightened repression by the Chinese party-state, showing remarkable endurance even under these dire circumstances. Through their battles, however small or short-lived, they repeatedly challenged the message of 'harmony' put forward by the Chinese authorities, creating 'disturbances' in the imaginary heaven engineered by the party-state. All of this is nothing other than proof of the survival of the monkey spirit in Chinese society. Even when trapped under a mountain of repression, or in terrible pain due to the curse of the magic headband of state control, the monkey still manages to briefly wriggle free, reminding us that not all is well, that not everything is predictable. ; The Australian Centre on China in the World is a publicly funded research centre. ; This project has been produced with the financial assistance of the Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW), Australian National University, and the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sk?odowska-Curie grant agreement No 654852.

Introduction. The Year of Crisis/ Linda Jaivin -- Forum: Standing on a Precipice. The Etymology of the Character of Wei / Jingjing Chen -- ch. 1. The Construction of Political Superiority / Delia Lin -- Forum: Masks and Wolves. Mask Diplomacy: Shifting the COVID-19 Narrative?/ Verónica Fraile Del Álamo and Darren J. Lim ; The Rise and Fall of the Wolf Warriors/ Yun Jiang -- ch. 2. Beating the Virus in the Chinese Countryside / Wuna Reilly -- Forum. Down and Out in Hong Kong. Hong Kong's National Security Law / Antony Dapiran ; Waste and the Elderly Working Poor in Hong Kong / Trang X. Ta -- ch. 3. Women's Bodies, Intimate Politics, and Feminist Consciousness Amid COVID-19 / Pan Wang -- Forum: Cultural Communication. The Language of Trust / Gerald Roche -- ch. 4. The Chinese Economy: Crisis, Control, Recovery, Refocus / Jane Golley and James Laurenceson -- Forum: Coping Through Laughter and Prayer. Humour in Crisis / Linda Jaivin ; The Power of Compassion: The Buddhist Approach to COVID-19 / Yu Sang -- ch. 5. China's Post-COVID-19 Stimulus: Dark Clouds, Green Lining / Jorrit Gosens -- Forum: Broken River Shattered Mountain. The Three Gorges Dam: A Deluge of Doubts / Annie Luman Ren-- ch. 6. The Future Repeats Itself: COVID-19 and Its Historical Comorbidities / Ari Larissa Heinrich -- Forum: Plan for Difficulty. The Dao of Crisis / Esther Sunkyung Klein -- ch. 7. US-China Relations: A Lingering Crisis / Nadège Rolland -- Forum: Difficult Choices. Taiwan's Search for a Grand Strategy / Wen-Ti Sung ; Malaysia: Taking No Side but Its Own / Xu Cheng Chong -- ch. 8. The Sino-Indian Border Crisis: Chinese Perceptions of Indian Nationalism / Andrew Chubb -- Forum: Of Mao and Money. Chinese Loans to Africa: Trap or Treasure? / Beyongo Mukete Dynamic ; Off the Prachanda Path: Nepali Communists' Crisis of Legitimacy / Matthew Galway -- ch. 9. Economic Power and Vulnerability in Sino-Australian Relations / Victor Ferguson and Darren J. Lim -- Forum: Playing the Game? China and the Multilateral Trading System: Misunderstandings, Criticisms, and Options / Weihuan Zhou -- ch. 10. Chinese Students Abroad in the Time of Pandemic: An Australian View / Yu Tao.

'More cosmopolitan, more lively, more global' is how the China Daily summed up the year 2016 in China. It was also a year of more control. The Chinese Communist Party laid down strict new rules of conduct for its members, continued to assert its dominance over everything from the Internet to the South China Sea and announced a new Five-Year Plan that Greenpeace called 'quite possibly the most important document in the world in setting the pace of acting on climate change'. The China Story Yearbook 2016: Control surveys the year in China's economy, population planning, law enforcement and reform, environment, Internet, medicine, religion, education, historiography, foreign affairs, and culture, as well as developments in Taiwan and Hong Kong

ch. 1. A dream of perpetual rule / Gloria Davies -- ch. 2. Hong Kong's reckoning / Antony Dapiran -- ch. 3. Meridians of influence in a nervous world / Brendan Taylor and Richard Rigby -- ch. 4. Conscious decoupling: the technology security dilemma / Darren Lim and Victor Ferguson -- ch. 5. AI dreams and authoritarian nightmares / Olivia Shen -- ch. 6. Urbanising Tibet: aspirations, illusions, and nightmares / Gerald Roche, James Leibold, and Ben Hillman -- ch. 7. Schemes, dreams, and nightmares: China's paradox(es) of trust / Gerry Groot -- ch. 8. Hong Kong and the Tiananmen playbook / Louisa Lim and Graeme Smith -- ch. 9. Campus conundrums: clashes and collaborations / Jane Golley, Paul Harris, and James Laurenceson.

Intro; Introduction; Powering Up; Acknowledgements; The Cover Image; Forum · Powerful Words, Powerful People; Constantly Strive to Become Stronger; Mao and Xi: Story of the Man, Story of the People; 1. Immunity to Temptation -- 'Power' in Chinese Language; Forum · Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely; Power Surge: China's New National Supervisory Commission; 2. Talking (Up) Power; Forum · Power and Influence; Power in Chinese Foreign Policy; China's Korea Diplomacy; 3. Technology: Rapid Ascent and Global Backlash; Forum · The Power of Money; Calling the Tunes in Cambodia