IP (investigador principal): Brasó Broggi, Carles y Prado Fonts, Carles (co-IP)
Universidad o centro de investigación: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Miembros del equipo y su filiación:
e-contact: cbraso@uoc.edu
Título del proyecto: Cross-Regional and Multidimensional Interactions in China’s Reform and Opening Up: 1968-1992 (CROSS-CHINA)
Interacciones Interregionales y Multidimensionales en la Reforma y Apertura de China: 1968-1992 (CROSS-CHINA)
Programa y subprograma: Proyectos de Generación de Conocimiento 2023, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y
Universidades
Referencia: PID2023-152947NB-I00
Fecha de inicio: septiembre 2024
Fecha de finalización: 12-2027
Objetivos / resumen:
CROSS-CHINA aims at reassessing China’s transition after the end of Maoism. Through a combination of interdisciplinary collaboration, a cross-regional approach and tools of neural machine translation, the project takes into account data and phenomena that have remained invisibilized in the major historiographical narratives of China’s reform and opening up.
Based on preliminary findings by team members, we claim that these major narratives ultimately limit the notion of reform to economic policies that later catalyzed cultural changes, and restrict the notion of opening up to the interactions between China and only a few Western countries. Instead, the project is grounded on the hypothesis that China’s reform and opening up was originally characterized by both a multidimensional dialogue between humanistic concerns and economic policies and a much wider and more diverse set of interactions between China and Western contexts.
CROSS-CHINA will tackle both features by looking at the different visions and understandings of China and Chinas relation with the world that actively interacted in Chinese, Sinophone and semi-peripheral contexts such as Czechoslovakia and Spain between 1968 and 1992. To do so, we will draw from sources that have remained unattended by previous scholarship, particularly in Area Studies dominated by Anglophone contributions. We will begin by examining testimonial accounts such as diaries, memoirs, paratexts, or autofictional writings already identified in preliminary explorations. We anticipate that a collective, interdisciplinary analysis of these sources will illustrate with particular insight the dialogue between economic and humanistic discourses in discussions about reforms in China as well as the intense relations between the PRC and semi-peripheral Western countries during the period under examination. The project has also an exploratory dimension and will actively and strategically search for other types of sources in Chinese, Czech and Spanish that can further reinforce the hypothesis. It includes a pilot work package that will test and systematize the possibility of working with sources in Czech language through neural machine translation.
By bringing to light the wide and diverse mixture of cross-regional contacts and the multidimensional dialogues that combined economic and humanistic issues, the project hopes to make three sets of contributions: archival, methodological and historiographical. It ultimately hopes to offer a more complete, nuanced, and plural perspective of the post-maoist transition and of Chinas relation to the world.
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