The Spirit of the Mongolian Horse. Historical dictionary of official political and diplomatic language of the People’s Republic of China

Flora Sapio

doi:10.6093/978-88-6719-244-1

The Spirit of the Mongolian Horse. Historical dictionary of official political and diplomatic language of the People’s Republic of China

Authors

Flora Sapio

University of Naples L'Orientale

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4857-1657

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6719-244-1

Keywords:

People’s Republic of China, political and social sciences, history, diplomacy, politics

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Il porto delle idee

ISSN: 2785-4191

Pages: 322

Language: Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn:nbn:it:unina-28553

Abstract: This monograph discusses the ninety-nine terms that appear most frequently in the internal discourse on politics, society, ideology, economics and international relations of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to 2018. The work is firmly anchored in the fields of politics and of the social sciences. It makes an important contribution to the study of the history of political institutions in contemporary China as it traces the historical-political origin and reconstructs the semantic evolution of a substantial part of the political and diplomatic language currently in use.

The monograph has the goal to enable a deep understanding of a sometimes difficult, cryptic and esoteric language. If once the use of this language was restricted to specific fields of expertise, its use now transcends the borders of China. This simple fact requires not only a detailed analysis of the meaning and evolution of the Chinese political and diplomatic lexicon. Equally important is its disclosure to a non-specialized public, composed by intellectuals, but also entrepreneurs and local and national officials.

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Author Biography

Flora Sapio, University of Naples L'Orientale

Flora Sapio is a researcher at the Department of Human and Social Sciences of the University of Naples "L’Orientale", where she teaches courses in Politics and Institutions of Contemporary China and in History and Institutions of Contemporary China. During her career she held teaching positions in Sweden, Germany, the People's Republic of China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. She has spent periods of study and research in the United States of America and the People's Republic of China. Her publications include: Sovereign Power and the Law in China (Brill, 2010), The Politics of Law and Stability in China (Edward Elgar, 2014), Justice: The China Experience (Cambridge University Press, 2018).