| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 政治學研究所 === 101 === ABSTRACT
AN ANTI-COMMUNIST NARRATION OF CHINESE CIVILIZATION: CHINA NEWS ANALYSIS OF JESUITS
by
KAI-TI LIN
June2013
ADVISOR: CHIH-YU SHIH, Ph.D.
DEPAERMENT: POLITICAL SICNECE
MAJOR: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
DEGREE: MASTER OF ARTS
KEY WORDS: China News Analysis, Jesuits, Anti-communist, China watching, Chinese Civilization
China News Analysis （CNA）, which consistently reported on China since 1950s and was one of the truly essential English anti-communist Newsletters, is the subject of this paper, relying on archives, literature and interviews. This paper traces the rise and fall of CNA by reviewing the background of its chief editors with the analysis of their research method, purpose and perspectives, and finally reflects the value and importance of CNA to China Studies.
Under the leadership of the first editor in chief Father Laszlo Ladany, the establishment of CNA in Hong Kong was combined with missionary purpose and secular China watching as worldwide consulting report. Due to the return of Hong Kong to China, the second editorship crew Wei-Xin moved to Taiwan in order to orientate CNA itself to an academic journal. Impeded by political circumstances, researchers could not do fieldwork in China; therefore the CNA crew developed ‘News Analysis’ approach according to their personal experience in China. Statistics releases that their studies focus on political faction and foreign affairs besides current events.
Based on Jesuits’ attention to Chinese Civilization, CNA essentially examined Chinese foreign affairs from two perspectives. Given that the US has tried to contact, and further adopt its engagement policy to the Communist China after 1970s, the first perspective of CNA argues that the China would not forget to achieve its goal of ideological weltanschauug. To comprehend peculiarities of Chinese Civilization, the second perspective is to stand in the historical timeline before 1949 to analyze the distinction of China’s contemporary behavior to the west, and to ponder over how the Communist regime had influenced Chinese values and their way of life.
On the whole, CNA signifies one of the representative publications of China Watching in intellectual history. According to the distinct spirit of Jesuits editorship, China researchers shall speak in Chinese, study ancient history and live in Chinese-speaking environment, thus Chinese studies could be improved by reconnecting the relationship between historical lagacies and contemporary China. China Studies field has been almost lacking for textual approach to modern discourse and for comparison between different choices of diction since CNA began to decline.
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