Martin Lavicka

Martin Lavicka
Palacký University Olomouc · Department of Asian Studies

Doctor of Philosophy
Visiting research fellow at Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University

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Introduction
Martin Lavička got his B.A. in Chinese and Japanese philology at Palacký University Olomouc (PUO), Czech Republic, M.A. in International Relations at National Chengchi University (NCCU) in Taiwan, and PhD in Political Science at the PUO. He is an assistant professor at the Department of Asian Studies at Palacký University Olomouc, where he teaches modern Chinese history and Chinese politics. His research focuses on socio-legal aspects of China's ethnic policies.
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September 2023 - present
Lund University
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  • Visiting research fellow

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Publications (26)
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Policies introduced by the Chinese government in the name of fighting terrorism, religious extremism and separatism have significantly reshaped the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR)-even though securitization has not brought the 'stability' that the PRC government claims in its continuous defense of its policies. Analysis of Chinese legal do...
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With the incorporation of the State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA) into the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) United Front Work Department in 2018, religious affairs have been brought back into the direct control of the Party. While SARA has retained its name, it is no longer an independent state agency. Five further legal measures were...
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Earlier this year (2024), authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region passed a revised version of the Xinjiang Regulations on Religious Affairs. The new rules emphasize the Sinicization of religion, ensuring that sites of religious worship, like mosques, reflect “Chinese characteristics and style.” Moreover, they are calling for the cultiv...
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Book review of Magdaléna Rychetská's book Uneasy Encounters: Christian Churches in Greater China, published in Singapore by Palgrave Macmillan in 2022.
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The current situation of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) is considered by many as one of the most pressing human rights violations of the last few decades. The Uyghurs, being an ethnic minority in China, are voiceless under the current political leadership, which suppresses anything deviating from the official course set up...
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This volume consists of 19 chapters that reflect the titular theme – Voiced and Voiceless in Asia – from a variety of angles, making use of diverse scholarly approaches and disciplines, while focusing specifically on China, India, Japan, and Taiwan. The chapters are broadly divided into two parts: (1) Politics and Society, and (2) Arts and Literatu...
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The Uyghurs in Xinjiang are experiencing one of the most intense persecutions in recent times. Despite the nominal legal protection for religious freedom under Chinese laws, the reality is vastly different. Xinjiang is being used as a testing ground for national religious policy by the Chinese government, in addition to being a testing ground for s...
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The history of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 to 2018 presents to the Czech reader the first comprehensive historical assessment of this vast and most populous country and major, albeit new, geopolitical entity. It begins with the founding of the People‘s Republic and ends at the end of 2018 with the symbolic Chinese probe successful land...
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The main aim of this article is to develop a discussion on folklorization or how identity is commodified and reduced to only some cultural traits. Currently, folklorization is one of the main devices in PRC’s cultural and political policies in Central Asia. Authors analyze folklorization both inter-state with a particular focus on Kazakhstan and Ky...
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Even before the establishment of the People´s Republic of China in 1949, the propaganda apparatus used to be an integral part of the Communist Party of China´s politics. Propaganda as a tool to influence the public and legitimize the policies and the Party itself, became and continues to be a crucial asset. Whoever has power over the propaganda has...
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Lavička, Martin. 2019. "Adapting Japanese Chrematonyms into Chinese from the Sociolinguistic Perspective: Strategies and Approaches." Studia Orientalia Slovaca 18(1): 29–49. ---------------------------------------------------------------- For this study, more than one thousand of Japanese company and brand names was analysed. Only those available i...
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This book provides an in-depth analysis of the relations between China and the EU, tracing the development of this complex, yet intriguing, relationship between two substantially different actors. To uncover a deeper understanding of this unlikely partnership, the authors analyze the partnership through the prism of contending norms and worldviews....
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This article analyses the content of a propaganda poster entitled the Parade of Clowns, created by the Chinese painter Weng Rulan in 1967. The examined propaganda poster contains 39 political and cultural figures from the first half of the 1960s, who were to become the first victims of the purges associated with the Cultural Revolution. A detailed...
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This article draws on original Czech archival research and is complemented by reference to secondary sources. It deals with the thawing of Czechoslovak – Chinese relations in 1968, the year of the Prague Spring, in particular with the Chinese reaction to the invasion and the ramifications it had for Chinese foreign policy decisions in the following...
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The paper describes research findings that focus on the analysis of foreign proper names and their language transfer into Chinese. The first section introduces the subject of the research, with the second section presenting the methodology of the study. The third section’s primary focus is on the obtained data, which are presented and interpreted,...
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The 8th Annual Czech and Slovak Sinological Conference 2014: Proceedings is a compendium of twelve articles selected from the 8th Annual Czech and Slovak Sinological Conference, which took place on November 7–8, 2014 at the Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. The event serves as a unique forum to share and exchange ideas, as well as to disc...
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This article introduces the reader to the complicated nature of the triangular relations between the Czech Republic, the People's Republic of China, and the Republic of China (Taiwan). It briefly illustrates the tendency of Czech foreign policy to shift from the more confrontational (human rights oriented) stance towards the more "harmonious" busin...
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The book introduces the student to the basics of spoken and written Chinese through ten lessons, from pronunciation and tones to everyday conversational phrases, Chinese sentence structure and the first 250 Chinese characters.

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