The People's Republic of China (PRC) under President Xi Jinping has begun to flex its
muscles as a major power. Setting aside Deng Xiaoping's mantra of “hide our light and …

Mainstream Chinese discussions of “democracy” have long betrayed a decidedly populist
understanding of the concept. Xi Jinping draws freely on this tradition in formulating his …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 EAST ASIA HISTORY, POLITICS, SOCIOLOGY, CULTURE Edited by
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China today is in a process of economic, intellectual, and political transformation, 1 which
includes what Alex Inkeles has called a tendency toward “convergence” between societies …

The changes that China has been undergoing over the last 20 years, as well as the country's
rise to world-power status, lend urgency to questions about the possibility of democratization …

This volume is the first comprehensive study of China's “political civilization” since the term
was introduced by then Party Secretary Jiang Zemin in 2002. Selected among about 200 …

The essays which make up this book originated as papers presented at a conference on"
Intellectuals and the Problem of Conservatism in Republican China" which was held in 1972 …

China is slowly laying a solid foundation upon which democracy can one day be built.
Democracy is not inevitable, but when scholars of the twenty-first century look back on the …

This chapter describes the broad patterns of China's authoritarian developmentalism,
otherwise known as the" China Model", spanning the periods from Deng Xiaoping to Jiang …