Contemporary China can only be understood in relation to its recent past. During the half
century before 1950, Chinese history was marked both by the vigorous per sistence of …

Conventional understandings of Chinese nationalism often portray it as anti-Western,
focusing on Chinese nationalists' obsession with a powerful state and on their ambition to …

This dissertation explores the visions of an ideal world order in Chinese utopianism at the
turn of the twentieth century. Utopian works produced at this time are addressed both as …

" Democracy is a good thing. This is true not only for individuals or certain officials but also
for the entire nation and for all the people of China."–Yu Keping So begins" Democracy Is a …

The development of states since the nineteenth century has involved governments engaging
their subjects as citizens defined in one of two basic ways or some mix of the two. From the …

Western Political science cannot adequately address China's development in the twenty-first
century. The inadequacy is due to a general neglect of historical methods and an obsession …

The Western invasion of China in the late Qing precipitated changes at the very core of
Chinese politics. As resisting the foreign intrusion became imperative, the role of the …

Closely associated with China's growing prominence in international politics are discussions
about how to understand Chinese history, and how such perspectives inform the way a …

In this pathbreaking book, Xiaoyuan Liu establishes the ways in which the history of the
Chinese Communist Party was, from the Yan'an period onward, intertwined with the …

As Maoism recedes, and especially after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, Beijing
has increasingly turned to patriotic nationalism for its ideological inspiration and legitimation …