This book describes the main contradictions in China's actions on the world stage—peaceful
vs. assertive—through a culturally informed framework that takes into account China's …

In the latter half of the 1990s, many non-Party organizations arose, presenting challenges to
official Chinese Communist Party (CCP) articulations of Party-state legitimacy. Two of the …

Using in-depth case studies of a wide-range of political, social and economic reforms in
contemporary China this volume sheds light on the significance and consequences of …

China's post-Mao transition has been marked by the steady transformation of the Chinese
Communist Party from a revolutionary elite oriented toward utopian goals to a technocratic …

While China's rise has been much discussed, its meaning continues to be contested. This is
true in radical international political economy, where, for example, it was the subject of (often …

Most scholarly research takes for granted that political legitimacy in contemporary China is
precarious and that the current regime suffers from a legitimacy crisis only superficially …

Despite the many reforms of the post-Mao era, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) remains
the most important political actor in China and therefore the most crucial factor in …

If the West wishes to understand China better, it needs to appreciate the depth of thought
and range of debate that is taking place within the Chinese political system. China is …

In this book, author Jinghao Zhou uses for the first time the prism of public philosophy to
examine Chinese society, modernization, globalization, and democratization as a whole …