Assessing China's adoption of capitalism and predicting its future have become enormously
daunting. On one hand, rapid economic growth, massive social transformations, and relative …

Since the Communist Party of China (CPC) launched the reform movement in 1978, China
has altered Mao Zedong's revolutionary model of social development, and achieved …

In an era when China is widely regarded as one of the major actors on the world stage, it is
salient to remember that this role is a relatively recent phenomenon. To be sure, China was …

There is a consensus that China's economic system has undergone dra matic transformation
since the end of the Cultural Revolution, but there is widespread disagreement about the …

This chapter presents perspectives for discussing the ideology of the Chinese Communist
Party (CCP) by reviewing the history of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the …

This Dissertation participates in recent debates about the normative ideals of Chinese
political reform. Along with the revival of Confucianism in twenty-first century China …

Through eight chapters, plus an introduction and conclusion, Jiwei Ci argues that Chinese
society is largely democratic at present. Therefore, in the absence of a democratic political …

It is increasingly evident that China has attached more attention to discursive power in
foreign policy since the early 21st century. Both top leaders and government agencies have …

On the heels of democratic uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), recent"
mass incidents"(qunti shijian) in China have spurred renewed debate about the level of …