Within months of the February 1997 passing of Deng Xiaoping, the chief architect and
symbolic father of the post-Mao reform program, the Chinese countryside was gripped by a …

The Chinese empire was born amid the turmoil and wars of the second century BCE. In the
first two dynastic regimes, the Qin (221-206 BCE) and the Han (202 BCE-220 CE) several …

This dissertation examines the process of through which the government of the People's
Republic of China ostensibly produces popular legitimacy by inculcating an attachment to …

At the turn of the 21st century, the strenuous conditions of social existence in China offered
up plenty of cause for popular protest. The further dismantling of the old socialist system, the …

A leading scholar of China's modern political development examines the changing
relationship between the Chinese people and the state. Correcting the conventional view of …

In this article, we examine the emergence of a growing debate in China over the legacy of
Beijing's Old Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan), burned to the ground by British and French …

More than five months had passed, but in December 1995, the oversized characters
scrawled on a storefront on Wangjiacun's main street were still legible:“We're citizens. Give …

Liberal democracy is rejected by some East Asian leaders on the basis that “democracies
can... prevent rapid economic development.” 1 Na tionalism, instead, is on the ascendancy …

The crippled economic and political reform in China has come with two schools of thought7
the new-left and nationalism. The new-left focuses on domestic issues, while nationalism …

Written by a team of leading China scholars this text interrogates the dynamics of state
power and legitimation in 21st Century China. Despite the continuing economic successes …