Heritage Politics in China: The Power of the Past studies the impact of heritage policies and
discourses on the Chinese state and Chinese society. It sheds light on the way Chinese …

One important question about ideological works in China concerns the tension between
mobilisation (encouraging public expression) and control (limiting public expression) …

Scholarship to date agrees that the internet has weakened the Chinese Party-state's
ideological and discursive hegemony over society. This article documents a recent …

Taking as an example Xi Jinping's use of the phrase “excellent traditional culture”(, youxiu
chuantong wenhua), this article looks at the construction of a centrally sanctioned narrative …

This book argues that as new political and social values are formed in post-socialist China,
Christian values are becoming increasingly embedded in the new post-socialist Chinese …

The promotion of creativity is a crucial element in China's attempts to upgrade its economic
structure. In this context, creative spaces, located in derelict industrial sites, have become …

How is Xi Jinping changing the course of China's rise? Based on a Gramscian analytical
framework inspired by Bob Jessop, this article provides an anatomy of Xiism (2012–) as an …

Monique Taylor analyses the policy rationale and institutional underpinnings of China's state-
led or neomercantilist oil strategy, and its development, set against the wider context of …

In The Two Logics of Autocratic Rule, Gerschewski argues that all autocracies must fulfil
three conditions to survive: the co-optation of key elites into their inner sanctum, the …

Recent research on authoritarian regimes argues that they provide public goods in order to
prevent rebellion. This essay shows that the 'threat of rebellion'alone cannot explain …