What changes in China's modern military policy reveal about military organizations and
strategy Since the 1949 Communist Revolution, China has devised nine different military …

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Revolution and Dictatorship the violent origins of durable authoritarianism 9 Steven Levitsky …

As China emerges as an international economic and military power, the world waits to see
how the nation will assert itself globally. Yet, as M. Taylor Fravel shows in Strong Borders …

The recent conflict between indigenous Uyghurs and Han Chinese demonstrates that
Xinjiang is a major trouble spot for China, with Uyghur demands for increased autonomy …

Fractured Rebellion is the first full-length account of the evolution of China's Red Guard
Movement in Beijing, the nation's capital, from its beginnings in 1966 to its forcible …

To the outside world Deng Xiaoping represents a contradiction-he is both China's most
successful moderniser, and theButcher of Beijing', China's supreme leader who must take …

Information extracted from 1,520 county annals published after 1987 is used to estimate the
timing and impact of the Cultural Revolution in rural China. Outside observers initially …

Social movements transform participants' identities. Why they do so is an unresolved puzzle.
I argue that for participants, social movements are liminal phenomena characterized by …

Since the victory of the 1949 revolution the incumbency of the Chinese Communist Party has
been characterized by an almost relentless struggle to legitimize its monopoly on political …

I wish to thank Andrew Kipnis and two anonymous reviewers for their comments and
suggestions. An earlier version of this paper was delivered at a 2006 conference at Harvard …