China The Long Read: Book review of ‘The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History’ April 1, 2020 0 Image credit: National Library of China - Beijing by IQRemix/Flickr; licence CC BY-SA 2.0. Written by Zhidong Hao. The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History is…
China The new nationalism of Xi’s new era February 13, 2020 0 Image credit: Official visit of the President of China by UN Geneva/ flickr; licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Written by Kevin Carrico. No one will ever…
China Ideology in China’s military reform May 18, 2018 1 Written by Juliette Genevaz. China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA), that analysts still qualified as a “junkyard army” at the turn of the twenty-first century, transformed…
Uncategorized Silk-Bamboo: Traditional Chinese Music and the Confucian Heritage August 23, 2017 0 Written by Alan R. Thrasher. Traditional Chinese instrumental music can be divided into several quite different domains, each with regional subtypes and repertoires. Most prominent…
China The End of “Reform and Opening”?: New Political Paradigms and China’s Future. March 21, 2016 0 Written by Matthew Johnson. If the narrative of “reforming and opening” China has run its course, what new narrative will replace it? The past week…
Education The paradox at the heart of China’s quest to rid universities of Western values March 17, 2015 0 Written by Wu Bin. Chinese universities are gripped in a debate about whether students should be exposed to “Western values”. A campaign was ignited in…
Nationalism and national identity Chinese and Japanese Nationalism: The Clash and Convergence of Ideologies February 12, 2015 0 Written by Brian J. McVeigh. International relations can be understood by examining detailed specifics (individual leaders, national policies articulated in position papers and laws, etc.).…
Politics Princelings, preferences and power June 29, 2014 0 Written by Kerry Brown. Do Chinese leaders have to believe anything? After all, unlike their western counterparts, they don’t have to engage in battles over…
China China’s non-interference policy: PRC leaders and the realist perspective March 31, 2014 1 Written by Edward Friedman. How would a realist IR theorist describe the purposes and actual behavior in a CCP claim that PRC foreign policy is premised on…
