China Why Taiwan should be worried by ‘Emperor’ Xi Jinping February 27, 2018 1 Written by Courtney Donovan Smith. With the announcement of the proposed changes to the Chinese constitution, the world has been rightfully alarmed by the section…
China Policing Public Relations in China February 12, 2018 0 Written by Suzanne E. Scoggins. Of all the things for the Chinese police to pour money into these days, one might think that a public…
Politics The Easiest Decision October 25, 2017 0 Written by Konstantinos Tsimonis. The leadership line-up at the end of the first plenum of the 19th Party Congress demonstrates that informal rules are designed…
China Corrupt colleagues and family ties: Xi’s lesson from the Gao Gang affair October 16, 2017 1 Written by Wankun Li and Adam Cathcart. The eyes of the world are focusing on Beijing as the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party…
Politics The development-stability nexus at home and abroad October 5, 2017 3 Written by Matt Ferchen and Renny Babiarz. After the death of Mao in 1976, Deng Xiaoping's moderate faction and Hua Guofeng's so-called ultra-leftist faction competed…
China Complexities of Controlling the Gun: The PLA Role in CCP Politics December 6, 2016 0 Written by Christopher Lew. The status and composition of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) appears to be in a…
China Xi Jinping: Where Does the Power Come From? October 13, 2016 2 Written by Kerry Brown. The consensus on the history of the People’s Republic of China after its establishment in 1949 is that the last seven…
China The Transformation of the West German Red Guards in the Late 1960s October 4, 2016 0 Written by Mascha Jacoby. Only months before many of their Chinese models began to be sent to the countryside “to be re-educated by the peasants”[1], a…
China Mao, Zhao and some “what ifs?” September 7, 2016 0 Written by Jeffrey Wasserstrom. I am always interested in counterfactual and other sorts of “what if” forays into speculation. I have often played the “what would…
China Why China still can’t make sense of the Cultural Revolution May 23, 2016 0 Written by Kerry Brown. If there is one certainty in contemporary Chinese politics, it’s that any mention of the Cultural Revolution, which began half a…
