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China

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Engineering Stability

Rebuilding the State in Twenty-First Century Chinese Universities

By Xiaojun Yan
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Governance
Series: China Understandings Today

How can a state reinvent itself to survive?

In Search of Admiration and Respect

Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875–1974

By Yanqiu Zheng
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Cultural Studies, History, Chinese History, Art, Art History, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Theater and Performance
Series: China Understandings Today

Reframes cultural diplomacy as part of China's ongoing quest for modernity beyond wealth and power

China as Number One?

The Emerging Values of a Rising Power

By Yang Zhong & Ronald F. Inglehart
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion
Series: China Understandings Today

Examining the contemporary rise in China’s political, economic, and military power through the opinions of its citizens

Where FDI Goes in Decentralized Authoritarian Countries

The Politics of Taiwanese Site Selection for Investment in Mainland China

By Kelan Lu
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Asian Studies, China, Political Theory

Explores the conditional effect of fiscal decentralization on FDI inflows at county level in China and explores whether FDI sourced from adversarial states is more dependent upon local government fiscal autonomy than those sourced from the non-adversarial states

The Currency of Truth

Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era

By Emily H. C. Chua
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, Media Studies, Journalism, Political Science, Political Communication
Series: China Understandings Today

Explores the complex interpersonal networks and differing ethical standpoints that shape the news in China

Disruptions as Opportunities

Governing Chinese Society with Interactive Authoritarianism

By Taiyi Sun
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Comparative Politics
Series: China Understandings Today

How authoritarian states adapt to new phenomena

Rejuvenating Communism

Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China

By Jérôme Doyon
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion
Series: China Understandings Today

How the Chinese party-state attracts young officials to renew its elite

Power of Freedom

Hu Shih's Political Writings

Edited by Chih-Ping Chou & Carlos Lin
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, International Relations
Series: China Understandings Today

Collection of several previously unpublished works from one of China’s most important scholars in the 20th century

Righteous Revolutionaries

Morality, Mobilization, and Violence in the Making of the Chinese State

By Jeffrey A. Javed
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Political History, History, Chinese History
Series: China Understandings Today

A reexamination of one of the most violent and successful state-building efforts in history

Pride, Not Prejudice

National Identity as a Pacifying Force in East Asia

By Eunbin Chung
Subjects: Political Science, Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies, Asian Studies, China, Japan, Korea, International Relations

Nationalism as a path to international peace

Governing and Ruling

The Political Logic of Taxation in China

By Changdong Zhang
Subjects: Political Science, Asian Studies, China, Economics
Series: China Understandings Today

Studies how the Chinese Communist Party uses and reforms its taxation institution to promote economic growth and governance quality while limits the emerging capitalists' political demand

Labor and the Chinese Revolution

Class Strategies and Contradictions of Chinese Communism, 1928–1948

By S. Bernard Thomas & S. Bernard Thomas
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

A definitive chronological study of labor’s role in the revolution, drawing upon a wide range of Chinese and Western sources

Power over Property

The Political Economy of Communist Land Reform in China

By Matthew Noellert
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Chinese History, Political Science, Political History
Series: China Understandings Today

Provides an alternative to both capitalist and communist conceptions of modern historical development based on relations to property

A Bibliography of Chinese Language Materials on the People's Communes

By Wei-yi Ma
Subjects: Reference, Political Science, Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

A comprehensive culling of information from some 137 Chinese journals on the topic of the commune, the most important administrative and planning unit in post-1949 China

Chinese Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy in the 1970s

By Allen S. Whiting
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, International Relations, Comparative Politics
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Two studies exploring the question of linkage between Beijing’s foreign policy and domestic politics in the PRC

Chinese Communist Materials at the Bureau of Investigation Archives, Taiwan

By Peter Donovan, Carl E. Dorris, Carl E. Dorris, Lawrence R. Sullivan, and Lawrence R. Sullivan
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Reference, Political Science, Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

A research guide to the extensive materials on the Chinese Communist Party gathered by Nationalist authorities before 1949 and currently stored in government institutions in Taiwan.

Early Communist China

Two Studies

By Ronald Suleski & Daniel Bays
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Comparative Politics
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Two studies examine the Fu-t’ien Incident and the Agrarian Reform in Kwangtung

China’s Allocation of Fixed Capital Investment, 1952–1957

By Chu-yuan Cheng
Subjects: Economics, International Economics, Political Science, Political Economy, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Shaping the Future of Power

Knowledge Production and Network-Building in China-Africa Relations

By Lina Benabdallah
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Political Theory, African Studies, Asian Studies, China

Probes the power mechanisms that build, diffuse, and project China’s power in Africa

Central Documents and Politburo Politics in China

By Kenneth Lieberthal, James Tong, James Tong, Sai-cheung Yeung, and Sai-cheung Yeung
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

A study of the dynamics at the center of Chinese politics as revealed in the “Central Documents” through which the leadership communicates with the rest of the political system.

People's Wars in China, Malaya, and Vietnam

By Marc Opper
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, China, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History

The true measure of an insurgency’s success begins after victory

The Appearing Demos

Hong Kong During and After the Umbrella Movement

By Laikwan Pang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Cultural Studies

Facilitating vigorous dialogue between Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement and the political theories of Hannah Arendt, The Appearing Demos theorizes a city-based democratic project that allows the city to coexist and share power with state sovereignty.

China’s Challenges and International Order Transition

Beyond “Thucydides's Trap”

By Huiyun Feng & Kai He
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Asian Studies, China

The world changes China as much as China changes the world

The Return of Ideology

The Search for Regime Identities in Postcommunist Russia and China

By Cheng Chen
Subjects: Political Science, Governance, Political Theory, Asian Studies, China

As Russia and China leave communism behind, they struggle to forge a new political ideology for a new era

China’s Revolutions and Intergenerational Relations

Edited by Martin Whyte
Subjects: Political Science, Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

New research dispels conventional wisdom regarding the effect of social upheaval on traditional family patterns

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