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Traditional
Chinese Political Thought Wang Yuan-kang, “Managing Regional Hegemony in Historical Asia: The
Case of Early Ming China”, The Chinese
Journal of International Politics, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Summer 2012) pp.
129-153. The author notes that much
has been written recently about China’s rise, yet from an historical
perspective this is the fourth rise of China and this needs to be seen in the
longer perspective. Available for
purchase at: http://cjip.oxfordjournals.org/content/current. Yongjin Zhang and Barry Buzan,
“The Tributary System as International Society in Theory and Practice”, The
Chinese Journal of International Politics, Vol. 5, No 1 (Spring 2012), pp.
3-35. The authors contribute to the
growing interest in the traditional Chinese political and moral thinking
about peace and war, conflict and co-operation in relations between states
and political communities by examining the way in which the tributary system
functioned. Available at: http://cjip.oxfordjournals.org/content/5/1/3.full.
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Allies of the State Xufeng Zhu, “Government
Advisors or Public Advocates? Roles of Think Tanks in China from the
Perspective of Regional Variations”, The
China Quarterly, Vol. 207 (September 2011), pp. 668-686. The author uses data involving 301 think
tanks in 25 provinces of China to suggest that connections with the
government and the knowledge capacity of the respective regions are the main
determinants in acting as either advisors or advocates. Available for purchase at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8385810&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0305741011000701. Jie Chen and Bruce J.
Dickson, Allies of the State: China’s
Private Entrepreneurs and Democratic Change, Harvard University Press
(Cambridge, MA and London), 2010. The
authors completed a survey of 2,000 business elites in China and concluded
that in general they were offered a deal in “not rocking the boat”, or
otherwise learned not to bite the hand that feeds it. The book is available for purchase from
online sellers. Feng Chen, “Trade
Unions and the Quadripartite Interactions in Strike Settlement in China”, The China Quarterly, Vol. 201 (March
2010), pp. 104-124. The author
suggests that labour relations in China are characterised by a quadripartite
structure since strikes are always launched by unorganised workers, with
trade unions playing a mediating role not only between workers and the
government but also between workers and employers. Downloads may be purchased
at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7398272&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0305741009991093 Bruce J. Dickson, “Integrating Wealth and
Power in China The Communist Party’s Embrace of the Private Sector”, The China Quarterly, Vol. 192
(December 2007), pp. 827-854.
Downloads may be purchased at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?iid=1587448. Jie Chen and Bruce J. Dickson, “Allies of the State:
Democratic Support and Regime Support among China’s Private Entrepreneurs”, The China Quarterly, Vol. 196
(December 2008), pp. 780-804. Downloads
may be purchased at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?iid=3310956. Cheng Li,
“China’s New Think Tanks: Where
Officials, Entrepreneurs and Scholars Interact”, China Leadership Monitor No. 29, Spring 2009 from the Hoover
Institution. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/clm/issues/52971792.html. Barry Naughton, “SASAC and Rising Corporate Power in China”, China Leadership Monitor No. 24, Spring 2008, from the Hoover Institution. SASAC is State Asset Supervision and Administration Commission and is charged with the responsibility of regulating (“managing”) the large state-owned enterprises in China. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/clm/issues/16610761.html. |
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The Party System Zheng Wang, “The Next Hu”, The National Interest, 19 December 2012. The author suggests that if the Communist
Party of China is able to hold onto power for the next decade, there is a
good chance that Hu Chunghua,
who was appointed party secretary of Guangdong Province and was recently been
made a Politburo member, will be selected to replace Xi Jinping
in 2022. Available at: http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/hus-next-7866. Simon Rabinovitch, “China’s ‘Firefighter-in-Chief’
Ascending” The Washington Post, 2 November 2012. The author suggests that until six months ago, rumours swirled that
Wang Qishan, China's vice premier, a historian by training, might even take the place of Li Keqiang, the man anointed to replace Wen
Jiabao as premier.
Li is now seen as having a lock on the premiership, but Wang is still
expected to emerge from the once-in-a-decade political transition with
greatly enhanced powers. Available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/chinas-firefighter-in-chief-ascending/2012/11/01/9bd7675c-243e-11e2-9313-3c7f59038d93_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines. David Shambaugh, “International Perspective on the Communist
Party of China”, China: An International Journal, Vol. 10, No. 2
(August 2012), pp. 8-22. The author
argues that since 2009, political and inner-Party reforms that had
been pursued for the previous decade have stagnated and retrogressed, and
that the Communist Party of China needs to return to a proactive political
reform agenda in order to tackle the many pressing social, economic,
intellectual and political challenges that it faces. Available
through registered institutions at: http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/china/v010/10.2.shambaugh.html. Chang Li, “Leadership
Transition in the CPC: Promising Progress and Potential Problems”, China:
An International Journal, Vol. 10, No. 2 (August 2012), pp.
23-33. This article reviews the CPC's
institutional development in the reform era and discusses the challenges and
opportunities that the CPC is encountering on the eve of the 18th Party
Congress.
Available through registered institutions at: http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/china/v010/10.2.li.html. *Bruce J Dickson,
“Revising Reform: China’s New Leaders and the Challenge of Governance”, China:
An International Journal, Vol. 10, No. 2 (August 2012), pp. 34-51. This article looks at three key trends in
China’s political development: the promotion of "national
champions" and "indigenous innovation" to create distinctive
Chinese brands that can compete in foreign markets; an emphasis on more
domestic consumption and less reliance on exports and infrastructure spending
as the engine of growth; and experiments with various political reforms at
the local level that are designed to help the Party govern better. Available through registered institutions
at: http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/china/v010/10.2.dickson.html. Kerry
Brown, “The Communist Party of China and Ideology”, China: An International Journal, Vol. 10, No. 2
(August 2012), pp. 52-68. The author
examines the following questions through key speeches of Hu
Jintao in their institutional and linguistic
contexts: What is the function of ideology in a society which is
undergoing dynamic economic and social reform and does ideology continue to
perform a role in building up cohesiveness amongst the political elite in
contemporary China, and if so, how? Available
through registered institutions at: http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/china/v010/10.2.brown.html. Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard,
“Cadre and Personnel Management in the CPC”, China: An International Journal, Vol. 10, No. 2 (August 2012), pp.
69-83. The article emphasises
the crucial importance of cadre management in understanding the fundamentals
of the Chinese power system, and it also points to a number of challenges in
studying this particular Chinese form of personnel management. Available through registered institutions
at: http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/china/v010/10.2.brodsgaard.html. Zheng Yongnian,
“Where Does the Chinese Communist Party Go from Here?: Challenges and Opportunities”, China: An International Journal, Vol. 10, No. 2
(August 2012), p. 84-101. This
article argues that political reform in China cannot be achieved by
utopianism but must be based on Chinese political practice that comprises
three main dimensions, namely, open party,
meritocratic competition and public participation. Available through registered institutions at: http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/china/v010/10.2.zheng.html. William Wan, “China’s
Mid-Level Party Officials Spend Professional Training Time Cultivating
Allies”, The Washington Post, 13 October 2012. Students attending the Central Party School
no longer seize the opportunity to immerse themselves in the wisdom of communism
but use the time at the school to cultivate relationships that might further
their careers and wealth. Available
at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/2012/10/12/c7d15f06-0d65-11e2-bb5e-492c0d30bff6_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines. Martine Bulard, “The Secretive World of the Communist Party”, Le
Monde Diplomatique,
September 2012. The lack of
transparency surrounding he appointment of China’s new Communist Party
government later this year extends to basic political and economic
philosophy. Available at: http://mondediplo.com/2012/09/07communist No author cited,
“Policing the Part: The Communist Party Has Its Own Law for Officials Who
Err”, The Economist, 1 September 2012.
The article suggests that Communist Party officials
deemed to have misbehaved badly are dealt with not by the Chinese judicial
system but by a parallel system that doles out the party’s own brand of
justice. Available at: http://www.economist.com/node/21561895?fsrc=nlw|wwp|8-30-2012|3296332|34237756|. Sandra
Schultz, “How China’s Leaders Steer a Massive Nation”, Spiegel Online, 31 August 2012. The author examines China’s authoritarian
system and asks the question: Are there lessons to be taken from the CPC’s
method of governance? Available at: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/putting-the-plan-into-action-how-china-s-leaders-steer-a-massive-nation-a-843593.html.
Zhao Yinan, “More Grassroots Members at Party Congress”, China
Daily, 14 August 2012. The 18th National Party Congress, which is scheduled to meet in the
second half of this year, will have 30.5 per cent of its delegates
representing the frontline of production and work. .Available at: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-08/14/content_15676015.htm. Geoffrey
Cain, “Back to Mao?” a review of the book by Gerald Lemos
entitled: The End of the Chinese Dream:
Why Chinese People Fear the Future (Yale University Press), in The New Republic, 26 July 2012. The reviewer quotes Lemos
as being prudent in warning that unrest in China will continue, and the
divided leadership is ill-equipped to handle the situation, but the unrest
stems from the desire for basic security in the daily lives of Chinese, and
to their access to health care, education and land rights 00 it is not an
open agitation for democracy.
Available at: http://www.tnr.com/book/review/end-chinese-dream-people-fear-future-gerard-lemos. Yan Xiaojun,
“‘To Get Rich Is Not Only Glorious’: Economic Reform and the New
Entrepreneurial Party Secretaries”, The China Quarterly, Vol. 210
(June 2012), pp. 335-354. This article
focuses on the “political rise of private entrepreneurs and other
economically successful individuals who recently obtained village Party
secretary appointments in a north China county and explores their differing
promotion channels, power bases, political resources and motivations to take
up the CPC grassroots leadership position”.
Available for purchase at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8626980. Barry
Naughton, “Leadership Transition and the ‘Top-Level
Design’ of Economic Reform”, Chinese
Leadership Monitor, 2012, No. 37 (30 April). For several years economic reforms in China
have been dead in the water, but a rethinking and rejuvenation of the
reformist agenda is now possible and the author examines some of the new
policy agendas that are beginning to take shape. Available at: http://media.hoover.org/sites/default/files/documents/CLM37BN.pdf. Cheng Li, “China’s Top Future
Leaders to Watch: Biographical Sketches of Possible Members of the Post-2012
Politburo (Part 1), China Leadership Monitor, No. 37, 30 April
2012. This is the first in a series
that will provide concise and primarily fact-based biographies for 25 to 30
possible members of the next Politburo, focusing on the following three
aspects: personal and professional background, family and patron-client ties,
and political prospects and policy preferences.
Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/china-leadership-monitor/article/116046 Xinhua, “Migrant
Worker’s Journey to CPC National Congress”, People’s Daily, 14 June
2012. Available at: http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90785/7846743.html. See also Xinhua, “Majority of Delegates
Elected for CPD National Congress”, People’s
Daily, 14 June 2012. Available at:
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90785/7846306.html. Benjamin Ho, Oh Ei Sun and Liu Liu,
“Beijing’s Leadership Transition: Testing Times for China – Analysis”, Eurasia Review, 13 June 2012.
Available at: http://www.eurasiareview.com/13062012-beijings-leadership-transition-testing-times-for-china-analysis/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+eurasiareview%2FVsnE+%28Eurasia+Review%29. Collected
articles in The Economist, 17 – 31 March 2012: Banyan, “Rewriting the Rules”, 31 March 2012. The political battle following Bo Xilai’s demise will define China’s future. Available at: http://www.economist.com/node/21551508/. No author cited, “Where Bo Goes”, 23 March 2012. The article gives a commentary on newspaper
articles and blogs in China in reference to Bo Xilai
and his followers. Available at: http://www.economist.com/blogs/analects/2012/03/interpreting-purge. No author cited, “The Sacking of Bo Xilai”,
17 March 2012. The downfall of Bo is
examined as an example of factional squabbles of a few men
in Beijing are fought out across the whole nation. Available at: http://www.economist.com/node/21550309. No author cited, “Bo Bo Black Sheep”, 17 March
2012. The article highlights some of
the lesser known details of Bo’s dismissal, including the fact that his
successor as party chief of Chongqing has a degree in economics from Kim Il
Sung University in Pyongyang.
Available at: http://www.economist.com/node/21550325. T P, “The
National People’s Congress: What Worries Grandpa Wen”,
The Economist, 14 March 2012.
The author considers possible reasons for Wen’s
recent reminders of the importance of China’s political reform Available at: http://www.economist.com/blogs/analects/2012/03/national-peoples-congress-0?fsrc=nlw%7Cnewe%7C3-15-2012%7Cpolitics_this_week. A similar commentary from Michael Wines,
“In China, A Rare View of infighting by Leaders”, The New York Times, 15 March 2012. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/world/asia/infighting-by-chinese-leaders-on-display.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120316. No author
cited, “NPC Reform Reflects Vote of Confidence”, People’s Daily, 11 March 2012. New proposals to change the proportion of
deputies to the National People’s Congress (NPC) who are members of the
Communist Party of China or are government officials were discussed at the
latest NPC. Available at: http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90780/7754363.html Andrew
Higgins, “Chinese Communist Part Frets Over a New Threat: A Book by an Aged
Communist”, The Washington Post, 8 March 2012. Du Guang, a retired professor at the Central Party School,
which serves as a think tank as well as ideological boot camp for China’s
ruling Communist Party wrote a book of essays does not ridicule the party or call for its overthrow but dissects its theoretical
gobbledygook and traces how far it has drifted from its early ideals. The
book’s title: Getting Back to Democracy. Available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/chinese-communist-party-frets-over-a-new-threat-a-book-by-an-aged-communist/2012/03/06/gIQAm8iXyR_story.html. Dan Levin, “China’s Top Party School”, Foreign Policy, 6 March
2012. As
China moves away from traditional communist dogma toward a state-managed
capitalist economy and its ensuing social complexities, the Party School has
become a laboratory for testing new methods and foreign strategies and
deciphering how they can be incorporated into official policy and instructed
to the rising stars of the Communist Party. Available at: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/03/06/china_s_top_party_school?page=0,0. Tania Branigan, “Xi Jinging: A ‘Princeling” with a Big Personality”, The Guardian,
13 February 2012. The author comments
on the extent to which China’s heir apparent represents a generational as
well as a social shift. Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/13/xi-jinping-china-economic-reforms. Keith B.
Richburg, “China Confirms Its Official Stayed One Day at US Consulate”, The
Washington Post, 10 February 2012.
China’s Foreign Ministry confirmed that Wang Lijun, vice mayor Chongqing, spent one day at the U.S.
Consulate in nearby Chengdu and that he is now under official investigation
in an episode with potential bearing
on China’s upcoming leadership transition. Available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-confirms-its-official-stayed-one-day-at-us-consulate/2012/02/09/gIQAZjDm1Q_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines. Cheng Li,
“China’s Midterm Jockeying: Gearing Up for 2012 – Part Five: Party
Apparatchiks”, China Leadership Monitor, 2011, No. 35
(September). The essay assesses the
career paths, factional identities and political status of the top 56 Party
apparatchiks, and gives special attention to the recent tightening of media
control and the return of old-fashioned Maoist propaganda. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/china-leadership-monitor/article/93656. Alice L.
Miller, “The Politburo Standing Committee under Hu Jintao”, China Leadership Monitor, 2011, No. 35
(September). The author suggests that
the current structure of the Chinese Communist Party, which is intended to
promote collective decision-making on the basis of informed deliberation and
consensus and to reinforce stable oligarchic rule, is likely to constrain Hu’s successor, presumed to be Xi Jinping,
from substantially reshaping these intentions. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/china-leadership-monitor/article/93646. Michael Wines, “Photos
From China Offer Scant Clues to a Succession”, The New York Times, 14
October 2011. The article focuses on
the speculation over the likely outcome of the
annual plenum of the Communist Party’s Central Committee later this month.
Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/world/asia/chinas-coming-leadership-change-leaves-analysts-guessing.html. Joseph Cheng. “China:
Little to No Political Reform”, East Asia Forum, 11 October 2011. The author suggests that the real danger for the fifth-generation leadership is that
while it may detect a need to initiate reform it will not have the political
resolve and support to overcome the resistance. Available at: http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2011/10/11/china-little-to-no-political-reform/. Keith B.
Richburg, “China Sees Surge of Independent Candidates”, The Washington
Post, 9 September 2011. The author
reports an increase in the number of ordinary citizens who are challenging
the Communist Party’s grip on local people’s congresses. Available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/china-sees-surge-of-independent-candidates/2011/09/07/gIQAc7tNEK_story.html. Kerry
Brown, “Chinese Leadership: The Challenge in 2012”, East Asia Forum,
10 July 2011. The author summarises
briefly the previous transition in China’s leadership and suggests that in
the next decade the issues will not be about the first battle – to build GDP
– but about the conflicts that have come after that to deal with the issues
China will face as it progresses towards a middle-income status country. Available at: http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2011/07/10/chinese-leadership-the-challenge-in-2012/. Wieland Wagner, “A New Communist Career Build on the Past”, Spiegel Online, 12 May 2011. The article examines the rising path to
leadership of Bo Xilai, currently the mayor of
Chongqing, and comments on his recipe for popular success. Available at: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,761770,00.html. Gregory T.
Chin, “Innovation and Preservation: Remaking China’s National Leadership
Training System”, The China Quarterly, Vol. 205 (April 2011). The article considers in detail the
reorganisation of China’s national leadership training system and analyses
the reforms as an integral element of the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts
to adapt its institutions to a rapidly changing environment. Available for purchase at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8243492&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0305741010001372. David Barboza, “China Leader Encourages
Criticism of Government”, The New York
Times, 26 January 2011. The author
comments on the recent practice of Wen Jiabao to encourage citizens to criticise the government
and press their cases for social justice.
Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/27/world/asia/27china.html?ref=world. Edward Wong and Jonathan Ansfield,
“China Grooming Deft Politician as Next Leader”, The New York Times, 23 January 2011. The authors give a concise account of the
political grooming Xi Jinping, who is currently
China’s vice presiden and is expected to become
president next year. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/world/asia/24leader.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2. Andrew Higgins, “In China, a Sometimes Opaque Divide Between
Power of Party and State”, The
Washington Post, 16 January 2011.
In anticipation of the forthcoming Washington visit of Hu Jintao, the author describes
the increased diffusion of authority within the Chinese Communist Party and
considers its possible effects on US-Chinese bilateral discussions. Available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/15/AR2011011504028.html?wpisrc=nl_headline Xiaoling Zhang, “From Totalitarianism to Hegemony: The Reconfiguration
of the Party-State and the Transformation of Chinese Communication”, Journal of Contemporary China, Vol.
20, No. 68 (January 2011), pp. 103-115.
The author seeks an answer to the question: how do media professionals
bargain with the state for more autonomy?
Downloads may be purchased at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a930898598~frm=abslink. Richard McGregor,
“5 Myths About the Chinese Communist Party”, Foreign Policy, January/February 2011. Available at: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/01/02/5_myths_about_the_chinese_communist_party. Keith B. Richburg,
“Rising Leader Xi Jinping's
Family Suffered in Chinese Power Struggles”, The Washington Post, 24 October 2010. Journalist Richburg interviewed Chinese
historians to provide a picture of the contrast between Xi Jinping’s background as a “princeling”,
having descended from a privileged family, and “tuanpai”
such as Hu Jingtao and Wen Jiabao, who came from humbler backgrounds. Available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/23/AR2010102304093.html?hpid=topnews. Cheng Li, “China’s
Midterm Jockeying: Gearing Up for 2012 (Part 4: Top Leaders of Major
State-Owned Enterprises)”, China
Leadership Monitor, 2011, No. 34 (February). The author examines the extent to which
younger, business-savvy, politically connected and globally minded Chinese CEOs have become a new source of leadership within the Party. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/china-leadership-monitor/article/68001 Alice L. Miller,
“The 18th Central Committee Politburo: A Quixotic, Foolhardy, Rashly
Speculative, but Nonetheless Ruthlessly Reasoned Projection”, China Leadership Monitor No. 33, June
2010. This article projects what the
18th Central Committee leadership may look like based on the logic of
institutionalisation. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/china-leadership-monitor/article/35461. Cheng Li, “China’s
Midterm Jockeying: Gearing Up for 2012 – Part 3: Military Leaders”, China Leadership Monitor No. 33, June
2010. The author uses an in-dept
analysis to examine the growing belief that current circumstances among the
top leaders in China will enhance the military’s influence and power in the
years to come. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/china-leadership-monitor/article/35466. Joseph Fewsmith, “Bo Xilai Takes On
Organised Crime”, China Leadership Monitor No. 32 (Spring 2010) from the Hoover Institution. The author highlights current speculation
about a possible rivalry between Bo Xilai, who is
the son of senior political leader Bo Yibo, and
Wang Yang, who has no special family backgoround,
by reporting on the recent activities of the former. Available at: http://media.hoover.org/documents/CLM32JF.pdf. Alice L. Miller,
“Who Does Xi Jinping Know and How Does He Know
Them?” China Leadership Monitor No. 32 (Spring 2010) from the Hoover Institution. The author examines the group of China’s
leaders who have worked with Xi Jinping over his
career of 25 years as a provincial leader with a view to assessing who might
be associated with him if he succeeds Hu Jingtao as China’s top leader. Available at: http://media.hoover.org/documents/CLM32AM.pdf. Victor Shih, Wei
Shan and Mingxiang Liu, “Gauging the Elite
Political Equilibrium in the CCP: A
Quantitative Approach Using Biographical Data”, The China Quarterly, Vol. 201 (March 2010), pp. 201-103. Using
biographies of all Central Committee members from 1921 to 2007, the authors
derive a measure of the factional strength of the top CCP leaders for the
purpose of determining the extent to which one man could have dominated the
Party. Downloads may be purchased at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7398260&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0305741009991081. He Junzhi, “Independent Candidates in China’s Local People’s
Congresses: A Typology”, Journal of
Contemporary China, Vol. 19,
No. 64, (March 2010), pp. 311-333. The
author shows that the development of independent candidates forms a realistic
power locus in China's LPC elections, and to a large extent provides way of
evaluating the change in China’s authoritarian regime in the absence of
opposition parties. Downloads may be
purchased at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a919582653. Cheng Li, “China’s Midterm Jockeying Gearing Up for 2012 - Part 1:
Provincial Chiefs”, China Leadership
Monitor No. 31 (Winter 2010) from the Hoover Institution. The author notes that the Politburo and its
Standing Committee will be repopulated in 2012 with a large number of new
faces and then sheds light on the questions of succession by studying 62
provincial Party secretaries and governors, some of whom are likely to be
among China’s decision-makers in the near future. Available at: http://media.hoover.org/documents/CLM31CL.pdf. Cheng Li, “China’s Midterm Jockeying: Gearing Up for 2012 – Part 2:
Cabinet Ministers”, China Leadership
Monitor No.32, (Spring 2010) from the Hoover Institution. Continuing the report on the reshuffling of
political posts in 2012, Cheng Li focuses on the possible post-Wen State Council.
Available at: http://media.hoover.org/documents/CLM32CL.pdf. Alice L. Miller, “The
Preparation of Li Keqiang”, China Leadership Monitor No. 31 (Winter 2010) from the Hoover
Institution. The author considered the
possibility that the appointment of Xi Jinping to
the Party’s military decision-making body indicated that Hu
Jintao was maneuvering to have Li Kiqiang succeed him as the Party General Secretary rather
than Xi, but she concluded that Xi remains Hu’s
heir apparent and Li continues to prepare to succeed Wen
Jiabao as premier.
Available at: http://media.hoover.org/documents/CLM31AM.pdf Frank N. Pieke, “Marketisation, Centralisation
and Globalisation of Cadre Training in Contemporary
China”, The China Quarterly, Vol.
200 (December 2009), pp. 953-971. This
article shows that the task of strengthening the ideological and profession
training of cadres entails much more than the upgrading of existing
institutions. Downloads may be
purchased at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=6865420&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0305741009990579. Alan P L Liu,
“Rebirth and Secularisation of the Central Party School in China, The China Journal, No. 62 (July 2009),
pp. 105-107. The author examines the
recent reduction of social exclusivity of the CPS, as well as its curriculum
and ideological diversity, and considers the new requirement for
cadre-trainees to research practical problems in Chinese society. .
Information about the journal is available at: http://rspas.anu.edu.au/ccc/home.htm. Information about
the journal is available at: http://rspas.anu.edu.au/ccc/home.htm Cheng Li, “The
Chinese Communist Party: Recruiting and Controlling the New Elites”, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, Vol. 8, No. 3 (2009). Available online at. http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/59/59 Anne-Marie Brady
and Wang Juntao, “China’s Strengthened New Order
and the Role of Propaganda”, Journal of
Contemporary China, Vol. 18, Issue 62 (November 2009), pp. 767-788. Downloads may be purchased at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g916765323 David Shambaugh, “Training China’s
Political Elite: The Party School System”, The China Quarterly,
Vol. 196 (December 2008) pp. 827-844.
Downloads may be purchased at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?iid=3310956. Bruce Gilley and
Heike Holbig, “The Debate on Party Legitimacy in
China: A Mixed Quantitative/Qualitative Analysis”, Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 18, Issue 50 (March 2009),
pp. 339-358). Downloads may be
purchased at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g908174333. Melanie Manion, “When Communist Party Candidates Can Lose, Who
Wins? Assessing the Role of Local People’s Congresses in the Selection of
Leaders in China”, The China Quarterly,
Vol. 195 (September 2008), pp. 607-630.
Downloads may be purchased at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?iid=2189820. Cheng Li, “Ethnic
Minority Elites in China’s Party-State Leadership: An Empirical Assessment, China Leadership Monitor No. 25, Summer 2008, from the Hoover
Institution. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/clm/issues/20102379.html. Cheng Li, “Intra-Party Democracy in
China: Should We Take It Seriously?” China Leadership Monitor No. 30, Fall 2009, from the Hoover Institution. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/clm/issues/70522952.html. Stig Thøgersen, “Frontline Soldiers of the CCP: The Selection
of China’s Township Leaders”, The China
Quarterly, Vol. 194 (June 2008), pp. 414-423. Downloads may be purchased at:http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?iid=1905300. Alice L. Miller,
“China’s New Party Leadership”, China
Leadership Monitor No. 23,
Winter 2008, from the Hoover
Institution. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/clm/issues/14128727.html. Alice L. Miller,
“The Case of Xi Jinping and the Mysterious
Succession”, China Leadership Monitor
No. 30, Fall 2009, from the Hoover Institution. Note the companion article by James Mulvenon below.
Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/clm/issues/70522272.html. James Mulvenon, “The Best Laid Plans: Xi Jinping
and the CMC Vice-Chairmanship that Didn’t Happen”, China Leadership Monitor No.
30, Fall 2009, from the Hoover
Institution. Note the companion
article by Alice Miller above.
Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/clm/issues/70522442.html. Joseph Fewsmith, “A New Upsurge in Political Reform?—Maybe”, China Leadership Monitor No. 24, Spring 2008, from the Hoover Institution. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/clm/issues/16610806.html. QingshanTan, “China’s
Provincial Party Secretaries: Roles, Powers and Constraints”, Discussion
Paper 7, China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham, May 2006. Available at: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cpi/documents/discussion-papers/discussion-paper-7-provincial-party-secretaries.pdf |
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Democratic Institutions Yucheng Yao, “Village
Elections and the Rise of Capitalist Entrepreneurs”, Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 21, No. 74 (February 2012),
pp. 317-332. The
elections examined by the author indicated that little progress had been made
in democratic elections and governance, due mainly to the new economic elite
who did not want to be held accountable by democratic rules and institutions
and to villagers who had not learned to use democratic institutions to hold
their elected leaders accountable.
Available for purchase at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10670564.2012.635933. Yuan Xiaojun, “The
Democratising Power of Economic Reform: The Revival of a Representative
Institution in Rural China, Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 58, No. 3
(May/June 2011), pp. 39–52. Liberal economic reforms in the post-Maoist era
have deprived the grassroots party-state in rural China of its traditional
sources of revenue, thereby gradually transforming it from a socialist renter
state into a post-communist taxation state, thus opening institutionalised
channels of representation to promote democratic political change at the
local level. Downloads are available
for purchase at: http://mesharpe.metapress.com/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&backto=issue,4,6;journal,6,50;linkingpublicationresults,1:110914,1. Baogang He, “Giving the
People a Voice? Experiments with Consultative Authoritarian Institutions in
China”, Journal of Contemporary China,
Vol. 19, No. 66 (September 2010), pp. 675-692. The author argues that authoritarian rule
in China is now permeated by a wide variety of consultative and deliberative
practices that stabilise and strengthen the authoritative rule and used to
case studies to present both potentials and limitations. Downloads are available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10670564.2010.485404. Yang Yao, “A Chinese Way of
Democratisation?” China: An
International Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2 (September 2010), pp. 330-345. The author seeks answers to two questions:
(1) why has open demand for democratisation not
followed China’s economic progress, and (2) is China indeed creating an
enduring form of authoritarianism that beats the conventional logic of social
and political transformations.
Available by subscription at: http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/china/v008/8.2.yao.pdf. Bruce Gilley, “Acts of Resistance in
China”, Journal of Democracy, Vol.
21, No. 3 (July 2010), pp. 174-176.
This is a review of a book by Kate Zhou entitled China’s Long March to Freedom in which the author states that “in
their manifold attempts to carve out greater personal and group freedoms
China’s citizens have decisively shaped the policies of the Chinese Communist
Party (CCP) regime, limited its power, and ultimately changed its basic
nature.” . Excerpt is available at: http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/journal_of_democracy/v021/21.3.gilley.pdf. Christopher Marsh
and Zhifeng Zhong,
“Chinese Views on Church and State”, Journal
of Church and State, Vol. 52, No. 1 (June 2010), pp. 34-49. The authors suggest that in a country like
China, recovering from decades of authoritarian rule, one must measure
liberalisation by the type of intervention the state take into the realm of
religion, not by whether or not it intervenes in the first place. Available at: http://jcs.oxfordjournals.org/content/52/1/34.extract Andrew Mertha,
“‘Fragmented Authoritarianism 2.0: Political Pluralisation in the Chinese
Policy Process”, The China Quarterly,
Vol. 200 (December 2009), pp. 995-1012.
The author suggests that although China remains authoritarian, it is
nevertheless responsive to the increasingly diverse demands of Chinese
society. Downloads may be purchased
at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=D3117693B6477F1F8A4DBA1C17D3CA57.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=6865444. John L. Thornton,
“Long Time Coming: The Prospects for Democracy in China”, Foreign Affairs, January/February
2008. Downloads may be purchased at: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/63041/john-l.../long-time-coming. Cong Riyun, “Nationalism and Democratisation in Contemporary
China”, Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 18, Issue 62 (November
2009), pp. 831-848. Downloads may be
purchased at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g916765323. Kevin J. O’Brien
and Rongbin Han, “Path to Democracy? Assessing
Village Elections in China”, Journal of
Contemporary China, Vol. 18, Issue 60 (June 2009), pp. 359-378. Downloads may be purchased at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g911408249. Melanie Manion, “How to Assess Village Elections in China”, Journal of Contemporary China, Vol.
18, Issue 60 (June 2009), pp. 379-383.
Downloads may be purchased at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g911408249. Gunter Schubert,
“Studying ‘Democratic’ Governance in Contemporary China: Looking at the Village is Not Enough”, Journal of Contemporary China. Vol.
18, Issue 60 (June 2009), pp. 385-390.
Downloads may be purchased at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g911408249. Björn Alpermann, “Institutionalising Village Governance in
China”, Journal of Contemporary China,
Vol. 18, Issue 60, (June 2009), pp. 397-409.
Downloads may be purchased at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g911408249. Qingshan Tan, “Building
Democratic Infrastructure: Village Electoral Institutions”, Journal of Contemporary China, Vol.
18, Issue 60 (June 2009), pp, 411-420.
Downloads may be purchased at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g911408249. Edmund S. K. Fung, “The Idea of Freedom in
Modern China Revisited: Plural Conceptions and Dual Responsibilities”, Modern
China, Vol. 32, No. 4 (October 2006), pp. 453-482. The article
approaches the issue of the primacy of collective interests over individual
interests in 20th century China by developing the notion of dual
responsibilities, or the dualism between the sanctity of personal liberty and
the public morality of service to society and state. Downloads are available for purchase at: http://mcx.sagepub.com/content/32/4/453.full.pdf+html. |
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Public Sector Policies and Reforms Evan A Feigenbaum
and Damien Ma, “The Rise of China’s Reformers?” Foreign Affairs, 17 April 2013.
The authors indicate that most China watchers are gloomy about the near-term
prospects for serious economic reform in China. “But they
ignore a central lesson of recent Chinese history: reform is possible when
the right mix of conditions comes together at the right time. And the very circumstances that facilitated
the last major burst of economic reform in the 1990s are largely present
today”. Available at: file:///C:/Users/HP/Desktop/TO%20READ/The%20Rise%20of%20China's%20Reformers%20%20%20%20Foreign%20Affairs.htm. Hu Yongqi and Lan Lan, “Reforms Move with Time”, The Washington Post, 28 March 2013. The authors report the
following: “As China's new leadership
prepares to take charge, the nation has embraced the opportunity to deepen
administrative reform by transferring power from the government to market
forces and public opinion via a restructuring plan approved by the National
People's Congress on March 14.” Available at: http://chinawatch.washingtonpost.com/2013/03/reforms-move-with-time.php., Jonathan Mirsky, “How Deng Did It”, a review of the book Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of
China, by Ezra F. Vogel (The Belknap
Press/Harvard University Press 2011), The
New York Times, 24 October 2011.
Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/books/review/deng-xiaoping-and-the-transformation-of-china-by-ezra-f-vogel-book-review.html?ref=world. Graeme Smith, “The
Hollow State: Rural Governance in China”, The
China Quarterly, Vol. 203 (September 2010), pp. 601-618. The article examines the process of
rationalising and streamlining rural township governments, giving special
attention to the pressures on these governments from above as well as below,
and the resulting weakening of their capacity to deliver services. Available for purchase at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7907518&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0305741010000615. Jiefen Li,
“Administrative Monopoly, Market Economy and Social Justice: An Anatomy of
the Taxi Monopoly in Beijing:, China: An International Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2 (September 2010),
pp. 282-308. The author concludes from
this case study that only when administrative monopoly is eliminated in China
will anti-monopoly actions against other monopolistic behaviour be justified
and meaningful. Available by
subscription at: http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/china/v008/8.2.li.pdf. Joseph Fewsmith, “Institutional Reforms in Xian’an”,
China Leadership Monitor No. 33,
June 2010. The author reported on the
success of Song Yaping, the Party secretary
appointed to Xian’an district of Hubei Province in
2000, when drastic measures were introduced to reduce the size of the cadre
force and restructure local government, though the reforms remain
controversial. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/china-leadership-monitor/article/35456. John P. Burns and
Wang Xiaoqi, “Civil Service Reform in China:
Impacts on Civil Servants’ Behaviour”, The
China Quarterly, Vol. 201
(March 2010), pp. 58-78. The authors
conclude that civil service reform was undermined by clashes with other policies
that were implemented at the same time and by a failure to address elements
of organisational culture that have rewarded various forms of illegal
behaviour, such as corruption. Downloads may be purchased at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7398248&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S030574100999107X. Xueguang Zhou, “The
Institutional Logic of Collusion among Local Governments in China”, Modern China, Vol. 36, No. 1 (January
2010), pp. 47-78. The author argues
that collusion among local governments, though informal,
is generated and perpetuated by the institutional logic of the Chinese
bureaucracy, results from organisational adaptation to its environment, and
hence acquires legitimacy and becomes highly institutionalised. Downloads may be purchased at: http://mcx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/36/1/47. Christine Wong,
“Rebuilding Government for the 21st Century: Can China Incrementally Reform
the Public Sector”, The China Quarterly,
Vol. 200 (December 2009), pp. 929-952.
This article argues that the reactive,
incremental retrenchment of the Chinese government in the 1980s and 1990s,
combined with inadequate finance, had broken the intergovernmental fiscal
system and created large distortions in the incentive structure facing
government agencies and public institutions (shiye
danwei). Until the intergovernmental fiscal
system is repaired and incentives are fundamentally reformed for the public
sector, the top-down program to redirect China's development and build a
service-oriented government will have limited effect. Downloads may be purchased at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=6865408&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0305741009990567
. Working paper version is available
at: http://www.bicc.ac.uk/Portals/12/Wong%20paper%2012.pdf. Mingxing Liu, Juan Wang,
Ran Tao and Rachel Murphy, “The Political Economy of Earmarked Transfers in a
State-Designated Poor Country in Western China: Central Policies and Local
Responses”, The China Quarterly, Vol. 200 (December 2009,
pp. 273-994. The authors evaluate the
impact of increased fiscal transfers and more stringent regulations on the
use of earmarked funds, both of which were initiated by the Chinese
government in 2002 in order to improve
the effectiveness of redistributive policies.
Downloads may be purchased at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=6865432&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0305741009990580. Fan Gang and Wing Thye Woo, “The Parallel Partial Progression (PPP) Approach
to Institutional Transformation in Transition Economics”, Modern China, Vol. 35, No. 4 (July
2009), pp. 352-369. The authors
suggest that China’s gradualist approach to economic reform was characterised
by the desire to optimise economic coherence rather than the more
commonly-held view that the Chinese authorities sought to optimise the policy
sequence. Downloads may be purchased
at: http://mcx.sagepub.com/content/35/4/352.full.pdf+html. Graeme Smith,
“Political Machinations in a Rural County”, The China Journal, No. 62 (July 2009), pp. 29-61. The paper examines the way in which both
higher-level and local governments in China redeploy available resources and
make use of time-tested political practices and norms in order to respond to
immediate practical dilemmas.
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Protests and Other Popular Action Joseph Fewsmith,
“Guangdong Leads Calls to Break Up ‘Vested Interests’ and Revive Reform”, China Leadership Monitor, 2012, No.
37. The author considers the
implications of the September 2011 protest in a Guangdong village that was
successfully defused by the party secretary, and which led to a more widely
based attack on “vested interests
Available at: http://media.hoover.org/sites/default/files/documents/CLM37AM.pdf. Joseph Fewsmith,
“’Social Management’ as a Way of Coping with Heightened Social Tensions”, China Leadership Monitor, 2012 No. 36
(6 January). The author examine the
extent to which “social management” is used in China as a way of managing
increased social tensions in Chinese society, especially in view of the
growing role of social media.
Available at: http://media.hoover.org/sites/default/files/documents/CLM36JF.pdf. *Tania Branigan,
“Chinese Villages Clash with Police in Land-Grab Protests”, The Guardian, 3 April 2012. Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/03/chinese-police-land-grab-protests. Dr Liu Yu, Jin Jiaman,
Yu Hua and Wang Hui,
“China’s Challenges: Political Change, Pollution and Protest”, The Guardian, 18 March 2012. Leading commentators outline the problems –
and opportunities – ahead for Beijing.
Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/18/china-challenges-next-generation. Philip Wen, “Can Wukan’s
Experiment Change China?”, The Age, 3 March 2012. A glimpse of a different side of China is on show in the
tiny coastal village of Wukan where democracy is
apparently in full swing. Available at: http://www.theage.com.au/world/can-wukans-experiment-change-china-20120302-1u8id.html. Raymond Zhou and Tian Xuefei,
“Village Rides a Wave of Change”, China
Daily, 21 February 2012. A
riverside community found renewed hope in a rejuvenated ecosystem following
the loss of farmland. Available at: http://www2.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-02/21/content_14654962.htm. Ho-fung Hung, “Confucianism and Political
Dissent in China”, East Asia Forum,
26 July 2011. The author suggests that
the escalating popular violence against
local authorities and humble petition to the central government in the last
two decades should be understood in light of this longstanding Confucianist conception of authority, and the growing
social unrest will not necessarily destabilise the authoritarian status quo.
.Available at: http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2011/07/26/confucianism-and-political-dissent-in-china/ Graham Smith, “The Hollow State: Rural Governance In China”, The China
Quarterly, Vol. 203 (September 2010), pp. 601-615. While the aim of local government reform was to transform
extractive township governments into “service-oriented” agencies, this
article finds that the current logic of rural governance has produced township
governments which are squeezed from above and below. Downloads may be purchased at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?iid=7907494, Benjamin van Rooij, “The People vs. Pollution: Understanding Citizen Action Against Pollution in China”, Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 19, No. 63 (January 2010), pp. 55-77. This paper analyses public activism by studying how citizens identify the necessity to initiate action against pollution and by investigating the obstacles they meet when attempting to take action. Downloads may be purchased at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a918907731. Lianjiang Li and Kevin J. O’Brien, “Protest Leadership in
Rural China”, The China Quarterly,
Vol. 193 (March 2008), pp. 1-23.
Downloads may be purchased at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?iid=1809132. Elaine Jeffreys, “Exposing
Police Corruption and Malfeasance: China’s Virgin Prostitute Cases”, The China Journal, No. 63 (Jan 2010),
pp. 127-151. The author examines media
coverage of the “virgin female whoremonger case” with a view to evaluating
the belief that “"China's media have become increasingly critical in their news
coverage, exposing alleged wrongdoing, criticising officials for failure to
address injustice, and influencing both the outcome of individual disputes
and the interpretation of existing legislation. Information about the journal is available
at: http://rspas.anu.edu.au/ccc/home.htm. Kevin J. O’Brien, editor,
Popular Protects in China, Harvard
University Press, 2008. Further
information is available at: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/OBRPOP.html?show=catalogcopy. |
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The Start of the Xi Jinping Era Alice L Miller, “Prospects for Solidarity in the Xi Jinping
Leadership”, China Leadership Monitor,
2012, No. 37 (30 April). The author
assets that if projections of trouble in China’s economy ahead are accurate,
then it is reasonable to inquire into the prospects of an oligarchic
leadership around Xi maintaining collective solidarity and providing
effective responses – and then she proceeds to do that. Available at: http://media.hoover.org/sites/default/files/documents/CLM37AM.pdf *James Mulvenon and Leigh Ann Ragland, “Liu Yuan: Archetype of a
‘Xi Jinping Man’ in the PLA?” China Leadership Monitor, 2012, No. 36 (6 January). As Xi prepares to ascdent
to the highest positions in the political system at the 18th Party Congress,
this article endeavours to profile Liu Yuan, identify his possible
ideological and bureaucratic commonalities with Xi Jinping
and assess the implications for PLA promotions and party/military relations in the Xi era.
Available at: http://media.hoover.org/sites/default/files/documents/CLM36JM.pdf,
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Hu Jintao’s
Concepts and Campaigns James Mulvenon, “Party-Military Coordination of the Yushu Earthquake Response”, China Leadership Monitor No. 33, June 2010. The paper analyses Beijing’s response to
the Yushu earthquake in searching for insights
about the relations between the Party and China’s military as well as
progress in natural disaster relief operations that comprise one of Hu Jingao’s “new historic
missions”. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/china-leadership-monitor/article/35446. Mathieu Duchâtel and François Godement, “China’s Politics under Hu
Jintao”, Journal
of Current Chinese Affairs,
Vol. 8, No. 3 (2009). Available online
at: http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/58/58. Heike Holbig, ‘Remaking the CCP’s
Ideology: Determinants, Progress and Limits under Hu
Jintao, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, Vol. 8, No. 3
(2009). Available online at: http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/60/60. Jean-Pierre Cabestan, “China’s Foreign-
and Security-policy Decision-making Processes under Hu
Jintao”, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, Vol. 8, No. 3
(2009). Available online at: http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/61/61. Alice L. Miller, “Hu Jintao and the PLA Brass”, China Leadership Monitor No. 21, Spring 2007, from the Hoover Institution. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/clm/issues/8535287.html. Alice L. Miller,
“Leadership Presses Party Unity in Time of Economic Stress”, China Leadership Monitor No. 28, Spring 2009, from the Hoover Institution. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/clm/issues/44613442.html. James Mulvenon, “Hu Jintao and ‘Core Values of Military Personnel’”, China Leadership Monitor No. 28, Spring 2009, from the Hoover Institution. Available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/clm/issues/44612967.html. |
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Xi Jinping
and Possible Changes in Concepts and Campaigns Tania Branigan, “Xi Jinping:
A ‘Princeling’ with a Big Personality”, The Guardian, 13 February 2012. The article begins with the statement: “His
name is becoming more familiar but his face is still unknown to most and his
opinions and intentions are an enigma”. Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/13/xi-jinping-china-economic-reforms.
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Liberalism and Civil Society Evan Osborne, “China’s First Liberal”, The Independent Review, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Spring 2012), pp. 533-551. The author examined the work of the Chinese philosopher Mozi (470-391 BCE) with special reference to his “proto-advocacy of equality before the law and his recognition of the dangers of the predatory state, his antiwar liberalism, and his anticipation of the modern liberal conception of the rational self-interested social order”. Available at: http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=880 for purchase of the single issue, or for free download in 6 months time (approximately September 2012). Andrew Jacobs,
“Chirps and Cheers: China’s Crickets Clash”, The New York Times, 5 November 2011. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/world/asia/chirps-and-cheers-chinas-crickets-clash-and-bets-are-made.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha22. |
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