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1. Cover image for 'China as Number One?'
The Emerging Values of a Rising Power
Yang Zhong and Ronald F. Inglehart
Examining the contemporary rise in China’s political, economic, and military power through the opinions of its citizens
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Web Open Access Forthcoming
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Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era
Emily H. C. Chua
Explores the complex interpersonal networks and differing ethical standpoints that shape the news in China
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Web Open Access Forthcoming
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Governing Chinese Society with Interactive Authoritarianism
Taiyi Sun
How authoritarian states adapt to new phenomena
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Web 2023 Open Access Available Read Online
4. Cover image for 'Rejuvenating Communism'
Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China
Jérôme Doyon
How the Chinese party-state attracts young officials to renew its elite
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Web 2023 Open Access Available Read Online
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Hu Shih's Political Writings
Chih-p’ing Chou and Carlos Yu-Kai Lin, Editors
Collection of several previously unpublished works from one of China’s most important scholars in the 20th century
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Web 2022 Open Access Available Read Online
6. Cover image for 'Righteous Revolutionaries'
Morality, Mobilization, and Violence in the Making of the Chinese State
Jeffrey A. Javed
A reexamination of one of the most violent and successful state-building efforts in history
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Web 2022 Open Access Available Read Online
7. Cover image for 'Televising Chineseness'
Gender, Nation, and Subjectivity
Geng Song
Offers new understandings of gender construction and nation-building through the lens of recent Chinese television programs.
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Ebook 2022 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Televising Chineseness"
8. Cover image for 'Chinese Netizens' Opinions on Death Sentences'
An Empirical Examination
Bin Liang and Jianhong Liu
Provides the first in-depth examination of what Chinese netizens think about death sentences and executions
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Ebook 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Chinese Netizens' Opinions on Death Sentences"
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The Political Logic of Taxation in China
Changdong Zhang

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.

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Ebook 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Governing and Ruling"
10. Cover image for 'The Global White Snake'
Liang Luo
Tracing the history and adaptation of one of China’s foundational texts
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Ebook 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Global White Snake"
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The Political Economy of Communist Land Reform in China
Matthew Noellert
Provides an alternative to both capitalist and communist conceptions of modern historical development based on relations to property
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Ebook 2020 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Power over Property"
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The Rural in the Modern Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915-1965
Yu Zhang
Focuses on the cultural practices and representations of “going to the countryside” as a distinctively modern experience in China between 1915 and 1965, bringing the rural back to the central concern of Chinese cultural studies
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Ebook 2020 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Going to the Countryside"
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Drama Reform and Cultural Transformation in the People's Republic of China
Maggie Greene
Even amidst the Maoist era’s politicized cultural production, culture workers continued to adapt traditional theatre to create bold new statements
 
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Ebook 2019 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Resisting Spirits"
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