Full Description
China under Xi Jinping: an Interdisciplinary Assessment offers an overview of reforms and changes that took place in China under Xi Jinping's administration in years 2012-2022. The book focuses on the impact of Xi's rule on China's political system, with special attention given to the features that distinguish Xi from his predecessors. The authors discuss, among others, the Xi Jinping Thought and the nature of his leadership, factors contributing to China's economic success, the future of the Belt and Road Initiative, China's response to challenges in terms of security, climate policy, energy transition, pandemics, as well as its ambition to become a global superpower in domains such as space exploration and sports. The volume also analyzes the influence that Xi Jinping's government has exerted on the Chinese state, society, and culture, concentrating on areas such as healthcare, education, politics regarding religion, the evolution of Chinese nationalism, the developments
in Chinese cinema, music, language, and even political humor.
To understand what characterizes Xi as a politician and how his time in office is reflected in today's China, experts on China-related matters appear in five parts, or "dimensions" including: political, economic, social, cultural, and foreign policy issues. This publication will spark the readers' interest in and increase their awareness concerning the developments in the People's Republic of China under Xi Jinping.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Hanna Kupś, Maciej Szatkowski and Michał Dahl
Part 1
Political Dimensions
1 The Characteristics and Evolution of China's Political System under Xi Jinping
Bogdan J. Góralczyk
2 Xi Jinping's Regime Maintenance Paradigm
Yan Chang Bennett
3 The Realpolitik of Xi Jinping Thought
John Garrick
4 Is There a Xi Style of Politics Change and Continuity Since 2012?
Kerry Brown
5 When Chinese Communist Party (ccp) Meets the Pandemic An Authoritarian Resilience?
Yung-Yung Chang
Part 2
Economic Dimensions
6 The Great Chinese Transformation From the Third to the First World
Grzegorz W. Kołodko
7 The Belt and Road Initiative, Centralisation of Local Interests and Centre-province Relations
Dominik Mierzejewski
8 China's Policy on Climate and Energy towards 2060
Łukasz Gacek
Part 3
Social Dimensions
9 Social Development under Xi Jinping Education, Health, and Retirement
Octasiano M. Velerio Mendoza
10 Chinese Nationalism in the Era of Xi Jinping
Joanna Wardęga
11 Competition in the National College Entrance Examination and Disparity of Access to Elite Higher Education in China
Tanja Carmel Sargent, Karen Hao and Wang Fei
12 Functionalities of Political Humor in Xi Jinping's Era Resistance, Cynicism, Nationalism
Wendy Weile Zhou and Lutgard Lams
Part 4
Cultural Dimensions
13 Opium of the People? Religious Politics in the Xi Jinping's Era
Martin Lavička
14 Cinema Reconsolidation of Party-State Hegemony in a Market Economy
Chris Berry
15 Between Art and Social Responsibility Politics of Music in the Xi Jinping's Era
Hanna Kupś
16 Community of Common Language The Last Decade in the Advancement of Putonghua
Kamil Burkiewicz
Part 5
Foreign Policy Dimensions
17 China's Belt and Road Initiative as Xi's Personal Legacy Project
Konstantinas Andrijauskas
18 Chinese 'Security' in the Xi Era
David A. Welch
19 China's Space Program and Its Quest for Superpowerhood Goals, Strategies, Perception of Challenges
Michał Dahl, Hanna Kupś and Maciej Szatkowski
20 China's Rise to the Global Sports Power
Vic Yu Wai Li and Marcus P. Chu
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