Archiv für August 2019

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Kampfsport-Symbolik bei Bekleidung von Neonazis – Ein T-Shirt macht noch keinen Straßenkämpfer

Der Beitrag Warntracht erschien zuerst auf der rechte rand.

China after Reform: The Ideological, Constitutional, and Organisational Makings of a New Era

In late 2017, the Chinese Communist Party proclaimed the “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.” Most observers interpreted this step as just another update of the party’s ideological canon to accommodate Xi’s ambi…

Authoritarian Learning in China’s Civil Society Regulations: Towards a Multi-Level Framework

How do authoritarian governments learn? What kind of events and experiences can lead them to adopt more or less restrictive policies towards social actors? And, how are such lessons from others’ experiences integrated into new policies? These questions…

Diplomatic Control, Foreign Policy, and Change under Xi Jinping: A Field-Theoretic Account

This article outlines how Xi Jinping has exercised control over diplomatic actors, particularly China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and draws out the effects of this control for the ministry and for Chinese foreign policy. Leveraging Bourdieu’s (1984)…

Clientelism by Design: Personnel Politics under Xi Jinping

Since Xi Jinping took power in late 2012, analysts have puzzled over how best to define his political trajectory. Is he consolidating power and building a personality cult around himself, or is he strengthen-ing the Party as an organisation? I tackle t…

Morality as Legitimacy under Xi Jinping: The Political Functionality of Traditional Culture for the Chinese Communist Party

Taking as an example Xi Jinping’s use of the phrase “excellent traditional culture” (优秀传统文化, youxiu chuantong wenhua ), this article looks at the construction of a centrally sanctioned narrative of traditional Chinese culture in resources produced wit…

Staging Repentance: A Discourse Analysis of Mediated Confession in Xi Jinping’s First Five-Year Term

Since Xi Jinping took office as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, he has been tightening ideological control across many fronts. This article investigates how the framing of televised confessions facilitates Xi’s rule. Originating from …

The Xi Paradox: Reconfigured Party Power, Long-Term Risks

Introduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 3/2018: State and Society under Xi Jinping

„Das Buch darf nicht außerhalb der Zeit stehen“. Frauenheilkunde und Zensur in der Sowjetischen Besatzungszone und DDR

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.

Historia Global: Perspectivas y Tensiones

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