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The third edition of Critical Issues in Contemporary China offers an in-depth and up-to-date analysis of Xi Jinping's strategies to address critical domestic and international challenges facing China in a 'new era'.
This book joins the current debates about Xi Jinping's 'new era', reflecting upon the continuity and change in the CCP's domestic and foreign policies under Xi's leadership and Xi's capacity to realize the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation. The international team of contributors evaluate such pressing issues as:
- Xi's re-centralization of power and securitization of domestic politics
- the Chinese economic model
- state-civil society relations
- Xi's gender policy and return to the traditional family values
- Beijing's responses to unrest in Xinjiang and Hong Kong
- Xi's evolving unification strategies towards Taiwan
- the Belt and Road Initiative, and
- the deterioration of US-China relations.
Providing readers with rich empirical assessment of Xi's responses to the political, economic, social and international challenges facing contemporary China, the third edition of
Critical Issues will be an essential resource for students of Chinese politics, economy, society and foreign relations.
List of contents
List of contributors vii List of tables ix List of figures x 1 Decoding Xi Jinping's China 1 CZESLAW TUBILEWICZ 2 Xi Jinping's 'new era' in Chinese domestic politics 19 CZESLAW TUBILEWICZ 3 China's coming economic adjustment 48 MICHAEL PETTIS 4 State-civil society relations in China under Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping 61 RUNYA QIAOAN AND ESTHER SONG 5 Women returning home: gender policy under Xi Jinping 75 ANNIE DRAHOS 6 Xinjiang in the 21st century: surveillance, social reengineering and settler colonialism in Xi Jinping's 'new era' 95 MICHAEL CLARKE 7 Beijing's authoritarian responses to populism in Hong Kong 117 SONNY LO 8 Political change in Taiwan and cross-Strait relations from Mao to Xi Jinping 136 CZESLAW TUBILEWICZ 9 China's Belt and Road Initiative 160 CAROLIJN VAN NOORT AND THOMAS COLLEY 10 United States and China: rivalry, tensions and protracted struggle 178 ROBERT SUTTER Index 195
About the author
Czeslaw Tubilewicz is a senior lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Relations, the University of Adelaide, Australia. He has edited
Critical Issues in Contemporary China (2006, 2017) and authored
Chinese Power and American States (2025), (co-authored with Natalie Omond)
The United States' Subnational Relations with Divided China (2021),
Chinese Constructions of Sovereignty and the East China Conflict (2020),
Taiwan and Post-Communist Europe (2007) and
Taiwan and the Soviet Bloc, 1949-1991 (2005).
Summary
The third edition of Critical Issues in Contemporary China offers an in-depth and up-to-date analysis of Xi Jinping’s strategies to address critical domestic and international challenges facing China in a ‘new era’.
