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As a study of the rule of Xi Jinping and the rhetoric of the contemporary Chinese political system, this book will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Chinese politics and political science more broadly.
List of contents
Discourse, Rhetoric and Shifting Political Behaviour in China: An IntroductionUna Aleksandra B¿rzi¿a-¿erenkova, R¿ga Stradi¿š University1. Thought Reform, Re-education and the Politics of Language and Discourse in ChinaMirjam R.L. Eggli, University of OxfordReza Hasmath, University of AlbertaPart I DISCOURSE OF STATE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY2. State Developmentalism and the Chinese Leadership: Ideology, Cultural Heritage, and Self-reinventionQing Cao, Durham University3. The RED TRIANGLE of the Chinese people, the Chinese Nation and the Communist Party of China: Meaning Generation in Speeches of the Chinese Fifth Generation LeadershipLutgard Lams, Catholic University of Leuven4. Jingshen: a Governmental Keyword in 21st Century ChinaBeatrice Gallelli, Ca'Foscari University of VenicePart II DISCOURSE OF PRACTICAL POLITICAL ISSUES5. (Un)Problematising and Reshaping: Discourse Analysis of the Rural Poor's Representation in Poverty-Alleviation Texts During the Xi and Hu ErasLe Cao, Masaryk University6. China's BRI on Social Media - A Study of Xinhua's Discursive Adaptations in the Context of a Shifting LeadershipNie Yuxi, Fontys University of Applied SciencesBiographies of the Authors
About the author
Una Aleksandra B¿rzi¿a-¿erenkova is Head of the Political Science PhD programme and China Studies Centre at Riga Stradins University, and Head of the Asia Programme at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs. She has held a fellowship at Fudan University and a Fulbright scholarship at Stanford University, and is affiliated with King's College London and MERICS. She is the author of
Perfect Imbalance: China and Russia (World Scientific 2022), and publishes on PRC political discourse, contemporary Chinese ideology, EU-China relations, Russia-China, and BRI.
