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China & globalization / Wasserstrom, Jeffrey

Wasserstrom, Jeffrey	Journal Article
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2014.

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In recent decades, China has become increasingly enmeshed in global institutions and global flows. This article places that phenomenon into historical perspective via a look back to important globalizing trends of a key earlier period: the late 1800s through early 1900s. The essay draws heavily on C. A. Bayly's discussion of that period, which emphasizes the way that moves toward uniformity do not necessarily produce homogeneity. Bayly's work is used both to illustrate the limitations of some competing ideas about contemporary globalization and how China is or is not being transformed by it, and to provide a basis for arguing that we are again seeing, now in China, important moves toward uniformity that are not erasing important differences between cultures and countries.

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Globalization ; Culture-China ; China ; China's Political System

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Debate on party legitimacy in China: mixed quantitative/qualitative analysis / Gilley, Bruce; Holbig, Heike

Gilley, Bruce	Journal Article
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2009.

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We report results here from a mixed quantitative-qualitative analysis of 168 articles published in China on the question of regime and party legitimacy. We find that ideology remains a leading strategy of future legitimation for the CCP, alongside better known strategies of institution-building and social justice. We also find that liberalism, while less often proposed, remains a potent critique of regime legitimacy. We use these results to make predictions about the evolutionary path of institutional change of China's political system, linking up Chinese elite debate with the wider scholarly debate of authoritarian durability.

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Social Justice ; Liberalism ; Ideology ; China ; Legitimacy ; Mixed Quantitative ;
Qualitative Analysis ; China's Political System

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