...Elizaveta Priupolina This study explores the discursive patterns of mutual altercasting, role-claiming, and symbolic contestation in Russian and Chinese media in the 2010s, relying on the national role theory (NRT). The article demonstrates how the relations between Russia and China may...

...Marharyta Fabrykant This article is dedicated to the ways China’s history is narrated in contemporary Russian world history textbooks. The study relies on the formal structural version of narrative analysis applied to all three series of textbooks included in the federal list of textbooks...

... of the University of California 2024 ICTs entrepreneurial mobilization mediatization protest repertoire clicktivism China With the rapid development of information and communication technologies (ICTs), 1 the human societies have undergone a series of ongoing changes, often referred...

...Xi Chen; Jing Xu As a high-capacity authoritarian regime, China has made immense efforts to exterminate the Falun Gong and other “evil cults.” However, cult activities persist throughout the country. This article seeks to explain why the extensive government repression in China failed to achieve...

...Yoel Kornreich Both China and Vietnam went through retrenchment in their rural healthcare systems during the 1980s and 1990s. However, there is a difference between the two in the depth of retrenchment. While China allowed the Cooperative Medical System (CMS) to collapse, Vietnam nationalized...

...Marina Khmelnitskaya; Jo Zhou This article addresses the puzzle of the politics of social policy formation by two post-communist authoritarian regimes in China and Russia. It argues that two interrelated dimensions—which we term the pillars of power and policy—shape social policymaking and change...

...Adrian Zenz This study traces the evolution of systemic state-sponsored coercive labor in the cotton harvest in China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). The recent situation in the XUAR is compared to Uzbekistan, which implemented forced labor in cotton picking until 2021...

... Business Operation in Economic Management was amended into the North Korean Constitution in 2019. [email protected] © 2023 by The Regents of the University of California 2023 rent-seeking Kim Jong Un transition economy economic reform North Korea China Vietnam corruption...

..., which may discourage pluralism (e.g., Fukuyama, 2006 ). email: [email protected] © 2023 by The Regents of the University of California 2023 Eastern religions Christians inter-religious comparison Hong Kong China Comparative political studies have long debated...

...David R. Stroup Begun in 2000, China’s Great Western Development Campaign (GWDC) sought to reinforce party-state legitimation narratives by extending economic development to peripheral regions often populated by ethnic minorities. In extending aid to minority communities, the Chinese Communist...

... governance and apply it first, briefly, to the well-known case of China and then, in more depth, to the still-understudied Russian case. We identify the extent and relative centralization of Internet governance as well as proactive versus reactive approaches to governance as notable differences between...

... and employment of foreign advice. email: [email protected] © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 knowledge transfer demand-side strategies China former Soviet Union healthcare reform international organizations The analysis of transnational policy-related...

... exit of the incumbent. Through a comparison of the power transition trajectories of the post-Stalin USSR and China in the Age of Deng Xiaoping, this article proposes three conditions that facilitate the voluntary retirement of dictators, including their strong political will to institutionalize...

...Cheng Chen Under Putin and Xi, the post-communist authoritarian regimes in Russia and China had both initiated anti-corruption programs that exhibited some parallels but were also profoundly different. Through a contextualized comparison, and drawing on Russian and Chinese sources, this article...

...Xiaoguang Wang This article explores a recent tendency in the official Chinese discourse on nationalism—the government more actively employs Chinese achievements in science and technology to boost national pride and regime legitimacy. This “techno-turn” focuses on China’s construction...

... in the semiautonomous city. united front social organization clientelist network elite co-optation China Hong Kong Hong Kong has been a special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) since 1997. However, long before the semiautonomous city was handed over by the British...

...Brian C. H. Fong Hong Kong’s autonomy within China is akin to a house built on sand. This article examines how Hong Kong’s autonomy has weathered the waves over the years by adopting a news events analysis approach, documenting the Hong Kong government and the CCP-state’s divergence from...

...Yan-ho Lai; Ming Sing In 2019, what began in Hong Kong as a series of rallies against a proposal to permit extraditions to mainland China grew into a raft of anti-authoritarian protests and challenges to Beijing’s grip on the city. Given the gravest political crisis confronting Hong Kong in decades...

... behind. ( Karpova, 2013 ) In Northeast Asia, one of the more interesting issues existing between liberal democracies and the region's communist states is that of human rights. The US State Department paints a picture of China as being far from the ideal of a liberal democratic state. The State...

... aside authoritarian or semi-authoritarian contexts where a fair multi-party election is absent or dysfunctional. By collecting and analyzing online posts about international terrorism from Sina Weibo in China, between January 2011 and December 2016, this study proves the existence of opinion...