... mobility middle class poverty labor migration informal economy economic development communism Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong 203 In December 1978, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) formally announced its decision to leave the safe shores of economic policies based on state socialism...

...Jessica C. Teets Will Xi Jinping's increasingly authoritarian rule stifle innovation by local officials, which has been instrumental in the Chinese communist regime's resilience and economic success? Red Swan: How Unorthodox Policy Making Facilitated China's Rise , by Sebastian Heilmann...

... corruption bribery President Xi Jinping Chinese Communist Party state-owned enterprises business economy power wealth 210 Xi s crackdown on corruption has focused new attention on the much deeper issue of the relationship between power and wealth in contemporary China. China s Corruption...

... , 2016 © 2016 Current History. All rights reserved. 2016 The Regents of the University of California Patricia Thornton Frank Dikötter China Cultural Revolution Mao Zedong Communist Party Red Guard Roderick MacFarquhar This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Cultural...

... of California Jonathan London Communist Party Vietnam industrialization trade foreign investment corruption repression Hanoi Ho Chi Minh City Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung corruption U.S Relations China South China Sea 229 Vietnam has arrived at a momentous juncture in its...

...Vladimir Tismaneanu A new volume edited by Mark R. Beissinger and Stephen Kotkin seeks to show how the communist past continues to shape the present in both state and society across the region. Historical Legacies of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe , Edited by Mark R. Beissinger...

... Bruce Cumings Beijing China grabs islands pacific smaller countries region Asia Oceania Washington pivot Obama policy Communist cold war party-state kurds turks strategies national brotherhood week tom Lehrer containment Nixon neoliberal sino-american sun yat sen shi...

... recollections memory Tiananmen China Beijing Communist party-state age ambition chasing fortune truth faith revisited new Yorker reports without borders skynet han guangcheng chen ai weiwei Chengdu mothers guang The bargain made in China after the gov-ernment s violent suppression...

... China Communist Party Congress leadership transition Bo Xilai Chongqing Hu Jintao Xi Jinping Deng Xiaoping Jiang Zemin economy 203 Since Mao Zedong s death, the Chinese Com-munist Party (CCP) has convened a party congress every five years. For this year s gath- ering, localities...

...Bruce J. Dickson Political protests in China are a far cry from those that created the Arab Spring. © 2011 Current History. All rights reserved. 2011 The Regents of the University of California Bruce Dickson China Chinese Communist Party Xinjiang Jasmine Revolution Arab Spring...

... War normalization Nguyen Tan Dung George Bush Vietnamese Communist Party ASEAN Cambodia 162 The connection with the United States [is] a geopolitical asset in the competition that the Vietnamese have long carried out with China. Vietnam and America: Parameters of the Possible FrederiCk...

... Current History. All rights reserved. 2002 The Regents of the University of California China Communist Party economy globalization Party Congress reform state-owned enterprises World Trade Organization Deng Xiaoping Jiang Zemin 250 The sixteenth party congress...

...? © 2002 Current History. All rights reserved. 2002 The Regents of the University of California Catholic Church Central Europe China communism Communist Party Mao Poland Solidarity Tiananmen Lech Walesa Waiting for China s Lech Walesa JEFFREY N. WASSERSTROM 256 Asuperstitious...

..., they no longer have any illusions about the difficulty of wiping out religious groups that specialize in producing righteous martyrs. … © 2002 Current History. All rights reserved. 2002 The Regents of the University of California China Communist Party cults Falun Gong house churches Marxism...

... waxes and wanes, but China has proved itself to be in Pakistan's corner over the long haul.” © 2002 Current History. All rights reserved. 2002 The Regents of the University of California Asia Beijing China communist India Islamabad Pakistan Russia terrorism United States 284 China...

... goals. But the tensions are only half the story. © 2002 Current History. All rights reserved. 2002 The Regents of the University of California Asia Beijing China communist India Japan market Tokyo trade United States 290 In the decade since the end of the Soviet American face-off...

... the public wants. © 2001 Current History. All rights reserved. 2001 The Regents of the University of California Communist Party democratization economy Gorbachev industrialization Khrushchev perestroika Putin Russia Soviet Union 336 Putin appears to have more in common with Brezhnev...

... that Russian ‘reform’ could unfold through ordinary, not extraordinary, means? © 2001 Current History. All rights reserved. 2001 The Regents of the University of California capitalist communist democracy Gorbachev Putin reform revolution Russia Soviet Union Yeltsin 330 The last decade...

... appears premature. © 2001 Current History. All rights reserved. 2001 The Regents of the University of California ABM China Clinton communist engagement foreign policy George Bush Jiang Zemin Taiwan United States To some extent, the rhetoric of the new Bush administration is simply...

...Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom When attempting to bring pressure on Beijing, the United States should stop using vague universal standards or comparisons with the contemporary United States. Washington's criticisms of the Chinese Communist Party should instead build on Beijing's own claims about history...