The Hidden Significance and Resilience of the Age-Limit Norm of the Chinese Communist Party

Ling Li | In this essay, I point out that the age-limit norm is misrepresented and misperceived in current analyses…

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What would Mao say to Trump if they can have a heart-to-heart now

Just to be fair to Mao, Trump’s attempt to ape the Cultural Revolution (CR) is less than mediocre because he…

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New political-legal rectification campaign 2020-2021

A new nation-wide rectification campaign targeting political-legal institutions, incl. courts, procuratorates, police, prisons, administrative body for lawyers… It’ll begin in…

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Xi Jinping’s Succession: What Did the West Get Wrong?

What would happen if Xi Jinping suddenly died, killed by assassination or incurable illness? Would such an unexpected departure of…

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Backstory of China’s Anticorruption Supervision Commission

When I wrote the paper The Rise of Party Commission of Discipline & Inspection (1927-2012) three years ago, I thought…

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China Enters the Counter-Reform Era

Thanks to Don for inviting me to join his blogging effort!  Below, I’ll lay out my argument that China is…

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Remembering June 4th: Who died, where, and why

Today is the anniversary of the June 4th, 1989 massacre in Beijing. I don’t call it the Tiananmen Square massacre…

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