Xi Jinping and the Mandate of Heaven: Power, Prosperity and Problems in 21st Century China
With Professor Karl Fields of the University of Puget Sound.
A lot has happened in Xi’s China since Professor Fields last spoke to OWAC on this subject, in March 2016.
China’s rapid growth under authoritarian rule is both astounding and unprecedented, posing challenges to claims of liberal triumphalism and the modernization theory underpinning the liberal order. This lecture draws on my six months of teaching and traveling in China this past year. It explores the puzzle of why dramatic economic liberalization has not led to concomitant political liberalization and how Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party-State have managed to retain not just political control, but also substantial levels of political legitimacy. It also explores Xi Jinping's recent recentralization of power and his prospects for retaining the party-state’s mandate to rule in the face of the daunting challenges confronting the regime in the 21st Century.
September 20th 2018 7:30 P.M. at the EDC/SPSCC Lacey Campus
With Professor Karl Fields of the University of Puget Sound.
A lot has happened in Xi’s China since Professor Fields last spoke to OWAC on this subject, in March 2016.
China’s rapid growth under authoritarian rule is both astounding and unprecedented, posing challenges to claims of liberal triumphalism and the modernization theory underpinning the liberal order. This lecture draws on my six months of teaching and traveling in China this past year. It explores the puzzle of why dramatic economic liberalization has not led to concomitant political liberalization and how Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party-State have managed to retain not just political control, but also substantial levels of political legitimacy. It also explores Xi Jinping's recent recentralization of power and his prospects for retaining the party-state’s mandate to rule in the face of the daunting challenges confronting the regime in the 21st Century.
September 20th 2018 7:30 P.M. at the EDC/SPSCC Lacey Campus