Critical Issues in Contemporary China: Decoding Xi Jinpings New Era

The third edition of Critical Issues in Contemporary China offers an in-depth and up-to-date analysis of Xi Jinpings strategies to address critical domestic and international challenges facing China in a new era.

This book joins the current debates about Xi Jinpings new era, reflecting upon the continuity and change in the CCPs domestic and foreign policies under Xis leadership and Xis capacity to realize the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation. The international team of contributors evaluate such pressing issues as:

• Xis re-centralization of power and securitization of domestic politics
• the Chinese economic model
• state-civil society relations
• Xis gender policy and return to the traditional family values
• Beijings responses to unrest in Xinjiang and Hong Kong
• Xis evolving unification strategies towards Taiwan
• the Belt and Road Initiative, and
• the deterioration of US-China relations.

Providing readers with rich empirical assessment of Xis responses to the political, economic, social and international challenges facing contemporary China, the third edition of Critical Issues will be an essential resource for students of Chinese politics, economy, society and foreign relations.