Asian Studies

Featured Authors: Peter Hays Gries and Stanley Rosen

Most recent book for Routledge is Chinese Politics, which explores the changes occurring in China today – what are the goals of political contestation, how are Chinese Communist Party leaders legitimizing their rule, who are the specific actors involved in contesting state legitimacy and what are the implications of changing state-society relations for the future viability of the People’s Republic?

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Peter Hays Gries is the Harold J. & Ruth Newman Chair and Director of the Institute for U.S.-China Issues at the University of Oklahoma, USA. His many publications include China’s New Nationalism: Pride, Politics, and Diplomacy and State and Society in 21st Century China: Crisis, Contention, and Legitimation.

Stanley Rosen is the director or the East Asian Studies Center and a professor of political science at the University of Southern California, USA.

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Edited by Peter Gries, Stanley Rosen

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Written by a team of leading China scholars this text interrogates the dynamics of state power and legitimation in 21st Century China. Despite the continuing economic successes and rising international prestige of China there has been increasing social protests over corruption, land seizures,...

Published January 20th 2010 by Routledge
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Crisis, Contention and Legitimation

Edited by Peter Hays Gries, Stanley Rosen

Series: Asia's Transformations

Written by a team of leading China scholars, this book explores the dynamics of state power and legitimation in twenty-first century China, and the implications of changing state-society relations for the future viability of the People's Republic. Key subjects covered include: the legitimacy...

Published May 12th 2004 by Routledge