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Critical Issues in Contemporary China: Decoding Xi Jinping’s ‘New Era’ book cover

3rd Edition

Critical Issues in Contemporary China Decoding Xi Jinping’s ‘New Era’

Edited By Czeslaw Tubilewicz Copyright 2025
208 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The third edition of Critical Issues in Contemporary China offers an in-depth and up-to-date analysis of Xi Jinping’s strategies to address critical domestic and international challenges facing China in a ‘new era’. This book joins the current debates about Xi Jinping’s ‘new era’, reflecting upon the continuity and change in the CCP’s domestic and foreign policies under Xi’s leadership and... Read more

List of contributors vii

List of tables ix

List of figures x

1 Decoding Xi Jinping’s China 1

CZESLAW TUBILEWICZ

2 Xi Jinping’s ‘new era’ in Chinese domestic politics 19

CZESLAW TUBILEWICZ

3 China’s coming economic adjustment 48

MICHAEL PETTIS

4 State-civil society relations in China under Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping 61

RUNYA QIAOAN AND ESTHER SONG

5 Women returning home: gender policy under Xi Jinping 75

ANNIE DRAHOS

6 Xinjiang in the 21st century: surveillance, social reengineering and settler colonialism in Xi Jinping’s ‘new era’ 95

MICHAEL CLARKE

7 Beijing’s authoritarian responses to populism in Hong Kong 117

SONNY LO

8 Political change in Taiwan and cross-Strait relations from Mao to Xi Jinping 136

CZESLAW TUBILEWICZ

9 China’s Belt and Road Initiative 160

CAROLIJN VAN NOORT AND THOMAS COLLEY

10 United States and China: rivalry, tensions and protracted struggle 178

ROBERT SUTTER

Index 195

Biography

Czeslaw Tubilewicz is a senior lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Relations, the University of Adelaide, Australia. He has edited Critical Issues in Contemporary China (2006, 2017) and authored Chinese Power and American States (2025), (co-authored with Natalie Omond) The United States’ Subnational Relations with Divided China (2021), Chinese Constructions of Sovereignty and the East China Conflict (2020), Taiwan and Post-Communist Europe (2007) and Taiwan and the Soviet Bloc, 1949–1991 (2005).

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