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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Chinese Communist Party"”.
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Changing Authority in the Chinese Communist Party
<p>This paper examines how authority in China has changed from personal, rooted in a leader’s connections, to institutional, rooted in a leader’s position or job. This paper examines two cases, that of Jiang Zemin and the Yang brothers and that of Wen Jiabao and the Wenchuan earthquake, to show how …
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A Contradiction in Will: Understanding China's Strategic Culture in a Civil-Military Context
… on the use of force with those of the party-state government? By adopting a cultural framework of analysis, this study utilizes a methodology rooted in social constructivism to examine the strategic policies of the party-state government, followed by an analysis of the government’s …
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Authoritarian entitlement and constraint: Women's representation in Chinese local congresses
… calculations by central and local leaders of the Chinese Communist Party. Central leaders translate the regime's general strategies of mobilizing different groups into congress. Local leaders struggle to satisfy multiple quotas and care about the loyalty of deputies. Besides solving the puzzle, I …
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The British Empire and the Early Cold War: A Comparison of Hong Kong and Cyprus
… to be the British Empire’s most critical communist threats: the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Progressive Party of Working People (AKEL). The thesis examines the motivations and actions of British colonial policymakers, as they attempted to recover Britain’s great power status and …
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Elite Status in the PRC: Its formation and maintenance
… maintained, and perpetuated. The role of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is studied to see how the CCP confirms elite status. The political, military, and commercial elites form the membership of the national leadership bodies of the CCP and the PRC government, and as such, they hold the …
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The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier: State Building, National Integration and Socialist Transformation, Zeku (Tsékhok) County, 1953-1958
This dissertation analyzes early attempts by the Chinese Communist Party to integrate Zeku (Tsékhok) County, an ethnically Tibetan, pastoral region located in southeastern Qinghai/Amdo, into the People's Republic of China. Employing county-level archival materials, it argues that during the …
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"Quality" control in China's reform era : investigating the suzhi discourse in women's work
… reform era has coincided with an emergence of a Chinese Communist Party-State ideological discourse concerning "population quality." Claims and accusations of 'low quality' are particularly targeted at rural migrant women who have been migrating to Chinese cities at an increasing rate. This …
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An inquiry into the rise of communism in China
<p>The Chinese Communist Party cannot raise the living standard in China without substantially jeopardizing its hold on people. A monolithic state exists because economic considerations overshadow political usurpation of power. When men are fed and properly clothed in the industrial society that …
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Čínská lidová republika a videoherní průmysl jako nástroj měkké moci
… framework of soft power, including the specific Chinese understanding of the concept and its evolution over time, as well as its connection to the video game sector. The analytical part then explores the historical development of the relationship between Chinese society and video games, from …
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Modernization and music in contemporary China : crisis, identity, and the politics of style
The modernization of Chinese culture has been a major feature of domestic policy since the Chinese Communist Party assumed political leadership in 1949. This modernization program has had profound effects upon indigenous musical practices. But the influence is mutual, for music, as a participant in …
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Exchanging faces: Dubbing foreign films in China, 1949-1994
… examines dubbed foreign films, which were the Chinese people’s “window to the outside world” during the Cold War era. Between 1949 and 1994, when Hollywood’s path to China was blocked by Cold War politics, the Chinese Communist Party dubbed and screened over one thousand films from the Soviet …
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Silent Control: The Ideological Construction in Xi’s Era and the Political Expression from Grassroots
… China. It begins with a top-down analysis of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a Leninist vanguard that pragmatically reconfigures Marxism to facilitate its institutional imperatives. Under the Xi Jinping administration, the elevation of “ideological work” as a core pillar of governance has …
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Chinese decision-making in reponse to foreign policy crises, 1949-1996 : a poliheuristic analysis
… this dissertation aims to illuminate how Chinese decision-makers make key decisions in foreign policy crises and what lead to such decisions in a systematic and theoretically driven way. To achieve this goal, this project tests the Poliheuristic Theory (PH), developed by Alex Mintz (1993, …
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Maoizmo ir postmaoizmo laikotarpių nacionalizmo diskurso formavimas Kinijos valstybinėje žiniasklaidoje /
… the discourse of nationalism intended for Chinese and for foreign audiences. After analyzing multiple examples of state media, the conclusion could be drawn that the Chinese Communist Party during the Mao era used state media mainly to consolidate the legitimacy of the governing party, …
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The Hard Road to Renewal: Media Representations of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
In this thesis, I aim to explore how the Chinese Cultural Revolution has been represented in the media, mainly in films and television dramas, from the 1980s to the early 2010s. Drawing upon textual analysis, conjunctural analysis and the concept of articulation, I examine how the historical past …
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From Retreat to Victory: The Rise of the Communist Party in the Chinese Civil War, 1935–1949
More than seventy years since the end of the Chinese Civil War, the western treatment of those decisive military encounters that led to establishment of the People’s Republic of China remains hobbled by a number of issues. Not only do most of the English-language literature focus exclusively on the …
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Peace or War in the Taiwan Strait: A Game Theoretical Analysis of the Taiwan Issue
… the belligerency between the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party. In the past decade, Taiwan increasingly sought to define its own national identity and international status, but faced diplomatic and military pressures from mainland China, which has insisted that Taiwan is part of China. …
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A Springboard to Victory: Shandong Province and Chinese Communist Military and Financial Strength, 1937-1945
During the Sino-Japanese war of 1937 to 1945, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Shandong Province in North China achieved an unnoticed but historically significant success in financial affairs. From that time onward, the CCP in Shandong not only controlled economic affairs within its territory, …
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The Growth and Limits of Judicial Independence in China
… amount of judicial discretion afforded by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to judges. This thesis first argues that, allowing for regional variations, and within the authority delegated by the CCP in the context of Party’s declared intention to govern according to law (yifa zhiguo), the courts …
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Between State and Body: Religious Geopolitics, Cultivation and the Falun Gong
… between continually evolving forms of the Chinese Party-State’s religious geopolitics, its repression of the Falun Gong, and FLG followers’ self-cultivation and strategies of resistance to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The PhD begins with a discussion of the Party-State’s strategies of …
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