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China Currents · Volume 24, Number 1

6 articles on greater China's politics, economy, society and culture.

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Editor's Note Stephen Herschler Mattern

Editor’s Note

Most people probably have heard the proverb about the blind men and the elephant, each describing a very different animal depending on the part of the animal by which they stood. Revision 1: let’s swap out the...

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China's Governance Model and Market Reforms: Insights from the Third Plenum of the 20th Central Committee

The 3rd Plenum of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), held in July 2024, issued a Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Deepening Reform...

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Xi Jinping’s Corruption Quagmire

Introduction In October 2017, Xi Jinping told the delegates to the Nineteenth Party Congress that during the past five years, the Party’s “anti-corruption campaign has built into a crushing tide and is being...

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The Long March Toward Chinese “Modernization”

How three recent 3 rd plenums have changed China All Communist parties in the world followed the Soviet model of governing — convening national party congresses to select leadership and adopt policies. The...

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