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Stephen Herschler Mattern

5 articles in China Currents, 2007 to 2025.

Stephen Herschler Mattern
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Editorial Board Member, Associate Professor of Politics

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Vol. 24, No. 1
May 13, 2025

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...

Vol. 18, No. 1
September 9, 2019

Special Issue: Introduction

One of the benefits of being a member of the China Research Center is ready access to colleagues possessing wide-ranging expertise on Chinese affairs. Five years have passed since I last drew upon these...

Vol. 17, No. 1
January 29, 2018

Exe-Xi-sis on Making China Great Again

Xi Jinping's 19th Party Congress Report Just after the 19 th Party Congress in October, when a second volume of Xi Jinping’s Thoughts was published, I quickly moved to order my own copy through Amazon. Weeks...

Vol. 13, No. 2
October 19, 2014

Special Issue: Introduction

China watchers are to Third Plenums of Chinese Communist Party Congresses as film buffs are to the Oscars. One reason is the storied history of Third Plenum Decisions in the post-Mao era. Two of them marked...

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