Critical Issues in Contemporary China - Decoding Xi Jinping¿s ¿New Era¿

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 Xi-s capacity to realize the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation. The international team of contributors evaluate such pressing issues as:

• Xi-s re-centralization of power and securitization of domestic politics,
• the Chinese economic model,
• the social credit system,
• state-civil society relations,
• Xi-s gender policy and return to the traditional family values,
• Beijing-s responses to unrest in Xinjiang and Hong Kong,
• Xi-s evolving unification strategies towards Taiwan,
• the Belt and Road Initiative, and
• the det