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Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China's Foreign Relations
Jessica Chen Weiss
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Description for Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China's Foreign Relations
Paperback. Powerful Patriots examines the role of nationalist protest in China's foreign relations from 1978 to 2012, arguing that the Chinese government's decision to allow or repress potentially destabilizing anti-foreign street demonstrations reveals information about its resolve and willingness to compromise in diplomacy. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPFN; JPS; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 486.
Why has the Chinese government sometimes allowed and sometimes repressed nationalist, anti-foreign protests? What have been the international consequences of these choices? Anti-American demonstrations were permitted in 1999 but repressed in 2001 during two crises in US-China relations. Anti-Japanese protests were tolerated in 1985, 2005, and 2012 but banned in 1990 and 1996. Protests over Taiwan, the issue of greatest concern to Chinese nationalists, have never been allowed. To explain this variation in China's response to nationalist mobilization, Powerful Patriots argues that Chinese and other authoritarian leaders weigh both diplomatic and domestic incentives to allow and repress nationalist protests. Autocrats ... Read more
Why has the Chinese government sometimes allowed and sometimes repressed nationalist, anti-foreign protests? What have been the international consequences of these choices? Anti-American demonstrations were permitted in 1999 but repressed in 2001 during two crises in US-China relations. Anti-Japanese protests were tolerated in 1985, 2005, and 2012 but banned in 1990 and 1996. Protests over Taiwan, the issue of greatest concern to Chinese nationalists, have never been allowed. To explain this variation in China's response to nationalist mobilization, Powerful Patriots argues that Chinese and other authoritarian leaders weigh both diplomatic and domestic incentives to allow and repress nationalist protests. Autocrats ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199387564
SKU
V9780199387564
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About Jessica Chen Weiss
Jessica Chen Weiss is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University and Research Fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. Her research interests include Chinese politics and international relations, nationalism, and social protest. Her research has appeared in International Organization and has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Princeton-Harvard China & The World Program, Bradley ... Read more
Reviews for Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China's Foreign Relations
Jessica Weiss advances an elegant model of the interaction between domestic pressures and diplomatic context. Richly detailed empirical case studies provide strong support for a conceptual argument rooted in the tradition of twolevelgames.
Jonathan Sullivan, Political Studies Review.
...Weiss proves to be a tenacious investigator, making her book an invaluable chronicle of how China, Japan and the US ... Read more
Jonathan Sullivan, Political Studies Review.
...Weiss proves to be a tenacious investigator, making her book an invaluable chronicle of how China, Japan and the US ... Read more