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The New Long March

China in Xi Jinping’s Era

by Bogdan Góralczyk (Author) Dominika Pieczka (Translation)
©2024 Monographs 248 Pages

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Summary

China’s new domestic reality, since late 2012, formally described as “Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the New Era of Xi Jinping Thought,” differs from the previous four decades of reform and transformation. Deng Xiaoping’s old formula of “hiding your strength and biding your time” is gone, replaced by assertiveness and displays of power. Following Chinese tradition, all main aims, visions, proposals, and decisions are again state-defined and state-focused. The personal rule of “Chairman of everything,” Xi Jinping dominates, creating a “Party of one.” Simultaneously, personal connections, the famous guanxi, are once again more important than institutions.
This study by a former diplomat in Asia, a seasoned Polish sinologist and political scientist is focused on three major issues: the current political system and governance in the PRC, so-called Xi-nomics, and finally China’s new global role, following the pandemic and the Russian aggression in Ukraine.

Biographical notes

Bogdan Góralczyk (Author) Dominika Pieczka (Translation)

Political scientist and sinologist, a tenured professor at the Centre for Europe at the University of Warsaw. Former long-term diplomat in Hungary, Polish Ambassador to Thailand, and head of the Polish diplomatic missions to Myanmar and the Philippines. His most recent publications available in Polish are: three volumes with a comprehensive account of four decades of transformation in China, Trianon Syndrome in Hungary (2020), and a book of essays on Burma/Myanmar (2021) and Thailand (2024).

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