The Chinese government’s efforts to quell rumors – code for any communication critical of or threatening to The Party – seem to just foster more rumors. Never quite knowing what is going on is much more intriguing than the simple facts would be. This is the case with the “Maoist Revival” that David Bandurski of...
Recently, the New York Review of Books published an insightful article by Andy Nathan, a leading China scholar and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. Here are a few excerpts from Andy Nathan’s observations on the ways in which Xi Jinping is similar to, and different from, Mao, and how his power consolidation project has...
To Concentrate or to Disperse One useful way of classifying the various nonviolent tactics is to divide them into tactics of concentration and tactics of dispersion. For example, protest demonstrations or rallies are tactics of concentration, because they tend to concentrate hundreds or thousands of people in one location. Tactics of dispersion, on the contrary, are...
