Kerry Brown

King's College London | KCL · Lau China Institute

This book gives an overview of key themes domestically and internationally from the 19th Communist Party Congress held in Beijing in October 2017, setting out the main policy priorities for the Xi government in China as the country moves towards fulfillment of the first Centenary Goal, the hundredth anniversary of the Communist Party of China in 20...

In the last decade, while undergoing its own reform through the Lisbon Treaty in 2009 which created a designated foreign affairs body across the 28 member states, the European External Action Service (EEAS), the European Commission has also produced two major communications on relations with the People’s Republic of China. The first, in 2006, was i...

China's Future David Shambaugh Cambridge, UK, and Malden, MA: Polity, 2016 xviii + 203 pp. £14.99 ISBN 978-1-5095-0714-6 - Volume 233 - Kerry Brown

After 1978, Maoism as a living mass ideological and social force in the People’s Republic of China largely died away. The Party state’s legitimacy since that time has been based on a new pillar of economic competence and the delivery of tangible economic gains. But China is still a place where, at least within the political elite, there is an ident...

This chapter considers the interaction among China, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and the United States and how the issue of regional trust affects Beijing’s core strategic interests. The New Silk Road maritime version opened up fresh areas of economic and strategic space around China. It spelled out clearly to the country’s m...

The fact that the extensive anti-corruption struggle that has consumed China since 2013 is highly political is widely accepted and understood. But the question is precisely what political strategy it is directed at – that of bolstering the position of the current supreme leader, Xi Jinping. Or for the preservation of the Party itself. There is a hu...

China’s success in developing its economy since 1978 has been accompanied by an increasing geopolitical role. In recent years, this has been accentuated by the increasing confusion about the resilience of its own systems and global visions by the United States and its allies. China has never had a larger stage to exercise its influence and present...

Since becoming head of the Communist Party in China in late 2012, Xi Jinping has accrued an impressive raft of titles. He has been compared to the founder of the regime, Mao Zedong, and is seen by some as sitting at the centre of a network of different power sources. But is power as personalised as this model makes out in contemporary China, with a...

China and the European Union (EU) in 2016 have one of the largest economic relationships to the world, with a network of strategic dialogues covering areas from environment to agriculture. Despite this, their relationship is a hard one to encapsulate. President Xi Jinping's idea of a ‘civilisational’ partnership seem abstract, but at least opens up...

Governance in contemporary China presents external analysts with a number of challenges, the most significant of which is how to use general political science models to adequately conceptualize the Communist Party of China—a hybrid force that aims to cover all possible political territory in the People’s Republic and perform a function which is mor...

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The Communist Party of China represents a distinctive philosophy of leadership, one in which it tries to present itself as the key promoter of Chinese style modernity and the national mission to become a great, rich, and powerful country again. Contemporary Chinese leaders however have to operate in a territory laden with historic issues, with huge...

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The articles collected in this book are the first long research pieces produced as part of the Europe China Research and Advice Network (ECRAN), a four-year project funded by the European Union (EU) to provide policy advice and analysis, and support research to the European External Action Service (EEAS). The EEAS was established as the formal dipl...

The gap between those living in the city and those in the countryside remains one of China's most intractable problems. As this powerful work of grassroots history argues, the origins of China's rural-urban divide can be traced back to the Mao Zedong era. While Mao pledged to remove the gap between the city worker and the peasant, his revolutionary...

The People's Republic of China since 1978 has been called a post-Communist and post-ideological society. And yet, at least in terms of maintaining an institutional network of party schools and think tanks, and a common conceptual language for the political elite within the Communist Party, China continues to put resources and effort into what could...

Chinese overseas investment is a new, and growing phenomenon. In the last decade, there have been exponential increases in how much direct investment is flowing from China, particularly into the resource sector. As the eurozone crisis has deepened since 2008, there has been continuing talk by political and business leaders of investment in Europe b...

The Labour Party came to power just a few weeks before the formal hand back of Hong Kong from British to Chinese sovereignty on 1 July 1997. In his first years as Prime Minister Tony Blair embraced China in a relationship based on the principle of ‘engagement’. Difficult issues were meant to be confronted, but the broad thrust of the relationship w...

Taiwan, Humanitarianism and Global Governance. GuillouxAlain. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xvii + 204 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-0-415-46953-1 - Volume 203 - Kerry Brown

IntroductionChina's Internal DynamicsThe Historical ContextManaging the Transition to the Obama PresidencyChina's Rising International ImportanceChina's Internal TransitionsThe Problem of TaiwanEconomic Tension between China and the United StatesConclusions Notes

Shanghai's Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics 1919–1954. David FieldAndrew. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2010. xv + 364 pp. $45.00. ISBN 978-962-996-373-6 - Volume 202 - Kerry Brown

China's 30 years of reform are often presented as a seamless progression towards greater liberalization and opening up. This review article of Yasheng Huang's Capitalism with Chinese characteristics shows how the author makes a compelling argument about how radically China's economic reforms changed from before and after the Tiananmen Square incide...

This month we look at the analyses of six bacterial genomes across three genera. Previously neglected by genomics, Legionella research was recently boosted by the publication of the complete genome sequences of three strains from a single species. For Mycoplasma and Rickettsia, on the other hand, several genome sequences are already available and h...

Chinese economic reform has been undertaken through a series of phased reforms. The goal of Chinese economic reform was to generate sufficient surplus value to finance the modernization of the mainland Chinese economy. This book provides an assessment of where investment stands today and its likely future role in China. It reviews Chinas interactio...