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1993 – 2016: (7) “The Nature of the State Determines Its Political Form” : Chapter Seven of “The Logic of Politics” 王沪宁等著《政治的逻辑》

“The Nature of the State Determines Its Political Form” is Chapter Seven of The Logic of Politics: Principles of Marxist Political Science 政治的逻辑 马克思主义政治学原理 written by Chief Editor/Author Wang Huning 王沪宁 (now chief Party ideologist and #3 on the Politburo) and a … Continue reading

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2022: Party Pragmatism, Party Totalitarianism and Rocks in the River

The Chinese Communist Party says reasonable things about learning from practice and then adjusting theory on the basis of experience in iterations of going between theory and practice. Somehow though, it seems that democratic centralism and the people’s democratic dictatorship … Continue reading

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2014: “The Qing Dynasty was not a Chinese Dynasty”

When the PRC was founded in 1949, it called itself New China — as in the name of  the Xinhua press agency, the New China Press Agency.    A intriguing 2013 blog posting argued that “The Qing Dynasty was not … Continue reading

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