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 • POST GLOBALIZATION• COMMENTARIES 2001-2007• MADE IN CHINA• THE TWO SOULS OF TURKEY• THE NEW GLOBAL CINEMA• MAKING GLOBALIZATION WORK• DE-GLOBALIZE THE JIHAD• THE THIRD WAVE'S THIRD WAY• PLANET OF SLUMS• THE GLOBAL IDEOLOGY OF FEAR • THE OTHER• POST-NATIONALLITERATURE • COLLAPSE OR MASSIVECHANGE? • THE RISE AND FALL OFAMERICA'S SOFT POWER • THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION• PUBLIC DIPLOMACY• THE HEADSCARF CONTROVERSY• SCULPTURE AND THE NEW SCIENCE • BIOTECH AND THE NEW BABEL • WAR THROUGH THE BACK DOOR • ANTIAMERICANISM• THE RISING SOFT POWEROF CHINA & INDIA • THE BUSH DOCTRINE• FAIRNESS IN A FRAGILEWORLD • AMERICA'S MIGHT• ISLAM IN THE 21ST CENTURY• ANTIGLOBOS• HOT PEACE• MODUS VIVENDI• LOOKING NORTH• FROM WELL HAVING TOWELL BEING • POST-HUMAN HISTORY• GLOBAPHOBIA• THE GLOBAL MIND• AFTER KOSOVO• FROM VIETNAM TO KOSOVO• DEGLOBALIZATION?• THE RISE OF THE MEDIA-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX • BOOM [NUCLEAR] AND[BUST] ECONOMIC IN ASIA • BEYOND CAPITALISM• ASIAN CRISIS• CHINA: THE ASIANRENAISSANCE • SLOW IS BEAUTIFUL• ECLIPSE OF THE BIGPICTURE • AFTER THE END OFHISTORY • THE EAST IS RED AGAIN• HALF-A-HEGEMON• THIRD WAVE TERRORISM• HEIMAT• Fall 1987• Winter 1987• Spring 1986• Fall-Winter '84-'85• Spring 1984 |
Soft Totalitarianism in China Chalmers Johnson is president of the Japan Policy Research Institute and author of more than a dozen books on Japanese and Chinese politics, including Japan: Who Governs? (Norton Simon, 1995). La Jolla - China is ostensibly ruled by the Chinese Communist Party, the world's largest political party, but which no longer has any legitimacy or moral acceptability in the eyes of the Chinese people. Although the party came to power in 1949 as the leader of the biggest and most complex revolution among all the historical cases, it squandered its great popularity first in rural China because of the famine that followed the Great Leap Forward, then among hard-core Communist revolutionaries themselves because of the Cultural Revolution (Mao's revenge against the part after he lost control of it in the wake of the Great Leap Forward), and finally among the urban intellectuals and burgeoning middle class because of the repression at Tiananmen in 1989 and the collapse of communism in Europe later that same year.
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