Pekingology
Episodes
Grading Xi Jinping
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of Pekingology, Freeman Chair Jude Blanchette is joined by Elizabeth Economy, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at S...
Democratic Centralism
27 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Pekingology, Freeman Chair Jude Blanchette is joined by Patricia Thornton, an Associate Professor of Chinese Politics at Universit...
Performative Governance
13 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Pekingology, Freeman Chair Jude Blanchette is joined by Iza Ding, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of...
From General Secretary to Chairman: Xi Jinping’s Third Road
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Pekingology, Freeman Chair Jude Blanchette is joined by Ling Li, a Lecturer in the Department of East Asian Studies at the Univers...
Cyber Nationalism and Regime Support under Xi Jinping
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of Pekingology, Freeman Chair Jude Blanchette is joined by Rongbin Han, an Associate Professor in the Department of Internat...
Public Opinion in China
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Pekingology, Freeman Chair Jude Blanchette is joined by Rory Truex, an Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs a...
Special Deals with Chinese Characteristics
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Pekingology, Freeman Chair Jude Blanchette is joined by Chang-Tai Hsieh, the Phyllis and Irwin Winkelried Professor of Economics at...
From Mao to Now
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Pekingology, Freeman Chair in China Studies Jude Blanchette is joined by David Shambaugh, the Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studi...
Political Risk and Firm Exit
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Pekingology, Freeman Chair in China Studies Jude Blanchette is joined by Jack Zhang, Assistant Professor of Political Science and...
Who Not What
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Pekingology, Freeman Chair in China Studies Jude Blanchette is joined by Mary Gallagher, Professor of Political Science and Direct...
Rethinking Chinese Politics
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Pekingology, Freeman Chair in China Studies Jude Blanchette is joined by Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations and ...
Workers and Change in China
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Pekingology, Freeman Chair in China Studies Jude Blanchette is joined by Manfred Elfstrom, an Assistant Professor in the Department...
Reading the People's Daily
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Pekingology, Freeman Chair in China Studies Jude Blanchette is joined by Manoj Kewalramani, a Fellow in China Studies at the Banga...
Retrofitting Leninism
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Pekingology, Freeman Chair in China Studies Jude Blanchette is joined by Dimitar Gueorguiev, an associate professor of political sc...
Visible Development First
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Pekingology, Freeman Chair in China Studies Jude Blanchette is joined by Leng Ning, an Assistant Professor at the McCourt School o...
Overcoming the Emperor's Dilemma
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Pekingology, Freeman Chair in China Studies Jude Blanchette is joined by Wang Yuhua, the Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professo...
Patriotic Education
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Pekingology, Freeman Chair in China Studies Jude Blanchette is joined by Karrie J. Koesel, an Associate Professor of Political Sc...
Cautious Bully
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of Pekingology, Jude Blanchette is joined by George Mason University's Ketian Zhang to discuss her recent article, "Cautious ...
Ideology Matters
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of Pekingology, Jude Blanchette is joined by Jason Wu, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, to...
The Strength of a Weak Organization
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of Pekingology, Jude Blanchette is joined by Jérôme Doyon, a Departmental Lecturer on Contemporary Chinese Studies at the...
Fragmented Authoritarianism in Xi's China
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode of Pekingology, Freeman Chair Jude Blanchette is joined by Jessica Teets, an Associate Professor in the Political Science Depa...
Provincial Power in a Centralizing China
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode of Pekingology, Freeman Chair Jude Blanchette is joined by Yeling Tan, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Univer...
Ideology and Law in Xi Jinping's China
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Freeman Chair Jude Blanchette talks with Rogier Creemers, an Associate Professor in the Law and Governance of China at Leiden Univer...
Stock Markets with Authoritarian Characteristics
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of Pekingology, Jude Blanchette is joined by John Yasuda, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins Universit...
Grand Steerage
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode of Pekingology, Freeman Chair Jude Blanchette is joined by Andrew Polk of Trivium China and Barry Naughton, the So Kwanlok Cha...
The New Realities of Party-State Capitalism in China
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Pekingology, Freeman Chair Jude Blanchette explores the evolving nature of Chinese state capitalism with Meg Rithmire, the F. Warr...
Does Xi Jinping Face a Coup Threat?
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Pekingology, Jude Blanchette is joined by Yale University's Dan Mattingly to discuss his new working paper, "How the Party Comman...
Statistics and State-Building in Mao's China
07 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How did communist ideology affect state-building efforts in the early PRC? How and why does the current CCP leadership view statistics through the len...
The State Advances, The Private Sector Retreats
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Pekingology, Jude Blanchette talks to Jörg Wuttke, the president of the EU Chamber of Commerce in China, to discuss the expanding...
Why the 19th Party Congress Matters
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is the role of the quinquennial Party Congress? And why was the 19th Party Congress in 2017 so important to China's future economic, political, ...
Do Intellectuals Matter in Xi's China?
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Under the rule of Xi Jinping, the space for intellectual debate has shrunk dramatically, impacting both China's left and right. To explore the realiti...
China's Global Status Anxiety
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Is China a developing country or a superpower? This question is at the heart of Pu Xiaoyu's 2019 book, Rebranding China: Contested Status Signaling i...
China's Changing Strategy in Xinjiang
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What explains Beijing's extraordinary campaign of repression in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region? In this episode, Jude Blanchette is joined by p...
What Happens if Xi Jinping Dies in Office?
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With the removal of the only term limit on office in March 2018, Xi Jinping stands to rule indefinitely. But what happens if he suddenly dies in offi...
Mobilizing for Development
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Pekingology, Georgetown University's Kristen Looney joins Jude Blanchette to discuss her new book, Mobilizing for Development: Th...
Revisiting China’s Social Volcano
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Pekingology, Harvard University’s Lei Ya-Wen joins Jude Blanchette to discuss her recent paper, "Revisiting China’s Social Vol...
Welfare for Autocrats
13 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Pekingology, Jude Blanchette is joined by Stanford University's Jennifer Pan to discuss her new book, Welfare for Autocrats: How S...
Communists Constructing Capitalism
28 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode of Pekingology, Jude Blanchette invites Julian Gruin to discuss the evolution of China's hybrid economic system and the domineer...