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Review of: The Chinese Communist Party: A 100-Year Trajectory Edited by Jérôme Doyon and Chloé Froissart. Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2024. ix + 454 pp. AU$59.95 (also available Open Access). ISBN 9781760466237 (2024)
Journal Article
Mittelstaedt, J. C. Review of: The Chinese Communist Party: A 100-Year Trajectory Edited by Jérôme Doyon and Chloé Froissart. Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2024. ix + 454 pp. AU$59.95 (also available Open Access). ISBN 9781760466237. The China Quarterly, 1088-1089. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741024001309

Intra-Party Rules: Rebuilding the Chinese Communist Party’s Political Ecology (2024)
Journal Article
Mittelstaedt, J. C. (2024). Intra-Party Rules: Rebuilding the Chinese Communist Party’s Political Ecology. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 53(3), 507-536. https://doi.org/10.1177/18681026241247068

This article offers an in-depth analysis of intra-party rules development within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since the Eighteenth Party Congress in 2012. Through examining fifty-three major intra-party rules, leaders’ speeches, media articles,... Read More about Intra-Party Rules: Rebuilding the Chinese Communist Party’s Political Ecology.

How to Think Xi Jinping Thought (2024)
Book Chapter
Mittelstaedt, J. C., & Thornton, P. M. (2024). How to Think Xi Jinping Thought. In D. Lynch, & S. Rosen (Eds.), Chinese Politics: The Xi Jinping Difference (142-160). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003257943-8

This chapter explores how Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is being developed and promoted at the grassroots of contemporary Chinese society. Two projects piloted in 2018 to propagate and disseminate Xi Jinpi... Read More about How to Think Xi Jinping Thought.

Culture for the Masses: Building Grassroots Cultural Infrastructure in China (2023)
Journal Article
Mittelstaedt, J. C. (2023). Culture for the Masses: Building Grassroots Cultural Infrastructure in China. Modern China, 50(5), 607-640. https://doi.org/10.1177/00977004231206177

This article focuses on the development of “grassroots cultural infrastructure”—namely, “cultural halls” and “cultural stations”—at the county level and below since the Mao Zedong era. Since their formation, the party-state has accorded cultural hall... Read More about Culture for the Masses: Building Grassroots Cultural Infrastructure in China.

Party-Building through Ideological Campaigns under Xi Jinping (2023)
Journal Article
Mittelstaedt, J. C. (2023). Party-Building through Ideological Campaigns under Xi Jinping. Asian Survey, 63(5), 716-742. https://doi.org/10.1525/as.2023.1983457

This article investigates the increasing reliance on ideological campaigns by the Chinese Communist Party under Xi Jinping as part of an unfolding party-building project. Analyzing five campaigns conducted from 2013 to 2021, the study shows that they... Read More about Party-Building through Ideological Campaigns under Xi Jinping.

From Social Management to Mobilisation: The Evolving Grid Management System in Shenzhen (2023)
Journal Article
Mittelstaedt, J. C. (2023). From Social Management to Mobilisation: The Evolving Grid Management System in Shenzhen. China perspectives, 41-50

ABSTRACT: This article examines the grid management system in Shenzhen. I argue that it is built on three pillars: data standardisation, community collaboration, and information centralisation. The standardisation of addresses and urban landscape ele... Read More about From Social Management to Mobilisation: The Evolving Grid Management System in Shenzhen.

Rebuilding Authority: The Party's Relationship with Its Grassroots Organizations (2021)
Journal Article
Mittelstaedt, J. C. (2021). Rebuilding Authority: The Party's Relationship with Its Grassroots Organizations. The China Quarterly, 248(S1), 244-264. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741021000746

While existing scholarship looks at the relationship between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and emerging social strata and civil society, the Party's impact on its own grassroots has been largely overlooked. How does the Party manage its own grass... Read More about Rebuilding Authority: The Party's Relationship with Its Grassroots Organizations.