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Layered Rhetorics and Multiple Realities: China and Africa (2019)
Book Chapter
Strauss, J. (2019). Layered Rhetorics and Multiple Realities: China and Africa. In C. Hartmann, & N. Noesselt (Eds.), China's New Role in African Politics: From Non-intervention towards Stabilization. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429422393-3

This chapter reflects on the ways in which China’s official rhetoric on its approach towards and activities in Africa have developed since the mid-1950s. It suggests that there are three different ‘layers’ to this rhetoric that broadly reflect three... Read More about Layered Rhetorics and Multiple Realities: China and Africa.

State Formation in China and Taiwan: Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance (2019)
Book
Strauss, J. (2019). State Formation in China and Taiwan: Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108569163

This is an ambitious comparative study of regime consolidation in the 'revolutionary' People's Republic of China and the 'conservative' Republic of China (Taiwan) in the years following the communist victory against the nationalists on the Chinese ma... Read More about State Formation in China and Taiwan: Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance.

Of Silk Roads and Global Transformations: China’s Rise and its Impact on the Developing World (2019)
Journal Article
Strauss, J. (2019). Of Silk Roads and Global Transformations: China’s Rise and its Impact on the Developing World. The China Quarterly, 239, 804-812. https://doi.org/10.1017/S030574101900105X

On a random Tuesday in May 2019, I found myself in Shanghai's Pudong International Airport, waiting in a fortunately short and quickly moving immigration line prior to a return flight home. Just to the right was an immigration desk with what appeared... Read More about Of Silk Roads and Global Transformations: China’s Rise and its Impact on the Developing World.

Contours and Templates: Assessing the Re-assessments of May Fourth (2019)
Journal Article
Strauss, J. (2019). Contours and Templates: Assessing the Re-assessments of May Fourth. Twentieth-century China, 44(2), 253-258. https://doi.org/10.1353/tcc.2019.0023

Although May Fourth has received an extraordinary amount of scholarly attention for decades, its contours and periodization remain blurred and contested. This article suggests that the significance of May Fourth resides in the ways in which it establ... Read More about Contours and Templates: Assessing the Re-assessments of May Fourth.