Powerful Patriots examines the role of nationalist protest in China's foreign relations from 1978 to 2012, arguing that the Chinese government's decision to allow or repress potentially destabilizing anti-foreign street demonstrations reveals information about its resolve and willingness to compromise in diplomacy.
Powerful Patriots examines the role of nationalist protest in China's foreign relations from 1978 to 2012, arguing that the Chinese government's decision to allow or repress potentially destabilizing anti-foreign street demonstrations reveals information about its resolve and willingness to compromise in diplomacy.
Jessica Chen Weiss is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University and Research Fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. Her research interests include Chinese politics and international relations, nationalism, and social protest. Her research has appeared in International Organization and has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Princeton-Harvard China & The World Program, Bradley Foundation, Fulbright-Hays program, and the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. The dissertation on which this book is based won the 2009 APSA Helen Dwight Reid Award. Before joining the Yale faculty, she founded FACES, the Forum for American/Chinese Exchange at Stanford, while an undergraduate at Stanford. She teaches courses on China's foreign relations, state-society relations in post-Mao China, and anti-Americanism in world politics.
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* Chapter 1 Introduction * Chapter 2 Nationalist Protest and Authoritarian Diplomacy * Chapter 3 Anti-American Protest and U.S.-China Crisis Diplomacy * Chapter 4 The 1985 Anti-Japan Protests and Sino-Japanese Relations in the 1980s * Chapter 5 Protests Repressed: Sino-Japanese Relations in the 1990s * Chapter 6 The 2005 Anti-Japan Protests and Sino-Japanese Relations in the 2000s * Chapter 7 Protests Restrained: Repairing Sino-Japanese Relations (2006-2010) and the 2010 Trawler Collision * Chapter 8 The 2012 Anti-Japan Protests and the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands Purchase * Chapter 9 Conclusion
