Month: January 2018

ETHNIC MINORITY IDENTITY IN NEW ERA CHINA Blog one of two on China’s new ideology   The 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress, in October 2017, not only anointed Xi Jinping as dear supreme leader, his Thought is now enshrined as the ideology governing China for the foreseeable future, and well beyond. What did this decisive […]

CHINA’S NEW GRAND NARRATIVE   Blog #2 of 2 on China’s new ideology for a new era   Unfashionably, we need to take ideology seriously. These days, we seldom consider ideology,  beyond sketching a thumbnail of the belief system of the enemy, only to prove how crazy bad Trumpism, or Islamic fundamentalism are, so we […]