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EdSteinfeld

Edward S. Steinfeld

Edward S. Steinfeld is Professor of Political Science at MIT and author of Playing Our Game: Why China’s Rise Doesn’t Threaten the West.

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Though there has been no “Chinese Spring,” in fundamental institutional, organizational, and behavioral terms, it would be hard to describe what has transpired in China over the past twenty years as anything but a revolution.

Edward S. Steinfeld

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The commentaries on my article raise a number of thought-provoking points. I would like to concentrate on one: the notion of stability and conservatism as organizing principles of Chinese governance. In Andrew...
Edward S. Steinfeld

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