Jessica Chen Weiss on Nationalism in Chinese Politics

GLOBAL RESEARCH

9/24/2015

Jessica Chen Weiss, associate professor of government, is interviewed in this New York Times Q&A about Chinese President Xi Jinping's brand of nationalism and how that has played out in China.

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