Clyde Yicheng Wang
Biographic Data
| ID | 4389817 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clyde Yicheng Wang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clyde Yicheng |
| FAMILY NAME | Wang |
| SIGNATURE | WANG C Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Political Science Boston University Boston Massachusetts USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2397-9501 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
ZHOU, Mujun. 2026. The Death and Life of Chinese Civil Society. Ann Arbor
Zhou Mujun’s The Death and Life of Chinese Civil Society provides a detailed, analytical, and sometimes saddening account of the civil society movement in China from the 1990s to Xi Jinping’s “new era.” It is saddening because many events discussed in this book now look so remote they are almost like things happening in another universe. As Zhou mentioned in the preface, young people in China today have little to no knowledge of the civil society…
Defending Hierarchy in the Name of Equality
The Ideology is Blowing in the Wind
The concept of political propaganda includes a theoretical contradiction between orthodoxy and popularity of ideology, and by implication, a practical contradiction between repressing and mobilizing public discourse. Post-socialist China offers a curious case. The neo-traditionalist bureaucratic system stresses absolute ideological correctness, while the mouthpiece media's need for adjusting to a marketized media industry demands popularity. How …
From ‘motherland’ to ‘daddy state
This article examines the gender undertone of China's nationalist discourses, especially in familial metaphors of nationalism, and how such an undertone shapes people's understandings of state authority and state‐citizen relations. Conventional nationalist discourse of the ‘motherland’ evokes the image of an insulted and raped mother as the symbol of national humiliation and calls for actions from patriots (masculinised in the discourse). In rece…
Changing Strategies and Mixed Agendas
China’s external propaganda, or waixuan, is organized by two separate bureaucratic systems – the ‘propaganda system’ and the ‘foreign affairs system.’ This article examines waixuan’s changing strategies and the bureaucratic structure’s adjustments. It argues that since 2012, waixuan has moved on from its previous emphasis on traditional culture in the Jiang and Hu periods to promoting China’s development model. The Foreign Ministry bears the pres…
The Discipline of Happiness
One important question about ideological works in China concerns the tension between mobilisation (encouraging public expression) and control (limiting public expression). Recently Xi Jinping’s administration has doubled down on both strategies. To study the rationale of this seemingly self-contradictory move, the authors examine the recently prominent ideological discourse of “positive energy.” Through a combination of online ethnography and dis…
The Discipline of Happiness
One important question about ideological works in China concerns the tension between mobilisation (encouraging public expression) and control (limiting public expression). Recently Xi Jinping’s administration has doubled down on both strategies. To study the rationale of this seemingly self-contradictory move, the authors examine the recently prominent ideological discourse of “positive energy.” Through a combination of online ethnography and dis…
The Ideology is Blowing in the Wind
The concept of political propaganda includes a theoretical contradiction between orthodoxy and popularity of ideology, and by implication, a practical contradiction between repressing and mobilizing public discourse. Post-socialist China offers a curious case. The neo-traditionalist bureaucratic system stresses absolute ideological correctness, while the mouthpiece media's need for adjusting to a marketized media industry demands popularity. How …
Changing Strategies and Mixed Agendas
China’s external propaganda, or waixuan, is organized by two separate bureaucratic systems – the ‘propaganda system’ and the ‘foreign affairs system.’ This article examines waixuan’s changing strategies and the bureaucratic structure’s adjustments. It argues that since 2012, waixuan has moved on from its previous emphasis on traditional culture in the Jiang and Hu periods to promoting China’s development model. The Foreign Ministry bears the pres…
From ‘motherland’ to ‘daddy state
This article examines the gender undertone of China's nationalist discourses, especially in familial metaphors of nationalism, and how such an undertone shapes people's understandings of state authority and state‐citizen relations. Conventional nationalist discourse of the ‘motherland’ evokes the image of an insulted and raped mother as the symbol of national humiliation and calls for actions from patriots (masculinised in the discourse). In rece…
The Discipline of Happiness
One important question about ideological works in China concerns the tension between mobilisation (encouraging public expression) and control (limiting public expression). Recently Xi Jinping’s administration has doubled down on both strategies. To study the rationale of this seemingly self-contradictory move, the authors examine the recently prominent ideological discourse of “positive energy.” Through a combination of online ethnography and dis…
Changing Strategies and Mixed Agendas
China’s external propaganda, or waixuan, is organized by two separate bureaucratic systems – the ‘propaganda system’ and the ‘foreign affairs system.’ This article examines waixuan’s changing strategies and the bureaucratic structure’s adjustments. It argues that since 2012, waixuan has moved on from its previous emphasis on traditional culture in the Jiang and Hu periods to promoting China’s development model. The Foreign Ministry bears the pres…
From ‘motherland’ to ‘daddy state
This article examines the gender undertone of China's nationalist discourses, especially in familial metaphors of nationalism, and how such an undertone shapes people's understandings of state authority and state‐citizen relations. Conventional nationalist discourse of the ‘motherland’ evokes the image of an insulted and raped mother as the symbol of national humiliation and calls for actions from patriots (masculinised in the discourse). In rece…
The Ideology is Blowing in the Wind
The concept of political propaganda includes a theoretical contradiction between orthodoxy and popularity of ideology, and by implication, a practical contradiction between repressing and mobilizing public discourse. Post-socialist China offers a curious case. The neo-traditionalist bureaucratic system stresses absolute ideological correctness, while the mouthpiece media's need for adjusting to a marketized media industry demands popularity. How …
Defending Hierarchy in the Name of Equality
ZHOU, Mujun. 2026. The Death and Life of Chinese Civil Society. Ann Arbor
Zhou Mujun’s The Death and Life of Chinese Civil Society provides a detailed, analytical, and sometimes saddening account of the civil society movement in China from the 1990s to Xi Jinping’s “new era.” It is saddening because many events discussed in this book now look so remote they are almost like things happening in another universe. As Zhou mentioned in the preface, young people in China today have little to no knowledge of the civil society…
China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (6 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (6 works) · China (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ideology (3 works) · Power (physics (3 works)