Viral Alarm
When Fury Overcomes Fear
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6288556 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Xu Zhangrun, Zhangrun Xu (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 5-23 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of democracy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jod.2020.0033 |
| OpenAlex | W3015673592 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic has revealed the corruption of Chinese authoritarianism under Xi Jinping. In an unsparing critique, Tsinghua University professor Xu Zhangrun argues that Chinese governance and political culture under the Chinese Communist Party have become morally bankrupt. The Party deceived the Chinese people as the viral outbreak in Wuhan spread across China before developing into a global pandemic. Chinese officials were more concerned with censoring the internet and news of the disease to preserve Xi's one-man rule than with protecting the people from a public-health disaster. Xu calls on his fellow citizens to reject the strongman politics of the People's Republic in favor of greater reform and the creation of a constitutional democracy
Authoritarianism · Business · China · Communism · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Corporate governance · Democracy · Development economics · Disease · Economics · Infectious disease (medical specialty · Language change · Pandemic · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Law · Medicine
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2021 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |