Yan Sun

Yan Sun is a Professor of Political Science at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of The Chinese Reassessment of Socialism: 1976-92 (Princeton University Press, 1995) and Corruption and Market in Contemporary China (Cornell University Press, 2004), as well as numerous professional articles on post-Mao Chinese politics, comparative Chinese and Russian transitions, and post-communist corruption.

The Changing Communist Party and the Rise of China

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China’s domestic political arrangements often fuel misgivings about the rise of China in the West. While liberals are optimistic about the effects of China’s economic change on long-term political liberalization, realists remain skeptical of China’s illiberal political institutions and see aggressive deterrence as the best strategy to confront an ascending China. Central to the perception … Read more