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Understanding the Taiwan Crisis: Foreign Policy or Domestic Issue?

As prominent political scientists often state, a country’s foreign policy is strongly linked to its domestic policy. Taking this simple idea, no other crisis in the history of the world complicates and yet reinforces it much like the current Taiwan Crisis [...]

January 12, 2009 - By Muyan Jin - Political Science



Democracy in China: Is It Possible? Why and Why Not?

A decades old question of democratization in China has been revived by its resurgence as a world power under the non-democratic leadership of the CCP [...]

January 12, 2009 - By Muyan Jin - National Focus: China



Compressed Modernity, the Korean Wave and Iwabuchi’s Asian Modernity

A captive of both Japanese colonial and American imperialist forces, Korea was not allowed to independently modernize within the global environment, but rather imported elements of modernity from its captors [...]

January 6, 2009 - By Muyan Jin - Arts & Culture, Features



Taiwan: Ma Ying-jeou and the Revolutionary Status Quo

The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou won a landslide victory on March 22, 2008, defeating Democratic People’s Party (DPP) candidate Frank Hsieu and ending eight years of DPP rule over Taiwan. His victory has largely been attributed to [...]

May 14, 2008 - By Muyan Jin - Features, Political Science



Minzhu: Tiananmen and the Development of Chinese Democracy as a Social Contract – Past, Present, and Future

Through the PBS frontline democracy Tianmen: The Gate of Heavenly Peace, further research into the Tiananmen Square incident of 1989, and the concept of Western democracy, I would like to explore the evolving concept of “Chinese democracy”—Minzhu—in four ways [...]

March 31, 2008 - By Muyan Jin - National Focus: China



Sino-Japanese Relations: 19th Century to Present

The current Western analysis of Sino-Japanese relations can be likened to a badly tailored suit—at best, it clumsily covers main aspects of the relationship and anticipates movement in crises; at worst, it is ill-fitted to address the past peculiarities and future growing pains of such a relationship. The unsuitability of such an analysis should not [...]

March 31, 2008 - By Muyan Jin - Cover Story, Political Science