Una Aleksandra B¿rzi¿a-¿erenkova is Head of the Political Science PhD programme and China Studies Centre at Riga Stradins University, and Head of the Asia Programme at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs. She has held a fellowship at Fudan University and a Fulbright scholarship at Stanford University, and is affiliated with King's College London and MERICS. She is the author of Perfect Imbalance: China and Russia (World Scientific 2022), and publishes on PRC political discourse, contemporary Chinese ideology, EU-China relations, Russia-China, and BRI.

Discourse, Rhetoric and Shifting Political Behaviour in China: An Introduction

Una Aleksandra B¿rzi¿a-¿erenkova, R¿ga Stradi¿š University

1. Thought Reform, Re-education and the Politics of Language and Discourse in China

Mirjam R.L. Eggli, University of Oxford

Reza Hasmath, University of Alberta

Part I DISCOURSE OF STATE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

2. State Developmentalism and the Chinese Leadership: Ideology, Cultural Heritage, and Self-reinvention

Qing Cao, Durham University

3. The RED TRIANGLE of the Chinese people, the Chinese Nation and the Communist Party of China: Meaning Generation in Speeches of the Chinese Fifth Generation Leadership

Lutgard Lams, Catholic University of Leuven

4. Jingshen: a Governmental Keyword in 21st Century China

Beatrice Gallelli, Ca'Foscari University of Venice

Part II DISCOURSE OF PRACTICAL POLITICAL ISSUES

5. (Un)Problematising and Reshaping: Discourse Analysis of the Rural Poor's Representation in Poverty-Alleviation Texts During the Xi and Hu Eras

Le Cao, Masaryk University

6. China's BRI on Social Media - A Study of Xinhua's Discursive Adaptations in the Context of a Shifting Leadership

Nie Yuxi, Fontys University of Applied Sciences

Biographies of the Authors