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Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China's Foreign Relations with Jessica Chen Weiss

Sep 18, 2014

Join National Committee Senior Director for Education Programs Margot Landman as she interviews Jessica Chen Weiss, assistant professor of political science at Yale, about her book, Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China's Foreign Relations. Dr. Weiss discusses Chinese government management of nationalist, anti-foreign protests and their diplomatic consequences from 1985 to 2012. She argues that official response ranges from repression to tolerance to facilitation of such protests- in ways that might surprise the listener.