Carl Minzner was quoted in the South China Morning Post about China’s current political landscape.
Minzner, a professor of Chinese law and politics at Fordham University School of Law, in New York, and author of the forthcoming book End of an Era: How China’s Authoritarian Revival Is Undermining its Rise, says that the ethos of the post-1979 reform period has been that China needs to learn from the outside in order to develop at home. But that page is now turning.
“There are questions being raised at a very deep level within the bureaucracy about how valuable that stuff from outside is,” Minzner says. “This nativist turn is leading Beijing to steadily impose stronger curbs on influences viewed as ‘foreign’ – whether it be Christmas traditions or overseas academic publications.”
