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China’s Retreat from ‘Reform and Opening’: Xi Jinping and Repudiation of Deng Xiaoping’s Reforms
Join guest lecturer Edward S. Steinfeld, Professor of Political Science and the Dean's Chair in China Studies at Brown University, as he delves into the profound changes China has seen over the past 40 years. With moderator Jeffrey Morton, Ph.D., the Pierrepont Comfort Chair in Political Science at FAU, and a Fellow at the Foreign Policy Association, Steinfeld will examine China's transformation under Deng Xiaoping's "Reform and Opening" from the 1980s to the early 2000s. This period saw significant economic growth through market reforms and global integration, turning China into a manufacturing hub and reducing poverty. Societal changes were even more striking as traditional socialist institutions like state-assigned jobs and housing faded, giving citizens newfound freedom to shape their lives. Civic groups emerged, including religious, environmental, LGBTQ, and women's rights organizations. The Communist Party evolved, becoming more educated and urban in membership. Today, however, so much of that story has disappeared. Since his accession to power in late 2012, Xi Jinping, with increasing transparency, endeavored to repudiate and reverse many of the changes associated with "Reform and Opening." China today is far more ideological, party-dominated, authoritarian, and bellicose than at any other time in recent decades. These changes have come with increasing degrees of jingoism, xenophobia, and national security consciousness. How did this happen? What accounts for the reversal? And, what does it mean for not just China's future but our own? This event is also available virtually.
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