Miao-ling Lin Hasenkamp is Research Associate at Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg, Germany. She received her PhD in political science, economic policies and sociology. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Essen-Duisburg University and held a lectureship at the University in Münster, Germany. She has also held several visiting scholarships at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing), Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and the Soochow University in Taipei.
At a time when conditions in China appear ever more circumscribed and China's global engagement is ever more intense, this ground-breaking multi-disciplinary study on Chinese authoritarianism in all its different forms helps make sense of what the PRC's political system means for domestic governance and the Chinese people, and what it means for Chinese foreign relations and the rest of the world. * Dr. Jonathan Sullivan, University of Nottingham, UK * A wide ranging discussion, from a diverse group of authors, of one of the most pressing issues in geopolitics today - what the Chinese model of governance might be, and how it might offer competition to liberal democracies. Taking case studies from domestic issues like anti-corruption management to provincial leadership and propaganda, and international ones such as China's engagement with Africa, this study shows that there are no straight forward answers, and that a variety of theoretical approaches need to be used to understand not only what a Chinese model might be, but whether it really has potency and relevance beyond the borders of China itself. * Professor Kerry Brown, Director of the Lau China Institute, King's College London, UK *