Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova 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 IntroductionUna Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova, Rīga Stradiņš University1. Thought Reform, Re-education and the Politics of Language and Discourse in ChinaMirjam R.L. Eggli, University of OxfordReza Hasmath, University of AlbertaPart I DISCOURSE OF STATE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY2. State Developmentalism and the Chinese Leadership: Ideology, Cultural Heritage, and Self-reinventionQing Cao, Durham University3. 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 LeadershipLutgard Lams, Catholic University of Leuven4. Jingshen: a Governmental Keyword in 21st Century ChinaBeatrice Gallelli, Ca'Foscari University of VenicePart II DISCOURSE OF PRACTICAL POLITICAL ISSUES5. (Un)Problematising and Reshaping: Discourse Analysis of the Rural Poor’s Representation in Poverty-Alleviation Texts During the Xi and Hu ErasLe Cao, Masaryk University6. China’s BRI on Social Media — A Study of Xinhua’s Discursive Adaptations in the Context of a Shifting LeadershipNie Yuxi, Fontys University of Applied SciencesBiographies of the Authors

Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova 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 IntroductionUna Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova, Rīga Stradiņš University1. Thought Reform, Re-education and the Politics of Language and Discourse in ChinaMirjam R.L. Eggli, University of OxfordReza Hasmath, University of AlbertaPart I DISCOURSE OF STATE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY2. State Developmentalism and the Chinese Leadership: Ideology, Cultural Heritage, and Self-reinventionQing Cao, Durham University3. 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 LeadershipLutgard Lams, Catholic University of Leuven4. Jingshen: a Governmental Keyword in 21st Century ChinaBeatrice Gallelli, Ca'Foscari University of VenicePart II DISCOURSE OF PRACTICAL POLITICAL ISSUES5. (Un)Problematising and Reshaping: Discourse Analysis of the Rural Poor’s Representation in Poverty-Alleviation Texts During the Xi and Hu ErasLe Cao, Masaryk University6. China’s BRI on Social Media — A Study of Xinhua’s Discursive Adaptations in the Context of a Shifting LeadershipNie Yuxi, Fontys University of Applied SciencesBiographies of the Authors

Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova 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 IntroductionUna Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova, Rīga Stradiņš University1. Thought Reform, Re-education and the Politics of Language and Discourse in ChinaMirjam R.L. Eggli, University of OxfordReza Hasmath, University of AlbertaPart I DISCOURSE OF STATE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY2. State Developmentalism and the Chinese Leadership: Ideology, Cultural Heritage, and Self-reinventionQing Cao, Durham University3. 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 LeadershipLutgard Lams, Catholic University of Leuven4. Jingshen: a Governmental Keyword in 21st Century ChinaBeatrice Gallelli, Ca'Foscari University of VenicePart II DISCOURSE OF PRACTICAL POLITICAL ISSUES5. (Un)Problematising and Reshaping: Discourse Analysis of the Rural Poor’s Representation in Poverty-Alleviation Texts During the Xi and Hu ErasLe Cao, Masaryk University6. China’s BRI on Social Media — A Study of Xinhua’s Discursive Adaptations in the Context of a Shifting LeadershipNie Yuxi, Fontys University of Applied SciencesBiographies of the Authors