Legitimacy of China’s Counter-Terrorism Approach

Chi Zhang is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of St Andrews, an Associate Member of the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, and a Visiting Scholar of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. From ‘Class Enemies’ to ‘Three Forces’.- Chapter 3. The Mass Line Ethos and People’s War on Terror.- Chapter 4. Mass Mobilisation Tactics for Countering Terrorism.- Chapter 5. Conclusion.

“Chi Zhang’s Legitimacy of China’s Counter-Terrorism Approach. The Mass Line Ethos sheds light on the ideological foundations and practical implications of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) counter-terrorism approach. As such, the book offers a timely critical assessment of the Chinese state’s action in Xinjiang from a Chinese scholarly perspective that takes the CCP’s ‘Mass Line’ ethos as a conceptual framework.” (Pablo A. Rodríguez-Merino, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 76 (3), 2024)“Legitimacy of China’s Counter-Terrorism Approach remains a noteworthy contribution to the field. It is concisely written and contains both insight and provocative arguments relevant to not only specialists in Xinjiang and Uyghur studies but also those with an interest in Chinese security policy and terrorism and counter-terrorism studies.” (Michael Clarke, The China Quarterly, July 31, 2023)