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This chapter explains that China’s new state ideology under Xi Jinping is constructed around three key ingredients: loyalty, discipline, and greatness. It argues that this ideology is a bridge between Maoist pure ideology and Dengist practical ideology.
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According to Encyclopedia Britannica, loyalty “signifies a person’s devotion or sentiment of attachment to a particular object, which may be another person or group of persons, an ideal, a duty, or a cause. It expresses itself in both thought and action and strives for the identification of the interests of the loyal person with those of the object”.
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Lagerkvist, J. (2023). Introduction: China’s National Self, President Xi Jinping, and Realizing the Chinese Dream. In: Organized Loyalty. Politics and Development of Contemporary China. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40037-7_1
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