Assistant Professor Dan Mattingly was recently interviewed on The Wire China about Xi Jinping’s Cultivation of the PLA, the role of the military in elite Chinese politics, and how Xi has reshaped the PLA.
Abstract:
Daniel Mattingly is an assistant professor of political science at Yale University, where he studies authoritarian politics with a focus on China. In 2020, he published The Art of Political Control in China, which explores how the Chinese state controls protests and implements sweeping social policies. Recently, he has turned his focus to the military, and is working on a book about the role of the military in Chinese elite politics. We spoke about his current research, Xi’s remaking of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), and what the recent corruption scandals in the military mean about the state of China’s army.