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Podcast: New Books in Political Science
Episode: NIAS Podcast from the University of Tartu Asia Centre China's Psychological Power
Description: This podcast episode is hosted by Toomas Hanso International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) who is talking to Urmas Hõbepappel. Urmas is an analyst at the University of Tartu Asia Centre and a researcher at the ICDS. His academic work deals with political psychology, collective identity, and history narratives in China, but this episode focuses on his upcoming article on the psychological function of coping in Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) efforts to legitimise its rule.
Starting from the very general question of what the century of humiliation is, who are the main historical culprits in humi...