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This article examines the corruption scandal and trial of Chinese political leader Bo Xilai in 2012 and 2013 and the discourses associated with the scandal in the years afterward. It focuses on how mainstream media discourses portrayed the trial, discussed the problem of official corruption, and articulated the notion of the rule of law in the context of responsive authoritarianism. The Bo Xilai trial differed substantially from the typical mediated scandal event in liberal democracies. The case illustrated how political scandals in contemporary China can be occasions for power holders to present an image of being willing to address public concerns and determined to solve social problems. The analysis also suggests that political scandals can provide opportunities for the articulation and propagation of the power holders' preferred conception of social and political reform.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Understanding Japanese Trade Policy: A Political Economy Perspective -- 2 Postwar Japanese Trade Policy: A Shift from Multilateral GATT/WTO to Bilateral/Regional FTA Regimes -- 3 The Political Economy of Japanese Agricultural Trade Negotiations -- 4 The TPP and Agricultural Reform in Japan -- 5 To TPP or Not TPP: Interest Groups and Trade Policy -- 6 The Impact of Trade Policy on Japanese Trade and Investment -- 7 International Production Networks and Economic Diplomacy in Japan -- 8 Locating Japanese Trade Policy in an Evolving Regional Context -- Index.

The war and the present preoccupation with post-war plans have brought about a general awareness of the fact that the Americas have been a testing ground for the orderly organization of relations among sovereign states, especially in the development of cooperative principles and techniques. The construction of a political organization within which these principles and techniques could be consolidated has not, however, characterized the American experience. The Pan American Union, for example, is expressly denied the right to consider political or controversial questions, and proposals for the creation of a "league" or "association" of American states has met with courteous but definite coolness.