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China's Political System : Modernization and Tradition

ISBN: 9780321355102 | 0321355105
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2006

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SummaryTable of Contents
This highly respected text demonstrates how the government of China, the world's most populous nation, has been significantly affected by attempts to harmonize the unique nature of its indigenous culture with a variety of influences and ideas from the outside world.
Illustrations
xii
Prefacexiii
About the Authorxv
Political Map of Chinaxvi
Introducti... MORE
1(22)
Modernization and Chinese Civilization
1(6)
Theories of Analysis of Chinese Politics
7(14)
Theoretical Analysis in the Early Years of the PRC
9(5)
Theories Engendered by the Cultural Revolution
14(5)
Post-Mao Theories of Analysis
19(2)
Conclusions
21(1)
Notes
21(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
22(1)
The Chinese Tradition
23(22)
Basic Characteristics
23(6)
The Governmental Structure of Traditional China
29(3)
The Examination System
32(1)
Literature and Art
33(1)
The Role of Law in Traditional China
33(2)
The Military
35(1)
The Barbarian Problem
36(1)
Interpretations of Chinese History
36(3)
Implications for Industrialization
39(3)
Conclusions
42(1)
Notes
43(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
43(2)
Reformers, Warlords, and Communists
45(18)
The New Invasion
45(1)
The Self-Strengthening Movement
46(4)
Reform and Revolution
50(7)
The Reformers
51(1)
The Reactionaries
52(1)
The Revolutionaries
53(4)
The Kuomintang
57(4)
Notes
61(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
61(2)
The Communist Road to Power
63(18)
The Early Years: 1919--1923
63(2)
The Period of Soviet Control: 1923--1931
65(2)
The Jiangxi Soviet: 1931--1934
67(1)
The Long March: 1934--1935
68(3)
The Xi'an Incident: 1936
71(1)
The Second United Front: 1936--1941
72(5)
Civil War and Victory: 1941-1949
77(3)
Notes
80(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
80(1)
PRC Politics under Mao: 1949-1976
81(26)
Consolidation of Power: 1949-1955
81(3)
Establishing the Organs of Power
84(5)
The Hundred Flowers Period: 1956-1957
89(3)
The Great Leap Forward and Its Aftermath: 1958--1961
92(5)
The Socialist Education Movement: 1962--1966
97(1)
The Cultural Revolution: 1966--1976
98(7)
The Years of Upheaval: 1966--1969
98(5)
Reconstruction: 1970--1976
103(2)
Notes
105(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
105(2)
PRC Politics in the Post-Mao Era: 1976--2005
107(32)
Interregnum: 1976--1978
107(3)
Deng Ascendant
110(2)
The Legacy of Mao
112(1)
Political Realignment and Policy Readjustment
113(13)
The Tiananmen Demonstrations 1989
122(4)
The ``Third Generation'' Assumes Power: China under Jiang Zemin
126(7)
The Three Represents
128(1)
Civic Organizations
129(1)
Changing Central-Local Relationships
129(4)
The ``Fourth Generation'' Assumes Power
133(2)
Conclusions
135(2)
Notes
137(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
138(1)
The Politics of the Economy
139(28)
Introduction
139(1)
The Early Years: 1949--1950
140(1)
The Socialist Transformation of Agriculture: 1949--1978
140(5)
Industrial Policy in the Maoist Era
145(3)
Modern Industry
145(1)
Handicrafts
146(2)
Maoist Economic Policies Assessed
148(1)
Economic Policy under Deng Xiaoping
149(15)
Agricultural Reforms
149(3)
The Private Sector
152(1)
More Responsibility for State Enterprises
152(1)
Reforming the Price System
153(2)
Reforming the Reforms
155(4)
New Problems for Deng's Successors
159(5)
Conclusions
164(2)
Notes
166(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
166(1)
Crime and Punishment: The Legal System of the PRC
167(24)
Less than Peaceful Coexistence of the Societal and Jural Models: 1949--1953
168(1)
The Jural Model in Ascendance: 1954--1957
169(1)
Resurgence of the Societal Model: 1957--1965
170(1)
The Societal Model Rampant: 1966--1976
171(2)
Law and Justice in the Post-Mao Era: Return to the Jural Model
173(5)
The New Legal System
174(2)
Legal Developments
176(1)
The Trial Process
176(2)
Mediation
178(2)
Petitions
180(1)
The Penal System
181(8)
Conclusions
189(1)
Notes
190(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
190(1)
The Role of the Military
191(24)
Party and Army
191(3)
Assessing the Maoist Model
194(1)
The Influence of the Korean War on the PLA
195(2)
The Revolt against Professionalism
197(9)
The Effect of the June Fourth Incident on the PLA
206(2)
The Military under Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao
208(4)
Conclusions
212(1)
Notes
213(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
213(2)
Education
215(20)
Devising a System
215(3)
The Drive for Egalitarianism and Fall Back toward Expertise
218(1)
Redness Revisited: The Cultural Revolution
219(2)
Egalitarians versus Experts: The Search for a Synthesis
221(1)
The Search for Academic Excellence
222(10)
Conclusions
232(2)
Notes
234(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
234(1)
Quality-of-Life Issues: Health, Demography, and the Environment
235(24)
Health
235(7)
Demography
242(8)
The Environment
250(6)
Conclusions
256(1)
Notes
256(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
257(2)
Conformity and Dissent: The Politics of the Arts and Journalism
259(20)
Artist and Society in China
259(1)
The Party, Art, and Social Protest
260(1)
Post- 1949 Control Mechanisms
261(2)
Repression and Reaction
263(2)
Culture and the Cultural Revolution
265(2)
The Arts under Deng Xiaoping
267(10)
Restrained Dissent
267(1)
Protest Gains Momentum
268(2)
Experimenting with Capitalism in the Arts
270(1)
The Campaign against Spiritual Pollution
271(1)
Looming Confrontation
271(1)
The Tiananmen Demonstrations and Their Aftermath
272(5)
Conclusions
277(1)
Notes
277(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
277(2)
Ethnic Minorities and National Integration
279(26)
China's Minority Peoples
279(4)
Ethnicity in Communist Ideology
283(1)
Minorities Policy in Practice
284(18)
The Early Years: 1949--1957
284(4)
The Great Leap Forward and Its Aftermath: 1959--1965
288(3)
The Cultural Revolution: 1966--1971
291(1)
Return to Pluralism: 1971-1977
292(1)
Post-Mao Minorities Policy
293(1)
Reform Produces Problems
293(3)
External Factors
296(1)
Repression Increases
296(4)
Genuine Autonomy as a Possible Solution
300(2)
Conclusions
302(1)
Notes
303(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
303(2)
Foreign Policy
305(26)
Determinants
305(4)
Tradition
305(2)
Ideology
307(1)
Capabilities
308(1)
Goals
309(1)
The Formulation of Foreign Policy
309(3)
Chinese Foreign Relations: An Overview
312(16)
The ``Lean to One Side'' Policy: 1949--1954
312(2)
The Bandung Spirit: 1954--1957
314(2)
Resurgent Nationalism and Isolation: 1957--1969
316(4)
Global Power Politics: 1969-Present
320(8)
1969-1989 Triangular Politics Counterbalancing the Sole Superpower: 1989-Present Post-9/11 Developments
Conclusions
328(2)
Suggestions for Further Reading
330(1)
Conclusions
331(10)
Suggestions for Further Reading
340(1)
Useful Websites341(2)
Index343

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