Politics in China : An Introduction
ISBN: 9780195335316 | 0195335317
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 4/23/2010
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Sixty years ago, China was one of the poorest countries in the world, populated mostly by rural peasants, and still suffering from more than a century of internal turmoil and international humiliation. Today, China is a rapidly modernizing economic dynamo with growing global influence. Politics in China is an authoritative introduction to how this transformation occurred, and how China is governed today. Written by an international team of highly-regarded China scholars, each chapter offers an accessible overview of a key topic in Chinese polit... MORE
| List of Illustrations | p. ix |
| Abbreviations | p. xiii |
| Contributors | p. xv |
| Studying Chinese Politics | p. 3 |
| The Political History of Modern China | |
| From Empire to People's Republic | p. 37 |
| Mao Zedong in Power (1949-1976) | p. 63 |
| Deng Xiaoping and His Successors (1976 to the present) | p. 103 |
| Ideology, Governance, and Political Economy | ... MORE |
| Ideology and Chinese Politics | p. 129 |
| China's Communist Party-State: The Structure and Dynamics of Power | p. 165 |
| China's Political Economy | p. 192 |
| Politics and Policy in Action | |
| Rural China: Reform and Resistance | p. 225 |
| Urban China: Change and Contention | p. 250 |
| Policy Case Study: The Arts | p. 269 |
| Policy Case Study: The Environment | p. 278 |
| Policy Case Study: Public Health | p. 288 |
| Policy Case Study: Population | p. 298 |
| Politics on China's Periphery | |
| Tibet | p. 315 |
| Xinjiang | p. 336 |
| Hong Kong | p. 355 |
| Taiwan | p. 367 |
| Timeline of Modern Chinese Political History | p. 383 |
| Glossary | p. 389 |
| Index | p. 425 |
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William A. Joseph is Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College and an Associate in Research of the John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.
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