Politics In China Since 1949

Author : Robert Weatherley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134166567
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics in China since 1949 written by Robert Weatherley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the victory of the 1949 revolution the incumbency of the Chinese Communist Party has been characterized by an almost relentless struggle to legitimize its monopoly on political power. During the Mao era, attempts to derive legitimacy focused primarily on mass participation in political affairs, a blend of Marxist and nationalist ideology, and the charismatic authority of Mao Zedong. The dramatic failure of the Cultural Revolution forced the post-Mao leadership to discard these discredited paradigms of legitimacy and move towards an almost exclusively performance based concept founded on market economic reform. The reforms during the 1980s generated a number of unwelcome but inevitable side effects such as official corruption, high unemployment and significant socio-economic inequality. These factors culminated ultimately in the 1989 demonstrations in Tiananmen Square and throughout China. Since Tiananmen the party has sought to diversify the basis of its legitimacy by adhering more closely to constitutional procedures in decision making and, to a certain extent, by reinventing itself as a conservative nationalist party. This probing study of post-communist revolution Chinese politics sets out to discover if there is a plausible alternative to the electoral mode or if legitimacy is the exclusive domain of the multi-party system.

Author : Linda Benson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317243099
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China Since 1949 written by Linda Benson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the remarkable story of China’s rise to global prominence, China since 1949 provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of the events that have shaped the country since the middle of the twentieth century. Covering the Maoist era through the Reform period to the present day, this book addresses subjects such as China’s position as a world economic power, the Chinese Communist Party’s treatment of ethnic minorities, women’s experiences under the Communist regime, and China’s human rights record. Fully updated throughout, the third edition includes: a new chapter focusing on China since 2010 discussion of current issues such as China’s territorial disputes, computer hacking and cyber-espionage, corruption, leadership changes, and the slowing of China’s economic growth extensively revised chapters on China and the World and on Government, Politics and the Economy An updated selection of primary source documents. Also containing a chronology of events from 1949 to 2015, a Who’s Who of key figures, a glossary and a guide to further reading, China Since 1949 is an accessible and engaging introduction to China’s recent past and essential reading for students of modern Chinese history.

Author : Robert Weatherley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134166575
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics in China Since 1949 written by Robert Weatherley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the victory of the 1949 revolution the incumbency of the Chinese Communist Party has been characterized by an almost relentless struggle to legitimize its monopoly on political power. During the Mao era, attempts to derive legitimacy focused primarily on mass participation in political affairs, a blend of Marxist and nationalist ideology, and the charismatic authority of Mao Zedong. The dramatic failure of the Cultural Revolution forced the post-Mao leadership to discard these discredited paradigms of legitimacy and move towards an almost exclusively performance based concept founded on market economic reform. The reforms during the 1980s generated a number of unwelcome but inevitable side effects such as official corruption, high unemployment and significant socio-economic inequality. These factors culminated ultimately in the 1989 demonstrations in Tiananmen Square and throughout China. Since Tiananmen the party has sought to diversify the basis of its legitimacy by adhering more closely to constitutional procedures in decision making and, to a certain extent, by reinventing itself as a conservative nationalist party. This probing study of post-communist revolution Chinese politics sets out to discover if there is a plausible alternative to the electoral mode or if legitimacy is the exclusive domain of the multi-party system.

Author : Robert A. Garson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The United States and China Since 1949 written by Robert A. Garson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative study presents a chronological history of Sino-American relations since 1949, including not only foreign policy analysis but also domestic developments in both nations.

Author : Roderick MacFarquhar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521588638
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of China written by Roderick MacFarquhar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-13 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays that make up this volume offer the reader a full introduction to, and analysis of, the politics of the People's Republic of China from 1949 to the mid 1990s

Author : Carl Riskin
Publisher : Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198770893
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China's Political Economy written by Carl Riskin and published by Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive, interpretive economic history presents the dramatic recent changes in China's approach to economic organization and development in an historical context.

Author : Rosemary Foot
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019152090X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Practice of Power written by Rosemary Foot and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-09-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This absorbing study examines the change in American relations with China after 1949 from hostility to rapproachement, and to full normalization of the ties in 1979. Rosemary Foot goes on to examine the relationship after normalization, a period when the United States has come to view China as less of a challenge but still resistant to certain of the norms of the current international order. The book begins by examining US efforts to build, and then maintain an international and domestic consensus behind its China policy. It then looks at changing US perceptions of the capabilities of the Chinese state. It shows how American positions on Chinese representation at the UN and on the trade embargo were subtly eroded, not least by changes in US domestic public opinion. The author argues that previous explantions of American relations with China have dwelt too single-mindedly on ideas associated with the strategic triangle and that instead we need to embed our understanding of the evolution of American relations with China within a wider structure of relationships at the global and domestic level. Reviews: `A valuable interpretative analysis of US-People's Republic of China relationships...she substantially contributes to post-Soviet era theoretical understanding. Strongly recommended for courses in foreign policy, diplomatic history, and international relations.' Choice `contains much that is valuable to those whose interests are primarily on the other side of the Pacific...The chapter on American public opinion and Chinese policy is also something which is not readily found in existing accounts of China'a post-1949 foreign relations' Times Higher Education Supplement `her analysis remains cautious and astute' The Economist

Author : Gilles Guiheux
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509552510
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary China written by Gilles Guiheux and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-05-18 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a population of nearly 1.5 billion and the world’s second largest economy, China is a major player in the world today, and yet many in the West know very little about contemporary China. This book provides a clear, authoritative and up-to-date history of China since 1949, drawing on extensive research to describe and explain the key developments and to dispel the many myths and misconceptions surrounding this twenty-first-century superpower. In contrast to many commentators who overstate the novelty of the Communist regime, Guiheux emphasizes instead its complex political heritage, highlighting the many continuities it shares with the reformers and revolutionaries of the early twentieth century. At the same time, the ability of China’s authoritarian regime to transform the economy and society is key to understanding its breakneck trajectory of modernization – an ability that, as Guiheux explains, far outweighed the importance and effectiveness of Mao’s utopian vision. Guiheux also aims to ‘de-exoticize’ China. While not on the path of a Western-style modernity, China has experienced the same phenomena that have characterized every historical process of modernization: industrialization, urbanization, bureaucratization and globalization. This expertly researched history of the People’s Republic of China will be essential reading for all students and scholars of Chinese history and politics, and for anyone interested in contemporary China.

Author : Carl Riskin
Publisher : Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China's Political Economy written by Carl Riskin and published by Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive, interpretive, economic history of China since 1949. It presents the recent dramatic changes in China's approach to economic organization and development in a historical context. Riskin attempts to make sense of the emergence of the Maoist assault on Soviet-type central planning, its accomplishments, failures, and ultimate defeat; as well as to examine in some detail the new policies that have come about in reaction to that story and to expose their inner contradictions and uncertainties.

Author : Shiping Zheng
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521588195
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Party Vs. State in Post-1949 China written by Shiping Zheng and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-07-13 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the most comprehensive analysis of one of the most important issues in China today: the tensions between the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese state legislative, judicial, administrative, and military institutions. Taking the 'neo-institutionalist' approach, the author suggests that the Communist Party in post-1949 China faces an institutional dilemma: the Party cannot live with the state, and it cannot live without the state. Zheng demonstrates that it is not only conceptually constructive, but analytically imperative to distinguish the state from the Communist Party. Secondly, he integrates detailed study with broader generalizations about Chinese politics, thus making efforts to overcome the tendency toward specialized scholarship at the expense of comparative and systemic understanding of China. He also opens a new dimension of Chinese politics - the uncertain and conflictual relationship between the Communist Party and the Chinese state.