Reform And Reaction In Post Mao China

Author : Richard Baum
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429802706
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reform and Reaction in Post-Mao China written by Richard Baum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decade of the 1980s began in China with great expectations of the societal benefits of modernisation, and ended with gunfire in Tiananmen Square. This book, first published in 1991, presents essays that explore the political and economic reform policies that emerged in post-Mao China under Deng Xiaoping. In general, they conclude that the advent of partial marketization and structural reform tended to magnify structural contradictions rather than solve them.

Author : Harry Harding
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815707288
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China's Second Revolution written by Harry Harding and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has, since 1976, been enmeshed in an extraordinary program of renewal and reform. The obvious changes—the T-shirts, blue jeans, makeup and jewelry worn by Chinese youth; the disco music blaring from radios and loudspeakers on Chinese streets; the television antennas mushrooming from both urban apartment complexes and suburban peasant housing; the bustling free markets selling meat, vegetables and clothing in China's major cities—reflect a fundamental shift in the government's policy toward the economy and political life. Although doubts about the long-term commitment to reform arose after the student protests in December 1986 and the dismissal of Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang in January 1987, the scope of reform has been so broad and the pace of change so rapid, that the post-Mao era fully warrants Den Xiaoping's description of it as the "second revolution" undertaken by the Chinese Communist Party.

Author : Barrett L. McCormick
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520310063
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Reform in Post-Mao China written by Barrett L. McCormick and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the death of Mao, the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party embarked on a series of ambitious political reforms. Barrett L. McCormick develops a theory of Leninist states to explore the prospects for these reforms. He finds that, although the Chinese people have made significant economic and political gains, the basic contours of the state remain unchanged, and as events in June 1989 clearly showed, reform has not diminished the state’s ability to impose its prerogatives on society. Drawing on Weber’s political sociology, McCormick argues that patronage and corruption are integral aspects of Leninist rulership. Reformers have attempted to promote democracy and law and to fight corruption, but when they attempt to implement their programs through traditional hierarchical Leninist institutions, lower-level cadres have been able to utilize patronage networks to blunt the impact of reform and protect their personal agendas. In his case studies of the legal system, the people’s congress, and party rectification, McCormick points up these obstacles to progressive change and assesses the extent to which reformers’ goals have been realized. He shows that, despite the often radical nature of the reform movements, the principal dimensions of the Leninist system—one party rule, state domination of the economy, a confining ideology—remain largely intact. These findings will be of interest to China specialists as well as students of comparative communism and Leninist states. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

Author : Roderick MACFARQUHAR
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674040414
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mao's Last Revolution written by Roderick MACFARQUHAR and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and shows his Machiavellian role in masterminding it. This book documents the Hobbesian state that ensued. Power struggles raged among Lin Biao, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Qing - Mao's wife and leader of the Gang of Four - while Mao often played one against the other.

Author : Tang Tsou
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Revolution and Post-Mao Reforms written by Tang Tsou and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M.Y.M. Kau
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315287471
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China in the Era of Deng Xiaoping: A Decade of Reform written by M.Y.M. Kau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reference on the ten years (1978 to 1987) of Deng Xiaoping's power in China. It also offers the views of Sinologists of the time. The concluding section examines policy implications arising from Deng's rule for the four great East Asian powers.

Author : Maurice Meisner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684856352
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mao's China and After written by Maurice Meisner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a revised account of the revolution of 1966-1969 - Examines the social and political consequences of the upheaval - Deng Xiaoping - Democracy movement - Tienamnen Incident - Mao Zedong - The hundred flowers - Great Leap Forward.

Author : Alan Lawrance
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415251419
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China Since 1919 written by Alan Lawrance and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sourcebook that tells the momentous history of China since 1919, mainly from the viewpoints of participants, including extracts from telegrams, speeches, memoirs, political statements and letters and poems.

Author : Shirin Rai
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780745009032
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resistance and Reaction written by Shirin Rai and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the reform policies in the sphere of higher education in post-Mao China, this work examines the conditions in Chinese universities, focusing on the nature of the educational reforms and their impact on the lives within the universities.

Author : Ross Garnaut
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 176046225X
Total Pages : 709 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China’s 40 Years of Reform and Development: 1978–2018 written by Ross Garnaut and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 2018 marks 40 years of reform and development in China (1978–2018). This commemorative book assembles some of the world’s most prominent scholars on the Chinese economy to reflect on what has been achieved as a result of the economic reform programs, and to draw out the key lessons that have been learned by the model of growth and development in China over the preceding four decades. This book explores what has happened in the transformation of the Chinese economy in the past 40 years for China itself, as well as for the rest of the world, and discusses the implications of what will happen next in the context of China’s new reform agenda. Focusing on the long-term development strategy amid various old and new challenges that face the economy, this book sets the scene for what the world can expect in China’s fifth decade of reform and development. A key feature of this book is its comprehensive coverage of the key issues involved in China’s economic reform and development. Included are discussions of China’s 40 years of reform and development in a global perspective; the political economy of economic transformation; the progress of marketisation and changes in market-compatible institutions; the reform program for state-owned enterprises; the financial sector and fiscal system reform, and its foreign exchange system reform; the progress and challenges in economic rebalancing; and the continuing process of China’s global integration. This book further documents and analyses the development experiences including China’s large scale of migration and urbanisation, the demographic structural changes, the private sector development, income distribution, land reform and regional development, agricultural development, and energy and climate change policies.