| Description |
xxii, 498 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. The Legacies of Imperial China. The Imperial Chinese System. Imperial Collapse -- Ch. 2. The Republican Era. The Early Republican Era. The Communist Rise to Power -- Ch. 3. The Maoist System: Ideas and Governance. The Features of Mao Zedong Thought. The Governing System -- Ch. 4. The Maoist Era. Wielding Power, 1949-76 -- Ch. 5. The Reform Era. Deng Xiaoping's Reform Impulse. Managing the Politics of Reform. The Content of Reform -- Ch. 6. The Organization of Political Power and Its Consequences: The View from the Outside. Formal Organizational Structure. The Matrix Muddle: Tiao/Kuai Guanxi. Techniques for Making the System Work. Petty Dictatorship and Corruption. State Dominance over Society -- Ch. 7. The Organization of Political Power and Its Consequences: The View from the Inside |
| Summary |
In this highly readable account by a renowned expert on Chinese politics, we enter China's real channels of power, known to all participants but invisible to most observers. In this shadow world behind the formal organizational charts, power runs vertically through gateways, or mouths (kous), that connect Beijing to the smallest local neighborhoods in this far-flung land. The mouths of power are guarded by the most powerful men in the nation. It is a world of organizations but no institutions, of constantly changing rules. With a focus on the period of Communist Party rule since 1949, Lieberthal shows how the ways and forms of power were precipitated out of the rush of historical events in twentieth-century China. He presents compelling accounts of major events from the Long March through the Cultural Revolution, to China's post-Tiananmen economic surge, and incisive analyses of their political meaning. Lieberthal also explores the key issues challenging China now - succession at the top, a destabilizing level of economic growth, a degraded environment, human rights, the impending takeover of Hong Kong, and relations with Taiwan |
| Analysis |
China |
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Politics History, 1949- |
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China |
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History |
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Overseas item |
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Political change |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [463]-482) |
| Notes |
One library copy was donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Penny Miller in memory of Bill Brugger |
| SUBJECT |
China -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024101
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China -- Politics and government -- 1949- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024174
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| LC no. |
94040257 |
| ISBN |
0393037878 |
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039396714X |
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