The Nature of Chinese Politics: From Mao to Jiang: From Mao to Jiang

by Jonathan Unger

Overview

This book describes and analyzes how politics among the Chinese leadership has operated and evolved from the period of Mao's court up to the present day. Part I explores politics under Mao and Deng. For this section the five leading western analysts of elite Chinese politics -- Lowell Dittmer, Lucian Pye, Frederick Teiwes, Andrew Nathan, and Tsou Tang -- have contributed major papers that measure the empirical evidence against political science theory, recent Chinese history, and Chinese political culture. Part II explores and analyzes the ongoing changes in Chinese politics during Jiang's tenure, and includes analyzes by almost all the leading English-language scholars in the field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781315291116
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/16/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	350
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Jonathan Unger

Table of Contents

I: The Nature of Politics Under Mao and Deng; 1: Modernizing Chinese Informal Politics *; 2: Factions and the Politics of Guanxi: Paradoxes in Chinese Administrative and Political Behaviour; 3: The Paradoxical Post-Mao Transition: From Obeying the Leader to “Normal Politics” *; 4: Chinese Politics at the Top: Factionalism or Informal Politics? Balance-of-Power Politics or a Game to Win All? *; 5: Factionalism in Chinese Politics from a New Institutionalist Perspective *; 6: Reflections on Elite Informal Politics; II: The Nature of Politics Under Jiang; 7: China's Political System: Challenges of the Twenty-First Century; 8: Jiang Zemin's Style of Rule: Go for Stability, Monopolize Power and Settle for Limited Effectiveness; 9: The Changing Form and Dynamics of Power Politics; 10: Normal Politics with Chinese Characteristics *; 11: The Evolving Shape of Elite Politics *; 12: The Supreme Leader and the Military; 13: The Delayed Institutionalization of Leadership Politics