Contemporary Chinese Politics: An Introduction - Softcover

James C.F. Wang

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9780130591982: Contemporary Chinese Politics: An Introduction

Softcover

ISBN 10: 013059198X ISBN 13: 9780130591982

Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div, 1994

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This text provides facts and information - interspersed with analysis - in its examination of contemporary China and its political and economic developments.

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Comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date, this text provides facts and information--interspersed with analysis--in its examination of contemporary China and its political and economic developments.

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This comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date book provides information and analysis for a complete examination of contemporary China and its political and economic developments.Chapter topics include the origin and rise of the Chinese communist movement: from military communism to Deng's reforms; the erosion of Chinese communist ideology: Marxism-Leninism, Mao's thought, Dengism, and the thinking of Jiang Zemin; political institutions of the party-state: structural issues and the policy process; Elites and the Cadre System: leadership style, factionalism, succession, and recruitment; reform for a creditable Socialist legal system; provincial and local politics: centralism versus regionalism, national minorities, and the case of Tibet; Greater China: reversion of Hong Kong and Macao, and the Pearl River delta regional development, and the Taiwan Question; The military's role in Chinese politics; democracy, dissent, and the Tiananmen mass movement; the politics of modernization: rural and urban economic reforms; and the politics of modernization: education, science and technology, the open door policy, and the intellectuals.For individuals interested in Chinese politics.

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