Foundations and Limiits of State Power in China

The item may have been opened and read, but it has no defects. Foundations and Limits of State Power in China primarily refers to a significant 1987 academic book edited by Stuart R. Schram, exploring China's state power through historical (imperial, legalist, Confucian) and contemporary (CCP, Maoist, reform-era) lenses, revealing continuities like the unitary state and traditional bureaucratic structures but also modern shifts towards mass mobilization, ideology, and the evolving CCP role, highlighting tensions between centralized authority and societal demands. Copyright © Chinese University of Hong Kong Press.