Foundations and Limits of State Power in China

edited by S.R. Schram

ISBN 10: 0728601397 / ISBN 13: 9780728601390

Published by London : Published on behalf of the European Science Foundation by School of Oriental and African Studies, 1987

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xxvii, 367 pages : map ; 24 cm Contents: The primacy of the political order in East Asian societies: Some preliminary generalizations / Benjamin I. Schwartz -- Law as one of the foundations of state power in early imperial China / Anthony Hulsewé -- Imperial sovereignty: Dong Zhongshu's contribution and his predecessors / Michael Loewe -- Views of the state in Du You and Liu Zongyuan / David McMullen -- The role of the state as a structural element in polyethnic societies / Herbert Franke -- The rebirth of Chinese rule in times of trouble: North China in the early thirteenth century / Françoise Aubin. (cont.) Official conceptions of imperial authority at the end of the Qing Dynasty / Marianne Bastid -- The foundations and limits of state power in Guomindang ideology; Government, party, and people / Tatsuo Yamada -- Party leader or true ruler? Foundations and significance of Mao Zedong's personal power / Stuart R. Schram -- Marxism, the Leninist Party, the masses, and the citizens in the rebuilding of the Chinese state / Tang Tsou -- Democracy, interest, and virtue: The search for legitimacy in the People's Republic of China / David S.G. Goodman -- Concluding remarks on two aspects of the Chinese unitary state as compared with the European state system / Karl Bünger.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Foundations and Limits of State Power in China
• Publisher: London : Published on behalf of the European Science Foundation by School of Oriental and African Studies
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0728601397
• ISBN 13: 9780728601390
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • SOAS Publications
  • China