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Governing China

from revolution through reform

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An edition of Governing China (1995)

Governing China

from revolution through reform

1st ed.
  • 8 Want to read

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.

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W.W. Norton
Language
English
Pages
498

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Governing China: From Revolution Through Reform
January 1996, R.S. Means Company
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Governing China
1995, Norton
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Cover of: Governing China
Governing China: from revolution through reform
1995, W.W. Norton
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [463]-482) and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
951.05
Library of Congress
DS777.75 .L557 1995, DS777.75.L557 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxii, 498 p. :
Number of pages
498

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1114306M
Internet Archive
governingchinafr0000lieb
ISBN 10
039396714X, 0393037878
LCCN
94040257
OCLC/WorldCat
31328285
Library Thing
247786

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The post-1949 Chinese communist state under Mao Zedong conveyed the impression that it could transform China's society almost at will.
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