Governing China : from revolution through reform / Kenneth Lieberthal.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-482) and index.

Tables, Charts, and Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations Used in the Text -- Pinyin Pronunciation Table -- Ch. 1. The Legacies of Imperial China -- The Imperial Chinese System -- Imperial Collapse -- Ch. 2. The Republican Era -- The Early Republican Era -- The Communist Rise to Power -- Ch. 3. The Maoist System: Ideas and Governance -- The Features of Mao Zedong Thought -- The Governing System -- Ch. 4. The Maoist Era -- Wielding Power, 1949-76 -- Ch. 5. The Reform Era -- Deng Xiaoping's Reform Impulse -- Managing the Politics of Reform -- The Content of Reform -- Ch. 6. The Organization of Political Power and Its Consequences: The View from the Outside -- Formal Organizational Structure -- The Matrix Muddle: Tiao/Kuai Guanxi -- Techniques for Making the System Work -- Petty Dictatorship and Corruption -- State Dominance over Society -- Ch. 7. The Organization of Political Power and Its Consequences: The View from the Inside -- The Top Twenty-five to Thirty-five -- Configurations of Political Power -- Party Control of the Government -- Cadre Strategies -- Ch. 8. The Succession Issue -- Succession at the Top -- Systemic Succession -- Ch. 9. Economic Development -- Incentives for High Growth -- Reform Trends -- Economic Issues of the 1990s -- Ch. 10. The Environment -- Environmental Problems Originating before 1978 -- Post-1978 Reforms and the Environment -- The Political Economy of Environmental Management -- Prognoses -- Ch. 11. The State and Society -- The Maoist State and Chinese Society -- State/Society Relations under Deng's Reforms -- Conclusion -- Ch. 12. China Faces the Future -- Understanding Domestic Developments -- China and the World -- Conclusion -- Glossary of Selected Individuals Cited in the Text -- App. 1. Constitution of the People's Republic of China (1 December 1982) -- App. 2. Constitution of the Communist Party of China (18 October 1992) -- App. 3. On the Ten Major Relationships (25 April 1956) -- App. 4. Decision of the CCP Central Committee on Some Issues Concerning the Establishment of a Socialist Market Economic Structure (14 November 1993) -- Notes -- Bibliography of Sources Cited in the Text -- Index.

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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