This book describes and analyzes how politics among the Chinese
leadership has operated and evolved from the period of Mao's
court up to the present day. Part I explores politics under Mao and
Deng. For this section the five leading western analysts of elite
Chinese politics - Lowell Dittmer, Lucian Pye, Frederick Teiwes,
Andrew Nathan, and Tsou Tang - have contributed major papers that
measure the empirical evidence against political science theory,
recent Chinese history, and Chinese political culture. Part II
explores and analyzes the ongoing changes in Chinese politics
during Jiang's tenure, and includes analyzes by almost all the
leading English-language scholars in the field.
