Timothy Cheek, Tony Saich

New Perspectives on State Socialism in China

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Produktbeschreibung

New perspectives are presented on an essential issue in CCP historiography: Why when things were working reasonably well by 1956 did the Chinese Communist Party alienate its supporters with radical policies? Placing CCP history firmly in the realm of social history and comparative politics, these enlightening critiques study the roots of the policy failures of the late Maoist period and the remarkable tenacity of the CCP. New insights, surfacing from case studies from the 1990s and recently available documents, address the following: Why is state socialism in China neither the wonder that some hope for nor a total failure? Why has the CCP remained China's only party, while the CPSU in the former Soviet Union -- and particularly the Eastern European socialist regimes that were the same age as China's -- collapsed so quickly? Are there any clues to the CCP's current longevity and radical reforms under party leadership to be found in the formative period of this one-party state?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 161mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9780765600417
• ISBN-10: 0765600412
• Artikelnr.: 20964089

Autorenporträt

Timothy Cheek is associate professor of history at Colorado College. Tony Saich is director of the Ford Foundation Office, Beijing and former professor of contemporary Chinese politics at the Sinological Institute, University of Leiden.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Making and Breaking of the Party-State in China Part 1:
Studies Mechanisms of Control 1. The Construction of Spatial Hierarchies:
China's Hukou and Danwei Systems 2. The United Front Redefined for the
Party-State: A Case Study Of Transition and Legitimation 3. The Mechanics
of State Propaganda: The People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union in
the 1950s; 4. Building the Party-State in China, 1949-1965: Bringing the
Soldier Back In Contradictions in Practice 5. The Politics of an Un-Maoist
lnterlude: The Case of Opposing Rash Advance, 1956¿1957; 6. Localism,
Central Policy, and the Provincial Purges of 1957-1958: The Case of
Zhejiang ; 7. Shanghai's Strike Wave of 1957; 8. Surviving the Great Leap
Famine: The Struggle Over Rural Policy, 1958-1962; Conclusion: Uncertain
Legacies of Revolution; Part 11: Sources and Methods; Newly Available
Sources on CCP History from the People's Republic Of China; Interviews on
Party History; Mendacity and Veracity in the Recent Chinese Communist
Memoir Literature; The National Defense University's Teaching Reference
Materials; Researching China's Provinces