Holding China Together (eBook, PDF)

Diversity and National Integration in the Post-Deng Era
Redaktion: Naughton, Barry J.

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Produktbeschreibung

Despite many predictions of collapse and disintegration, China has managed to sustain unity and gain international stature since the Tiananmen crisis of 1989. Originally published in 2004, this volume addresses the 'fragmentation/disintegration thesis' and examines the sources and dynamics of China's resilience. Through theoretically informed empirical studies, the volume's authors look at key institutions for political integration and economic governance. They also dissect how difficult policies to regulate economic and social life (employment and migration, population planning, industrial adjustment, and regional disparities) are designed and implemented. The authors show that China's leaders have retained authoritarian political institutions, but have also reinforced and modified them, constructing fresh ones in the light of changing circumstances. Institutional and policy adaptations together have helped shore up political authority and create an environment for rapid growth, while accommodating growing diversity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511208355
• Artikelnr.: 38189503

Autorenporträt

Barry Naughton is an economist who specializes in China''s transitional economy. He has written on economic policy-making in China, and issues relating to industry, foreign trade, macroeconomics and regional development in China. Naughton teaches at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies of the University of California at San Diego. In 1998, he was named the first So Kuanlok Professor of Chinese and International Affairs. His study of Chinese economic reform, Growing Out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform, 1978-1993 (Cambridge University Press, 1995) won the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize. His research on economic interactions among China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, focusing on the elections industry, led to the edited volume The China Circle: Economics and Technology in the PRC, Taiwan and Hong Kong (1997).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures and tables; List of contributors; Holding China together:
introduction Barry J. Naughton and Dali L. Yang; Part I. The Institutions
for Political and Economic Control: Adaptation of a Hierarchical System: 1.
Political localism versus institutional restraints: elite recruitment in
the Jiang era Cheng Li; 2. The institutionalization of elite management in
China Zhiyue Bo; 3. The cadre evaluation system at the grass roots: the
paradox of party rule Susan Whiting; 4. Economic transformation and state
rebuilding in China Dali L. Yang; Part II. Case Studies of Policy
Implementation: 5. Policy consistency in the midst of the Asian crisis:
managing the furloughed and the farmers in three cities Dorothy J.
Solinger; 6. Population control and state coercion in China Yanzhong Huang
and Dali L. Yang; 7. The political economy of industrial restructuring in
China's coal industry, 1992-9 Fubing Su; 8. The western development program
Barry J. Naughton; Index.