• China's Political Elites and Their Challenges-- Political Succession-- The Seventeenth Central Committee-- Institutional Representation-- Factional Balance-- Tibet Issue-- Taiwan Issue-- Sichuan Earthquake-- Beijing Olympic Games-- China's Prospect for Democratization.
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A sequel to the author's trailblazer (China's Elite Politics: Political Transition and Power Balancing, published by World Scientific in 2007), this book tackles the issue of governance in China. It provides up-to-date information on China's political elites and evaluates their ability to deal with crises through four case studies: Snowstorm in the South, the Tibet issue, the Sichuan Earthquake, and the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.Along with China's Elite Politics: Political Transition and Power Balancing, this book provides rich empirical information on and insightful theoretical understanding of national-level politics in China and serves as a good reference source for students of Chinese politics.
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• China's Political Elites and Their Challenges-- Political Succession-- The Seventeenth Central Committee-- Institutional Representation-- Factional Balance-- Tibet Issue-- Taiwan Issue-- Sichuan Earthquake-- Beijing Olympic Games-- China's Prospect for Democratization.
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A sequel to the author's trailblazer (China's Elite Politics: Political Transition and Power Balancing, published by World Scientific in 2007), this book tackles the issue of governance in China. It provides up-to-date information on China's political elites and evaluates their ability to deal with crises through four case studies: Snowstorm in the South, the Tibet issue, the Sichuan Earthquake, and the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.Along with China's Elite Politics: Political Transition and Power Balancing, this book provides rich empirical information on and insightful theoretical understanding of national-level politics in China and serves as a good reference source for students of Chinese politics.
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• List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Toward a Power Balancing Model on Elite Politics in China; WINNER-TAKES-ALL MODEL; BANDWAGON POLITICS MODEL; BALANCE-OF-POWER POLITICS MODEL; POWER BALANCING MODEL; POWER BALANCING MODEL AND ITS COMPETING MODELS; CHAPTER OUTLINE; Part I: Political Transition and Power Balance;
• 1. Power Transfer from Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao at the Sixteenth Party Congress;
• 2. The Sixteenth Central Committee: Technocrats in Command?;
• 3. Balance of Formal Power;
• 4. Balance of Factional Power; Part II: Dynamics of Factional Politics.

China?s Elite Politics provides a new theoretical perspective on elite politics in China and uses this theoretical perspective to explain power transfer from Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao and political dynamics between different factional groups since the Sixteenth Party Congress of November 2002. It explains the transition in structural terms, presents characteristics of China?s political elites, and analyzes the balance of power among formal institutions as well as among factional groups. It also examines political interactions between Jiang Zemin and his cronies on the one side and Hu Jintao and.

• Introduction: Toward a Power Balancing Perspective on Elite Politics in China-- Political Transition and Power Balance: Power Transfer from Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao at the Sixteenth Party Congress-- China's Political Elites in the Twenty-First Century: Technocrats in Command?-- Balance of Formal Power-- Balance of Factional Power-- Dynamics of Factional Politics: Politics of SARS-- Ideological Institutionalization and Politics of Development-- Jiang Zemin's Complete Retirement-- Hu Jintao's Power Consolidation-- Conclusion: Institutionalization and Political Transition.
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"China's Elite Politics" provides a new theoretical perspective on elite politics in China and uses this theoretical perspective to explain power transfer from Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao and political dynamics between different factional groups since the Sixteenth Party Congress of November 2002. It explains the transition in structural terms, presents characteristics of China's political elites, and analyzes the balance of power among formal institutions as well as among factional groups. It also examines political interactions between Jiang Zemin and his cronies on the one side and Hu Jintao and his allies on the other over a number of issues: the epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS); ideological institutionalization; the politics over economic overheating; Jiang Zemin's complete retirement; and Hu Jintao's power consolidation in both ideological and personnel terms.
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The Communist Party of China (CPC) is one of the great political forces of modern times. In charge of the destiny of a fifth of humanity, it survives despite the collapse of similar systems elsewhere. Few, however, understand the sources of this resilience, or, for that matter, what the Party itself stands for. China's Dream is the first book to explore the Communist Party as a cultural, rather than a political, entity. It looks at the narratives the Party has created to recount its own history, with the moral story about national rejuvenation and renaissance that these encode. It does not shy away from the thorny issue of how a Party under Mao Zedong, one associated with self-sacrifice, collectivist effort, and anti-individualism, came to pragmatically embrace market capitalism and a new ethics. The tensions to which this gives rise have resulted in a crisis of values, which is now being addressed - with very mixed results - by the CPC. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of contemporary China, Kerry Brown takes us on a unique and fascinating journey through the least understood aspect of China today - not the great economic revolution in the material world, but the deep cultural revolution already underway in Chinese people's daily lives.
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• Intro; Table of Contents; Dedication; Title page; Copyright page; Chronology; Abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgements; About the Author; Introduction; Notes;
• 1: Redemption from the Dark Past; Reappraisals of History: The Two Iterations; Notes;
• 2: Winning the Historic Mission; Telling the China Story: The Party as Hero; The Return of the Storytellers; Using the Past to Serve the Present; Notes;
• 3: Being a Good Chinese Communist; The Fall of the Party Cadre: The Anti-Corruption Struggle; Moral Reboot: Going for Loyalty; Notes;
• 4: Back to Basics; Remaking People: Maoist Morality and the Great Cultural Revolution;
• 1978: The Moral Impact of the Reform Era; Liu Xiaobo and the Moral Critique of Contemporary China; The Fat Years: China Out of Control; The Party Rescues Itself; Welcome to Deep China; Deep China and the Deep Past; Written on Water: The Sustainability of the CPC's Moral Fightback; Notes;
• 5: The Drama of Ideas; The Ideological Narrative: The Origins of Plenitude in Contradiction; Putting Ideas into Practice: Ideology, Action, and the Maoist System; The Narratives of Chinese Communist Ideology; Notes;
• 6: The Ideological Fightback under Xi; The Great Warning: The Collapse of the Soviet Union; The Resurrection of Party Building, Culture, and Belief: The Years of Xi Jinping; Xi's Keywords; Ideology: Final Words; Notes;
• 7: The Aesthetics of the Party; The Maoist Attitude to Art; Mao's Vision of Art in Practice; Maoist Aesthetics in Action: The Cultural Revolution as Theatre; The Party's Aesthetics after 1978; The 2008 Olympic Carnival; Xi Jinping and the New Yan'an; Xi's Politics: The Party as a Vessel for Emotions; Notes; Conclusion; Notes; Suggested Readings; Index; End User License Agreement.

$a 本书从全球竞争的大视野出发, 立足中国, 以界定"软实力"的内涵为切入点, 展开对"软实力"理论的分析探讨和对中国"软实力"现状的条分缕析, 在此基础上, 提出一系列契合时代发展大势和国情实际的增强中国"软实力"的建设性对策见解.

$a 本书作者鉴于软实力在中国开始逐渐受到重视的背景, 剖析了中国精英阶层对软实力的误解; 通过具体化"国家利益", 探讨中国应有的目标取向. 以及本书在讨论中国与周边国家关系中, 指出中国软实力有赖于中国海外企业的运作.

• 1. Introduction: Democracy in the Chinese Context
• 2. Pre-Tiananmen Intellectual Rethinking of State and Society
• 3. Post-Tiananmen Discussions
• 4. Emerging Civil Society: Associations
• 5. Reorganizing Rural Society: Village Self-Government
• 6. Cultural Distinction and Psychological Independence
• 7. Conclusion: Theory and Reality.
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Is China moving toward a liberal democracy? How does Western engagement with China contribute to this enormous cultural shift? While still one of the most memorable and inflammatory moments in late 20th-century political history, the 1989 protest in Tiananmen Square seems to have accomplished little toward promoting political reform in contemporary China. However, the past decade has witnessed a tremendous shift in the way Chinese society and the Chinese economy are organized, and few would dispute that the country is experiencing a dramatic transition. Yijiang Ding assesses this extraordinary change in terms of changes in the formal conception of "democracy, " and illustrates how this central reconstruction has drastically altered the former unity of state and society under the Leninist model. Drawing on new Chinese scholarship and political theory, Ding presents a sweeping and multidimensional picture of modern China at the political crossroads.
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A study of change in the state-society relationship in contemporary China. Drawing on Chinese scholarship, it shows that the emergent theory on the "dualism" of state and society is contemporaneous with a cognitive and cultural appreciation of the people's independence from state authority.
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• Chapter 1
• 1: Introduction: A Theory of Political Legitimacy
• Chapter 2
• 2: A New Governing Philosophy
• Chapter 3
• 3: The Emergence of New Political Elites
• Chapter 4
• 4: Towards a Deliberative State
• Chapter 5
• 5: Seeking Legitimacy through Community Governance
• Chapter 6
• 6: The Environmental "New Deal"
• Chapter 7
• 7: Changing the Balance of Power in Labor Relations
• Chapter 8
• 8: The New Equity-Oriented Health Care Reform
• Chapter 9
• 9: Conclusions: Political Legitimacy and the New Chinese Polity.
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This book is a study of China's quest for political legitimacy within the context of traditional Chinese political culture. Through examinations of the new governing philosophy, the new generation of political elite, and a number of public policies, the books reveals some surprising new trends in Chinese political development, such as the endorsement of deliberative democracy, new waves of citizen activism, and a new era of social legislation.
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• Village politics and social organization
• The dynamics of village/township relations
• Political competition in two townships : elections, violence and rural social networks
• The power center of the local state : the county and prefecture governments
• Political competition over state-funded programs
• Political competition over local resources.

Power and Patronage examines the unwritten rules and inner workings of contemporary China's local politics and government. It exposes how these rules have helped to keep the one-Party state together during decades of tumultuous political, social, and economic change.While many observers of Chinese politics have recognized the importance of informal institutions, this book explains how informal local groups actually operate, paying special attention to the role of patronage networks in political decision-making, political competition, and official corruption. While patronage networks are often seen as a parasite on the formal institutions of state, Hillman shows that patronage politics actually help China's political system function. In a system characterized by fragmented authority, personal power relations, and bureaucratic indiscipline, patronage networks play a critical role in facilitating policy coordination and bureaucratic bargaining. They also help to regulate political competition within the state, which reduces the potential for open conflict. Understanding patronage networks is essential for understanding the resilience of the Chinese state through decades of change.Power and Patronage is filled with rich and fascinating accounts of the machinations of patronage networks and their role in the ruthless and sometimes violent competition for political power.
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• Village politics and social organization
• The dynamics of village/township relations
• Political competition in two townships : elections, violence and rural social networks
• The power center of the local state : the county and prefecture governments
• Political competition over state-funded programs
• Political competition over local resources.

Power and Patronage examines the unwritten rules and inner workings of contemporary China's local politics and government. It exposes how these rules have helped to keep the one-Party state together during decades of tumultuous political, social, and economic change. While many observers of Chinese politics have recognized the importance of informal institutions, this book explains how informal local groups actually operate, paying special attention to the role of patronage networks in political decision-making, political competition, and official corruption. While patronage.

• Village politics and social organization
• The dynamics of village/township relations
• Political competition in two townships : elections, violence and rural social networks
• The power center of the local state : the county and prefecture governments
• Political competition over state-funded programs
• Political competition over local resources.

Power and Patronage examines the unwritten rules and inner workings of contemporary China's local politics and government. It exposes how these rules have helped to keep the one-Party state together during decades of tumultuous political, social, and economic change. While many observers of Chinese politics have recognized the importance of informal institutions, this book explains how informal local groups actually operate, paying special attention to the role of patronage networks in political decision-making, political competition, and official corruption. While patronage.