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• 1. Introduction
• 2. The organizational landscape
• 3. Managing the managers
• 4. Fusing party and market
• 5. The entrepreneurial party school
• 6. Adaptation measured
• 7. Conclusion: risks and limits to party reforms
• Appendices: A. Number of party schools, by locale and national share of leading cadres
• B. Note on sources and research methods
• C. Central Party School organization
• D. City Z training allocations, 2008
• E. Descriptive statistics and robustness tests of PSM presented in Chapter 3
• F. Central Party School Mid-Career Cadre Training Classes descriptive data
• G. International partnerships, central and provincial-level party schools
• H. Categories for coding training syllabi.
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Charlotte P. Lee considers organizational changes taking place within the contemporary Chinese Communist Party (CCP), examining the party's renewed emphasis on an understudied but core set of organizations: party-managed training academies or 'party schools'. This national network of organizations enables party authorities to exert political control over the knowledge, skills, and careers of officials. Drawing on in-depth field research and novel datasets, Lee finds that the party school system has not been immune to broader market-based reforms but instead has incorporated many of the same strategies as actors in China's hybrid, state-led private sector. In the search for revenue and status, schools have updated training content and become more entrepreneurial as they compete and collaborate with domestic and international actors. This book draws attention to surprising dynamism located within the party, in political organizations thought immune to change, and the transformative effect of the market on China's political system.
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This collection contains correspondence, ephemera, newspaper clippings, manuscript drafts and chapter outlines relating to James Lilley’s book China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage, and Diplomacy in Asia. The rest of the collection consists of articles written by James Lilley, United States Department of State Diplomatic Cables, interviews of Lilley, business and personal correspondence (of note are personal letters to, from, and about George Herbert Walker Bush from 1976, 1980, 1993, and 1999), copies of speeches, photographs, newspaper clippings on a variety of subjects, 16 books (including Lilley’s) relating to China’s military and to North Korea, audio visual materials which include VHS tapes of several television interviews of James Lilley, two personal diaries, and photocopies of official United States documents.

本书从城乡差别的历史演进出发, 以社会分层与政治关系, 社会结构与权力体系, 社会佚序与政治控制, 社会意识与政治文化和社会矛盾与政治活动为主要内容, 对古代, 近代和当代中国城市与乡村政治社会的状况, 特点, 变迁及历史影响进行了系统的比较分析.该书不仅将理论视野投向过去很少论及的国家之下的基层政治社会, 开拓了透视中国政治问题的新领域, 而且注意运用政治社会学和历史比较分析等新方法, 为深化中国政治研究作出了富有创见的探索. 本书从城乡差别的历史演进出发, 以社会分层与政治关系, 社会结构与权力体系, 社会佚序与政治控制, 社会意识与政治文化和社会矛盾与政治活动为主要内容, 对古代, 近代和当代中国城市与乡村政治社会的状况, 特点, 变迁及历史影响进行了系统的比较分析.该书不仅将理论视野投向过去很少论及的国家之下的基层政治社会, 开拓了透视中国政治问题的新领域, 而且注意运用政治社会学和历史比较分析等新方法, 为深化中国政治研究作出了富有创见的探索.

• Introduction 1 'It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white as long as it catches the mouse': the role of ideology in Communist China 2 The road to revival 3 People and place in the civilisation State 4 Harmony and the self: rights and responsibilities 5 To get rich is glorious Conclusion
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China's rise from the poverty, isolation and stagnation of the 1970s to the world's second largest economy is a transformative event perhaps unequalled in human history. The world today pays more attention to China, looks to it with more admiration than perhaps any other time. Yet, this rise also hides many deep-rooted problems and competing ideologies. Economically, socially and politically China has transformed itself but there is much that remains uncertain. This book aims to give an insight into China by exploring everyday life for her citizens, in their own voices. Providing both an overview of the political situation and context in China with ethnographic insights, The Politics of Everyday China aims to give both the new student of China and those who have encountered the subject before an insight that goes beyond the usual cliche and surface description. -- .
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• List of tables List of figures List of acronyms and abbreviations Preface
• Chapter 1 Analyzing Chinese politics
• Chapter 2 The Chinese Communist Party and state institutions
• Chapter 3 Political Leadership
• Chapter 4 Governing China's economy
• Chapter 5 Governing China's society
• Chapter 6 Policy making: Processes and outcomes
• Chapter 7 Perspectives on China's political development Glossary References and sources Index Contributors.
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The Chinese government is one of the most important actors in international affairs today. To thoroughly understand how the People's Republic of China has grown in power requires a careful analysis of its political system. To what extent can China's economic achievements be attributed to the country's political system and its policies? What are the effects of economic modernization and global economic integration on the Chinese polity? Is the Chinese political system capable of adapting to changing economic, technological, social, and international conditions? Exploring these central questions, this definitive book provides readers with a comprehensive assessment of the preconditions, prospects, and risks associated with China's political development.
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• Acknowledgements
• INTRODUCTION
• 1 Studying Chinese Politics (William A. Joseph)
• PART I: POLITICAL HISTORY
• 2 From Empire to People's Republic (R. Keith Schoppa)
• 3 Mao Zedong in Power (1949 - 1976) (Frederick C. Teiwes)
• 4 Deng Xiaoping and His Successors (1976 - the present) (Bruce Gilley)
• PART II: IDEOLOGY, GOVERNANCE, AND POLITICAL ECONOMY
• 5 Ideology and Chinese Politics (William A. Joseph)
• 6 China's Communist Party-State: The Structure of Power (Cheng Li)
• 7 China's Political Economy (David Zweig)
• PART III: POLITICS AND POLICY IN ACTION
• 8 Rural China: Reform and Resistance (John James Kennedy)
• 9 Urban China: Change and Contention (William Hurst)
• 10 Policy Case Studies:
• a. The Arts (Richard C. Kraus)
• b. The Environment (Katherine Morton)
• c. Public Health (Joan Kaufman)
• d. Population (Tyrene White)
• PART IV: POLITICS ON CHINA'S PERIPHERY
• 11 Politics on China's Periphery:
• a. Tibet (Robert Barnett)
• b. Hong Kong (Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo)
• c. Taiwan (Shelley Rigger)
• d. Xinjiang (Gardner Bovingdon)
• Timeline of Modern Chinese Political History
• Glossary
• About the Contributors
• Index.
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On October 1, 2009, the People's Republic of China (PRC) celebrated the 60th anniversary of its founding. And what an eventful and tumultuous six decades it had been. During that time, under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), China was transformed from one of the world's poorest countries into the world's fastest growing major economy, and from a weak state barely able to govern or protect its own territory to a rising power that is challenging the United States for global influence. Over those same years, the PRC also experienced the most deadly famine in human history, caused largely by the actions and inactions of its political leaders. Not long after, there was a collapse of government authority that pushed the country to the brink of (and in some places actually into) civil war and anarchy. Today, China is, for the most part, peaceful, prospering, and proud. This is the China that was on display for the world to see during the Beijing Olympics in 2008. The CCP maintains a firm grip on power through a combination of popular support largely based on its recent record of promoting rapid economic growth and harsh repression of political opposition. Yet, the party and country face serious challenges on many fronts, including a slowing economy, environmental desecration, pervasive corruption, extreme inequalities, and a rising tide of social protest. Politics in China is an authoritative introduction to how the world's most populous nation and rapidly rising global power is governed today. Written by leading China scholars, the book's chapters offers accessible overviews of major periods in China's modern political history from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, key topics in contemporary Chinese politics, and developments in four important areas located on China's geographic periphery: Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
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近代以来, 中国社会大转型的逻辑起点是"传统中国". "传统中国"是由"小农经济", "帝国政治", "儒家文化"与"士绅社会"形成的四位一体互为强化 的有机整体. 本书首先从"小农中国", "帝制中国", "儒教中国"与"士人中国"四个层面, 深度剖析了传统中国的构造机理及其运转机制; 然后, 以泼墨山水的手法, 勾勒了中国社会政治转型与重铸的大脉络, 包括: "从天下国家到民族国家", "从差序格局到平权格局", "从为民做主到人民民主", "从权力政治到政治文明", "从官本到人本的文化建设"等. 近代以来, 中国社会大转型的逻辑起点是"传统中国". "传统中国"是由"小农经济", "帝国政治", "儒家文化"与"士绅社会"形成的四位一体互为强化 的有机整体. 本书首先从"小农中国", "帝制中国", "儒教中国"与"士人中国"四个层面, 深度剖析了传统中国的构造机理及其运转机制; 然后, 以泼墨山水的手法, 勾勒了中国社会政治转型与重铸的大脉络, 包括: "从天下国家到民族国家", "从差序格局到平权格局", "从为民做主到人民民主", "从权力政治到政治文明", "从官本到人本的文化建设"等.