New Perspectives on State Socialism in China

1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-7656-0041-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 422 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 762 g

Placing Chinese Community Party history in the realm of social history and comparative politics, this text studies the roots of the policy failures of the late Maoist period and the tenacity of the CCP.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cheek, Timothy

Saich, Tony

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.