Elite Politics in Contemporary China
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A01=Joseph Fewsmith
Author_Joseph Fewsmith
authoritarian governance
Category=JPH
CCP Politics
China's Traditional Culture
China’s Traditional Culture
Chinese political transitions
Cold War impact Asia
Conserv Atives
De Gree
democratization process
deng
Deng Liqun
Dengist Reforms
emer
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eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Falun Gong
Fifteenth Party Congress
gence
guofeng
historical analysis of Chinese leadership
Hu Qiaomu
Hu Yaobang
hua
Hua Guofeng
Informal Politics
institutional change China
jiang
Jiang's Authority
Jiang’s Authority
National People's Congress
National People’s Congress
Po Wer
Politburo Standing Committee
political reform theory
Power Float
Pr Actice
Pri Vate
qiaomu
Rural Development Group
Star Ting Point
State Planning Commission
Sustainable Democratic Governance
Wang Hongwen
xiaoping
zhao
Zhao Ziyang
ziyang
Product details
- ISBN 9780765606877
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Dec 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A discussion of elite politics in contemporary China. While a great deal of the text is descriptive, much of the emphasis is on drawing out and abstracting the political dynamic at work. The past half-century has seen many hopes raised and some dashed, a succession of fears and false alarms, and both triumphs and calamities that were almost entirely unexpected. This work offers a short but sweeping history of world politics since 1945: America's postwar pre-eminence and the hopes that attended the creation of the United Nations; the Cold War and the emergence of a volatile Third World; economic transformations and the twin threat of nuclear and ecological disaster; the crumbling of the Soviet system and the short-lived promise of a peaceful, prosperous and democratic new world. The author describes these momentous changes concisely in an effort to show how we got here from there and what we might have learned along the way.
