China Since the Cultural Revolution

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China Since the Cultural Revolution From Totalitarianism to Authoritarianism

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By Jie Chen and Peng Deng

ISBN: 0-275-94647-9

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-94647-0

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144 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 10/30/1994

List Price: $91.95 (UK Sterling Price: £51.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Based on extensive use of primary Chinese sources, this work argues that changes in public attitudes toward and perception of a polity resulting from changing sociopolitical preconditions can cause a change in the polity's nature. Upper division undergraduates, graduates, and faculty.
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...will be of considerable interest not only to scholars and advanced students in the China field but to comparativists who study modern regimes. It will also be useful in graduate-level political science and history courses dealing with Asian politics and history.
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Perspectives on Political Science

Description: This book provides an alternative analytical approach to the study of China's political changes since the Cultural Revolution, which treats those changes as a transition from totalitarianism to authoritarianism. While depicting important political-economic events, it focuses on the changes in such major sociopolitical factors as the people's attitude toward the regime, government policy, the ruling methods of the regime, and the interrelationships among them. Based on the analyses of these factors, the book also predicts the future of the current Communist regime in terms of the challenges it will face and its ability to meet them.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Exploring a New Approach
Sociopolitical Preconditions for a Transition: Legacy of the Cultural Revolution
A Transition in the Making: Reform and Its Consequences
The Meaning of June 4, 1989
China Since the Tiananmen Crackdown
Conclusion: The Transition and Beyond
Selected Bibliography
Index

LC Card Number: 94-28006

LCC Class: JQ1508

Dewey Class: 320.951


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