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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
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.

    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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