Governance and Politics of China

by Saich, Anthony J.

• ISBN13: 9780333594865
• ISBN10: 033359486X
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2001-12-14
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This substantially revised edition--written by a leading academic authority who has lived and worked in China--covers the changes of the Sixteenth Party Congress and Tenth National People's Congress and other recent developments in post-Mao China.

Author Biography

Tony Saich is Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University.

Table of Contents

List of Maps, Boxes, Figures and Tables	x
Preface	xii
Acknowledgements	xvii
Romanization and Chinese Measures	xviii
List of Abbreviations	xix
Introduction	1	(21)
A land of diversity	2	(9)
The impact of CCP policy	11	(11)
China's Changing Road to Development: Political History, 1949--78	22	(30)
Parameters of policy debate	23	(4)
Economic recovery and the adoption of the Soviet model, 1949--55	27	(7)
The origins of a Chinese path to socialism, 1955--62	34	(6)
The radicalization of politics and the resurrection of class struggle, 1962--78	40	(12)
China Under Reform, 1978--2000	52	(28)
The Third Plenum and the initial reform agenda, 1978--84	52	(7)
Economic troubles and political instability, 1985--91	59	(9)
Return to economic reform, boom and moderation, 1992--97	68	(5)
Managing reform without Deng, 1997--2000	73	(5)
Towards the Sixteenth Party Congress	78	(2)
The Chinese Communist Party	80	(27)
Party organization and membership	80	(17)
The role of the CCP in the political system	97	(10)
The Central Governing Apparatus	107	(34)
Central government	110	(13)
The legal system, coercive control and rights	123	(8)
The military and the political system	131	(10)
Governance Beyond the Centre	141	(23)
The organization of local government	141	(2)
The province as a unit of analysis	143	(6)
Regional inequality	149	(3)
Relations between the centre and the localities: the fiscal picture	152	(3)
The consequences for local governance	155	(9)
Political Participation and Protest	164	(30)
Mao Zedong and participation in theory and practice	164	(2)
Modernization and participation since Mao	166	(2)
Impact on the sanctioned organizational structure of representation	168	(7)
Participation at the grassroots and the role of elections	175	(9)
Non-sanctioned participation	184	(10)
The Chinese State and Society	194	(18)
The Maoist period: an autonomous state and a state-dominated society	194	(9)
State-society relations under reforms: a negotiated state	203	(2)
Of civil society, corporatism, predation and negotiation	205	(7)
Economic Policy	212	(29)
Policy-making and implementation	212	(3)
Economic policy	215	(1)
Gradualism or 'shock therapy' as a transitional strategy	216	(3)
General policy for economic reform	219	(3)
Agricultural policy	222	(7)
Industrial policy	229	(8)
Financial sector reform	237	(4)
Social Policy	241	(31)
Social policy and the transition in China	241	(5)
Family planning: problems of policy coordination and policy evasion	246	(2)
Reform in the SOEs: cutting the Gordian knot	248	(6)
Providing adequate healthcare in urban China	254	(3)
Healthcare in rural China	257	(4)
Poverty alleviation	261	(5)
Migration	266	(3)
Improving rural social policy	269	(3)
Foreign Policy	272	(22)
China and globalization	272	(4)
China and the great power(s)	276	(8)
China and the region	284	(2)
China's foreign economic relations	286	(8)
Challenges in the Twenty-First Century	294	(21)
The environmental challenge	294	(5)
The internal challenge: corruption	299	(7)
The external challenge: the information revolution	306	(4)
The final challenge: political reform	310	(5)
Further Reading	315	(5)
Bibliography	320	(21)
Index	341