Governance and Politics of China, Second Edition

by Saich

• ISBN13: 9781403921857
• ISBN10: 1403921857
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-03
• 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

Anthony J. Saich is the Daewoo Professor of International Affairs in the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Table of Contents

List of Maps, Boxes and Figures	x
Preface to the Second Edition	xiii
Acknowledgements	xix
Romanization and Chinese Measures	xx
List of Abbreviations	xxi
1 Introduction	1	(24)
A land of diversity	2	(10)
The impact of CCP policy	12	(13)
2 China's Changing Road to Development: Political History, 1949-78	25	(32)
Parameters of policy debate	27	(3)
Economic recovery and the adoption of the Soviet model, 1949-55	30	(7)
The origins of a Chinese path to socialism, 1955-62	37	(6)
The radicalization of politics and the resurrection of class struggle, 1962-78	43	(14)
3 China Under Reform, 1978-2003	57	(34)
The Third Plenum and the initial reform agenda, 1978-84	57	(7)
Economic troubles and political instability, 1985-91	64	(11)
Return to economic reform, boom and moderation, 1992-97	75	(5)
Managing reform without Deng, 1997-2002	80	(6)
The Sixteenth Party Congress and beyond	86	(5)
4 The Chinese Communist Party	91	(30)
Party organization and membership	91	(19)
The role of the CCP in the political system	110	(11)
5 The Central Governing Apparatus	121	(34)
Central government	124	(12)
The legal system, coercive control and rights	136	(9)
The military and the political system	145	(10)
6 Governance Beyond the Centre	155	(25)
The organization of local government	155	(3)
The province as a unit of analysis	158	(6)
Regional inequality	164	(3)
Relations between the centre and the localities: the fiscal picture	167	(3)
The consequences for local governance	170	(10)
7 Political Participation and Protest	180	(33)
Mao Zedong and participation in theory and practice	180	(3)
Modernization and participation since Mao	183	(1)
Impact on the sanctioned organizational structure of representation	184	(8)
Participation at the grass roots and the role of elections	192	(10)
Non-sanctioned participation	202	(11)
8 The Chinese State and Society	213	(20)
The Maoist period: an autonomous state and a state-dominated society	213	(9)
State-society relations under reforms: a negotiated state	222	(4)
Of civil society, corporatism, predation and negotiation	226	(7)
9 Economic Policy	233	(35)
Policy-making and implementation	233	(3)
Economic policy	236	(1)
Gradualism or 'shock therapy' as a transitional strategy	237	(4)
General policy for economic reform	241	(3)
Agricultural policy	244	(9)
Industrial policy	253	(11)
Financial sector reform	264	(4)
10 Social Policy	268	(37)
Social policy and the transition in China	269	(5)
Family planning: problems of policy coordination and policy evasion	274	(3)
Reform in the SOEs: cutting the Gordian knot	277	(7)
Providing adequate healthcare in urban China	284	(3)
Migration	287	(4)
Inequality and healthcare in rural China	291	(6)
Poverty alleviation	297	(8)
11 Foreign Policy	305	(24)
China and globalization	305	(5)
China and the great power(s)	310	(8)
China and the region	318	(3)
China's foreign economic relations	321	(8)
12 Challenges in the Twenty-First Century	329	(19)
The internal challenge: corruption	329	(8)
The external challenge: the information revolution	337	(5)
The final challenge: good governance and political reform	342	(6)
Further Reading	348	(5)
Bibliography	353	(24)
Index	377