Governance and Politics of China

by Tony Saich

• ISBN13: 9781403900999
• ISBN10: 140390099X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2018-02-08
• Publisher: Macmillan International Higher Education

Summary

Over the last 20 years change in China has been breathtaking. Reform has affected every facet of life and has left no policy and institution untouched. How did China move from being one of the most isolated nations to being a major international player? Written by a leading expert who has also lived and worked in China, this major new textbook provides a thorough introduction to these changes and to all aspects of politics and governance in China from the revolution of 1949 to the present day.

Author Biography

Tony Saich is Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University

Table of Contents

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