Holding China Together: Diversity and National Integration in the Post-Deng Era

by Edited by Barry J. Naughton , Dali L. Yang

• ISBN13: 9780521168588
• ISBN10: 0521168589
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-09
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Despite repeated predictions of collapse and disintegration, China has managed to sustain national unity and gain international stature since the 1989 Tiananmen crisis. Examining the sources and dynamics of the resilience, this volume's contributors reveal how China's leaders have adapted and reinforced key economic and political institutions. They also disclose that implementation of complex policies to regulate economic and social life (employment and migration, population planning, industrial adjustment, and regional disparities) has become more effective over time within a context of growing social and economic diversity.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables

List of contributors

Holding China together: introduction

The Institutions for Political and Economic Control: Adaptation of a Hierarchical System:

Political localism versus institutional restraints: elite recruitment in the Jiang era

The institutionalization of elite management in China

The cadre evaluation system at the grass roots: the paradox of party rule

Economic transformation and state rebuilding in China

Case Studies of Policy Implementation:

Policy consistency in the midst of the Asian crisis: managing the furloughed and the farmers in three cities

Population control and state coercion in China

The political economy of industrial restructuring in China's coal industry, 1992-1999

The western development program

Index

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