China's Communitst Party: Atrophy and Adaptation
In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 633-635
ISSN: 1537-5927
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In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 633-635
ISSN: 1537-5927
In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 633-635
ISSN: 1537-5927
In: The China journal: Zhongguo-yanjiu, Band 61, S. 242-244
ISSN: 1835-8535
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 122, Heft 3, S. 520-521
ISSN: 1538-165X
In: The China journal: Zhongguo-yanjiu, Band 58, S. 215-217
ISSN: 1835-8535
In: Issues & studies: a social science quarterly on China, Taiwan, and East Asian affairs, Band 43, Heft 4, S. 1-38
ISSN: 1013-2511
World Affairs Online
In: Political science quarterly: PSQ ; the journal public and international affairs, Band 122, Heft 3, S. 520
ISSN: 0032-3195
In: The China quarterly, Band 188, S. 933-958
ISSN: 1468-2648
This article uses newly available Chinese sources to take a different look at aspects of the Chinese political system and the Chinese state during 1958 to 1965. While not challenging the literature on elite power issues, it demonstrates that much more was going on within the Chinese state than has been widely appreciated. In particular, the article focuses on the formal legal process, where it appears that the use of courts was extensive throughout the per-Cultural Revolution period and where the verdict of not guilty, not punished occurred more frequently in China than it did in American federal criminal cases; on the growing breakdown of the Party elite; and on China's preparation for war, basically an ongoing process of the Chinese state from 1962 on, with extensive militarization even earlier.
In: The China quarterly, Band 188, Heft 1, S. 933-958
ISSN: 1468-2648
In: The China quarterly: an international journal for the study of China, Heft 188, S. Special issue on the history of the PRC (1949-1976), S. 933-958
ISSN: 0305-7410, 0009-4439
World Affairs Online
In: Pacific affairs, Band 78, Heft 2, S. 289-290
ISSN: 0030-851X
Bachman reviews REMAKING THE CHINESE LEVIATHAN: Market Transition and the Politics of Governance in China by Dali L. Yang.
In: The China quarterly, Band 179, S. 812-813
ISSN: 1468-2648
Xiaowei Zang writes frequently on the nature of the Chinese political elite from a sociological perspective. This book serves as a summary of many of his research concerns. Put simply, he argues that within one political hierarchy, the Party and the government have significantly different personnel systems (elite dualism). Both value loyalty and expertise, but the government system pays more attention to expertise, and the Party to loyalty. He demonstrates these views with extensive data drawn from Who's Who in China Current Leaders (1988 and 1994). He sees his approach as reflecting and demonstrating the utility of neo-institutional concerns in analysing elite formation in China.While the data is usefully presented, I have many difficulties with Zang's approach and argument. First, I find his overall discussion of separate Party and government institutions confusing. It is never clear when these two institutions definitely came into existence and when they developed their own norms, values and so on. He spends two chapters (three and four) showing the precursors to elite dualism, but concludes on p. 60 that it was only in 1982 that leadership transition began. One must question then how well established were the norms, values, and other markers of institutional boundaries when he uses the 1988 and 1994 Who's Who. If leadership transition only began in 1982, then what is the purpose of discussions of elite dualism dating back to the Jiangxi Soviet? It is one of the properties of formal organizations and bureaucracies that they have a functional division of labour. Given predictable recurring patterns of such a division of labour, it is not surprising that people are recruited into different functional specialities on the basis of their background. But while Zang demonstrates this point well, to argue that there are separate Party and government hierarchies as a result seems to go too far.
In: The China journal: Zhongguo-yanjiu, Band 52, S. 144-146
ISSN: 1835-8535
In: The China quarterly: an international journal for the study of China, Heft 179, S. 812
ISSN: 0305-7410, 0009-4439
In: American political science review, Band 96, Heft 3, S. 671-672
ISSN: 1537-5943
Judith Shapiro has written the first overview of environmental history of the People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong (1949–76). It is a grim history indeed. Instead of employing a more common temporal approach, Shapiro identifies four major themes leading to environmental degradation, and uses compelling case studies to illustrate those themes. The four themes are political repression and suppression of dissenting opinion; utopian urgency; dogmatic uniformity; and war preparation and forcible relocation of the population to remote areas.