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Title: The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms (Harvard Contemporary China Series, 12) by Merle Goldman, Roderick MacFarquhar ISBN: 0-674-65454-4 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Summary: An Excellent Account of China's Development
Comment: Mao Zedong had shaped China's political system so that it would be responsive to him. Even though the Cultural Revolution actually pitted portions of the populace against his own bureaucracy, he was always in control of this deliberate class struggle and believed the new culture that would emerge from this struggle would still be under his control. Mao's politics during the Cultural Revolution left China in shambles, later referred to "the ten lost years" in Chinese history. By 1976, it faced lagging agricultural production, an inefficient industrial system, high unemployment, sub par standards of living, widespread apathy and cynicism, backwards technology, and a high rate of population increase.
In the late 1970s, China launched a wave of economic reforms to liberalize China's economy and improve the quality of life in China. Such reforms induced an unprecedented wave of economic boom which has extended to today. However, such reforms have also come at the cost of a weakening central government, increasing inequalities, and fragmenting society. In The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms, the essays of various China specialists analyze the impact of China's economic reforms have had on its political system and social structure. The most important point that these specialists jointly raise is that Deng originally conceived his economic reform as a means to enhance the authority of the party-state. However, given the changing dynamics between the state and society, such reforms have ironically undermined the government's authority. Even though the party-state could still repress political dissidents which threatened the party or its leaders, it is increasingly unable to handle other pressing problems such as corruption, the increasing social and geographical disparities, agricultural stagnation, increasing lawlessness, and worsening environmental pollution. The party-state lacks the political institutions and infrastructure to regulate China's accelerating informal federalism, and as current problems grow to be more acute, the party-state will potentially face even greater disorder.
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Title: Chinese Society : Change, Conflict and Resistance (Asia's Transformations) by Elizabeth J. Perry, Mark Selden ISBN: 0415223342 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $31.95 |
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Title: Governing China: From Revolution Through Reform by Kenneth Lieberthal ISBN: 0393969878 Publisher: R.S. Means Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $29.15 |
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Title: Governance and Politics of China by Tony Saich ISBN: 0333594878 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: An Intellectual History of Modern China by Merle Goldman, Leo Ou-Fan Lee ISBN: 0521797101 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Rural China Takes Off: The Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform by Jean C. Oi ISBN: 0520217276 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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