Routledge handbook of the Chinese Communist Party /

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Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
Description:xx, 421 pages ; 26 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11711917
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Varying Form of Title:Handbook of the Chinese Communist Party
Other authors / contributors:Lam, Willy Wo-Lap, editor.
ISBN:9781138684430
1138684430
9781315543918 (ebook)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations
  • Notes of contributors
  • Preface
  • List of acronyms
  • Part I. Overview and introduction
  • 1. The agenda of Xi Jinping: is the Chinese Communist Party capable of thorough reforms?
  • Part II. History and traditions
  • 2. The legacy of Mao Zedong
  • 3. The CCP's exploitation of Confucianism and Legalism
  • 4. The CCP's use and ah use of nationalism
  • Part III. How the Party works and stays relevant
  • 5. The Party runs the show: how the CCP controls the state and towers over the government, legislature and judiciary
  • 6. The role of Party congresses
  • 7. The PLA as the lifeline of the Party
  • 8. Factional politics in the Party-state apparatus
  • 9. Evolution of the Party' since 1976: ideological and functional adoptions
  • 10. The CCP's meritocratic cadre system
  • 11. "The new (old) normal": the CCP propaganda system under Jiang, Hu, and Xi
  • Part IV. Major policy arenas
  • 12. How the party-state runs the economy: a model of elite decision-making in the financial market
  • 13. Implementing tax reform and rural reconstruction in China: a case study of the CCP's agrarian policy
  • 14. The Part's policy toward labor
  • 15. Reform, repression, co-optation: the CCP's policy toward intellectuals
  • 16. The Party and the law
  • 17. Two steps forward, one backward: the CCP's policy toward women
  • 18. Public policy and LGBT people and activism in mainland China
  • 19. The CCP's Tibet policy: stability through coercion and development
  • 20. The party-state's nationalist strategy to control the Uyghur: silenced voices
  • Part V. The CCP in the twenty-first century
  • 21. The future of the Chinese Communist Party
  • 22. Changing patterns of Chinese civil society: comparing the Hu-Wen and Xi Jinping eras
  • 23. Can the Internet and social media change the Party?
  • 24. China and the world: from the Chinese Dream to the Chinese World Order
  • Index