A Research Guide to Central Party and Government Meetings in China

A Research Guide to Central Party and Government Meetings in China
Author: Kenneth Lieberthal
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2017-07-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317240723

Originally published in 1976, Lieberthal collated notes from Central Party, government and military meetings on a national level in China between 1949 and 1975 to create this guide to Chinese policymaking. This guide provides insight into issues such as the representation of important meetings in the media, how policies are made and how policy-making in China has varied over time. This title will be of interest to students of Asian Studies and International Politics.

A Research Guide to Central Party and Government Meetings in China, 1949-1986

A Research Guide to Central Party and Government Meetings in China, 1949-1986
Author: Kenneth Lieberthal
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1989
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

"This volume, like its predecessor in 1976, provides information on all top-level meetings convened by Chinese officials since 1949 for which there is concrete documentary evidence. In so doing, it seeks to provide a vehicle for capturing a part of China's elite decision making, for tracking the appearance of various issues on the agenda of the leaders, for documenting major decisions taken, and for gaining increased bibliographic control over a scattered and unsystematic literature." --from the Introduction.

The Chinese Communist Party During the Cultural Revolution

The Chinese Communist Party During the Cultural Revolution
Author: P. Lubell
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2001-12-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 140391964X

In 1936 a group of Chinese communists were released from jail after a humiliating renunciation of communism. The Chinese Communist Party then secretly employed them to galvanise support in nationalist areas of the country. It later condemned the members of this group as renegades before finally rehabilitating them in 1978. Pamela Lubell uncovers the fascinating history of these communists, known as the Sixty-one, and in doing so produces a revealing account of the tensions within the Chinese Communist Party.

Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Communist Party

Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Communist Party
Author: Lawrence R. Sullivan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 603
Release: 2021-12-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1538157241

Covering the years 1921 to 2021, this Dictionary reviews the major events, leaders, ideologies, and policies of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Topics range from the accomplishments of the CCP, most notably, the establishment of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 and economic growth and prosperity beginning in 1978-79 to the major disasters of the Great Leap Forward (1958-60) and the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) under the leadership of Chairman Mao Zedong (1943-76). Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Communist Party, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 400 cross-referenced entries on key people, places, and institutions. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Chinese Communist Party.

The SAGE Handbook of Contemporary China

The SAGE Handbook of Contemporary China
Author: Weiping Wu
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 1566
Release: 2018-07-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1526455595

The study of contemporary China constitutes a fascinating yet challenging area of scholarly inquiry. Recent decades have brought dramatic changes to China′s economy, society and governance. Analyzing such changes in the context of multiple disciplinary perspectives offers opportunites as well as challenges for scholars in the field known as contemporary China Studies. The SAGE Handbook of Contemporary China is a two-volume exploration of the transformations of contemporary China, firmly grounded in the both disciplinary and China-specific contexts. Drawing on a range of scholarly approaches found in the social sciences and history, an international team of contributors engage with the question of what a rapidly changing China means for the broader field of contemporary China studies, and identify areas of promising future research. Part 1: Context: History, Economy, and the Environment Part 2: Economic Transformations Part 3: Politics and Government Part 4: China on the Global Stage Part 5: China′s Foreign Policy Part 6: National and Nested Identities Part 7: Urbanization and Spatial Development Part 8: Poverty and Inequality Part 9: Social Change Part 10: Future Directions for Contemporary China Studies

Multilingualism in China

Multilingualism in China
Author: Minglang Zhou
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2012-10-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110924595

Minglang Zhou's highly erudite and well-researched volume on the policies concerning writing reforms for China's minorities since 1949 provides an original and well-reasoned summary of a complex process. It documents how different script reforms meet dramatically different fates according to local preferences, history, cross-border ties, and the vitality of previously-used scripts. It convincingly shows that no single variable is decisive in the success of a script, and that language planners' fixation with technical details is doomed to failure, without careful coordination of extra-code factors. It also documents the little-known Sino-Soviet cooperation in the area of writing reforms. In a style accessible to both undergraduate and graduate students, Zhou's book is of interest to language planners, sinologists, applied linguists, writing theorists, and ethnologists.

Problematic Sovereignty

Problematic Sovereignty
Author: Stephen D. Krasner
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2001
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780231121798

-- Daniel Deudney, Johns Hopkins University, coeditor of Contested Grounds: Security and Conflict in the New Environmental Politics.

Legitimating the Chinese Economic Reforms

Legitimating the Chinese Economic Reforms
Author: Alan R. Kluver
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1996-07-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1438409354

The reform program of Deng Xiaoping in the People's Republic of China constitutes one of the most significant political and social change programs in recent history. A singularly important question arises from this experiment: How does a nation implement a stock market and call it Marxism? This book answers this question by examining the official discourse bridging the gap between the reform policies and orthodox Marxism. Focusing on Chinese Communist Party Congresses and the Resolution on CPC History, the author extends recent writings on the reforms by analyzing the ways in which the Chinese leadership justified the reforms, in the face of social and economic turmoil, such as the 1989 Tiananmen Square movement. Also examined is the role of discourse in the Chinese political culture. The author argues that legitimacy of the government in China rests on two factors: the national myth of revolution and ideological orthodoxy. These serve the same legitimating functions in the Communist political culture as the Confucian doctrines of the Mandate of Heaven and virtue, providing continuity in political discourse across the centuries, although the political systems have changed drastically.

Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China

Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China
Author: Edward Friedman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 595
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300133235

Drawing on more than a quarter century of field and documentary research in rural North China, this book explores the contested relationship between village and state from the 1960s to the start of the twenty-first century. The authors provide a vivid portrait of how resilient villagers struggle to survive and prosper in the face of state power in two epochs of revolution and reform. Highlighting the importance of intra-rural resistance and rural-urban conflicts to Chinese politics and society in the Great Leap and Cultural Revolution, the authors go on to depict the dynamic changes that have transformed village China in the post-Mao era. This book continues the dramatic story in the authors’ prizewinning Chinese Village, Socialist State. Plumbing previously untapped sources, including interviews, archival materials, village records and unpublished memoirs, diaries and letters, the authors capture the struggles, pains and achievements of villagers across three generations of social upheaval.