Politics of China - Sixty Years of the People''s Republic of China

Informationen zum Autor Roderick MacFarquhar is the Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, and Professor of Government, at Harvard University. He has had an illustrious career. He was Director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University, the founding editor of The China Quarterly and a Member of Parliament. His publications include Mao's Last Revolution (2006), co-authored with Michael Schoenhals, and The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms (1999). He was also co-editor, with the late John K. Fairbank, of volumes 14 and 15 of The Cambridge History of China (1987, 1991). Klappentext Tracks China's transformation from the establishment of the People's Republic to its rise as a superpower in the twenty-first century. Zusammenfassung This volume! written by experts in the field! tracks China's extraordinary transformation from the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949 to its dynamic rise as a superpower in the twenty-first century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Roderick MacFarquhar; 1. The establishment and consolidation of the new regime, 1949-57 Frederick C. Teiwes; 2. The Great Leap Forward and the split in Yan'an leadership, 1958-65 Kenneth Leiberthal; 3. The Chinese state in crisis, 1966-9 Harry Harding; 4. The succession to Mao and the end of Maoism, 1969-82 Roderick MacFarquhar; 5. The road to Tiananmen: Chinese politics in the 1980s Richard Baum; 6. Reaction, resurgence, and succession: Chinese politics since Tiananmen Joseph Fewsmith; 7. Globalization and governance under Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao Alice Miller.

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• Authors: Roderick Macfarquhar, Roderick (Harvard University Macfarquhar
• Assisted by: Roderick Macfarquhar (Editor), Roderick (Harvard University Macfarquhar (Editor), MacFarquhar Roderick (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.09.2011
• EAN: 9780521196932
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19693-2
• No. of pages: 688
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, Politics & government, Comparative Politics, Asian History, Constitution: government and the state