Politics of the Core Leader in China - Culture, Institution, Legitimacy, and Power

This is the first full-length scholarly study of the Chinese 'core' leader and his role in the Chinese Communist Party's elite politics.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Theories, Culture, History, and Instititions: 1. Research models, leadership politics, and succession; 2. Structural context in Chinese elite politics; 3. Traditional political thought and imperial legacy; 4. Ideology, organization, and party norms; Part II. The Politics and Practice of the 'Core' Leader: 5. Political groupings: commonalities, factions, and cliques; 6. Politics of the 'core' leader from Mao to XI; 7. The 'core' leader and elite politics in practice; Conclusion.

About the author

Xuezhi Guo is a Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department at Guilford College, North Carolina. He is the author of The Ideal Chinese Political Leader: A Historical and Cultural Perspective (2001) and China's Security State: Philosophy, Evolution, and Politics (Cambridge, 2012).

Summary

This book provides the most comprehensive study of the 'core' of the Chinese Communist Party's leadership and meticulously analyses its cultural, philosophical, and ideological origins. It introduces a new direction of research and offers an alternative conceptual approach for the study of the 'core' leader and the CCP elite politics.

Product details

• Authors: George (Guilford College Guo, Xuezhi Guo, Xuezhi (Guilford College Guo, Guo Xuezhi
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781108480499
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48049-9
• No. of pages: 434
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, Political science & theory, Political leaders & leadership, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Political science and theory, Political leaders and leadership, Marxism & Communism, Political parties and party platforms