Read more
List of contents
Preface -- The Postrevolutionary Phase in China and the Soviet Union -- Mainland China’s Political Process -- The Succession Question in Mainland China -- Ideology and Organization in Post-Mao China -- Competing Models of the Chinese Policy Process: Toward a Sorting and Evaluation -- Mainland China’s Military Problems and Potential -- Civil-Military Relations in the People’s Republic of China -- The People’s Republic of China as a Western Security Asset -- Military Strategies and Problems of Mainland China -- Military Modernization and Strategic Defense in the PRC in the 1980s -- Mainland China's Economic Development -- The Responsibility System in Mainland China: An Analysis -- Prices, Markets, and the Chinese Peasant -- Can Mainland China's New Price System Work? -- Foreign Exchange Supply and Planning Under Uncertainty -- Mainland China and the Bloc: Comparative Political Systems -- State and Society Under Communism: A Theoretical Analysis -- The Asiatic Mode of Politics; or, Is China a Marxist-Leninist State? -- Mainland China and the Bloc: Comparative Economic Systems -- Economic Reform in Mainland China in Comparison to Yugoslavia and Hungary -- Plan and Market: The Bird in the Cage—A Comparative Study of Mainland China and Other State Socialist Economies -- Mainland China and the Powers -- How Did They Decide to Go to War? Calculations and Miscalculations in the PRC’s War on Vietnam and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan -- The Strategic Triangle Revisited: Who’s Playing Whose Card? -- The Moscow-Beijing Détente -- Mainland China and the Power Configuration in the Asia-Pacific Region -- International Law in Chinese Treaty Negotiation and Implementation: Four Case Studies with the United States -- China’s Role in U.S. Security Policy
About the author
Chang King-Yuh -also editor of Mainland China after the Thirteenth Party Congress.
Summary
This book offers analyses of China's political, economic, and foreign policies as compared to those of other Communist states and an examination of China's role in U.S. security policy, as well as exploring a variety of issues concerning mainland China's political processes, military structure, and economic development.
