Rethinking Chinese Politics

A comprehensive but accessible examination of how elite Chinese politics work covering the period from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping.

List of contents

Introduction: Rethinking Chinese politics; 1. The dengist structure of power; 2. Succession and the art of consolidating power; 3. Hu Jintao and the limits of institutionalization; 4. The pathologies of reform leninism; 5. Xi Jinping's centralization of power; 6. The nineteenth party congress and reinvigorating Leninism.

About the author

Joseph Fewsmith is Professor of International Relations and Politics Science, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Fewsmith, Joseph (Boston University) Fewsmith
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.06.2021
• EAN: 9781108926607
• ISBN: 978-1-108-92660-7
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, History, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Middle East / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, Politics & government, Comparative Politics, Politics and government, East Asia, Far East, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, Middle Eastern history, Asian History, Constitution: government & the state, Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship, Marxism & Communism, Constitution: government and the state