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Delving into party and government archives of both the Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang, this book challenges prevailing wisdom on authoritarian and Chinese politics. Intended for academics and policymakers, it explores the origins of party development in China and with implications for post-1949 state-building in China and Taiwan.
List of contents
1. The Reversal of Fortune of Revolutionary Parties; 2. A Theory of Party Building by Revolutionary Parties; 3. Prewar Resource Mobilization by the CCP and the KMT (1921-1937); 4: Reversal of Fortune: Wartime Resource Mobilization by the CCP and KMT (1937�45); 5. The CCP: Navigating Elite Power Conflicts and Struggling to Build a Mass Mobilization Infrastructure (1921�34); 6. Mao's Power Consolidation and the Emergence of a Rural Mobilization Infrastructure (1935-1945); 7. The KMT: Revolutionary Party Aborted; 8 The Legacies of Party-Building among Revolutionary Parties in China and Beyond.
About the author
Xiaobo Lü is Associate Professor of Government at the University of Texas, Austin. His research centers on distributive politics of fiscal policies and party building in authoritarian regimes, with a focus on China. Lü is particularly interested in how fiscal extraction shapes state-society relations and its implications on the evolution and functioning of authoritarian parties.
Summary
Delving into party and government archives of both the Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang, this book challenges prevailing wisdom on authoritarian and Chinese politics. Intended for academics and policymakers, it explores the origins of party development in China and with implications for post-1949 state-building in China and Taiwan.
Foreword
Explores how leadership domination and party mobilization are crucial for revolutionary parties to seize power.
