This comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date text provides information and analysis for a complete examination of contemporary China and its political and economic developments.* NEW - Completely revises Chapter 8 to include the reversion of Hong Kong in 1997 and Macao in 1999. * NEW - Updates discussion on ideology to include Jiang Zemins search for a unifying ideology now that he is the undisputed leader after Deng Xiaopings death. * NEW - Includes a new section on the law-making role of the National Peoples Congress. * NEW - Provides brief profiles of the new top leadership. * NEW - Discusses the new civil service system. *Included the reversion of Hong Kong in 1997 and Macao in 1999.*Updates discussion on ideology to include Jiang Zemin's search for a unifying ideology now that he is the undisputed leader after Deng Xiaoping's death.*Includes a new section on the law-making role of the National People's Congress.

Contemporary Chinese Politics: An Introduction

History

Wang, James C. F.

Asia

Prentice Hall College Div

<p>  This comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date book provides information and analysis for a complete examination of contemporary China and its political and economic developments.  Chapter topics include the origin and rise of the Chinese communist movement: from military communism to Deng's reforms; the erosion of Chinese communist ideology: Marxism-Leninism, Mao's thought, Dengism, and the thinking of Jiang Zemin; political institutions of the party-state: structural issues and the policy process; Elites and the Cadre System: leadership style, factionalism, succession, and recruitment; reform for a creditable Socialist legal system; provincial and local politics: centralism versus regionalism, national minorities, and the case of Tibet; Greater China: reversion of Hong Kong and Macao, and the Pearl River delta regional development, and the Taiwan Question; The military's role in Chinese politics; democracy, dissent, and the Tiananmen mass movement; the politics of modernization: rural and urban economic reforms; and the politics of modernization: education, science and technology, the open door policy, and the intellectuals.  For individuals interested in Chinese politics. </p>

Contemporary Chinese Politics: An Introduction (7th Edition)

Pearson

Third edition of a text originally published in 1980 and revised in 1984. An overview of contemporary Chinese politics from 1949 to 1989. Charts, tables and maps have been updated, and appendices contain the texts of some significant current documents. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Contemporary Chinese politics: An introduction

Prentice-Hall

<p>James C. F. Wang, in this new edition, covers the development of contemporary Chinese politics from 1949 to 1984 and provides basic information and analysis about politics today. The Second Edition includes new material such as: profiles of China's three top leaders, Deng's rise to power, new judicial procedures, Democracy wall movement, the minority problem, China's new economic policies and reforms, new education policies, China's trade and management system, agricultural reforms, developments in Sino-U.S., Sino-Soviet, and Sino-Japanese relations, and China's military modernization.</p>

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Contemporary Chinese Politics: An Introduction

Contemporary Chinese Politics: An Introduction (7th Edition)

Contemporary Chinese politics: An introduction

Contemporary Chinese Politics: An Introduction