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Series on Contemporary China
- Vol. 8
CHINA'S ELITE POLITICS
Political Transition and Power Balancing
by (East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore) China's Elite Politics provides a new theoretical perspective on elite politics in China and uses this theoretical perspective to explain power transfer from Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao and political dynamics between different factional groups since the Sixteenth Party Congress of November 2002. It explains the transition in structural terms, presents characteristics of China's political elites, and analyzes the balance of power among formal institutions as well as among factional groups. It also examines political interactions between Jiang Zemin and his cronies on the one side and Hu Jintao and his allies on the other over a number of issues: the epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS); ideological institutionalization; the politics over economic overheating; Jiang Zemin's complete retirement; and Hu Jintao's power consolidation in both ideological and personnel terms. |
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| Readership: Readers interested in China's political system, including scholars, policy makers, business people and students, particularly postgraduate students. | |
“The arguments about institutionalization and power balancing in China, presented in this book, will stir new discussion and debate.” |
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Joseph Fewsmith Boston University, Boston, USA |
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“In this thoroughly-researched and insightful book, Bo Zhiyue analyzes how politics has become more institutionalized than ever before in PRC history. This book is an important contribution to our understanding of changing PRC politics.” |
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Andrew J Nathan Columbia University, New York, USA |
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“This book addresses the critical issue of national-level politics in China and contains extremely useful charts, tables and statistics. Well researched and extremely thoughtful, this book is of interest to anyone interested in understanding the changing nature of politics in today's China.” |
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David M Finkelstein The CNA Corporation, Virginia, USA |
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“This book is an important contribution to the study of China's elite politics and political succession. It should be of interest to all China-related academics and practitioners.” |
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Dali L Yang University of Chicago, Chicago, USA |
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“… provides a comprehensive and persuasive account of the main CCP factions, as well as their relative strengths and weaknesses. The book also drops hints as to which cliques and individuals will probably succeed the current Fourth-Generation leadership headed by President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao.” |
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The China Journal |
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“The strength of the book is that it offers an empirical source of information that is very valuable for future research, as well as clear arguments in favor of a new way of analyzing political transition in China … Bo Zhiyue goes in detail through the different phases of the transition and much new material is offered to the reader; he also achieves this through sampling new information from interviews and questionnaires, which adds directly to the relevance of the volume … The book is well worth reading both for general interest regarding the political process in China as well as for the more knowledgeable scholar that seeks the truth in the details.” |
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East Asia |
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| 468pp Pub. date: Mar 2007 | |
| eISBN: 9789812708328 | |
| Purchase book at WorldSciBook | |
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