Title: Evolution of power : China's struggle, survival, and success /
Authors: Li, Xiaobing, 1954-; Tian, Xiansheng,; Li, Xiaobing, 1954-; Tian, Xiansheng,; Li, Xiaobing, 1954-
Year: 2014
Subjects: China History; China History
Contents: Introduction. Evolution of the CCP: progress, problems, and prospects / Xiaobing Li and Xiansheng Tian -- Part One. Evolution of the revolution: from Mao to Deng -- 1. Local revolution, grassroots mobilization and wartime: power shift to the rise of communism / Patrick Fuliang Shan -- 2. Mao Zedong and the CCP: adaptation, centralization, and succession / Yi Sun and Xiaobing Li -- 3. Mao's death and Hua Guofeng's tragedy / Guangqiu Xu -- 4. Personality and politics: Deng Xiaoping's return / Jingyi Song -- Part Two. Mountain moving and reconstruction: from Deng to Jiang -- 5. Deng's reform: theory and practice / Enbao Wang -- 6. Grooming the titan: Deng and the PLA -- Sherman Xiaogang Lai -- 7. Freedom of speech and China's democratization / Shuming Lu and Changfu Chang -- 8. Jiang Zemin: technocrats vs. bureaucratic system / Liying Li and Denise Mowder -- Part Three. Institution, regulation, and globalization: from Jiang to Hu -- 9. Mapping the power-capital economy: Chinese reform in Jiang's era / George Zhaohui Hong -- 10. Political institutionalization and new civil-military relations / Pingchao Zhu -- 11. Legal reform under jiang / Qiang Fang -- 12. One system, two frames: news reports on the WTO and SARS / Changfu Chang -- 13. Hu Jintao's rhetoric on building a modern humane government / Shaorong Huang -- Part Four. Struggle, society, and stability: from Hu to Xi -- 14. China's evolving civil society and grassroots empowerment / Jieli Li -- 15. Internet and public opinion: an engine for political transformation? / Zhinuo Wang -- 16. When Chongqing challenges Beijing: the Bo Xilai case / Xiansheng Tian -- 17. The unity and stability: Xi Jinping's promise and the CCP'¿s future / Xiaoxiao li -- Conclusion. Chinese characters: transformation and continuity / Xiaobing Li and Xiansheng Tian.