Politics in China since 1949
Subtitle: legitimizing authoritarian rule
By: by Robert Weatherley.
Series: Routledge contemporary China series ;; 11
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Zhongguo gong chan dang -- History -- 20th century; Legitimacy of governments -- China -- History -- 20th century; Authoritarianism -- China -- History -- 20th century; China -- Politics and government -- 1949-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Legitimizing the new regime : the early post-revolutionary years; title: Mass participation and mass legitimacy : the great leap forward; title: A crisis of legitimacy : the great proletarian cultural revolution; title: Redefining party legitimacy : the succession to Mao and the rise of Deng; title: New era new crisis : problems of legitimacy in the 1980s; title: In search of new paradigms of legitimacy : China since Tiananmen; title: Biography of Chinese leaders.