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Author:   William A. Joseph (Professor of Political Science, Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Edition:   4th Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   1.261kg
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9780197683217

ISBN 10:   0197683215
Pages:   704
Publication Date:   25 September 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Contributors List of Abbreviations INTRODUCTION 1 Studying Chinese Politics - William A. Joseph PART I: POLITICAL HISTORY 2 From Empire to People's Republic - R. Keith Schoppa 3 Mao Zedong in Power (1949-1976) - Frederick C. Teiwes 4 Deng Xiaoping and the Reform Era (1976 to 2012) - Bruce Gilley 5 The Rise and Rule of Xi Jinping (2012 to the present) - Alfred L. Chan PART II: IDEOLOGY, GOVERNANCE, AND POLITICAL ECONOMY 6 Ideology: The Evolution of Chinese Communism - William A. Joseph 7 China's Communist Party-State: The Structure and Dynamics of Power - Cheng Li 8 China's Legal System - Jacques deLisle 9 China's Political Economy - David Zweig PART III: POLITICS AND POLICY IN ACTION 10 Rural China: Reform and Resistance - John James Kennedy 11 Urban China: Changes and Challenges - William Hurst and Christian Sorace 12 Policy Case Study: The Arts - Richard Curt Kraus 13 Policy Case Study: The Environment and Climate Change - Katherine Morton and Fengshi Wu 14 Policy Case Study: Public Health - Joan Kaufman 15 Policy Case Study: Population Policy - Tyrene White 16 Policy Case Study: Internet Politics - Guobin Yang PART IV: POLITICS ON CHINA'S PERIPHERY 17 Tibet - Robert Barnett 18 Xinjiang - Gardner Bovingdon 19 Hong Kong - Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo 20 Taiwan - Shelley Rigger Appendix I: China's Top Leaders Since 1949 Appendix II: Selected Indicators of China's Global Integration, 1978-2022 Timeline of Modern Chinese Political History Glossary Index

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William A. Joseph is Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College and an Associate in Research of the John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of The Critique of Ultra-Leftism in China (1984) and editor or coeditor of New Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution (1991), China Briefing (1991, 1992, 1994, 1997), The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (2nd ed., 2001), and Introduction to Comparative Politics: Political Challenges and Changing Agendas (8th ed., 2018).

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