Overview

Detailed assessment of the People's Republic of China as an alternative mode of political system and as a distinctive model of socioeconomic development. The China Record provides readers with an ambitious, detailed, and wide-ranging examination of the People's Republic of China (PRC) under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) both as an alternative mode of political system and a distinctive model of socioeconomic development. Fei-Ling Wang assesses the record of the economy under the CCP, people's lives and rights, and China's spiritual and physical ecology. He focuses on issues of political representation, criminal justice, fiscal and monetary policies, state-led growth, living standards, academia and education, inequality and poverty, disaster relief and pandemic prevention, culture and ethics, and the protection of antiquities and the environment. Using both quantitative and qualitative data, The China Record seeks to provide a solid and balanced, yet unflinching, view about the nature, strengths, weaknesses, and implications of the PRC as an emerging superpower and a potential world leader. It is an effort to introduce a holistic evaluation of the CCP-PRC's overall efficacy, efficiency, power, sustainability, and desirability-or the lack thereof.

Full Product Details

Author:   Fei-Ling Wang
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.553kg
ISBN:  

9781438492261

ISBN 10:   143849226
Pages:   421
Publication Date:   02 September 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier.

Table of Contents

Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction Games of Numbers: A Note on Methodology and Epistemology Arrangement of the Book 1. Political Governance: People’s Dictatorship and the Party-State The Tragedy and the Grand Detour The DNA of the Party-State: Mao Zedong Thought Déjà vu in Beijing: Xi Jinping Thought CCP Optimality and China Suboptimality People’s Lives and Rights in the People’s Republic Extra-Legal Means for Extra Control Thought Work, Jingoism, Officials-Standard, and Power Fetishism The Partocracy and the Police State The Ruling Class and the Aristocracy Intrusion, Insecurity, and Intranquility 2. Economic Record: Socialism with Chinese Characteristics The China Model Incompetence and Failures: Mao’s Great Famine and Stark Stagnation Three Decades of Prodigious Growth Distortions and Dysfunctions Extraction and Profligacy Quantitative Assessments of the Record What about India? A Note on Comparison 3. Social Life: Bitterness, Happiness, and Resistance A Bona Fide Developing Country Bitterness Eaters and Luxury Indulgers Inequality and Poverty Disaster Relief The Elusive Happiness Voting with Feet Watched, Worried, Wrathful 4. Spirit and Ecology: Culture, Ethics, and the Environment The Officials-Standard and Society The CCP Pantheon of Demigods and Chiefs Moral Vacuum, Amnesia, and the Mind Anecdata of Corruption Academia and Education “We All Fake It” Publication, Antiquities, and Gastronomy The Environment and Ecology Superpower of Imitation Epilogue: From the Record Notes Works and Sources Cited Index

Reviews

"""Wang successfully merges passionate conviction with broad, deep, and well-organized scholarship. Many of the book's most trenchant criticisms of CCP-PRC state policy and its outcomes are from PRC publications. As a result, The China Record delivers the most powerful intellectual shock to our understanding of China of any book published since the death of Mao Zedong."" — Roger Garside, author of China Coup: The Great Leap to Freedom"

""Wang successfully merges passionate conviction with broad, deep, and well-organized scholarship. Many of the book's most trenchant criticisms of CCP-PRC state policy and its outcomes are from PRC publications. As a result, The China Record delivers the most powerful intellectual shock to our understanding of China of any book published since the death of Mao Zedong."" — Roger Garside, author of China Coup: The Great Leap to Freedom

Author Information

Fei-Ling Wang is Professor of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His previous books include The China Order: Centralia, World Empire and the Nature of Chinese Power (also published by SUNY Press); Organization through Division and Exclusion: China's Hukou System; and China Rising: Power and Motivation in Chinese Foreign Policy (coedited with Yong Deng).

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions