Autocratic Tradition and Chinese Politics - Rilegato

Fu, Zhengyuan

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ISBN 10: 0521442281 ISBN 13: 9780521442282

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Riassunto

This book examines the Chinese political tradition over the past two thousand years and argues that the enduring and most important feature of this tradition is autocracy. The author interprets the communist takeover of 1949 not as a revolution but as a continuation of the imperial tradition. The book shows how Mao Zedong revitalised this autocratic tradition along five lines: the use of ideology for political control; concentration of power in the hands of a few; state power over all aspects of life; law as a tool wielded by the ruler, who is himself above the law; and the subjection of the individual to the state. Using a statist approach, the book argues that in China political action of the state has been the single most important factor in determining socio-economic change.

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An examination of the Chinese political tradition over the past two thousand years which argues that the enduring and most important feature of this tradition is autocracy.

Contenuti:

Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I: 2. Rise of the Chinese bureaucratic empire; State building during the Eastern Zhou Period; The rise of the Qin Empire; Comparison with Western experience; Significance of the bureaucratic empire; 3. Chinese pre-Qin political philosophy; Confucius and the Confucians; Lao Zi and Daoism; Mo Di; The legalists: the totalitarians; 4. Imperial Ideology and Authority; Institutionalisation of imperial official orthodoxy; The emperor cult; Basis of authority and dynastic patterns; 5. Chinese traditional political institutions; Formal structure of the imperial state; Emperor's domination over the bureaucracy; 6. Domination of the Imperial state over society; Control over local community; Control over the economy and state monopoly; Control over ideology; Statist orientation of traditional political culture; 7. The Imperial legal order; Origin of Chinese imperial law; Law as punishment; Law as tool of the ruler; Confucianization of law; 8. Centrality of the Emperor and Imperial political practices; Regional forces; imperial household and clansmen, and palace eunuchs; Coercive aspects of imperial domination; Part II: 9. The fall of the empire and rise of the PRC; The decline and fall of the Qing dynasty; Failure of the first Chinese Republic and rise of the PRC; Emergence of modern Chinese civil society; 10. Ideology and authority under the CCP; Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong thought as official orthodoxy; Impact of the hegenomy of Marxism-Leninism on intellectual activity; Cult of Mao; Basis of authority and power; 11. Structure and process of the PRC political system; Formal structure of the party-state; Defining characters of the political process; 12. Capacity of the party-state; Party-state's regulative capacity; Party-state's symbolic capacity; Party-state's extractive and allocative capacity; Some relevant derivative features of the CCP political system; 13. The new legal order; Development of the PRC legal system; Formal structure of the PRC legal system; Party's mandate over law; Deinstitutionalization of the PRC political-legal order; 14. Political movements (1); Early CCP intra-party struggles; The Yanan Rectification movement (1942–1944); Suppress counter revolutionary, land reform, and oppose America Aid Korea movements (1950–1953); Thought reform movement (1951); Three anti and five anti movements (1952); Purge counter revolutionary movement (1955–1957); The socialist transformation (1953–1956); 15. Political movements (2); The hundred flowers bloom and the anti-rightist movement (1957); The great leap forward movement (1958–1961); Anti right deviation movement (1959–1961); The great famine (1959–1961); Socialist education movement and the four clean movement (1963–1965); 16. The great proletarian cultural revolution (1966–1976); Prelude to the cultural revolution; Rise and fall of the Red Guards; New alignment and conflict; April fifth Tiananment Incident; Some thoughts on the cultural revolution; 17. Post-Mao politics; Beijing Spring; Factional differences within the political leadership; Literary dissent and spiritual pollution; Anti bourgeois liberalization; The June fourth massacre; Aftermath of June fourth massacre; 18. Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0521442281
• ISBN 13: 9780521442282
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 415