Wang The China Record

An Assessment of the People's Republic
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9228-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 421 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Detailed assessment of the People's Republic of China as an alternative mode of political system and as a distinctive model of socioeconomic development.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wang, Fei-Ling

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).