Since the victory of the 1949 revolution the incumbency of the Chinese Communist Party has
been characterized by an almost relentless struggle to legitimize its monopoly on political …

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 …

China in 1993 was gripped by two fundamental processes. One was economic-the workings
of the primary stage of capitalismand the other was natural-Deng Xiaoping's imminent …

Since the launch of the reforms in 1979, most striking has been China's tremendous ability to
adapt to—and therefore to resist—the Communist Party, its leadership and its nomenklatura …

Observation on China's democratization has often oscillated between two extremes of
optimism and pessimism in the past decade. Optimistic observers believe that the end of the …

This book provides the most comprehensive analysis of one of the most important issues in
contemporary China: the tensions between the Chinese Communist Party and Chinese state …

A s this spring's campaign for democracy grew to enormous proportions, dividing the
country's leadership and paralyzing Beijing and other cities, it was apparent that the political …

The West's leading authority on the role of intellectuals in contemporary China presents a
percipient account of the efforts at political reform in the Deng Xiaoping era. Merle Goldman …

The mid-1990s is a crucial juncture in China's tortuous and difficult transition from a hard-
line communist regime to a somewhat softer one, as the country goes through a complex …

After the Tiananmen crisis in June, 1989, many observers thought that the rule of the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) would collapse. Instead, the regime brought inflation under …