Like all contemporary nondemocratic systems, the Chinese system suffers from weak
legitimacy at the level of regime type. The most likely form of transition for China remains the …

An objective understanding of contemporary Chinese politics in the West is hampered by
two tendencies, one long-term and the other of more recent vintage. The long-term obstacle …

China watchers are often obsessed with the prospects for regime change in that country.
During the post-Mao period in China, the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP, or simply …

In the course of their modern history, the Chinese people have waged unre-lenting struggles
and made arduous explorations in order to win their democratic rights. But only under the …

This volume presents elite conflicts and political controversies in China from 1895 to 1978
as rooted in two diametrically opposed visions of leadership and political authority: a radical …

A leading scholar of China's modern political development examines the changing
relationship between the Chinese people and the state. Correcting the conventional view of …

Soon after the closure of the 16th National Congress of the Representatives the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP) that was held in November 2002, Jiang Zemin, who transferred the …

Over the past dozen years, political reforms in China have failed to make as much headway
as some observers had expected. 1 And it goes without saying that Deng's final years were …

A new society and economy has blossomed in post-Mao China, but an old state holds it
back. The Chinese dynastic state's blend of idealism and realism, attachment to doctrine …