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

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 …

The Chinese political system is the subject of much media and popular comment in part
because China supports an economy with an apparently inexorable dynamic and …

Contrary to the earlier political upheavals which culminated in the 1989 Prodemocracy
Movement, China has achieved an extended stability in the 1990s. This paper argues that …

The Handbook of the Politics of China is a comprehensive resource introducing readers to
the very latest in research on Chinese politics. David Goodman provides an introduction to …

Xiang explains the nature and depth of the legitimacy crisis facing the government of China,
and why it is so frequently misunderstood in the West. Arguing that it is more helpful to …

Arguing against conventional wisdom, this important book makes a compelling case for the
continuing strength of China's one-party system. Many analysts have predicted that China's …

The ease with which the recent turnover of power was handled bespeaks an unprecedented
degree of institutional stability within China's political elite. And yet the CCP has for some …

As the Chinese Communist Party continues to move away from socialism, it faces a growing
number of challenges to the claim that it represents the sole legitimate governing body in …

This paper argues that despite the considerable resilience demonstrated by the Chinese
authoritarian regime, its power experiences continuous atrophy. With the weakening of the …