Susan Shirk declares that China's contemporary one-party state is a “brittle, authoritarian
regime that fears its own citizens”. 1303 David Shambaugh goes as far as to proclaim that …

This book examines the political exigencies facing both the US and the Chinese Communist
Party during the decisive years of the Chinese Civil War. The book offers a new and …

THIS WORK BY FENG SUN AND WANFA ZHANG SEEKS TO PROVIDE THE reader with an
overview of the various factors contributing to the political survival of the Chinese party-state …

Jeremy Brown and Paul G. Pickowicz similarities. After the founding of the People's Republic
in October 1949—and again in the late 1970s after Mao died—a massive wave of rural …

In the Late Qing dynasty, China was riddled with peasant rebellion and foreign influence.
The Manchu emperors were powerless to save the nation and over time the people of China …

This chapter provides a framework for understanding the historical and social background of
the three crises, and the remarkable adaptability of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to …

The Communist Party of China's triumph in 1949 was an event of momentous importance. It
put an end to the century of foreign intervention in China that had begun with the Opium War …

In the eyes of most contemporary witnesses, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the
Soviet Union signalled the end of ideology in general, and of socialism and Marxism in …

THE OUTBREAK OF COVID-19 IN Wuhan deepened the impact of an alreadyslowing
Chinese economy, and raised questions about the durability of Chinese Communist Party …

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 …