Guoguang Wu

China's Party Congress

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Produktbeschreibung

The first scholarly analysis of the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, more commonly known as the Party Congress.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9781107442207
• ISBN-10: 1107442206
• Artikelnr.: 48033223

Autorenporträt

Guoguang Wu is Professor of Political Science, Professor of History, and Chair in China and Asia-Pacific Relations at the University of Victoria, Canada. He was involved in China's Party Congress as a policy advisor to then Party Chief Zhao Ziyang and a member of the draft group of the Central Committee's report to the Congress. The author, co-author and editor of twenty-two books in both English and Chinese, he is also a contributor to journals including Asian Survey, China Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Contemporary China, the Pacific Review, Social Research, and Third World Quarterly.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: China's Party Congress as the theatre of power; 2.
Institutions manipulated, legitimacy ritualized: a theory of authoritarian
legitimization; 3. 'Meeting for unity and victory': the political art of
running the Party Congress; 4. Between political principle and the practice
of power: the making and remaking of the Party platform; 5. Norms versus
operations: Party constitution in political configuration; 6. Elections as
instruments of autocracy: the essence and nuisance of formalistic voting;
7. Conclusion.