Party, State, and Local Elites in Republican China
Author: Joseph Fewsmith
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13:
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The Logic and Limits of Political Reform in China
Author: Joseph Fewsmith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-02-18
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1139620428
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the 1990s China embarked on a series of political reforms intended to increase, however modestly, political participation to reduce the abuse of power by local officials. Although there was initial progress, these reforms have largely stalled and, in many cases, gone backward. If there were sufficient incentives to inaugurate reform, why wasn't there enough momentum to continue and deepen them? This book approaches this question by looking at a number of promising reforms, understanding the incentives of officials at different levels, and the way the Chinese Communist Party operates at the local level. The short answer is that the sort of reforms necessary to make local officials more responsible to the citizens they govern cut too deeply into the organizational structure of the party.
Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance
Author: Joseph W. Esherick
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2024-07-26
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 0520414055
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis important volume affords a panoramic view of local elites during the dramatic changes of late imperial and Republic China. Eleven specialists present fresh, detailed studies of subjects ranging from cultivated upper gentry to twentieth-century militarists, from wealthy urban merchants to village leaders. In the introduction and conclusion the editors reassess the pioneering gentry studies of the 1960s, draw comparisons to elites in Europe, and suggest new ways of looking at the top people in Chinese local social systems. Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance lays the foundation for future discussions of Chinese elites and provides a solid introduction for non-specialists. Essays are by Stephen C. Averill, Lenore Barkan, Lynda S. Bell, Timothy Brook, Prasenjit Duara, Edward A. McCord, William T. Rowe, Keith Schoppa, David Strand, Rubie S. Watson, and Madeleine Zelin. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.
Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance
Author: Conference on Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance (1987 : Banff, Alta.)
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780520067639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis important volume affords a panoramic view of local elites during the dramatic changes of late imperial and Republic China. Eleven specialists present fresh, detailed studies of subjects ranging from cultivated upper gentry to twentieth-century militarists, from wealthy urban merchants to village leaders. In the introduction and conclusion the editors reassess the pioneering gentry studies of the 1960s, draw comparisons to elites in Europe, and suggest new ways of looking at the top people in Chinese local social systems. Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance lays the foundation for future discussions of Chinese elites and provides a solid introduction for non-specialists. Essays are by Stephen C. Averill, Lenore Barkan, Lynda S. Bell, Timothy Brook, Prasenjit Duara, Edward A. McCord, William T. Rowe, Keith Schoppa, David Strand, Rubie S. Watson, and Madeleine Zelin. This important volume affords a panoramic view of local elites during the dramatic changes of late imperial and Republic China. Eleven specialists present fresh, detailed studies of subjects ranging from cultivated upper gentry to twentieth-century militarists, from wealthy urban merchants to village leaders. In the introduction and conclusion the editors reassess the pioneering gentry studies of the 1960s, draw comparisons to elites in Europe, and suggest new ways of looking at the top people in Chinese local social systems. Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance lays the foundation for future discussions of Chinese elites and provides a solid introduction for non-specialists. Essays are by Stephen C. Averill, Lenore Barkan, Lynda S. Bell, Timothy Brook, Prasenjit Duara, Edward A. McCord, William T. Rowe, Keith Schoppa, David Strand, Rubie S. Watson, and Madeleine Zelin.
Chinese Professionals and the Republican State
Author: Xiaoqun Xu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-12-04
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 1139431846
DOWNLOAD EBOOKXiaoqun Xu makes a compelling and original contribution to the study of China's modernization with this book on the rise of professional associations in Republican China in their birthplace of Shanghai, and of their political and socio-cultural milieu. This 2001 book is rich in detail about the key professional and political figures and organizations in Shanghai, filling an important gap in its social history. The professional associations were, as the author writes, 'unambiguously urban and modern in their origins and functions ... representing a new breed of educated Chinese' and they pioneered a new type of relationship with the state. Xu addresses a central issue in China studies, the relationship between state and society, and proposes an alternative to the Western-derived concept of civil society. This book illuminates the complexity of modernization and nationalism in twentieth-century China, and provides a concrete case for comparative studies of professionalization and class formation across cultures.
China's New Business Elite
Author: Margaret M. Pearson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-09-01
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 0520923146
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe transition from a planned to a market economy that began in China in the late 1970s unleashed an extraordinary series of changes, including increases in private enterprise, foreign investment, the standard of living, and corruption. Another result of economic reform has been the creation of a new class—China's new business elite. Margaret M. Pearson considers the impact that this new class is having on China's politics. She concludes that, contrary to the assumptions of Westerners, these groups are not at the forefront of the emergence of a civil society; rather, they are part of a system shaped deliberately by the Chinese state to ensure that economic development will not lead to democratization. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997. The transition from a planned to a market economy that began in China in the late 1970s unleashed an extraordinary series of changes, including increases in private enterprise, foreign investment, the standard of living, and corruption. Another result of
Elite Politics in Contemporary China
Author: Joseph Fewsmith
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-04-15
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1317472152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA discussion of elite politics in contemporary China. While a great deal of the text is descriptive, much of the emphasis is on drawing out and abstracting the political dynamic at work. The past half-century has seen many hopes raised and some dashed, a succession of fears and false alarms, and both triumphs and calamities that were almost entirely unexpected. This work offers a short but sweeping history of world politics since 1945: America's postwar pre-eminence and the hopes that attended the creation of the United Nations; the Cold War and the emergence of a volatile Third World; economic transformations and the twin threat of nuclear and ecological disaster; the crumbling of the Soviet system and the short-lived promise of a peaceful, prosperous and democratic new world. The author describes these momentous changes concisely in an effort to show how we got here from there and what we might have learned along the way.
Rethinking Chinese Politics
Author: Joseph Fewsmith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-06-17
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1108831257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive but accessible examination of how elite Chinese politics work covering the period from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping.
Dilemmas of Reform in China
Author: Joseph Fewsmith
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-09-16
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1315287153
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a comprehensive account of the Chinese debates on economic reforms, from the Third Plenum of 1978 to the crackdown of 1989. It is designed for scholars and graduate students interested in the political economy of China's reforms.
Autonomy Through Social Networks
Author: Sei Jeong Chin
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMy dissertation explores historical changes in the relationship between the Chinese state and urban intellectuals from the latter part of the Republican era (1931-1949) to the early Communist period (1949-1957). My focus is law and the news media, particularly the role of social networks in creating a realm of autonomy from the central government in the context of the rise of strong party-states in twentieth-century China. Rather than simply gauge the relations between the state and these intellectuals, I analyze actual interactions between them, as each sought to influence judicial decision-making and the construction of favorable public opinion through the news media. The influence of the news media on judicial decision-making in the most famous political trials of the Republican era, such as the New Life Weekly Case of 1935 and the Seven Gentlemen Case of 1937, constitute the crucial subject of this project. In these cases, China's Nationalist state attempted to silence non-official local elites who became notorious critics of its policies, and particularly its policy of perceived 'appeasement' toward Japan. Yet in the Nationalist period there was no clear winner. Constrained as it may have been by government censorship, media coverage of the trials provided dissident social elites with a public forum to successfully contest the government's accusations outside the courtroom in the 1930s.
