Coalitions of the Weak

ISBN-13: 9781316516959 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Victor Shih

Opis

An exhaustively researched account of late-Mao power strategy and its consequences on elite dynamics in subsequent decades, including the rise of Xi.

Recenzje

… a monumental book for specialists that raises important questions and advances a novel frame for the analysis of Chinese politics.' David M. Lampton, China Quarterly

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Coalition of the Strong: Mao's Predicament After the Great Leap Forward; 3. 'Counterrevolutionary Splittists' in Mao's Ruling Coalition; 4. The Scribblers Mafia: Radical Ideologues in Mao's Coalition; 5. Realizing the Coalition of the Weak: Politics in the Late Mao Period; 6. The Collapse of the Coalition of the Weak and Power Sharing in the 1980s; 7. Weak Successors: the Final Calculus of the Founding Generation and the Rise of Xi Jinping; 8. Conclusion.