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  • China in the Era of Xi Jinping

    Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges

    by Robert S. Ross, Jo Inge Bekkevold, Zhiyue Bo, Yongnian Zheng, Cuifen Weng, Barry Naughton, Joseph Fewsmith, Stig Stenslie, Gang Chen0, Linda Jakobson1, Andrew Nathan2, Helge Hveem3, T J. Pempel4, Mingjiang Li5 ...
    Since becoming president of China and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping has emerged as China's most powerful and popular leader since Deng Xiaoping. The breathtaking economic expansion and military modernization that Xi inherited has convinced him that China can transform into a twenty-first-century superpower.In this collection, leading scholars from the United States, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rethinking Chinese Politics

    by Joseph Fewsmith ...
    Understanding Chinese politics has become more important than ever. Some argue that China's political system is 'institutionalized' or that 'win all/lose all' struggles are a thing of the past, but, Joseph Fewsmith argues, as in all Leninist systems, political power is difficult to pass on from one leader to the next. Indeed, each new leader must deploy whatever resources he has to gain control ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Forging Leninism in China

    Mao and the Remaking of the Chinese Communist Party, 1927–1934

    by Joseph Fewsmith ...
    Forging Leninism in China is a re-examination of the events of the Chinese revolution and the transformation of the Chinese Communist Party from the years 1927 to 1934. Describing the transformation of the party as 'the forging of Leninism', Joseph Fewsmith offers a clear analysis of the development of the party. Drawing on supporting statements of party leaders and a wealth of historical material ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Mao's Road to Power

    Revolutionary Writings: Volume IX

    Edited by Nancy Hearst, Joseph Fewsmith ...
    Series series Mao's Road to Power
    The series, Mao’s Road to Power, consisting of translations of Mao Zedong’s writings from 1912 to 1949, provides abundant documentation in his own words on his life and thought as well as on developments in China during the pre-1949 period. This penultimate volume in the series, Volume 9, covers the period from the Japanese Surrender through the Chinese Communist Party’s Strategic Defense during ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Mao's Road to Power

    Revolutionary Writings: Volume X

    Edited by Nancy Hearst, Joseph Fewsmith ...
    Series series Mao's Road to Power
    The series, Mao’s Road to Power, consisting of translations of Mao Zedong’s writings from 1912 to 1949, provides abundant documentation in his own words on his life and thought as well as developments in China during the pre-1949 period. This final volume in the series, Volume 10, covers the period from the Chinese Communist Party’s Strategic Offense during the Civil War to the Establishment of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • China Today, China Tomorrow

    Domestic Politics, Economy, and Society

    Edited by Joseph Fewsmith ...
    In this timely book, a group of leading scholars provides a comprehensive assessment of China's polity, economy, and society. Taking the thirtieth anniversary of Beijing's adoption of reform and opening as an occasion to reflect on the course of development over the past three decades, the contributors consider where the country may be going in the future. Just as China has had enormous success in ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Governance in China

    by John P. Burns, Du Jie, Joseph Fewsmith, Linda Jakobson, Clemens Stubbe Ostergaard, Zhu Sanzhu, Zhang Jing, Dr. Jude Howell, Marc Blecher, Michael Keane ...
    Over the past two decades, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has paradoxically steered the development of a thriving capitalist economy. Unlike many faltering post-socialist states with fragile economies and weakly institutionalised democratic structures, China has witnessed a tide of economic entrepreneurialism that has raised living standards and the country's global economic stature. However, ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • State–Society Relations and Governance in China

    by John Creed, Sheng Ding, Joseph Fewsmith, Wenshan Jia, Josef Gregory Mahoney, Edwin E. Moise, Nele Noesselt, G. Venkat Raman, Lynn T. White III, Teresa Wright, David S. G. Goodman, Guoli Liu, Dorothy J. Solinger ...
    Series series Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
    State–society relations and governance are closely related areas of study and have become important topics in the social sciences in the past decades, not only in developed countries but also in the developing world. In China, state-society relations have been changing in the new era of reform and opening, and governance has become a central concern in policy practice and in academia. In this wide ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Elite Politics in Contemporary China

    by Joseph Fewsmith ...
    A 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 ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Dilemmas of Reform in China

    Political Conflict and Economic Debate

    by Joseph Fewsmith ...
    This 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. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Logic and Limits of Political Reform in China

    by Joseph Fewsmith ...
    In 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? ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • China's Opening Society

    The Non-State Sector and Governance

    Edited by Zheng Yongnian, Joseph Fewsmith ...
    Series series China Policy Series
    Despite its recent rapid economic growth, China’s political system has remained resolutely authoritarian. However, an increasingly open economy is creating the infrastructure for an open society, with the rise of a non-state sector in which a private economy, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and different forms of social forces are playing an increasingly powerful role in facilitating ... Read more

    $31.99 USD