China's Deep Reform
豆瓣
Domestic Politics in Transition
Dittmer, Lowell (EDT)/ Liu, Guoli (EDT)
简介
China's rapid and complex political and socioeconomic changes provide fertile ground for pioneering analysis, but they also present daunting theoretical and practical challenges. This reader takes up the challenge, offering the most comprehensive assessment of Chinese domestic politics available by bringing together the best recent scholarship in the field. The anthology focuses on the origin, content, and significance of the post-1989 phase of China's reform and opening to the world, commonly known in the PRC as "deep reform." This period has been unfolding in interaction with globalization, marketization, privatization, political institutionalization, as well as with financial and legal changes. Deep reform includes new policy initiatives that have penetrated political, legal, economic, and social sectors untouched by previous initiatives as reformers have been forced to deal with the consequences—intended and unintended—of earlier reforms.
These carefully selected essays by leading scholars have been revised and updated for this text. In addition, a substantive introduction and conclusion place the articles in their broader context for readers new to the subject. With the successful transition of the leadership of the party, state, and military since 2002, the time is ripe for a comprehensive evaluation of China's deep reform as it enters a new stage. This timely reader will offer students, scholars, and policymakers invaluable insights into the dynamics of change in one of the world's emerging political and economic dynamos.
Contributions by: Marc Blecher, Bruce J. Dickson, Lowell Dittmer, Joseph Fewsmith, Ting Gong, Baogang Guo, William Hurst, Cheng Li, Guoli Liu, Andrew J. Nathan, Kevin J. O'Brien, Veronica Pearson, Randall Peerenboom, Yingyi Qian, Tony Saich, Tianjian Shi, Edward S. Steinfeld, Shaoguang Wang, Lynn White, Yu-Shan Wu, and Guobin Yang
contents
Introduction: the dynamics of deep reform / Guoli Liu and Lowell Dittmer
1. Analysis in limbo?: Contemporary Chinese politics amid the maturation of reform / Lowell Dittmer and William Hurst
Part I. Leadership change and elite politics
2. Leadership coalitions and economic transformation in reform China: Revisiting the political business cycle / Lowell Dittmer and Yu-Shan Wu
3. The Sixteenth Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party: Emerging patterns of power sharing / Li Cheng and Lynn White
4. Cooptation and corporatism in China: the logic of party adaptation / Bruce J. Dickson
Part II. Political and legal reforms
5. Political legitimacy in China's transition toward a market economy / Baogang Guo
6. China's constitutionalist option / Andrew J. Nathan
7. Globalization, path dependency and the limits of law: Administrative law reform and rule of law in the People's Republic of China / Randall Peerenboom
Part III. Political economy in transition
8. The process of China's market transition (1978-98): The evolutionary, historical, and comparative perspectives / Yingyi Qian
9. Openness and inequality: the case of China / Shaoguang Wang
Part IV. Changing public sphere
10. Negotiating the state: the development of social organizations in China / Tony Saich
11. The internet and civil society in China: Coevolutionary dynamics and digital formations / Guobin Yang
12. Historical echoes and Chinese politics: Can China leave the twentieth century behind? / Joseph Fewsmith
Part V. Villagers, elections, and workers' politics
13. Village committee elections in China: institutionalist tactics for democracy / Tianjian Shi
14. Villagers, elections and citizenship in contemporary China / Kevin J. O'Brien
15. Hegemony and workers' politics in China / Marc J. Blecher
Part VI. Emerging problems: the shadow side of reform
16. A broken compact: women's health in the reform era / Veronica Pearson
17. New trends in China's corruption: change amid continuity / Ting Gong
18. Market visions: the interplay of ideas and institutions in Chinese financial restructuring / Edward S. Steinfeld
Conclusion: China's reform deepening / Lowell Dittmer.