Exploring the crucial link between state and society in the PRC, this study analyzes the interaction between the Chinese Communist Party and the country's major social groups--peasants, workers, youths and students, intellectuals, and ethnic minorities--since the founding of the People's Republic. Alan Liu argues that uninstitutionalized public opinion has existed in China ever since the inception of the Communist regime and that it gradually grew powerful enough to thwart Mao's policies and programs. He contends that the ...
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Exploring the crucial link between state and society in the PRC, this study analyzes the interaction between the Chinese Communist Party and the country's major social groups--peasants, workers, youths and students, intellectuals, and ethnic minorities--since the founding of the People's Republic. Alan Liu argues that uninstitutionalized public opinion has existed in China ever since the inception of the Communist regime and that it gradually grew powerful enough to thwart Mao's policies and programs. He contends that the government's radical post-Mao reforms emerged less from the preferences of another paramount leader--Deng--than from public opinion, which has grown too strong for the communist party either to ignore or control.
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Fine. Not ex-lib. Softcover in white, brown and orange wraps, 8v. 1st printing, 1996. xiii + 251pp. Index, bibliography. Fine. Mild curl at tips of corners of sharp, bright wraps. Binding strong and square; pages clean and unmarked.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. Book Contains Pencil Markings In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 500grams, ISBN: 9780813313351.
