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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      23 September 2009
      13 July 1997
      ISBN:
      9780511571626
      9780521582056
      9780521588195
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511571626
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.615kg, 312 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.478kg, 312 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Modern China Series
      Subjects:
      East Asian History, Area Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
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    Series:
    Cambridge Modern China Series
    Subjects:
    East Asian History, Area Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
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    This book provides the most comprehensive analysis of one of the most important issues in China today: the tensions between the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese state legislative, judicial, administrative, and military institutions. Taking the 'neo-institutionalist' approach, the author suggests that the Communist Party in post-1949 China faces an institutional dilemma: the Party cannot live with the state, and it cannot live without the state. Zheng demonstrates that it is not only conceptually constructive, but analytically imperative to distinguish the state from the Communist Party. Secondly, he integrates detailed study with broader generalizations about Chinese politics, thus making efforts to overcome the tendency toward specialized scholarship at the expense of comparative and systemic understanding of China. He also opens a new dimension of Chinese politics - the uncertain and conflictual relationship between the Communist Party and the Chinese state.

    Reviews

    ‘Professor Zheng presents an insightful and lucid overview of the development of China's public institutions since 1949.’

    Brantly Womack - Northern Illinois University

    ‘This is an extremely interesting and thought-provoking book about the contradictions and tensions bedevilling the Chinese Communist Party and state. … the book [is] an extremely valuable contribution to a growing body of work on the party and the state. Furthermore its problematization of the ubiquitous ‘Party-state’ category is pioneering. Scholars and students of Chinese politics, communist and post-communist studies and public administration are well advised to add this to their bookshelves.’

    Jude Howell Source: Government and Opposition

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