Politics in China since 1949

ROBERT WEATHERLEY is an Associate of the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is also a Lawyer with the English law firm Mills& Reeve LLP, and heads the firm's China group. He is the author of The Discourse of Human Rights in China (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999) and Politics in China since 1949.

出版者:Routledge

作者:Robert Weatherley

页数:224

出版时间:2013-1-28

价格:USD 44.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780415512459

图书标签:政治学社会科学社会海外中国研究极权主义、威权主义政权极权与威权政权政治社会学政治学-当代中国政府与政治

Since the victory of the 1949 revolution the incumbency of the Chinese Communist Party has been characterized by an almost relentless struggle to legitimize its monopoly on political power. During the Mao era, attempts to derive legitimacy focused primarily on mass participation in political affairs, a blend of Marxist and nationalist ideology, and the charismatic authority of Mao Zedong. The dramatic failure of the Cultural Revolution forced the post-Mao leadership to discard these discredited paradigms of legitimacy and move towards an almost exclusively performance based concept founded on market economic reform.

The reforms during the 1980s generated a number of unwelcome but inevitable side effects such as official corruption, high unemployment and significant socio-economic inequality. These factors culminated ultimately in the 1989 demonstrations in Tiananmen Square and throughout China. Since Tiananmen the party has sought to diversify the basis of its legitimacy by adhering more closely to constitutional procedures in decision making and, to a certain extent, by reinventing itself as a conservative nationalist party.

This probing study of post-communist revolution Chinese politics sets out to discover if there is a plausible alternative to the electoral mode or if legitimacy is the exclusive domain of the multi-party system.

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党不仅指挥枪，也指挥历史。不政治化的历史对中国而言没有意义，通过历史的篡改来维护专制统治的合法性也是基于历史的经验与中共成长的道路。政治支配历史，操控历史，玩弄历史。诚然如此，政治随人类有限的寿命而此消彼长，历史却是永恒而弥真的。

党不仅指挥枪，也指挥历史。不政治化的历史对中国而言没有意义，通过历史的篡改来维护专制统治的合法性也是基于历史的经验与中共成长的道路。政治支配历史，操控历史，玩弄历史。诚然如此，政治随人类有限的寿命而此消彼长，历史却是永恒而弥真的。