From Deng Xiaoping to Jiang Zemin offers a macro-historical analysis of the political reform process since the People's Republic of China adopted open door and reform policies in the late 1970s. One of the important topics that fascinates students of Chinese politics is the democratization prospect of the People's Republic of China, characterized widely by academics as a Leninist dictatorship.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1 List of Tables
Chapter 2 Abbreviations
Chapter 3 Acknowledgments
Chapter 4 Introduction
Chapter 5 Theoretical Framework - Back to Modernization Theory
Chapter 6 The Maoist Legacy - The Origins of Political Structural Reform
Chapter 7 Restructuring the Party/State Polity in the 1980s
Chapter 8 The Cyclical Process of the Reform
Chapter 9 The Post-Tiennanmen Retrenchment
Chapter 10 Stability and Reform: Politics in the 1990s
Chapter 11 Marketization, Liberalization, and Democratization
Chapter 12 Democracy and Democratization
Chapter 13 Conclusion
Chapter 14 References
Chapter 15 Index
