Autocratic Tradition and Chinese Politics

Autocratic Tradition and Chinese Politics
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 416
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0521442281
ISBN-13 : 9780521442282
Rating : 4/5 (282 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Autocratic Tradition and Chinese Politics by : Zhengyuan Fu

Download or read book Autocratic Tradition and Chinese Politics written by Zhengyuan Fu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the Chinese political tradition over the past two thousand years and argues that the enduring and most important feature of this tradition is autocracy. The author interprets the communist takeover of 1949 not as a revolution but as a continuation of the imperial tradition. The book shows how Mao Zedong revitalised this autocratic tradition along five lines: the use of ideology for political control; concentration of power in the hands of a few; state power over all aspects of life; law as a tool wielded by the ruler, who is himself above the law; and the subjection of the individual to the state. Using a statist approach, the book argues that in China political action of the state has been the single most important factor in determining socio-economic change.


Autocratic Tradition and Chinese Politics Related Books

Autocratic Tradition and Chinese Politics
Language: en
Pages: 416
Authors: Zhengyuan Fu
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book examines the Chinese political tradition over the past two thousand years and argues that the enduring and most important feature of this tradition is
Tradition and Politics
Language: en
Pages: 410
Authors: Olufemi Vaughan
Categories: Design
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Africa Research and Publications

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Based on selected papers presented at the international conference on Indigenous Political Structures and Governance in Africa, held in the University of Nigeri
Islam and Human Rights
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors:
Categories: Civil rights (Islamic law)
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Politics and Tradition Between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople
Language: en
Pages: 385
Authors: M. Shane Bjornlie
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A revealing study of the Variae of Cassiodorus and the insight that the epistolary collection can provide into sixth-century Italy.
Religion and Radical Politics
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Robert Hedborg Craig
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: Temple University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This study discusses an array of movements, organisations and activists, many largely unstudied, who sought to aid the poor and oppressed through Christian soci