"Wang successfully merges passionate conviction with broad, deep, and well-organized scholarship. Many of the book's most trenchant criticisms of CCP-PRC state policy and its outcomes are from PRC publications. As a result, The China Record delivers the most powerful intellectual shock to our understanding of China of any book published since the death of Mao Zedong." — Roger Garside, author of China Coup: The Great Leap to Freedom

Detailed assessment of the People's Republic of China as an alternative mode of political system and as a distinctive model of socioeconomic development.The China Record provides readers with an ambitious, detailed, and wide-ranging examination of the People's Republic of China (PRC) under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) both as an alternative mode of political system and a distinctive model of socioeconomic development. Fei-Ling Wang assesses the record of the economy under the CCP, people's lives and rights, and China's spiritual and physical ecology. He focuses on issues of political representation, criminal justice, fiscal and monetary policies, state-led growth, living standards, academia and education, inequality and poverty, disaster relief and pandemic prevention, culture and ethics, and the protection of antiquities and the environment. Using both quantitative and qualitative data, The China Record seeks to provide a solid and balanced, yet unflinching, view about the nature, strengths, weaknesses, and implications of the PRC as an emerging superpower and a potential world leader. It is an effort to introduce a holistic evaluation of the CCP-PRC's overall efficacy, efficiency, power, sustainability, and desirability-or the lack thereof.
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Figures and TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionGames of Numbers: A Note on Methodology and EpistemologyArrangement of the Book1. Political Governance: People's Dictatorship and the Party-StateThe Tragedy and the Grand DetourThe DNA of the Party-State: Mao Zedong ThoughtDéjà vu in Beijing: Xi Jinping ThoughtCCP Optimality and China SuboptimalityPeople's Lives and Rights in the People's RepublicExtra-Legal Means for Extra ControlThought Work, Jingoism, Officials-Standard, and Power FetishismThe Partocracy and the Police StateThe Ruling Class and the AristocracyIntrusion, Insecurity, and Intranquility2. Economic Record: Socialism with Chinese CharacteristicsThe China ModelIncompetence and Failures: Mao's Great Famine and Stark StagnationThree Decades of Prodigious GrowthDistortions and DysfunctionsExtraction and ProfligacyQuantitative Assessments of the RecordWhat about India? A Note on Comparison3. Social Life: Bitterness, Happiness, and ResistanceA Bona Fide Developing CountryBitterness Eaters and Luxury IndulgersInequality and PovertyDisaster ReliefThe Elusive HappinessVoting with FeetWatched, Worried, Wrathful4. Spirit and Ecology: Culture, Ethics, and the EnvironmentThe Officials-Standard and SocietyThe CCP Pantheon of Demigods and ChiefsMoral Vacuum, Amnesia, and the MindAnecdata of CorruptionAcademia and Education"We All Fake It" Publication, Antiquities, and GastronomyThe Environment and EcologySuperpower of ImitationEpilogue: From the RecordNotesWorks and Sources CitedIndex
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Detailed assessment of the People's Republic of China as an alternative mode of political system and as a distinctive model of socioeconomic development.

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ISBN
9781438492261
Publisert
2023-09-02
Utgiver
Vendor
State University of New York Press
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
421

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Fei-Ling Wang is Professor of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His previous books include The China Order: Centralia, World Empire and the Nature of Chinese Power (also published by SUNY Press); Organization through Division and Exclusion: China's Hukou System; and China Rising: Power and Motivation in Chinese Foreign Policy (coedited with Yong Deng).