Party vs. State in Post-1949 China: The Institutional Dilemma

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Pub. Date: 1997-07-13
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Tables
xi(1)
Acknowledgments xii(2)
List of Abbreviations xiv
Part I Introduction 3(50)
1 Understanding the State and Party in China
3(20)
The Question of State-building
6(6)
An Institutional Perspective
12(3)
Basic Theme and Arguments
15(6)
Structure of the Book
21(2)
2 Where did the Chinese State Come From?
23(30)
The Imperial Tradition of China
24(6)
Fall of the Imperial State and Rise of the Revolutionary Party
30(5)
Nanjing, Jiangxi, or Yan'an
35(4)
Premature Birth of the PRC State
39(8)
Why the State? Why the Party?
47(6)
Part II State-building under a Revolutionary Party: The Mao Zedong Era 53(108)
3 Revolution, Laws, and Party
53(26)
"Destroying the Old and Establishing the New"
53(9)
The Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957
62(7)
The Turning Point in Party-Legal Relations
69(10)
4 Party Leadership and State Administration
79(27)
Growing State and Expansionist Party
79(12)
Party Leadership in Action: 1958-60
91(7)
Centralization and Decentralization
98(8)
5 Army-building and Revolutionary Politics
106(26)
Military Reorganization and Modernization
106(5)
The PLA Command and Control System
111(7)
Danger of Revolutionary Politics
118(14)
6 Politics of Campaigns: The Cultural Revolution
132(29)
Mao and More Class Struggle
133(8)
Question of Reorganization
141(7)
Army and Power Struggle
148(5)
Mass Campaigns and Revolutionary Party
153(8)
Part III State-building under a Reformist Party: The Deng Xiaoping Era 161(106)
7 Reform, Legal System, and Party Rule
161(30)
From Lawlessness to Rule by Law
162(9)
Which is Superior, the Party or the Law?
171(6)
The Constitutional Crisis in 1989
177(4)
End of the Campaign and Beginning of Legal Battle
181(10)
8 Changing Party-Government Relations
191(34)
Reform and Retreat
191(9)
Getting the Central Government Right
200(7)
Party, Bureaucracy, and Civil Service
207(8)
Changing Central-Provincial Relations
215(10)
9 Military Modernization and Party Politics
225(30)
Military Reform of the 1980s
226(5)
The Tragedy of 1989
231(6)
Money Grows out of the Barrel of a Gun
237(5)
Army of the Party or Army of the State?
242(13)
Conclusions
255(12)
Chinese State-building in Retrospect
256(2)
The Institutional Perspective on State-building
258(5)
The Future of the Chinese State
263(4)
Appendix A: CCP Membership Changes, 1921-96 267(3)
Appendix B: Campaigns in China, 1950-89 270(3)
Bibliography 273(14)
Index 287

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