UID:
almafu_9960119617402883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 230 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-52818-3
Content:
This 1994 book examines the relationship between the Communist political elite and the largely anti-Communist intellectual elite during the decade of reform (1977-89). The author, who was a participant in these events, shows how the Deng Xiaoping regime precipitated a legitimacy crisis by encouraging economic reform while preventing political reform, and how the intellectual elite used this situation to increase its own power. The book also offers a theoretical model to explain how a political resistance movement could gain power in a nation that does not have a well-developed civil society. The concept of 'institutional parasitism' shows that rather than developing separate institutions, the anti-Communist intellectuals occupied state structures from which oppositional activity was carried out. The book will be of interest to both scholars of China and students of comparative Communism.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Introduction; Part I: 1. Theoretical and comparative issues; 2. The counter-elite and its institutional basis; Part II: 3. 'The movement to 'emancipate the mind' and the counter-elite's response; 4. 'Building socialist spiritual civilisation' and the counter-elite's response; 5. Two contending patriotic campaigns; 6. Admission of the 'primary stage of socialism' and the counter-elite's two development models; Concluding remarks; Appendix; Selected bibliography; Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-02623-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-45138-8
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511528187
