Format:
1 online resource (800 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
9780765601483
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9781315706948
Content:
A critique of America's flawed Asia policy that centres on US-Japan relations but harkens back to the same disastrous views that drew America into Vietnam
Note:
Cover -- Shanghai Delta Map -- Provinces of China Map -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Romanizations -- A Note about Wordings -- Tables -- Plates -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Part 2, Legitimation: Local Seers Reform Political Truth-Commitment After Campaigns -- 2.1 Reform of Ideology -- 2.2 Reform of Religion -- 2.3 Reform of Media -- 2.4 Reform of the Arts -- a. Painting and Visual Arts -- born Literature, Theater, and Film -- Plates -- c. Music -- 2.5 Reforms of Entitlement Support -- a. Housing and Residents -- born Transport Infrastructure and Commuters -- c. Relief and Pensioners -- d. Health and Environment for Citizens -- e. Birth Planning and Parents -- f. Opportunities and Women -- g. School Finance and Students -- h. Ethnic Respect and Minorities -- Part 3, Sanctions: Commanders Reform Political Tradition-Coercive Incentives by State and Nonstate Communities -- Sanctions and Communities in Reforms -- Families and their Imitators -- Identity Groups Define Corruption or Rent -- Patronism and Leninism -- 3.1 Sanctioning Agencies -- a. Police -- born Army -- c. Courts and Lawyers -- 3.2 The Control of Social Groups -- a. Workers -- born Academics -- c. Students -- Part 4, Steering: Statesmen Reform Political Structure-Authoritarianism, Liberalism, and Alternatives -- Divisions by Flexibility: The Combination of Lions and Foxes -- Divisions by Administrative Level: The Community Consensus Rule -- Divisions by Space: Mid-Level Rule from Cities -- Divisions by Faith in Particular State Leaders -- 4.1 Leadership Selection -- a. Cadre Appointments -- born Cadre Retirements -- c. Local Elections -- 4.2 Policy Selection -- a. Legislating -- born Gathering Opinions -- c. Demonstrating -- 4.3 Selection of Political Structure -- a. Constitutional Rights and Duties
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born Proposals for Changing Political Structure -- c. Antidemocratic Scientism -- d. Regime Types: Modern Options in Theory -- e. Actual Reforms of Structure: Party or Management -- Conclusion: China Changes -- Long-Term Rationality -- Causal Circumspection: Reasoning in Multiple Dimensions -- Centralizations and Decentralizations: State and Nonstate -- Civil and Uncivil Institutions -- Reconciliation vs. Memory in Postrevolutionary Politics -- Cold Shower vs. Slow Reforms: Reactions to Communism's Demise -- Predicting the Future -- Sources -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version White, III, Lynn T. Unstately Power Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c1998 ISBN 9780765601483
Language:
English
Keywords:
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