CHINA
Dec 17, 2015
The sleeping giant? Great civilization of history West either ignore or exploit Communist hold-out Steady toward managed capitalism Authoritarian leadership Marketization and privatization = democracy Superpower or LDC
Legitimacy Dynastic Cycles = long periods of rule by one family punctuated
by times of chaos
Mandate of Heaven = right to rule as seen by the collective ancestral wisdom that guided the empire from the heaven above Confucian Values: order, harmony, submission
Middle Kingdom: China is the center of civilization
Constitution?
Technically grants formal authority to party and government
Authoritarian elites not bound by the rule of law
Mao to Politburo
Central Military Commission
CultureDynastic Tradition
Authoritarian Power Confucianism Bureaucratic Hierarchy Middle Kingdom Communist Ideology
Geographic Features Access to Ports Large Navigable Rivers Differing Climates Barriers of Travel Location and Isolation
Political HistoryHistorical Eras
Dynastic Rule Resistance to
Imperialism Maoism Deng Theory
Maoism Collectivism Struggle and Activism Mass Line Egalitarianism Self-reliance
People’s Republic of ChinaPolitical Eras
Soviet Model Great Leap Forward Cultural Revolution Four Modernizations
Central Bodies
National Party Congress
Central Committee Politburo Standing Committee
The Two ChinasNationalists vs. Communists
Page 272
Chiang Kai-shek Taiwan Han Family
Mao Zedong PRC Peasants
Urban-Rural Cleavages Page 278
Modernized Educated Wealthy
Poor Traditional Unconnected
Civil Society Protests in Tiananmen Square, Tibet, Xinjang, and Taiwan
Technocrats = people with technical training who climbed the ladder of the party bureaucracy
Xinhua = China’s official news media
Hukou = traditional household registration system; makes migration difficult
Plenums = meeting of the party elite to make plans
Guanxi = personal connections; patron-client connections
Pricelings = aristocracy with ties to Mao revolution
Tuanpai = communist youth league
Fang-shuo = tightening/loosening cycles of power
Danwei = social units usually based on place of work
Institutions of Government Parallel Hierarchies (pg 295)
Communist Party
Government
People’s Liberation Army
Dual Role – vertical/horizontal
National People’s Congress
President, Prime Minister (Premier)
Cadres, Provincial, Local
Judiciary
People’s Court
People’s Procuratorate
Rule of Law?
Policy Issues Democracy and Human Rights The Rule of Law Civil Rights and Liberties Population Policy Economic Policy Foreign Policy and International Trade
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