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Autocratic Tradition and Chinese Politics
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Autocratic Tradition and Chinese Politics Hardcover - 1994

by Zhengyuan Fu

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This book examines the Chinese political tradition over the past two thousand years and argues that the enduring and most important feature of this tradition is autocracy. The author interprets the communist takeover of 1949 not as a revolution but as a continuation of the imperial tradition. The book shows how Mao Zedong revitalised this autocratic tradition along five lines: the use of ideology for political control; concentration of power in the hands of a few; state power over all aspects of life; law as a tool wielded by the ruler, who is himself above the law; and the subjection of the individual to the state. Using a statist approach, the book argues that in China political action of the state has been the single most important factor in determining socio-economic change.

Details

  • Title Autocratic Tradition and Chinese Politics
  • Author Zhengyuan Fu
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 415
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, New York
  • Date 1994-01
  • ISBN 9780521442282 / 0521442281
  • Weight 1.64 lbs (0.74 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.03 x 6.26 x 1.06 in (20.40 x 15.90 x 2.69 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects China - Politics and government, Despotism - China - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93019027
  • Dewey Decimal Code 321.140

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