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The Modernization of China’s State Governance
The Modernization of China’s State Governance
Angang Hu
The Modernization of China’s State Governance
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Angang Hu Institute for Contemporary China Studies Tsinghua University Beijing China
ISBN 978-981-10-3369-8 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-3370-4
ISBN 978-981-10-3370-4
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Acknowledgements
On the completion of this book, I should like to express my deepest gratitude to all my colleagues and students, whose hard work and efforts have made this work possible. Doctor Yan Yilong assisted me in organizing the special study on the ‘Modernization of China’s National Governance’ selected by Research Institute of National Conditions, and acted as one of its authors. My young doctoral students Tang Xiao and Yang Zhusong have been directly involved with the writing, organization of material, research and calculations, editing, and modification, for which they deserve respect.
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Contents
1 The 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4
Construction of China’s State System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mao Zedong: A State System for New China . . . . . . . . . . . . Mao Zedong: Major System Innovations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mao Zedong: Mistakes of the Later Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deng Xiaoping: Reconstruction of the Basic Party System, and the State Selection of ‘Three Paths’ After the Cultural Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.5 Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao: Consolidating and Improving the Basic Socialist System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.6 Summary: China’s Path Versus
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