China's Governance Across Vertical and Horizontal Connexions
This book elucidates fundamental governance features and issues in contemporary China. While especially focusing on principal governance areas, it offers comprehensive coverage, capturing the dynamics of governance across vertical and horizontal connexion
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Peijie Wang
China's Governance Across Vertical and Horizontal Connexions
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SpringerBriefs in Political Science
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Peijie Wang
China’s Governance Across Vertical and Horizontal Connexions
123
Peijie Wang University of Plymouth Plymouth UK and IÉSEG Lille France
ISSN 2191-5466 ISSN 2191-5474 (electronic) SpringerBriefs in Political Science ISBN 978-3-319-45912-7 ISBN 978-3-319-45913-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-45913-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016952510 © The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Preface
This book is intended to put together all major ingredients of governance of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in a single volume, across vertical and horizontal connexions. It consists of seven chapters contained in three parts: State Governance, Organization of Production, and Governance Approaches. The book provides an integrated overview of contemporary topics and issues in the governance of the PRC, which evolves while persists over time and, at this moment in time, enters into a critical phase of development. The book is a purely analytical text, involving no value judgement of social institutions and political systems. It places a focus on material life and material forces of production in addressing the design and construct of PRC governance in various fields. This book is written in the framework of historical materialist historiography. Its worldview about human society and history as articulated by historical materialism is that ‘human beings enter into definite relations of production independent of their will, which are appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production. The totality of
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