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Politics in China
Mengin, Francoise; Rocca, Jean-Louis
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Description for Politics in China
Paperback. Series: CERI Series in International Relations and Political Economy. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; JPS; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Faced with the usual list of paradoxes that plague our views of China: it is a communist regime with a capitalist economy; an authoritarian state with an entrepreneurial spirit; a unified nation with tendencies toward fragmentation, the contributions to this volume work to go beyond them and to seek new paths to understanding China. To do so, the essays avoid the conventional approaches toward Chinese politics that focus on either evolutionist (culturally bound) or functionalist (role bound) issues. Rather than separate state from society, these essays explore how the interweaving of these different spheres creates a hazy border between them. ... Read more
Faced with the usual list of paradoxes that plague our views of China: it is a communist regime with a capitalist economy; an authoritarian state with an entrepreneurial spirit; a unified nation with tendencies toward fragmentation, the contributions to this volume work to go beyond them and to seek new paths to understanding China. To do so, the essays avoid the conventional approaches toward Chinese politics that focus on either evolutionist (culturally bound) or functionalist (role bound) issues. Rather than separate state from society, these essays explore how the interweaving of these different spheres creates a hazy border between them. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
289
Condition
New
Series
CERI Series in International Relations and Political Economy
Number of Pages
261
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349635870
SKU
V9781349635870
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About Mengin, Francoise; Rocca, Jean-Louis
FRANÇOISE MENGIN has been a Researcher at the Center for International Studies and Research (CERI, Sciences Po) since 1997. JEAN-LOUIS ROCCA is currently Professor of Political Science at Renmin University of China. From1987 and 1995, he lectured as a professor in history and economics at the Catholic University of Lyons. He is a member of the EU-China Academic ... Read more
Reviews for Politics in China
'Mengin and Rocca fashion an approach that takes seriously the interpenetration of the political with the social and economic spheres. They theorize this complex set of relationships rather strongly, which is a welcome development for China studies. They bring together continental British, American, and Chinese scholars and academic traditions, also a rarity; the cross-fertilization and comparisons are both edifying and ... Read more