Reform, legitimacy and dilemmas [[electronic resource] ] : China's politics and society / / editors, Wang Gungwu, Zheng Yongnian

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782388603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Singapore, : Singapore University Press, National University of Singapore; Singapore ; ; New Jersey, : World Scientific, c2000
• ISBN: 1-281-96070-5; 9786611960704; 981-281-174-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (387 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): WangGungwu; ZhengYongnian
• Disciplina: 951.05
• Soggetti: Political science; China Politics and government 1976-2002; China Social conditions 1976-2000
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Editors and Contributors; Introduction: Reform Legitimacy and Dilemmas; Part One: Party State and Society; Chapter 1. The Politics of Power Succession; Chapter 2. The Chinese Communist Party in the Countryside; Chapter 3. State Corporatism and Civil Society; Chapter 4. The Religio-Political Significance of Falun Gong and Jiang Zemin's Legacy of Social Stability; Chapter 5. The Rule by Law vs the Rule of Law; Part Two: Social Reform and Challenges; Chapter 6. Labor Law for Foreign Investment Enterprises in China; Chapter 7. The Political Economy of Public Housing Reform; Chapter 8. Conflicts between Societal Desire and Individual Responsibility: Financing Issues in China's Urban Health Insurance ReformChapter 9. China's Growing Concerns over Its Environmental Problems; Part Three: Domestic Responses to External Relations; Chapter 10. The Politics of Human Rights: Stability First Development Second and Everything Else Can Wait; Chapter 11. China's Dialogue with the West on Human Rights: Is There Any Common Ground?; Chapter 12. ; Nationalism and Its Dilemma: Chinese Responses to Embassy Bombing; Chapter 13. China's Strategic Intentions and Demands: What is New?; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: How has China's post-Deng leadership governed the country? How have the changing social and political environments shifted the bases of political legitimacy? What strategies has Jiang Zemin adopted to cope with new circumstances in order to strengthen his leadership? What are the challenges these new reform measures have generated for the leadership? And how have domestic concerns constrained the leadership's intention in China's foreign relations? These are some of the questions which this volume attempts to address. The authors agree that Jiang Zemin is not a man without any political initia