1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792816903321

Autore

Hu Angang

Titolo

Mao and the cultural revolution . Volume 1 Mao's motivation and strategy / / Hu Angang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Honolulu, Hawaii : , : Silkroad Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-62320-152-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (362 pages)

Disciplina

951.050924

Soggetti

China History Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Historical Lessons of the Cultural Revolution -- Mao Zedong and the Significance of the Cultural Revolution  -- Basic Characteristics of the Cultural Revolution -- Analytical Framework Content and Organization --  Mao Zedong’s Preparations for the Cultural Revolution: International Background to Mao Zedong’s Class Struggle  -- Theory Mao Zedong’s Basic Assessment of the Political Situation in China --  Mao Zedong’s Basic Assessment of the Economic Situation in China -- Fomenting Public Sentiment for the Launch of the Cultural Revolution --  Mao Zedong’s Political Differences with Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping -- How the Intraparty Democratic System Failed -- How China Missed Development Opportunities --  The First Salvo of the Cultural Revolution: February Outline and February Minutes Notice on May 16 and the First Purge of Veteran Cadres -- The Big-character Poster at Peking University and “Letter to Jiang Qing” -- The Eleventh Plenary Session of the 8th Central Committee of the CPC and “Bombarding the Headquarters”  -- The “Destroy Four Olds” Movement and Nationwide Chaos Criticism of the Bourgeois Counter-revolutionary Line and the Convention of the Central Work Conference in October --  Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Acclaimed national researcher Hu Angang presents Mao and the Cultural Revolution, an immensely rich account of the massive political event of 1966–1976 that brought seismic changes to the landscape of New China. A culmination of Mao Zedong`s political ambitions, the



Cultural Revolution restored his power and prestige as paramount leader, albeit at great costs to the economic and social development to the country. The impact of the movement — more significantly, the politics that drove it — deeply influences political philosophy in China today. Hu Angang`s work provides a unique perspective and objective assessment of the progression of the Cultural Revolution, focusing on the intraparty politics, the Politburo`s international outlook, and the political thought of the Chinese leadership that shaped this pivotal decade.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910795058703321

Autore

Rodan Garry <1955->

Titolo

Participation without democracy : containing conflict in Southeast Asia / / Garry Rodan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca ; ; London : , : Cornell University Press, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

1-5017-2011-2

1-5017-2013-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Disciplina

323/.0420959

Soggetti

Political participation - Southeast Asia

Representative government and representation - Southeast Asia

Democracy - Southeast Asia

Social conflict - Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia Politics and government 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based on print version record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Theorizing institutions of political participation and representation -- Ideologies of political representation and the mode of participation framework -- History, capitalism, and conflict -- Nominated members of parliament in Singapore -- Public feedback in Singapore's consultative authoritarianism -- The Philippines' party-list system, reformers, and oligarchs -- Participatory budgeting in the Philippines



-- Malaysia's failed consultative representation experiments -- Civil society and electoral reform in Malaysia.

Sommario/riassunto

Over the past quarter century new ideologies of participation and representation have proliferated across democratic and non-democratic regimes. In Participation without Democracy, Garry Rodan breaks new conceptual ground in examining the social forces that underpin the emergence of these innovations in Southeast Asia. Rodan explains that there is, however, a central paradox in this recalibration of politics: expanded political participation is serving to constrain contestation more than to enhance it.Participation without Democracy uses Rodan's long-term fieldwork in Singapore, the Philippines, and Malaysia to develop a modes of participation (MOP) framework that has general application across different regime types among both early-developing and late-developing capitalist societies. His MOP framework is a sophisticated, original, and universally relevant way of analyzing this phenomenon. Rodan uses MOP and his case studies to highlight important differences among social and political forces over the roles and forms of collective organization in political representation. In addition, he identifies and distinguishes hitherto neglected non-democratic ideologies of representation and their influence within both democratic and authoritarian regimes. Participation without Democracy suggests that to address the new politics that both provokes these institutional experiments and is affected by them we need to know who can participate, how, and on what issues, and we need to take the non-democratic institutions and ideologies as seriously as the democratic ones.