LEADER 04147nam 2200697 450 001 9910813235603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-54068-X 024 7 $a10.7312/chun17620 035 $a(CKB)3710000000776221 035 $a(EBL)4588555 035 $a(OCoLC)956139664 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001646429 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16416072 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001646429 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14951740 035 $a(PQKB)10025659 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4588555 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001666779 035 $a(DE-B1597)479848 035 $a(OCoLC)979575422 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231540681 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4588555 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11242257 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL959735 035 $a(PPN)197409288 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000776221 100 $a20160825h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCentrifugal empire $ecentral-local relations in China /$fJae Ho Chung 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (229 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-231-17620-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tList of Figures and Tables --$tPreface --$t1. China as a Centrifugal Empire: Size, Diversity, and Local Governance --$t2. China Goes Local (Again): Assessing Post- Mao Decentralization --$t3. The Subnational Hierarchy in Time: Institutional Changes (and Continuities) --$t4. The Center's Perceptions of Local Bureaucracy in China --$t5. The Center's Instruments of Local Control --$t6. Determinants of Local Discretion in Implementation: Exploring Policy- Contingent Variations --$t7. The Political Economy of Vertical Support and Horizontal Networks --$t8. Conclusion --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aDespite the destabilizing potential of governing of a vast territory and a large multicultural population, the centralized government of the People's Republic of China has held together for decades, resisting efforts at local autonomy. By analyzing Beijing's strategies for maintaining control even in the reformist post-Mao era, Centrifugal Empire reveals the unique thinking behind China's approach to local governance, its historical roots, and its deflection of divergent interests.Centrifugal Empire examines the logic, mode, and instrument of local governance established by the People's Republic, and then compares the current system to the practices of its dynastic predecessors. The result is an expansive portrait of Chinese leaders' attitudes toward regional autonomy and local challenges, one concerned with territory-specific preoccupations and manifesting in constant searches for an optimal design of control. Jae Ho Chung reveals how current communist instruments of local governance echo imperial institutions, while exposing the Leninist regime's savvy adaptation to contemporary issues and its need for more sophisticated inter-local networks to keep its unitary rule intact. He casts the challenges to China's central-local relations as perennial, since the dilution of the system's "socialist" or "Communist" character will only accentuate its fundamentally Chinese-or centrifugal-nature. 606 $aCentral-local government relations$zChina 606 $aDecentralization in government$zChina 606 $aChinese autonomous regions$xGovernment policy 606 $aLocal government$zChina 607 $aChina$xEthnic relations$xPolitical aspects 607 $aChina$xPolitics and government$y2002- 615 0$aCentral-local government relations 615 0$aDecentralization in government 615 0$aChinese autonomous regions$xGovernment policy. 615 0$aLocal government 676 $a320.80951 700 $aCho?ng$b Chae-ho$f1960-$0934915 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813235603321 996 $aCentrifugal empire$93989916 997 $aUNINA