Political and Social Control in China : The Consolidation of Single-Party Rule

• Autore: Hillman Ben
• Pubblicazione: Canberra : , : ANU Press, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 pages)
• Disciplina: 951.06
• Soggetto topico: Political parties - China - 21st century; Political leadership - China - 21st century
• Soggetto geografico: China Politics and government 2002-
• Altri autori: KouChien-Wen
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- List of figures -- Figure 2.1: Xi's China and comparative authoritarianism: A deviant case -- Figure 5.1: The system of decision-making in public Chinese universities -- Figure 5.2: Social science research funding inside the propaganda apparatus -- Figure 5.3: The dual methods in state-intellectual relations model -- Figure 5.4: The typology of intellectual roles -- Figure 6.1: Organisational structure for media control and censorship following CPC institutional reforms of 2018 -- Figure 6.2: Percentage of official and commercial media that reported on the 'second uncle' -- Figure 8.1: Institutional features of authoritarianism in the Hu era -- Figure 8.2: Xi's top-level design for the National Security Commission and stability maintenance -- Figure 8.3: China's mechanisms of stability maintenance under Xi Jinping -- Figure 8.4: Institutional features of authoritarianism in the Xi era -- List of tables -- Table 2.1: Major central LSGs and commissions headed or likely to be headed by Xi -- Table 2.2: The targets, purposes and significance of douzheng in Xi's statements -- Table 2.3: A sentiment analysis of douzheng in Xi's statements -- Table 4.1: Dual elite recruitment logic under Xi Jinping -- Table 4.2: Retirement and promotion age limits for CPC cadres and violations of those limits, November 2012-October 2020 -- Table 4.3: The ageing of full ministerial-level cadres from the Hu era to the Xi era -- Table 4.4: County party secretaries in their thirties under Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping -- Table 4.5: Data on recipients of the National Outstanding County Party Secretaries Award, 2015 -- Table 5.1: List of dismissed or disciplined professors -- Table 6.1: Laws and regulations on information control through telecommunication (inclusive of media content) -- Table 6.2: Article 27 of Sina Weibo's Community Management Regulations. ; Table 6.3: How to become a Weibo volunteer -- Table 10.1: Regulating religion and minority affairs: Before and after -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1. From soft to hard authoritarianism: The consolidation of one-party rule in China -- 2. The reshaping of the Chinese party-state under Xi Jinping's rule: A strong state led by a political strongman -- 3. What can comparative authoritarianism tell us about China under Xi Jinping (and vice versa)? -- 4. Controlling the cadres: Dual elite recruitment logic and political manipulation under Xi Jinping -- 5. More stick than carrot? Xi's policy towards establishment intellectuals -- 6. Xi's dao on new censorship: The party's new approaches to media control in the digital era -- 7. The state and digital society in China: Big Brother Xi is watching you! -- 8. Building a hyper-stability structure: The mechanisms of social stability maintenance in Xi's China -- 9. Maintaining stability and authoritarian rule: Xi era in Xinjiang -- 10. Sinicisation or 'xinicisation': Regulating religion and religious minorities under Xi Jinping -- 11. Revolutionary-style campaigns and social control in the PRC: The campaign to Sweep Away Black and Eliminate Evil.
• Sommario/riassunto: During the past decade Xi Jinping has reasserted the Chinese Communist Party's dominance of state and society, tightening political and social controls to consolidate the Party's monopoly on political power in China.
• Titolo autorizzato: Political and Social Control in China
• ISBN: 9781760466206; 9781760466190
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910866588403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II