The Party and the People: Chinese Politics in the 21st Century, Hardcover - Bruce Dickson

How the Chinese Communist Party maintains its power by both repressing and responding to its people Since 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) h...

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Contributor(s): Author: Bruce J. DicksonMany observers predicted the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party following the Tiananmen Square crackdo...

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Legendary maestro Leonard Slatkin provides personal insights and offers his ideas to solve the current dilemmas of classical music. As the new mill...

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When Mao Zedong proclaimed The People's Republic of China in 1949, China was a poor and wrecked society after years of continuous wars. For centuri...

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Starting from the key concept of geo-economics, this book investigates the new power politics and argues that the changing structural features of t...

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Revised edition of the authors' Rural people and communities in the 21st century, 2011.