Chinese Communist Politics in Action (Paperbacks on Russian & Asia)

The Ecology Of Chinese Communist Success : Rural Influence Patterns, 1923-45 / Roy Hofheinz -- Mass Mobilization Policies And Techniques Developed In The Period Of The Chinese Soviet Republic / Ilpyong J. Kim -- The Yenan Legacy : The Mass Line / Mark Selden -- Local Leaders In Rural China, 1962-65 : Individual Attributes, Bureaucratic Positions, And Political Recruitment / Michel Oksenberg -- The Urban Bureaucratic Elite In Communist China : A Case Study Of Wuhan, 1949-65 / Ying-mao Kau -- Mao's Effort To Reintegrate In The Chinese Polity : Problems Of Authority And Conflict In Chinese Social Processes / Richard H. Solomon -- Cadre And Peasant Behavior Under Conditions Of Insecurity And Deprivation : The Grain Supply Crisis Of The Spring Of 1955 / Thomas P. Bernstein -- The Centralized Control Of The Communes In The Post-great Leap Period / R.j. Birrell -- Revolutionizing Chinese Youth : A Study Of Chung-kuo Ch'ing-nien / James R. Townsend -- The Wu-fan Campaign In Shanghai : A Study In The Consolidation Of Urban Control / John Gardner -- Social Welfare And China's Industrial Workers / Joyce K. Kallgren -- Sources And Methodological Problems In The Study Of Contemporary China / Michel Oksenberg. Edited By A. Doak Barnett. Based On Papers Commissioned By The Joint Committee On Contemporary China For A Conference On The Microsocietal Study Of The Chinese Political System. Bibliographical Footnotes. Preface Contents Introduction Part I. Historical Roots of Organisational and Behavioral Ratterns The Ecology of Chinese Communist Success: Rural Influence Patterns, 1923-45 Mass Mobilization Policies and Techniques Developed in the Period of the Chinese Soviet Republic The Yenan Legacy: The Mass Line Part II. Leadership Characteristics and Problems at the Local Level Local Leaders in Rural China, 1962-65: Individual Attributes, Bureaucratic Positions, and Political Recruitment The Urban Bureaucratic Elite in Communist China: A Case Study of Wuhan, 1949-65 Part III. Personality and Politics Mao’s Effort to Reintegrate the Chinese Polity: Problems of Authority and Conflict in Chinese Social Processes Part IV. Rural Control and Mobilisation Cadre and Ideas and Behavior Under Conditions of Insecurity and Deprivation: The Grain Supply Crisis of the Spring of 1955 The Centralized Control of the Communes in the Post-“Great Leap" Period Part V. Policies Toward Youth, the Bourgeoisie, and the Workers Revolutionizing Chinese Youth: A Study of Chung-kuo Ch’ing-nien The Wu-fan Campaign in Shanghai: A Study in the Consolidation of Urban Control Social Welfare and China’s Industrial Workers Appendix: Sources and Methodological Problems in the Study of Contemporary China Index Contributors These pioneering studies, representative of the best research now being done on China by a new generation of young scholars, focus on particular aspects of the Chinese Communist political system and the course of its development. By analyzing the characteristics of the system at the subnational level, as it affects local areas and particular groups, they attempt to provide new insights into the nature of the system as a whole. At the same time they move toward more effectively integrating China studies into the mainstream of political science