{"product_id":"the-decline-of-communism-in-china-legitimacy-crisis-1977-1989-paperback-9780521026239","title":"The Decline of Communism in China; Legitimacy Crisis, 1977–1989 (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521026239","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Decline of Communism in China\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLegitimacy Crisis, 1977–1989\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 1994 book analyses elite politics in China during the decade of reform (1977–89).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eX. L. Ding (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521026239, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 27 April 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e248 pages, 1 b\/w illus.  7 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.1 x 1.3 cm, 0.38 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"There have been several good studies done recently on political elites in post-Mao China.  This book is a valuble contribution to this growing literature .... Ding's work is groundbreaking.  It documents in great detail how the counterelites in China have gone about their work and is a significant contribution to the study of behavior.\"   Steven J. Hood, China Review International\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 1994 book examines the relationship between the Communist political elite and the largely anti-Communist intellectual elite during the decade of reform (1977–89). The author, who was a participant in these events, shows how the Deng Xiaoping regime precipitated a legitimacy crisis by encouraging economic reform while preventing political reform, and how the intellectual elite used this situation to increase its own power. The book also offers a theoretical model to explain how a political resistance movement could gain power in a nation that does not have a well-developed civil society. The concept of 'institutional parasitism' shows that rather than developing separate institutions, the anti-Communist intellectuals occupied state structures from which oppositional activity was carried out. The book will be of interest to both scholars of China and students of comparative Communism.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I: 1. Theoretical and comparative issues\u003cbr\u003e 2. The counter-elite and its institutional basis\u003cbr\u003e Part II: 3. 'The movement to 'emancipate the mind' and the counter-elite's response\u003cbr\u003e 4. 'Building socialist spiritual civilisation' and the counter-elite's response\u003cbr\u003e 5. Two contending patriotic campaigns\u003cbr\u003e 6. Admission of the 'primary stage of socialism' and the counter-elite's two development models\u003cbr\u003e Concluding remarks\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Selected bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: 20th century history: c 1900  to c 2000 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on 20th century history: c 1900  to c 2000\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%2220th%20century%20history:%20c%201900%20%20to%20c%202000%20%5BHBLW%5D%22\"\u003eHBLW\u003c\/a\u003e], Asian history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Asian history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Asian%20history%20%5BHBJF%5D%22\"\u003eHBJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45978401702168,"sku":"9780521026239","price":30.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521026239i_af0a6b1e-ff00-4874-9eb0-e8a31e34a74f.jpg?v=1694964683","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-decline-of-communism-in-china-legitimacy-crisis-1977-1989-paperback-9780521026239","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}