CHINA

The sleeping giant? Great civilization of history West either ignore or exploit Communist hold-out Steady toward managed capitalism Authoritarian leadership Marketization and privatization = democracy Superpower or LDC

Legitimacy Dynastic Cycles = long periods of rule by one family punctuated

by times of chaos

Mandate of Heaven = right to rule as seen by the collective ancestral wisdom that guided the empire from the heaven above Confucian Values: order, harmony, submission

Middle Kingdom: China is the center of civilization

Constitution?

Technically grants formal authority to party and government

Authoritarian elites not bound by the rule of law

Mao to Politburo

Central Military Commission

CultureDynastic Tradition

Authoritarian Power Confucianism Bureaucratic Hierarchy Middle Kingdom Communist Ideology

Geographic Features Access to Ports Large Navigable Rivers Differing Climates Barriers of Travel Location and Isolation

Political HistoryHistorical Eras

Dynastic Rule Resistance to

Imperialism Maoism Deng Theory

Maoism Collectivism Struggle and Activism Mass Line Egalitarianism Self-reliance

People’s Republic of ChinaPolitical Eras

Soviet Model Great Leap Forward Cultural Revolution Four Modernizations

Central Bodies

National Party Congress

Central Committee Politburo Standing Committee

The Two ChinasNationalists vs. Communists

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Chiang Kai-shek Taiwan Han Family

Mao Zedong PRC Peasants

Urban-Rural Cleavages Page 278

Modernized Educated Wealthy

Poor Traditional Unconnected

Civil Society Protests in Tiananmen Square, Tibet, Xinjang, and Taiwan

Technocrats = people with technical training who climbed the ladder of the party bureaucracy

Xinhua = China’s official news media

Hukou = traditional household registration system; makes migration difficult

Plenums = meeting of the party elite to make plans

Guanxi = personal connections; patron-client connections

Pricelings = aristocracy with ties to Mao revolution

Tuanpai = communist youth league

Fang-shuo = tightening/loosening cycles of power

Danwei = social units usually based on place of work

Institutions of Government Parallel Hierarchies (pg 295)

Communist Party

Government

People’s Liberation Army

Dual Role – vertical/horizontal

National People’s Congress

President, Prime Minister (Premier)

Cadres, Provincial, Local

Judiciary

People’s Court

People’s Procuratorate

Rule of Law?

Policy Issues Democracy and Human Rights The Rule of Law Civil Rights and Liberties Population Policy Economic Policy Foreign Policy and International Trade

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