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Mao's Invisible Hand

The Political Foundations of Adaptive Governance in China. Harvard Contemporary China Series

Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center, United States
Published: 1st May 2011
Dimensions: w 152mm h 229mm d 18mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN-10: 0674060636
ISBN-13: 9780674060630
Barcode No: 9780674060630
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Synopsis
Observers have been predicting the demise of China's political system since Mao Zedong's death over thirty years ago. The Chinese Communist state, however, seems to have become increasingly adept at responding to challenges ranging from leadership succession and popular unrest to administrative reorganization, legal institutionalization, and global economic integration. What political techniques and procedures have Chinese policymakers employed to manage the unsettling impact of the fastest sustained economic expansion in world history? As the authors of these essays demonstrate, China's political system allows for more diverse and flexible input than would be predicted from its formal structures. Many contemporary methods of governance have their roots in techniques of policy generation and implementation dating to the revolution and early PRC-techniques that emphasize continual experimentation. China's long revolution had given rise to this guerrilla-style decisionmaking as a way of dealing creatively with pervasive uncertainty. Thus, even in a post-revolutionary PRC, the invisible hand of Chairman Mao-tamed, tweaked, and transformed-plays an important role in China's adaptive governance.

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One of the most sophisticated works of this sort. -- Jeffrey Wasserstrom * Miller-McCune.com * This is one of the most insightful and thought-provoking books published in recent years on the critical questions about China's developmental path and the role of history. -- Chen Xi * The China Beat * Mao's Invisible Hand is one of those books that make one feel good about scholarship. It describes inner workings of Chinese Communist society about which few nonexperts know anything--it may even surprise the experts--and it will interest anyone professionally interested in China. Its central purpose is to explain how China has escaped the disintegration of other Communist states. -- Jonathan Mirsky * New York Review of Books *