Elite Politics in Contemporary China

by Joseph Fewsmith

Book Overview

A discussion of elite politics in contemporary China. While a great deal of the text is descriptive, much of the emphasis is on drawing out and abstracting the political dynamic at work. The past half-century has seen many hopes raised and some dashed, a succession of fears and false alarms, and both triumphs and calamities that were almost entirely unexpected. This work offers a short but sweeping history of world politics since 1945: America's postwar...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765606879
• ISBN13: 9780765606877
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"