Party vs. State in Post-1949 China: The Institutional Dilemma

by Shiping Zheng

Book Overview

This book provides the most comprehensive analysis of one of the most important issues in contemporary China: the tensions between the Chinese Communist Party and Chinese state institutions. Taking the neo-institutionalist approach, Zheng suggests that the Party faces an institutional dilemma: it cannot live with the state, and it cannot live without the state. It is not only conceptually constructive, but analytically imperative to distinguish the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521588197
• ISBN13: 9780521588195
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"