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Party Life : Chinese Governance and the World Beyond Liberalism
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Details
- Creator
- Eric Li and Graham Allison
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First edition
- Singapore : Macmillan Palgrave, [2023]
- ©2023
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (269 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9789819945221, 9819945224, 9789819945214
- Includes index.
- Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Party Life -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Prologue -- Notes -- 2 From Euphoria to Disillusionment -- The Sudden Collapse -- Long March of Historical Determinism -- One Man Against the Empire -- The Moment of Euphoria -- The Great Conversion -- "Hotel Liberalism"-Check-Out Time -- The Final Struggle -- Notes -- 3 The Chinese Miracle -- Deng Xiaoping-China's Anti-Gorbachev -- Around the World in Forty Years -- The People's Republic of Innovation -- The Belt and Road Initiative-Silk Road, 2.0 -- An Age of Pragmatism -- An Age of Vision -- Notes -- 4 The Rise of China and America's Evolving Response-From Universal Liberalism to America First -- Christopher Bounced -- Cold Warriors vs. Panda Huggers -- We are Pivoting -- Quasi-Containment -- The Quick Failure of Quasi-Containment -- From Trump to Biden -- China's "Long Telegram" Strategy -- Notes -- 5 Modernization Without Modernity-How It All Came About -- Modernization, Not Modernity2 -- Trial by Errors in the "Century of Humiliation" -- Party First, Then State -- From Emperor to Party Secretary -- from Mandarins to Cadres -- Three Phases of the Chinese Party-State and the New Era -- State Building vs. Continuous Revolution -- The State Builders -- The New Era -- June 4, 1989 -- Notes -- 6 Chinese Governance-Who Shall Rule? -- Clinton and Jiang -- Bush and Hu -- Obama and Xi, Plus Trump -- Meritocratic Governance: It's the Org Department!39 -- Good Emperor, Bad Emperor -- Notes -- 7 How to Rule -- Experimental Governance: You Are Special, Try It! -- Te Qu, from Special to Normal -- Experiments in Healthcare -- The Test of Taxes, Ying Gai Zeng -- The World's Largest Governance Lab -- Entrepreneurial Governance: Mayors as CEOs -- A Market Place of Governance -- Strategic Governance: Planning Makes Perfect
- The Visible Hand of the Five-Year Plan -- Notes -- 8 China Today-Myths and Realities -- Corruption-Saints or Thieves10 -- Censorship and Free Speech -- The Age of "Cyber Utopianism"25 -- The Reckoning -- The Chinese Riposte -- The Accident That Could Have Stopped China -- Revolution (Almost) in the Air-Wumai and Celebrity -- On the Rule of Law64 -- The Liberal Myth of Rule of Law -- Chinese Rule of Law -- On the Covid Pandemic -- Notes -- 9 China, the Liberal International Order, and the Future of Globalization -- The Myth of Liberal Globalism -- Cold War II -- A World Safe for Diversity -- Globalism's Death and Globalization's Renewal -- A Message to the Populist-Nationalists68 -- A Message to the Liberal Globalists -- Globalization's Renewal -- Notes -- 10 Epilogue: Xi Jinping and Tian Xia -- An Interim Report Card -- Capital in the Chinese Century -- The Economic Transformation -- A New Ideological Era -- Tian Xia-a Prospectus -- Notes -- Index