Strong Institutions in Weak Polities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Strong Institutions in Weak Polities write by Julia C. Strauss. This book was released on 1998. Strong Institutions in Weak Polities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work explores state building and the processes by which supporting state bureaucratic organizations aided the state building effort in Republican China between 1927 and 1940. It suggests that in hostile environments profoundly non-congenial to state building efforts, it is the state organizations that stand the best chance of becoming well institutionalized. This book details the administrative histories and institution-building strategies of three organizations in Republican China dealing with the national civil service, taxation, and foreign affairs.
State Formation in China and Taiwan
State Formation in China and Taiwan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook State Formation in China and Taiwan write by Julia C. Strauss. This book was released on 2019-11-07. State Formation in China and Taiwan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An ambitious comparative study of regime consolidation in the 'revolutionary' People's Republic of China and 'conservative' Taiwan in the early 1950s.
Railroads and the Transformation of China
Railroads and the Transformation of China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Railroads and the Transformation of China write by Elisabeth Köll. This book was released on 2019-01-14. Railroads and the Transformation of China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As a vehicle to convey both the history of modern China and the complex forces still driving the nation’s economic success, rail has no equal. Railroads and the Transformation of China is the first comprehensive history, in any language, of railroad operation from the last decades of the Qing Empire to the present. China’s first fractured lines were built under semicolonial conditions by competing foreign investors. The national system that began taking shape in the 1910s suffered all the ills of the country at large: warlordism and Japanese invasion, Chinese partisan sabotage, the Great Leap Forward when lines suffered in the “battle for steel,” and the Cultural Revolution, during which Red Guards were granted free passage to “make revolution” across the country, nearly collapsing the system. Elisabeth Köll’s expansive study shows how railroads survived the rupture of the 1949 Communist revolution and became an enduring model of Chinese infrastructure expansion. The railroads persisted because they were exemplary bureaucratic institutions. Through detailed archival research and interviews, Köll builds case studies illuminating the strength of rail administration. Pragmatic management, combining central authority and local autonomy, sustained rail organizations amid shifting political and economic priorities. As Köll shows, rail provided a blueprint for the past forty years of ambitious, semipublic business development and remains an essential component of the PRC’s politically charged, technocratic economic model for China’s future.
Civilization and the Chinese Body Politic
Civilization and the Chinese Body Politic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Civilization and the Chinese Body Politic write by Yongnian Zheng. This book was released on 2022-11-22. Civilization and the Chinese Body Politic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this important and hugely ambitious book, one of the world’s leading political scientists working on China demonstrates how Western views of China are flawed because the long tradition of Western scholarship studying China views China from the Western philosophical and intellectual perspective rather than viewing China on its own terms through the lens of China’s own long-established and reputable philosophical and intellectual tradition. Providing a deep analysis of Western scholarship on China, including work from Leibniz to Marx to Weber and then to Wittfogel, and a thorough account of the evolution of China’s own thinking about governance as expressed in the practices of successive Chinese dynasties, the book goes on to examine how the current Chinese body politic fits with and is the natural outcome of China’s own long, well-thought-through and well-practiced intellectual consideration of what the nature of civilized governance should be. By focusing on philosophical and intellectual approaches rather than on theoretical or methodological ones, the book shows how the huge and increasing disconnect between non-Chinese views of China and Chinese ones has come about.
The Nature of Asian Politics
The Nature of Asian Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nature of Asian Politics write by Bruce Gilley. This book was released on 2014-09-15. The Nature of Asian Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Nature of Asian Politics provides an unparalleled, comprehensive first look at the politics of Southeast and Northeast Asia.
