Political and Social Control in China
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Political and Social Control in China

The Consolidation of Single-Party Rule

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Political and Social Control in China

The Consolidation of Single-Party Rule

About this book

During the past decade Xi Jinping has reasserted the Chinese Communist Party's dominance of state and society, tightening political and social controls to consolidate the Party's monopoly on political power in China. This volume brings leading China experts together to examine the changing mechanics of authoritarian rule in China, and the Party's systematic efforts to neutralise potential threats. The book examines critical but little understood changes to the architecture of state, which enables more effective top-down rule and the efficient operation of an increasingly professional bureaucracy. It also explores the policies and mechanisms the Party has used to squash dissent and prevent criticisms. This volume will be of interest to anyone who wants to understand how the CCP has consolidated its rule at home and how it relates to the Party's global ambitions for China's great national rejuvenation.

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Table of contents

  1. List of figures
  2. List of tables
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Contributors
  5. 1. From soft to hard authoritarianism: The consolidation of one-party rule in China
  6. 2. The reshaping of the Chinese party-state under Xi Jinping’s rule: A strong state led by a political strongman
  7. 3. What can comparative authoritarianism tell us about China under Xi Jinping (and vice versa)?
  8. 4. Controlling the cadres: Dual elite recruitment logic and political manipulation under Xi Jinping
  9. 5. More stick than carrot? Xi’s policy towards establishment intellectuals
  10. 6. Xi’s dao on new censorship: The party’s new approaches to media control in the digital era
  11. 7. The state and digital society in China: Big Brother Xi is watching you!
  12. 8. Building a hyper-stability structure: The mechanisms of social stability maintenance in Xi’s China
  13. 9. Maintaining stability and authoritarian rule: Xi era in Xinjiang
  14. 10. Sinicisation or ‘xinicisation’: Regulating religion and religious minorities under Xi Jinping
  15. 11. Revolutionary-style campaigns and social control in the PRC: The campaign to Sweep Away Black and Eliminate Evil