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| List of Maps, Boxes, Figures and Tables | |
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| Preface to the Third Edition | |
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| Romanization, Chinese Units of Measurement and Statistics | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Diversity within Unity | |
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| A land of diversity | |
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| The impact of CCP policy | |
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| China's Changing Road to Development: Political History, 1949-78 | |
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| Parameters of policy debate | |
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| Economic recovery and the adoption of the Soviet model, 1949-55 | |
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| The origins of a Chinese path to socialism, 1955-62 | |
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| The radicalization of politics and the resurrection of class struggle, 1962-78 | |
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| China under Reform, 1978-2010 | |
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| The Third Plenum and the Initial Reform Agenda, 1978-84 | |
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| Economic troubles and political instability, 1985-91 | |
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| Return to economic reform, boom and moderation, 1992-97 | |
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| Managing reform without Deng, 1997-2002 | |
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| Attempting to balance growth with social equity, 2002-10 | |
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| The Chinese Communist Party | |
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| Party organization and membership | |
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| The role of the CCP in the political system | |
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| The Central Governing Apparatus | |
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| Evaluation and perception of government performance | |
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| Central government | |
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| The legal system, coercive control and rights | |
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| The military and the political system | |
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| Governance Beyond the Centre | |
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| The organization of local government | |
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| The province as a unit of analysis | |
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| Regional inequality | |
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| Relations between the centre and the localities: the fiscal picture | |
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| The consequences for local governance | |
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| Political Participation and Protest | |
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| Modernization and participation since Mao | |
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| Impact on the sanctioned organizational structure of representation | |
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| Participation at the grassroots and the role of elections | |
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| Non-sanctioned participation | |
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| The Chinese State and Society | |
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| The Maoist period: an autonomous state and a state-dominated society | |
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| State-society relations under reforms: a negotiated state | |
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| Of civil society, corporatism, predation and negotiation | |
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| Economic Policy | |
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| Policy-making and implementation | |
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| General outline of economic policy | |
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| Rural policy | |
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| Industrial policy | |
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| Financial sector reform | |
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| Social Policy | |
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| Social policy and the transition in China | |
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| Family planning: problems of policy coordination and policy evasion | |
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| Reform in the SOEs: cutting the Gordian Knot | |
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| Inequality and healthcare in rural China | |
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| Migration | |
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| Poverty alleviation | |
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| Foreign Policy | |
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| China and globalization | |
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| China and the region | |
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| China and the United States | |
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| China's foreign economic relations | |
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| China's Future Challenges | |
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| The challenge of constraints: environmental degradation and resource shortages | |
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| The internal challenge: corruption | |
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| The information challenge: blogs, tweets and the internet | |
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| The final challenge: good governance and political reform | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |