Mass Politics in the People's Republic

Name: Mass Politics in the People's Republic
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Exploring the crucial link between state and society in the PRC, this study analyzes the interaction between the Chinese Communist Party and the country\u2019s major social groups\u2014peasants, workers, youths and students, intellectuals, and ethnic minorities\u2014since the founding of the People\u2019s Republic. Alan Liu argues that uninstitutionalized public opinion has existed in China ever since the inception of the Communist regime and that it gradually grew powerful enough to thwart Mao\u2019s policies and programs. He contends that the government\u2019s radical post-Mao reforms emerged less from the preferences of another paramount leader\u2014Deng\u2014than from public opinion, which has grown too strong for the communist party either to ignore or control. > Exploring the crucial link between state and society in the PRC, this study analyzes the interaction between the Chinese Communist Party and the country\u2019s major social groups\u2014peasants, workers, youths and sa