Governance and Politics of China - 9780230279933

Lavish spectacles such as the Beijing Olympics and Expo 2010 have raised China's global profile and reinforced predictions of China's rise to a position of being a major actor on the world stage. Yet moves towards a market-based economy, together with the global recession, have exacerbated a number of political and social challenges for the Chinese government. The tensions between communist and capitalist identities continue to divide society.

The People's Republic is now over sixty years old û an appropriate juncture at which to reassess the state of contemporary Chinese politics. In this substantially revised third edition, Tony Saich delivers a thorough introduction to all aspects of politics and governance in post-Mao China, taking full account of the changes of the Seventeenth Party Congress and the Eleventh National People's Congress. Recent political, economic and social developments are also examined.