Origins of the modern Chinese state /

What is 'Chinese' about China's modern state? This book proposes that the state we see today has developed over the past two centuries largely as a response to internal challenges emerging from the late empire.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kuhn, Philip A.
Other Authors: Will, Pierre-Etienne
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Standford University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Participation and Authority in the Thought of Wei Yuan
  • 2. Reform on Trial
  • 3. Maoist Agriculture and the Old Regime
  • 4. The Transformation of the Constitutional Agenda.