Centre and province in the People's Republic of China : Sichuan and Guizhou, 1955-1965
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Bibliographic Information
Centre and province in the People's Republic of China : Sichuan and Guizhou, 1955-1965
（Contemporary China Institute publications）
Cambridge University Press, 1986
Available at 16 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. 244-254
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
According to common misconception the Chinese political system is highly centralized. One result of this widely accepted view is that China specialists have often neglected the study of decision-making as a process. Concentrating upon the neighbouring but contrasting provinces of Sichuan and Guizhou during the decade before the Cultural Revolution, this book examines the interaction between centre and province and, without adopting a 'centralist' or a 'pluralist' viewpoint, argues that a spatial dimension is of necessity part of the Chinese decision-making process. Particular attention is paid to the variability of this interaction over time.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Before Decentralization: 1. Political traditions and the consolidation of rule
- 2. 1955-7: the end of the Soviet model
- 3. Agricultural co-operativization
- 4. Decentralization and national politics: 1955-7
- Part II. After Decentralization: 5. 1958-60: the Great Leap Forward
- 6. 1961-5: the prelude to the Cultural Revolution
- 7. Rural people's communes
- 8. The Southwest Region and the Southwest Regional Bureau.
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