Autocratic tradition and Chinese politics

Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I: 2. Rise of the Chinese bureaucratic empire; State building during the Eastern Zhou Period; The rise of the Qin Empire; Comparison with Western experience; Significance of the bureaucratic empire; 3. Chinese pre-Qin political philosophy; Confucius and the Confucians; Lao Zi and Daoism; Mo Di; The legalists: the totalitarians; 4. Imperial Ideology and Authority; Institutionalisation of imperial official orthodoxy; The emperor cult; Basis of authority and dynastic patterns; 5. Chinese traditional political institutions; Formal structure of the imperial state; Emperor's domination over the bureaucracy; 6. Domination of the Imperial state over society; Control over local community; Control over the economy and state monopoly; Control over ideology; Statist orientation of traditional political culture; 7. The Imperial legal order; Origin of Chinese imperial law; Law as punishment; Law as tool of the ruler; Confucianization of law; 8. Centrality of the Emperor and Imperial political practices; Regional forces; imperial household and clansmen, and palace eunuchs; Coercive aspects of imperial domination; Part II: 9. The fall of the empire and rise of the PRC; The decline and fall of the Qing dynasty; Failure of the first Chinese Republic and rise of the PRC; Emergence of modern Chinese civil society; 10. Ideology and authority under the CCP; Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong thought as official orthodoxy; Impact of the hegenomy of Marxism-Leninism on intellectual activity; Cult of Mao; Basis of authority and power; 11. Structure and process of the PRC political system; Formal structure of the party-state; Defining characters of the political process; 12. Capacity of the party-state; Party-state's regulative capacity; Party-state's symbolic capacity; Party-state's extractive and allocative capacity; Some relevant derivative features of the CCP political system; 13. The new legal order; Development of the PRC legal system; Formal structure of the PRC legal system; Party's mandate over law; Deinstitutionalization of the PRC political-legal order; 14. Political movements (1); Early CCP intra-party struggles; The Yanan Rectification movement (1942–1944); Suppress counter revolutionary, land reform, and oppose America Aid Korea movements (1950–1953); Thought reform movement (1951); Three anti and five anti movements (1952); Purge counter revolutionary movement (1955–1957); The socialist transformation (1953–1956); 15. Political movements (2); The hundred flowers bloom and the anti-rightist movement (1957); The great leap forward movement (1958–1961); Anti right deviation movement (1959–1961); The great famine (1959–1961); Socialist education movement and the four clean movement (1963–1965); 16. The great proletarian cultural revolution (1966–1976); Prelude to the cultural revolution; Rise and fall of the Red Guards; New alignment and conflict; April fifth Tiananment Incident; Some thoughts on the cultural revolution; 17. Post-Mao politics; Beijing Spring; Factional differences within the political leadership; Literary dissent and spiritual pollution; Anti bourgeois liberalization; The June fourth massacre; Aftermath of June fourth massacre; 18. Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.