Politics in China since 1949

This probing study of post-communist revolution Chinese politics sets out to discover if there is a plausible alternative to the electoral mode or if legitimacy is the exclusive domain of the multi-party system.

Robert Weatherley

Map of the People's Republic of China. Biography of Chinese Leaders. Introduction 1. Legitimising the New Regime: The Early Post-Revolutionary Years 2. Mass Participation and Mass Legitimacy: The Great Leap Forward 3. A Crisis of Legitimacy: The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 4. Redefining Party Legitimacy: The Succession to Mao and the Rise of Deng 5. New Era New Crisis: Problems of Legitimacy in the 1980s 6. In Search of New Paradigms of Legitimacy: China Since Tiananmen. Conclusion