Managing Transitions

"Managing Transitions " examines the history and roles of China's minor parties and groups (MPG's) in the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) united front between the 1930's and 1990's using Antonio Gramsci's principles for the winning and maintaining of hegemony. Gramsci advocated a "war of position," the building of political alliances to isolate existing state powers and win consent for revolutionary rule and transform society. Economic reform is now creating new socio-economic groups and the CCP is adjusting the united front and the MPGs to co-opt their representatives and deliberately forestall the evolution of an autonomous civil society and middle class which could challenge CCP rule. This has resulted in a new and expanding role for the united front, the MPGs and organisations representing the new interest groups.

Autorentext

Gerry Groot

Inhalt

Chapter 1 China's Minor Part ies and Groups; Chapter 2 Winning Hegemony; Chapter 3 Cooperation with the CCP; Chapter 4 Toward Socialism; Chapter 5 From "Blooming and Contending" to the Anti-Rightist Campaign; Chapter 6 From the Second Hundred Flowers to the Cultural Revolution; Chapter 7 Hibernation and Revival; Chapter 8 Re-Building for the New Era; Chapter 9 Zhao Ziyang, Political Reform, and the United Front; Chapter 10 The Events of April-June 1989; Chapter 11 Expansion of the United Front;