China\'s Quest. The History of the Foreign Relations of the People\'s Republic of China - John Garver

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1 1 } The Fateful Embrace of Communism and Its Consequence State Formation and Foreign Policy The premise of this book is that C ...

2 { China’s Quest rule since that time demonstrates the superiority of its state system.^2 The litany of successes reprised in t ...

Fateful Embrace of Communism } 3 provide a degree of conceptual coherence to a review of sixty-plus years of PRC foreign relatio ...

4 { China’s Quest were linked by Mao and his minions with Moscow. Even during the post-Mao era there have been manifestations of ...

Fateful Embrace of Communism } 5 internal arrangements, specifically absence of modern civil society and rule of law. Yet recogn ...

6 { China’s Quest China’s traditional social and political institutions were being thrown into disarray by deepening contact wit ...

Fateful Embrace of Communism } 7 understood them. The vision of a post-capitalist, communist utopia was im- mensely attractive t ...

8 { China’s Quest military-like discipline for the purpose of mobilizing the masses and lead- ing them to seize and retain state ...

Fateful Embrace of Communism } 9 A state-planned economy, on the other hand, would lead to much more rapid economic growth, driv ...

10 { China’s Quest Chinese became aware of how fabulously wealthy even ordinary people were in advanced capitalist countries. Ev ...

Fateful Embrace of Communism } 11 to superior understanding of the laws of social development and a trajectory of history, throu ...

12 { China’s Quest profound implications for PRC foreign relations. Not least, the regime needed to look strong and avoid any ap ...

Fateful Embrace of Communism } 13 Three Stages of Domestic-Foreign Linkage The link between the structures of China’s Leninist s ...

14 { China’s Quest used to legitimize CCP rule were no longer persuasive with a wide swath of the Chinese people. In this situat ...

Fateful Embrace of Communism } 15 The CCP’s and Mao’s efforts to impose socialism were further complicated by the fact that soci ...

16 { China’s Quest the CCP’s “land to the tiller” policy meant that land owned by landlords and “rich peasants” was seized and d ...

Fateful Embrace of Communism } 17 that these constitutions represented an ideal to which their drafters aspired, a goal to be ac ...

18 { China’s Quest its own independent road to socialism and communism. A struggle against Soviet “revisionism” emerged as a cor ...

Fateful Embrace of Communism } 19 the CCP had to fundamentally alter its method of rule. China’s people circa 1978 were, with a ...