Author: PARTY LEADERSHIP AND REVOLUTIONARY POWER IN CHINA (CONFERENCE) (1968 : DITCHLEY PARK, OXFORDSHIRE)
Title: Party leadership and revolutionary power in China / edited by John Wilson Lewis
Description: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 1970. First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw. now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 422 pages; Physical description: viii. 422 p. ; 21 cm. Summary: A selection of the papers presented at a conference held at Ditchley Park. Oxfordshire. in July 1968. sponsored by the Contemporary China Institute. These related to problems of leadership. power and the revolutionary struggle within the Party and their effect on Chinese society. Contents: Preface Stuart R. Schram; Introduction / John Wilson Lewis; Acknowledgements; Part I. The Changing Role of the Communist Party in the Revolutionary Struggle: 1. The influence of the past: how the early years helped to shape the future of the Chinese Communist Party / C. Martin Wilbur; 2. Transfer of legitimacy in the Chinese Communist Party: origins of the Maoist myth / William F. Dorrill; 3. The roles of the monolithic party under the totalitarian leader / Leonard Schapiro and John Wilson Lewis; Part II. The Power Elite in Theory and Practice: 4. The reign of virtue: some broad perspectives on leader and Party in the Cultural Revolution / Benjamin I. Schwartz; 5. The Party in Chinese Communist ideology / Stuart R. Schram; 6. Factionalism in the Central Committee / Philip Bridgham; Part III. The Communist Party and Chinese Society After the Take-Over: 7. Keeping the revolution going: problems of village leadership after land reform / Thomas P. Bernstein; 8. Party policies towards the intellectuals: the unique blooming and contending of 1961-2 / Merle Goldman; 9. Getting ahead and along in Communist China: the ladder of success on the eve of the Cultural Revolution / Michel Oksenberg; Part IV. The New View of Power in the Cultural Revolution / Donald W. Klein; 11. Army-Party relations in the light of the Cultural Revolution / John Gittings; Contributors; Index. Subjects: China - Politics and government - Congresses.ISBN: 0521077923. Weight in Kg appr.:

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