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Xi Jinping: Political Career, Governance, and Leadership, 1953-2018 de Alfred L. Chan

Xi Jinping: Political Career, Governance, and Leadership, 1953-2018

Autor Alfred L. Chan
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 iul 2022

Bazându-ne pe analiza riguroasă a datelor biografice și a parcursului administrativ, putem afirma că lucrarea semnată de Alfred L. Chan reprezintă una dintre cele mai detaliate radiografii ale puterii în China contemporană. Volumul Xi Jinping: Political Career, Governance, and Leadership, 1953-2018, publicat de Oxford University Press, nu se limitează la o simplă biografie, ci integrează teorii complexe de științe politice și relații internaționale pentru a explica mecanismele din spatele „visului chinez”. Suntem de părere că valoarea acestui text rezidă în echilibrul dintre relatarea evenimentelor personale — precum trauma Revoluției Culturale care l-a transformat pe tânărul Xi dintr-un privilegiat într-un muncitor agricol — și analiza rece a consolidării puterii după 2012.

Autorul aplică un filtru academic asupra campaniilor anti-corupție și a restructurării ideologice, evidențiind modul în care leninismul a redevenit coloana vertebrală a disciplinei de partid. În contextul operei sale, această carte continuă temele legitimității politice explorate în Reviving Legitimacy și mecanismele mobilizării în masă analizate în Mao's Crusade, oferind o perspectivă de ansamblu asupra evoluției autoritarismului chinez.

Acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping de Willy Wo-Lap Lam, dar cu o abordare mult mai axată pe fundamentele teoretice ale guvernării și pe evoluția administrativă pe termen lung, oferind o perspectivă istorică extinsă de peste șase decenii. Stilul este dens și analitic, fiind o resursă esențială pentru înțelegerea modului în care experiențele timpurii de supraviețuire politică au modelat stilul de conducere actual, marcat de o recalibrare a relațiilor Chinei cu restul lumii.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197615225
ISBN-10: 0197615228
Pagini: 736
Dimensiuni: 155 x 224 x 61 mm
Greutate: 1.2 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Această monografie este esențială pentru cercetătorii în geopolitică și studenții la științe politice care doresc să înțeleagă ascensiunea celei mai influente figuri politice din China actuală. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă documentată asupra modului în care structura de partid leninistă a fost revitalizată pentru a servi obiectivelor globale ale Chinei, oferind un context factual rar întâlnit în analizele occidentale obișnuite.

Despre autor

Alfred L. Chan este un reputat specialist în științe politice, deținând un doctorat la Universitatea din Toronto. Cu o carieră academică solidă, a predat la instituții de prestigiu precum McGill University și Carleton University, fiind în prezent conferențiar la Huron University College din cadrul University of Western Ontario, Canada. Expertiza sa este consolidată de rolul de cercetător asociat la Joint Centre on Asia-Pacific Studies. Prin lucrările sale anterioare, precum Mao's Crusade, Chan s-a impus ca un analist fin al transformărilor politice din China, combinând rigoarea teoretică cu o cunoaștere profundă a contextului istoric chinez.

Descriere

Xi Jinping has proven to be one of the most transformative political leaders of the twenty-first century. After a long career that began at the village level, he became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and China's paramount leader in 2012. Few expected what would come next: a sweeping restructuring of China's political economy and political culture which included anti-corruption campaigns against the Party, and a full recalibration of China's relations with the outside world. In Xi Jinping, Alfred L. Chan offers a comprehensive account of his life and times.Chan discusses Xi's early years as a "princeling" and his ordeal during the tumultuous Cultural Revolution. Xi's privileged childhood was shattered during his youth when he was mercilessly tormented as a counter-revolutionary, declared a juvenile delinquent and pauper, ultimately becoming an ordinary peasant. But he clawed his way back up a ladder of success reflecting the changing zeitgeist of the times. He entered politics at age seventeen and accumulated administrative experiences at the county and provincial levels. Chan documents Xi's long path upward through the system, revealing how he built a reputation as an astute leader and a corruption fighter.The second half of the book focuses on the post-2012 period, and Chan pays particular attention to the context surrounding Xi's governance once he consolidated power. He makes clear that Xi's core guiding principle has been Leninism, which prioritizes disciplined party rule above all else. Throughout, Chan applies a range of social scientific theories drawn from comparative politics, international relations theory, public policy, and theories of governance to explain policymaking during an era of turbulent changes. Sweeping in scope and addressing virtually every aspect of Xi's life, this study will be essential for anyone seeking to understand not just Xi himself, but the overlapping global and domestic political contexts that shaped his career and style of rule.

Recenzii

As a pioneering academic work on Xi Jinping's life and political career, Alfred Chan's book will be one of the definitive guides to the most important political leader in China since Mao. This well-researched book draws on rich data, wide ranging English and Chinese-language literature, and social science analysis to interpret what Xi's reign means for China's rise and its place in the world.
Chan deftly traces Xi Jinping's career from earliest days to the pinnacle of power, seeing his ascension as the fruition of a deliberate grooming process by the Party. Chan argues that, although he often characterized as an absolute leader, Xi's power is in fact constrained by the need to depend on others for expertise, pushback to his ambitious reforms, and the realities of countervailing international forces.
This book fills a crying need for a comprehensive understanding of the current Chinese leader Xi Jinping and the changing context in which he has emerged as the supreme leader in China. It is the first comprehensive study of Xi's life history, political career, and major issues in the ongoing debate in which Professor Alfred Chan offers new perspectives that challenge many of the conventional views in understanding Chinese politics.
Alfred Chan's prodigious tour de force on the career of Xi Jinping relies on extensive empirical evidence and multi-disciplinary analysis to go beyond prevailing interpretations to persuasively characterize China's current powerful leader in more complex terms. Among salient and sometimes conflicting attributes, Xi is depicted as a survivor of early adversity with an iron will to succeed; a strong and decisive leader meeting widespread demands of his time; a staunch Leninist committed to communist party rule; and an impatient change agent pushing ambitious and politically risky programs at home and abroad. Even those disagreeing with Chan's overall assessment will want to examine the evidence and reasoning in this impressive volume.
Richly researched and actively engaged with scholarly and policy debates, Chan uses the career of Xi Jinping as a window on Chinese political history as well as a lens for understanding Chinese politics today. A valuable contribution to our collective effort to "get China right."
Through prodigious research and judicious analysis, Alfred Chan has produced a biography of Xi Jinping that is almost encyclopedia-like in its comprehensiveness. Chan's book is a most important and valuable corrective to the hagiographical treatment of Xi in PRC media as well as previous biographies in English. He shows how a combination of personal attributes, the broader context of China's development since the 1980s, and a confluence of contingencies brought Xi Jinping to his current position as arguably the single most powerful and historically significant person of the early twenty-first century.
Chan provides a comprehensive analysis of Xi's policymaking and leadership, preventing an oversimplification of issues and encouraging a more nuanced understanding of contemporary China's political and power dynamics...a highly recommended read.
The most complete account of Xi's career, and it presents its findings in an evenhanded and nuanced way.
A tremendous contribution to our study of Chinese politics.
Not only a great source of information about Xi but also the broader political development of China in the past 40 years. It's also remarkably balanced, reasonably argued and full of detailed evidence. Balance, reason and evidence are so frequently lacking in western understandings of China, which are often driven by ideology and a Cold War mentality. This book is a great scholarly achievement.

Notă biografică

Alfred L. Chan is a Professor Emeritus at Huron University College, Western University, and a Research Associate with the Asian Institute at the Munk Centre for Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto. A political scientist and a China expert, he has taught at Carleton University, McGill University, and Calgary University. He has published in leading international journals on China such as The China Quarterly, The China Journal, Studies on Contemporary China, and Pacific Affairs. He is also the author of Mao's Crusade.