Weatherley, Robert,

Politics in China since 1949 : legitimizing authoritarian rule / Robert Weatherley. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2006. - 201 p. : 24 cm.

Legitimizing the new regime : the early post-revolutionary years -- Mass participation and mass legitimacy : the great leap forward -- A crisis of legitimacy : the great proletarian cultural revolution -- Redefining party legitimacy : the succession to Mao and the rise of Deng -- New era new crisis : problems of legitimacy in the 1980s -- In search of new paradigms of legitimacy : China since Tiananmen -- Biography of Chinese leaders.

0415391091 (hardback : alk. paper)


Legitimacy of governments--History--China
Authoritarianism--History--China


China--Politics and government

951.05 / WEA/P