Joseph Fewsmith
Autore di China Since Tiananmen: The Politics of Transition
Sull'Autore
Joseph Fewsmith is Professor in the Departments of International Relations and Political Science at Boston University
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- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Istruzione
- University of Chicago (Ph.D.|Political Science|1980)
University of Chicago (M.A.|Political Science|1973)
Northwestern University (B.A.|1971) - Attività lavorative
- professor
- Organizzazioni
- John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies at Harvard University (Research Associate)
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All Things China (1)
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- Opere
- 8
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 80
- Popolarità
- #224,854
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 36
- Lingue
- 1
The topic is interesting but the book itself is quite wooden. The author discusses how power was given to Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping and what they did or tried to do with it. But the narrative unfortunately just names a very long list of politburo members and describes how their fortunes waxed and waned depending on whether or not they were in favour. Different cliques prevailed at different times and the author meticulously lists the persons who were on the winning and losing sides.
This book is therefore not a very interesting read except perhaps for readers who know Chinese politics so well that they can put a face even on second- and third-tier politburo members from the 1980s to the 2010s. For general readers the power-game narrative becomes far too repetitive to be interesting. It describes what party politics looks like to an outsider, but the real motivations behind various decisions of promotion, demotion, retirement and even prosecution cannot be explained because they have not been publicized.
The book would in my opinion have been more interesting if it had also said something about the policies which the Party implemented during these years, but that was clearly not the author's intention. He describes how power has been distributed and inherited in the Chinese Communist Party, not how it has been used.… (altro)