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  • The 1978 Truth Criterion Controversy*

  • Michael Schoenhals
  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly / Volume 126 / June 1991
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    12 February 2009, pp. 243-268
    Print publication:
    June 1991

  • It is a truism that in politics words often count for as much as deeds. What is surprising about politics in the People's Republic of China, given the Chinese Communist Party's professed commitment to materialism, is how often words count for more than deeds. Disputes concerning the proper order of things are resolved not by reference to what is, but to what ought to be. The right to affect political change is argued first of all on the basis of scriptural authority, and only secondly on the basis of empirical evidence. Acts that cannot be immediately sanctioned on the basis of arguments contained in canonical texts will be kept secret until the obstacles preventing such sanction have been eliminated.

  • CQY volume 126 Front matter

  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly / Volume 126 / June 1991
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    12 February 2009, pp. f1-f4
    Print publication:
    June 1991
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  • Zhang's Hat on Li's Head: A Chronic Case of Quid Pro Quo in the History Books

  • Gregor Benton
  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly / Volume 126 / June 1991
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    12 February 2009, pp. 364-366
    Print publication:
    June 1991

  • Chen Duxiu (1879–1942) and Peng Shuzhi (1896–1983) were leading members of the early Chinese Communist Party (CCP); they were both expelled from it as Trotskyists in 1929 and were arrested together in 1932. Though the two men were quite different in temperament and appearance, today book after book on the Chinese Revolution uses a photograph of Peng, looking dashed and dazed at the time of his and Chen's trial by the Guomindang in 1932, in the belief that it is of Chen. The first instance I can find of this mix-up is in the Chinese translation published in Paris in 1973 of Harold Isaacs’ Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution; it was then repeated in more widely available form in a pictorial history of modern China brought out in Hong Kong in 1976 by the pro-Communist Seventies Publishing Company.

  • A Reply to Womack *

  • Andrew G. Walder
  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly / Volume 126 / June 1991
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    12 February 2009, pp. 333-339
    Print publication:
    June 1991

  • When Womack asserts that I present a picture of “the total power of local leadership” and “total dependence” of workers, he substitutes for the main thrust of my argument a quite different one. I did not argue that dependence breeds all-powerful leaders, but that it gives rise to a clientelist pattern of authority, in which the Party uses material and career rewards to build networks of loyal followers, dividing the Party's clients from rank and file workers, and helping to stimulate a thriving subculture of instrumental–personal ties (guanxi). The focus is upon how authority is exercised – not how much authority leaders have–and the main argument is that dependence breeds personal rule.

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