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  • 3 - Hu Jintao and the Limits of Institutionalization

  • Joseph Fewsmith, Boston University
  • Book:
    Rethinking Chinese Politics
    Published online:
    10 June 2021
    Print publication:
    17 June 2021, pp 86-108

  • Summary

    This chapter shows, even more vividly, how difficult it is to pass power on in a Leninist system. Jiang Zemin only allowed Hu Jintao to succeed to office because of the decision of Deng Xiaoping. Even then, Jiang manipulated the “rules of the game” so that Hu Jintao could not consolidate power. Even in his second term, Hu Jintao, though stronger, could not consolidate power. He was able to promote a significant number of his followers, but few of them were able to attain positions of real significance. Hu was never able to control the military.

  • 3 - The Wasted Years and a Land of Wonder

  • Bin Xu, Emory University, Atlanta
  • Book:
    Chairman Mao's Children
    Published online:
    11 June 2021
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    17 June 2021, pp 102-140

  • Summary

    Chapters 3 and 4 focus on “public memory.” Chapter 3 focuses on various patterns of literary memory in the 1980s and later and shows that the pattern of “good people but the bad event” became dominant. The variations and trend in the literary memory can be explained by the interplay of several factors: the dominant doxa of realism and unusual dynamics in the literary field in the 1980s, major authors’ habitus, the lower-class position of the returning zhiqing, and the state’s political use of the Maoist past.

  • 4 - The Pathologies of Reform Leninism

  • Joseph Fewsmith, Boston University
  • Book:
    Rethinking Chinese Politics
    Published online:
    10 June 2021
    Print publication:
    17 June 2021, pp 109-130

  • Summary

    This chapter lays out the argument that Leninism, under the conditions of reform, decays in a predictable manner. With reform, the mass movements that had focused the attention of cadres ceased, thus causing them to pay less attention to instructions from above. The result was that networks – factions – formed at the local level. It became increasingly difficult for leaders in Beijing to control local cadres. The result was that local cadres formed groups that were interested first and foremost in their own political and material gains. Under Hu Jintao, these networks extended right into Zhongnanhai (the leadership compound in Beijing) and often took a predatory turn with regard to the people they governed. In an effort to break up local networks, Beijing began to experiment with local elections within the party. These elections were tightly controlled, but they nevertheless violated the central governing principle of Leninism, namely that the “party controls the cadres” – in other words that power must flow from the top down.

Chairman Mao's Children
  • Generation and the Politics of Memory in China
  • Bin Xu
  • Published online:
    11 June 2021
    Print publication:
    17 June 2021
  • In the 1960s and 1970s, around 17 million Chinese youths were mobilized or forced by the state to migrate to rural villages and China's frontiers. Bin Xu tells the story of how this 'sent-down' generation have come to terms with their difficult past. Exploring representations of memory including personal life stories, literature, museum exhibits, and acts of commemoration, he argues that these representations are defined by a struggle to reconcile worthiness with the political upheavals of the Mao years. These memories, however, are used by the state to construct an official narrative that weaves this generation's experiences into an upbeat story of the 'China dream'. This marginalizes those still suffering and obscures voices of self-reflection on their moral-political responsibility for their actions. Xu provides careful analysis of this generation of 'Chairman Mao's children', caught between the political and the personal, past and present, nostalgia and regret, and pride and trauma.

Rethinking Chinese Politics
  • Joseph Fewsmith
  • Published online:
    10 June 2021
    Print publication:
    17 June 2021
  • Understanding Chinese politics has become more important than ever. Some argue that China's political system is 'institutionalized' or that 'win all/lose all' struggles are a thing of the past, but, Joseph Fewsmith argues, as in all Leninist systems, political power is difficult to pass on from one leader to the next. Indeed, each new leader must deploy whatever resources he has to gain control over critical positions and thus consolidate power. Fewsmith traces four decades of elite politics from Deng to Xi, showing how each leader has built power (or not). He shows how the structure of politics in China has set the stage for intense and sometimes violent intra-elite struggles, shaping a hierarchy in which one person tends to dominate, and, ironically, providing for periods of stability between intervals of contention.

  • CQY volume 246 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly / Volume 246 / June 2021
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    17 June 2021, pp. f1-f6
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    June 2021
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  • CQY volume 246 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly / Volume 246 / June 2021
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    17 June 2021, pp. b1-b2
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    June 2021
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  • Who Not What: The Logic of China's Information Control Strategy

  • Mary Gallagher, Blake Miller
  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly / Volume 248 / Issue 1 / December 2021
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    01 June 2021, pp. 1011-1036
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    December 2021
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  • In this paper, we examine how the Chinese state controls social media. While social media companies are responsible for censoring their platforms, they also selectively report certain users to the government. This article focuses on understanding the logic behind media platforms’ decisions to report users or content to the government. We find that content is less relevant than commonly thought. Information control efforts often focus on who is posting rather than on what they are posting. The state permits open discussion and debate on social media while controlling and managing influential social forces that may challenge the party-state's hegemonic position. We build on Schurmann's “ideology and organization,” emphasizing the Party's goals of embedding itself in all social structures and limiting the ability of non-Party individuals, networks or groups to carve out a separate space for leadership and social status. In the virtual public sphere, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues to apply these principles to co-opt, repress and limit the reach of influential non-Party “thought leaders.” We find evidence to support this logic through qualitative and quantitative analysis of leaked censorship documents from a social media company and government documents on information control.

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