Chinese politics and government : power, ideology and organization / Sujian Guo.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-333) and index.

Chinese politics in comparative communist systems -- Theoretical models for studying Chinese politics -- Shaping forces of Chinese state making, political culture, and political tradition -- Traditional Chinese culture and confucianism -- The collapse of imperial state and the communist road to power -- The making of communist new state and the post-Mao transition -- Marxism-Leninism and Chinese political ideology -- Ideological modifications in post-Mao China -- Political institutions -- The party-state structure of Chinese government -- Political development in post-Mao China -- The Chinese legal and legislative systems -- Legal and legislative reforms in post-Mao China -- Chinese social structure and state-society relations -- Social changes and state-society relations in post-Mao China -- State socialism and Chinese communist economy -- Market socialism and economic transition in post-Mao China -- Chinese foreign policy making -- US-China relations in transformation.