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Self-Reflections of Fears and Dreams
Political Legitimacy and Strategic Thinking among Chinese Communist Party Leaders, 1927-1953
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2023
Summary
While the years between 1927 and 1953 in China were a time of war, revolution, and social disintegration, they were also a time for building political legitimacy. In this ground-breaking work, Ray Hartman painstakingly details how Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders perceived political legitimacy during the Party’s formative years. He argues that Chinese Communist leaders’ conception of legitimacy was the main force driving the Party’s policies and military strategy during this time.
Although “legitimacy” often comes up in discussions pertaining to the CCP's performance regarding the Party's policies -- whether they be social, economic, or military -- this work is the first to demonstrate how top CCP leaders, themselves, understood the concept. Providing extensive documentation from Party directives and speeches (including recently available sources) as well as memoirs written by Party members and military leaders, the author reveals a CCP consumed with the notion of its own legitimacy in hopes of not only attaining power but saving the Chinese state from destructive internal and external forces.
This book is a must have for those interested in this critical period of modern Chinese history and how the CCP has come to understand the sources of its own legitimacy.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-1684-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-1685-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
274
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Introduction No access Pages 1 - 18
Chapter One Legitimacy and No access Pages 19 - 58
Chapter Two From Rural to Urban Areas No access Pages 59 - 90
Chapter Three The USSR and the CCP’s Legitimacy No access Pages 91 - 122
Chapter Four China after the GMD No access Pages 123 - 158
Chapter Five CCP Legitimacy under Threat No access Pages 159 - 188
Chapter Six Bolstering CCP Legitimacy No access Pages 189 - 228
