Reform Without Liberalization: China's National People's Congress and the Politics of Institutional Change

by Kevin J. O'Brien

Book Overview

Since its founding in 1954, the National People's Congress of China (NPC) has followed a difficult course of development, a course which has been characterized by periods of limited progress intermingled with periods of stagnation and regression. Political campaigns from the Anti-Rightist Movement (1957-1958) to the Great Leap Forward (1958-1960) to the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) frustrated the establishment of any consistent policy concerning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521048206
• ISBN13: 9780521048200
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"