The Politics of China

Roderick MacFarquhar is the Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, and Professor of Government, at Harvard University. He has had an illustrious career. He was Director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University, the founding editor of The China Quarterly and a Member of Parliament. His publications include Mao's Last Revolution (2006), co-authored with Michael Schoenhals, and The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms (1999). He was also co-editor, with the late John K. Fairbank, of volumes 14 and 15 of The Cambridge History of China (1987, 1991).

• Introduction Roderick MacFarquhar; 1. The establishment and consolidation of the new regime, 1949–57 Frederick C. Teiwes; 2. The Great Leap Forward and the split in Yan'an leadership, 1958–65 Kenneth Leiberthal; 3. The Chinese state in crisis, 1966–9 Harry Harding; 4. The succession to Mao and the end of Maoism, 1969–82 Roderick MacFarquhar; 5. The road to Tiananmen: Chinese politics in the 1980s Richard Baum; 6. Reaction, resurgence, and succession: Chinese politics since Tiananmen Joseph Fewsmith; 7. Globalization and governance under Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao Alice Miller.