China Record

Fei-Ling Wang is Professor of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His previous books include The China Order: Centralia, World Empire and the Nature of Chinese Power (also published by SUNY Press); Organization through Division and Exclusion: China's Hukou System; and China Rising: Power and Motivation in Chinese Foreign Policy (coedited with Yong Deng).

• Figures and TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionGames of Numbers: A Note on Methodology and EpistemologyArrangement of the Book1. Political Governance: People's Dictatorship and the Party-StateThe Tragedy and the Grand DetourThe DNA of the Party-State: Mao Zedong ThoughtDéjà vu in Beijing: Xi Jinping ThoughtCCP Optimality and China SuboptimalityPeople's Lives and Rights in the People's RepublicExtra-Legal Means for Extra ControlThought Work, Jingoism, Officials-Standard, and Power FetishismThe Partocracy and the Police StateThe Ruling Class and the AristocracyIntrusion, Insecurity, and Intranquility2. Economic Record: Socialism with Chinese CharacteristicsThe China ModelIncompetence and Failures: Mao's Great Famine and Stark StagnationThree Decades of Prodigious GrowthDistortions and DysfunctionsExtraction and ProfligacyQuantitative Assessments of the RecordWhat about India? A Note on Comparison3. Social Life: Bitterness, Happiness, and ResistanceA Bona Fide Developing CountryBitterness Eaters and Luxury IndulgersInequality and PovertyDisaster ReliefThe Elusive HappinessVoting with FeetWatched, Worried, Wrathful4. Spirit and Ecology: Culture, Ethics, and the EnvironmentThe Officials-Standard and SocietyThe CCP Pantheon of Demigods and ChiefsMoral Vacuum, Amnesia, and the MindAnecdata of CorruptionAcademia and Education"We All Fake It" Publication, Antiquities, and GastronomyThe Environment and EcologySuperpower of ImitationEpilogue: From the RecordNotesWorks and Sources CitedIndex

"Wang successfully merges passionate conviction with broad, deep, and well-organized scholarship. Many of the book's most trenchant criticisms of CCP-PRC state policy and its outcomes are from PRC publications. As a result, The China Record delivers the most powerful intellectual shock to our understanding of China of any book published since the death of Mao Zedong." — Roger Garside, author of China Coup: The Great Leap to Freedom