Institutional Genes

Origins of China's Institutions and Totalitarianism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvChenggang Xu,California) Xu, Chenggang (Stanford University

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This book explores the origins and evolution of China's institutions and communist totalitarianism in general. Contemporary China's fundamental institution is communist totalitarianism. Introducing the concept of "institutional genes" (IGs), the book examines how the IGs institutional genes of Soviet Russia merged with those of the Chinese imperial system, creating a durable totalitarian regime with Chinese characteristics - Regionally Administered Totalitarianism. Institutional Genes are fundamental institutional elements that self-replicate and guide institutional changes and are empirically identifiable. By analyzing the origins and evolution of IGs institutional genes in communist totalitarianism from Europe and Russia, as well as those from the Chinese Empire, the Chinese Communist Revolution, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and post-Mao reforms, the book elucidates the rise and progression of communist totalitarianism in China. The ascent of communist China echoes Mises' warning that efforts to halt totalitarianism have failed. Reversing this trend necessitates a thorough understanding of totalitarianism.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-06-26
Mått230 x 234 x 160 mm
Vikt263 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor800
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108841696

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Chenggang Xu is Senior Research Scholar at Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions, Stanford University, a board member of the Ronald Coase Institute, and Research Fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. He was the Chung Hon-Dak Professor of Economics at the University of Hong Kong, Special-Term Professor at Tsinghua University, the World-Class University Professor at Seoul National University, and Associate Professor at the London School of Economics. He also served as President of the Asian Law and Economics Association. He obtained his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1991. Chenggang Xu was a recipient of the 2013 Sun Yefang Prize and the 2016 Chinese Economics Prize.

1. Introduction; 2. Institutions and Institutional Genes: Methodology; 3. Property Rights as a Form of Institutional Gene; 4. The Emergence and Evolution of the Institutional Genes of the Chinese Imperial System; 5. The Imperial Examinations and Confucianism: The Institutional Genes for Imperial Personnel and Ideology; 6. The Institutional Genes of Totalitarian Ideology; 7. Institutional Genes of Totalitarianism: The Tsarist Empire; 8. The Birth of Bolshevik Totalitarianism; 9. The Failure of Reform and Revolution in the Late Qing Period; 10. Building China's Bolshevik Party; 11. Building a Totalitarian Regime: From the Chinese Soviet to the People's Republic; 12. Regionally Administered Totalitarianism; 13. The Post-Mao Reform and Its Cessation: The Rise and Fall of Regionally Decentralized Authoritarianism; 14. Conclusion.

'Why did China become a totalitarian nation? What is the connection between Chinese communism and that in the Soviet Union, and what accounts for their differences? How might we expect the Chinese Communist Party to evolve in the future? Chenggang Xu gives fascinating answers to all these questions and many more in this bold but carefully argued book that is deeply rooted in historical and economic analysis.' Eric S. Maskin, Adams University Professor and Professor of Economics and Mathematics, Harvard University; co-recipient of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (2007)