Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Games of Numbers: A Note on Methodology and Epistemology
Arrangement of the Book
1. Political Governance: People’s Dictatorship and the
Party-State
The Tragedy and the Grand Detour
The DNA of the Party-State: Mao Zedong Thought
Déjà vu in Beijing: Xi Jinping Thought
CCP Optimality and China Suboptimality
People’s Lives and Rights in the People’s Republic
Extra-Legal Means for Extra Control
Thought Work, Jingoism, Officials-Standard, and Power Fetishism
The Partocracy and the Police State
The Ruling Class and the Aristocracy
Intrusion, Insecurity, and Intranquility
2. Economic Record: Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
The China Model
Incompetence and Failures: Mao’s Great Famine and Stark
Stagnation
Three Decades of Prodigious Growth
Distortions and Dysfunctions
Extraction and Profligacy
Quantitative Assessments of the Record
What about India? A Note on Comparison
3. Social Life: Bitterness, Happiness, and Resistance
A Bona Fide Developing Country
Bitterness Eaters and Luxury Indulgers
Inequality and Poverty
Disaster Relief
The Elusive Happiness
Voting with Feet
Watched, Worried, Wrathful
4. Spirit and Ecology: Culture, Ethics, and the Environment
The Officials-Standard and Society
The CCP Pantheon of Demigods and Chiefs
Moral Vacuum, Amnesia, and the Mind
Anecdata of Corruption
Academia and Education
“We All Fake It”
Publication, Antiquities, and Gastronomy
The Environment and Ecology
Superpower of Imitation
Epilogue: From the Record
Notes
Works and Sources Cited
Index
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).
"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
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