List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface and Acknowledgments
PART ONE
“Oriental Despotism”
1 “Oriental Despotism” and Its Problems in China Studies
2 “Oriental Despotism” and Its Origins: Europe and Imperial China
3 “Oriental Despotism” From the Ancient Greeks to the Enlightenment
4 “Oriental Despotism” Since the 19th Century
PART TWO
The Chinese Body Politic: Its Formation and Evolution
5 Secularism and Political Order
6 “Social Natural Law”
7 The Emperorship
8 Institutional Differentiation and “Internal Pluralism”
9 Imperial Politics and Its Constraints
10 Meritocracy and State–Society Connections
11 Education, Social Distinction, and Equality
12 Meritocratic Institutions and Their Evolution
13 Inequality, Representation, and Responsibilities
14 Bureaucrats and “Civil Society”
PART THREE
Modern Transformation
15 Modern Revolution and Political Power
16 Nationalism, Sovereignty, and Modern Party Power
17 “Organizational Emperorship”
PART FOUR
Contemporary Institutions
18 Structuring Politics
19 The “New” Paradigm
20 Bringing Back the Power of Supervision
21 Party–Society Linkages
22 A “Party in Society”
23 Society and Interest Representation
24 A Theory of Moral Loyalty
25 The Chinese State and Western State Products
26 Political Reforms: Grand Discourse and Little Truth
27 Forms of Political Reform
PART FIVE
The Future of the Chinese Body Politic
28 A Tocquevillian Dilemma
29 Scenarios of Political Change
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Yongnian Zheng is Professor and Director of the Institute for International Affairs, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China.
