A Tight Grip
State Power and Control in Modern China
$28.04
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
14 July 2026
Summary
A non-democratic regime has two problems that make political survival more challenging than it is for other types of government: How does a ruler share power with other members of the political elite? And how does the regime control society? A Tight Grip examines the strategies that China’s current, and longest-serving, head of state has used to resolve these questions and bolster his leadership of the world’s second-most populous country.
Wen-Hsuan Tsai explores the president’s metho…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522882636 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522882633 |
| Author: | Wen-Hsuan Tsai |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 14 July 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm |
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About The Author
Wen-Hsuan Tsai
Wen-Hsuan Tsai is a research fellow in the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica in Taiwan and a professor in the Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies at National Chengchi University. He is a winner of the Gordon White Prize for most original article in the China Quarterly, and his work has also appeared in the China Journal, Critical Asian Studies, the Journal of Contemporary China, the China Review, the Journal of East Asian Studies, and many other publications.
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