Guo challenges the predominant view that post-Mao China has
moved away from communist totalitarianism and that totalitarianism
is an outdated paradigm for China studies. He seeks to reconstruct
a plausible macro-model in conceptual and comparative terms for
defining regime identity and assessing the nature of regime change.
Professor Guo then applies the model to the study of regime change
in post-Mao China and reevaluates post-Mao changes across the five
major empirical aspects of regime change (political, ideological,
economic, legal, and social) and the most critical dimensions of
each.
The findings of Guo's study demonstrate that the practice of
post-Mao reforms remains rooted in and committed to the hard core
of Chinese communist totalitarianism and that the regime has
attempted to revive many typical totalitarian practices. Most
essential or core elements of the idea, practice, and institution
of totalitarianism remain essentially unchanged in all major
aspects of the post-Mao regime, though the post-Mao regime does
suffer from a certain degree of regime weakening in its adjustments
of the action means or protective belt of defending the hard core
of the communist totalitarian regime. A controversial and essential
analysis for scholars, researchers, and policy makers involved with
contemporary China.
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