WHY DENG XIAOPING? HOW MAO’S POLITICAL STRATEGY SHAPED POLITICS IN THE 1980S
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September 14, 2022 at 4:30 PM UTC
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September 14, 2022 at 12:30 PM EDT
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- Participants 嘉賓
Victor C. Shih is Ho Miu Lam Chair Associate Professor in China and Pacific Relations at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego specializing in China. He is the author of a book published by the Cambridge University Press entitled Factions and Finance in China: Elite Conflict and Inflation and also a new book Coalitions of the Weak: Elite Politics in China from Mao’s Stratagem to the Rise of Xi. He is also editor of Economic Shocks and Authoritarian Stability: Duration, Institutions and Financial Conditions, published by the University of Michigan Press. This book uses comparative cases to explore how authoritarian regimes respond to economic crises. He is further the author of numerous articles appearing in academic and business journals, including The American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, and The Wall Street Journal. Shih served as principal in The Carlyle Group’s global market strategy group and continues to advise the financial community on China related issues. Shih graduated summa cum laude at the George Washington University and received his Ph.D. in government from Harvard University. He is currently working on several papers using quantitative data to analyze the Chinese political elite and China’s defense industry.
- Organizers 主協辦機構
Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University
- Mode 活動形式
- In-person
- Venue 地點
- Room 505, Elliott School of International Affairs, 1957 E Street NW, Washington DC, 20052
- Languages 語言
- English
- Description 詳情
After the Lin Biao incident in 1971, Mao rehabilitated Deng Xiaoping and immediately thrust him into the powerful position of the vice chairman of the Central Military Commission. This position set him on a course to be “first among equals” in the 1980s, despite later dismissal by Mao. Why did Mao put Deng in charge of the PLA when there were more plausible candidates from the perspective of military experience? This talk will discuss the historical backdrop of Mao’s “Coalitions of the Weak'' strategy which led to Deng’s rehabilitation. Deng’s emergence as a powerful politician with military support in turn shaped how politics in the 1980s unfolded.
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