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A Tight Grip: State Power and Control in Modern China

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Investigates the distribution of power in China and its effect on society.

A non—democratic regime must solve two problems in order to survive: how to share power with the political elite and how to control society. A Tight Grip examines the strategies that China’s current, and longest—serving, head of state has used to address these questions and bolster his leadership of the world’s second—most populous country.

Wen—Hsuan Tsai explores the president’s method of concentrating decision—maki...