Crafting socialism with Chinese characteristics: Modernization and ideology in post-Mao China

"In the fall of 1982 Deng Xiaoping officially launched the project to build Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. The object was ""to blaze a new trail towards modernization by uniting the universal truths of Marxism with the realities of China"". A new ideology was needed to explain the CCP's drive for modernization and underwrite the Party's right to rule. The Party leadership provided the intellectuals with the ideological space and sanctuary in which to forge the new ideology. This study hypothesizes models of what the CCP was looking for in this ideology crafting project and critically assesses the ideological visions worked out by Yan Jiaqi, Jin Guantao and Li Zehou respectively during the Post-Mao decade."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Political Science

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Klinkner, Kenneth Karl

Contributors dc:contributor

• Yu, George T.

• History, Asia, Australia and Oceania
• Political Science, General

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1994 Klinkner, Kenneth Karl

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9503240
(UMI)AAI9503240

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/22580