{"product_id":"9780521451383","title":"Decline of Communism in China","description":"This 1994 book examines the relationship between the Communist political elite and the largely anti-Communist intellectual elite during the decade of reform (1977–89). The author, who was a participant in these events, shows how the Deng Xiaoping regime precipitated a legitimacy crisis by encouraging economic reform while preventing political reform, and how the intellectual elite used this situation to increase its own power. The book also offers a theoretical model to explain how a political resistance movement could gain power in a nation that does not have a well-developed civil society. The concept of 'institutional parasitism' shows that rather than developing separate institutions, the anti-Communist intellectuals occupied state structures from which oppositional activity was carried out. The book will be of interest to both scholars of China and students of comparative Communism.","brand":"X. L. Ding","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45780011843902,"sku":"9780521451383","price":6805.93,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9780521451383_52761027-51c1-42f0-beed-8c2957117f91.jpg?v=1707291533","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9780521451383","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}