Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China Wallace Jeremy L.
Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China Wallace Jeremy L. A unique analysis of the numbers that came to define Chinese politics and how this…
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Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China Wallace Jeremy L.
A unique analysis of the numbers that came to define Chinese politics and how this quantification evolved over time.For decades, a few numbers came to define Chinese politics-until those numbers did not count what mattered and what they counted did not measure up. Jeremy Wallace explains how that system worked and analyzes how the problems that accumulated in its blind spots led Xi Jinping to take drastic action. Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts argues that the Chinese government adopted a system of limited, quantified vision in order to survive the disasters unleashed by Mao Zedong's ideological leadership.
The book argues that while of course Xi's neopolitical turn--aggressive anti-corruption campaigns, reassertion of party authority, and personalization of power--is an attempt fix the problems of the prior system, as well as a hedge against an inability to do so.
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