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THE GANG OF FOUR AND THE POLITICS OF OPPOSITION : = CHINA, 1971-1976.

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Title/Author:	THE GANG OF FOUR AND THE POLITICS OF OPPOSITION :/
Reminder of title:	CHINA, 1971-1976.
Author:	FENWICK, ANN ELIZABETH.
Description:	1 online resource (612 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-01, Section: A, page: 2910.
Subject:	Political science. -
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THE GANG OF FOUR AND THE POLITICS OF OPPOSITION : = CHINA, 1971-1976.
FENWICK, ANN ELIZABETH.

THE GANG OF FOUR AND THE POLITICS OF OPPOSITION :CHINA, 1971-1976. - 1 online resource (612 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-01, Section: A, page: 2910.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 1984.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation is both a political history of the 1971-1976 period in the People's Republic of China and an analytic portrait of the Gang of Four (Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan and Wang Hongwen). The dissertation analyzes the Gang in terms of the changing relationship between its political role, aim, resources and strategies and the impact these had on opponents and on the Chinese political system as a whole.

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2018

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Political science.
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520 $a This dissertation is both a political history of the 1971-1976 period in the People's Republic of China and an analytic portrait of the Gang of Four (Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan and Wang Hongwen). The dissertation analyzes the Gang in terms of the changing relationship between its political role, aim, resources and strategies and the impact these had on opponents and on the Chinese political system as a whole.
520 $a A methodology of qualitative content analysis of a variety of Chinese sources is employed, including wallposters copied or photographed by the author while attending Beijing University between 1975 and 1977.
520 $a The thesis examines the Gang's political career chronologically, beginning with the social backgrounds of the four and their rise to power during the Cultural Revolution. Analysis focusses on four political relationships central to the rise and fall of the Gang: the Gang's relationship to its elite colleagues, to its superior Mao Zedong, to its vertical factional subordinates, and to the Chinese populace. These relationships, in turn, gave rise to four dilemmas instrumental in shaping the Gang's career and contributing to its downfall: an elite coalition-building dilemma, a successor's dilemma, a factional dilemma, and a mobilizational dilemma.
520 $a The thesis concludes that throughout the 1971-1976 period, the Gang was a strategically weak group in political opposition with little influence over decisionmaking at the center. After unsuccessful attempts to comply with the norms of reinstitutionalized politics and policymaking, the Gang became a veto group and evolved a distinctive post-Cultural Revolutionary mobilizational approach to political conflict. This approach relied heavily on the Gang's factional resources: vertical networks coordinated through powerbases.
520 $a The Gang showed a surprising ability to outmanoeuver stronger opponents and to achieve system-wide impact through a strategy shrewdly dependent upon the intensification of political cleavages at all levels of the system. Finally, although the Gang created the most elaborate faction in the history of the People's Republic of China, its organization and behavior was at odds with key theoretical predictions on factional political conflict. Perhaps most surprising, the Gang did not conform to the stereotype of a faction dominated by an opportunistic and ruthless concern for personal power. A major reason for the Gang's fall was its refusal to behave "factionally": at every critical juncture, the Gang chose consistency on ideology and policy issues over maximization of personal power.
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