Yusheng Yao
Biographic Data
| ID | 4036228 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yusheng Yao |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yusheng |
| FAMILY NAME | Yao |
| SIGNATURE | YAO Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rollins College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8488-8876 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Elite Competition, Factionalism and Strongman Governance in a Central China Village
This study examines the elite political competition in a large agrarian village in Hubei Province. Although known locally as well-governed, this village was actually a bifurcated political community with a host of problems. The power struggle between a few members of the village’s political elite in the past two decades focused on the office of village Party secretary and produced a polarized politics of factionalism. The town Party committee pla…
Village Elections and Their Impact: An Investigative Report on a Northern Chinese Village
This article examines a series of four direct elections and their impact in a poorly governed Chinese village near Beijing. Based on the problems exposed in the elections and governance, it identifies the main contradiction in the village to be that of economic justice between villagers on one side, and the old and elected officials, and village toughs and predatory entrepreneurs, on the other. It illustrates the dynamics of politics in the villa…
Village Elections and the Rise of Capitalist Entrepreneurs
This study examines a series of four direct elections and their impact in an industrialized Chinese northern village. It finds that direct elections empowered villagers and the new economic elite to remove the old, entrenched and corrupt leadership. However, the few capitalist entrepreneurs who dominated the elections and the new leadership neither abided by the rules of political competition nor tried to govern democratically. On the other hand,…
The Elite Class Background of Wang Shuo and His Hooligan Characters
The Cultural Revolution provided a unique environment for children of the political elite to develop a new kind of hooliganism and a youth counterculture that contradicted Mao’s aim to empower them for making revolution. The author challenges a view commonly held by Western commentators and scholars that Wang Shuo is a writer of “common man” fiction by highlighting the aristocratic background of his Cultural Revolution-era hooligan characters. In…
Rediscovering Tao Xingzhi as an Educational and Social Revolutionary
(2002). Rediscovering Tao Xingzhi as an Educational and Social Revolutionary. Twentieth-Century China: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 79-120
The Making of a National Hero: Tao Xingzhi's Legacies in the People s Republic of China
(2002). The Making of a National Hero: Tao Xingzhi's Legacies in the People s Republic of China. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 251-281
Village Elections and the Rise of Capitalist Entrepreneurs
This study examines a series of four direct elections and their impact in an industrialized Chinese northern village. It finds that direct elections empowered villagers and the new economic elite to remove the old, entrenched and corrupt leadership. However, the few capitalist entrepreneurs who dominated the elections and the new leadership neither abided by the rules of political competition nor tried to govern democratically. On the other hand,…
Elite Competition, Factionalism and Strongman Governance in a Central China Village
This study examines the elite political competition in a large agrarian village in Hubei Province. Although known locally as well-governed, this village was actually a bifurcated political community with a host of problems. The power struggle between a few members of the village’s political elite in the past two decades focused on the office of village Party secretary and produced a polarized politics of factionalism. The town Party committee pla…
Village Elections and Their Impact: An Investigative Report on a Northern Chinese Village
This article examines a series of four direct elections and their impact in a poorly governed Chinese village near Beijing. Based on the problems exposed in the elections and governance, it identifies the main contradiction in the village to be that of economic justice between villagers on one side, and the old and elected officials, and village toughs and predatory entrepreneurs, on the other. It illustrates the dynamics of politics in the villa…
The Elite Class Background of Wang Shuo and His Hooligan Characters
The Cultural Revolution provided a unique environment for children of the political elite to develop a new kind of hooliganism and a youth counterculture that contradicted Mao’s aim to empower them for making revolution. The author challenges a view commonly held by Western commentators and scholars that Wang Shuo is a writer of “common man” fiction by highlighting the aristocratic background of his Cultural Revolution-era hooligan characters. In…
The Making of a National Hero: Tao Xingzhi's Legacies in the People s Republic of China
(2002). The Making of a National Hero: Tao Xingzhi's Legacies in the People s Republic of China. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 251-281
Rediscovering Tao Xingzhi as an Educational and Social Revolutionary
(2002). Rediscovering Tao Xingzhi as an Educational and Social Revolutionary. Twentieth-Century China: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 79-120
The Making of a National Hero: Tao Xingzhi's Legacies in the People s Republic of China
(2002). The Making of a National Hero: Tao Xingzhi's Legacies in the People s Republic of China. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 251-281
The Elite Class Background of Wang Shuo and His Hooligan Characters
The Cultural Revolution provided a unique environment for children of the political elite to develop a new kind of hooliganism and a youth counterculture that contradicted Mao’s aim to empower them for making revolution. The author challenges a view commonly held by Western commentators and scholars that Wang Shuo is a writer of “common man” fiction by highlighting the aristocratic background of his Cultural Revolution-era hooligan characters. In…
Village Elections and the Rise of Capitalist Entrepreneurs
This study examines a series of four direct elections and their impact in an industrialized Chinese northern village. It finds that direct elections empowered villagers and the new economic elite to remove the old, entrenched and corrupt leadership. However, the few capitalist entrepreneurs who dominated the elections and the new leadership neither abided by the rules of political competition nor tried to govern democratically. On the other hand,…
Village Elections and Their Impact: An Investigative Report on a Northern Chinese Village
This article examines a series of four direct elections and their impact in a poorly governed Chinese village near Beijing. Based on the problems exposed in the elections and governance, it identifies the main contradiction in the village to be that of economic justice between villagers on one side, and the old and elected officials, and village toughs and predatory entrepreneurs, on the other. It illustrates the dynamics of politics in the villa…
Elite Competition, Factionalism and Strongman Governance in a Central China Village
This study examines the elite political competition in a large agrarian village in Hubei Province. Although known locally as well-governed, this village was actually a bifurcated political community with a host of problems. The power struggle between a few members of the village’s political elite in the past two decades focused on the office of village Party secretary and produced a polarized politics of factionalism. The town Party committee pla…
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