"This volume, along with Hong Yung Lee's earlier work, The Politics of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, will be judged by many in the field to be among the best books in English on Chinese communist politics. There are other books with a broader brush that are quite good, but in terms of political science and Chinese studies placed genuinely in comparative politics, I believe Lee's are superior. And he is a master at analyzing the language of Chinese communism."--Chalmers Johnson, Rohr Professor of Pacific International Relations, University of California, San Diego
