Institutional Genes

"This book offers insights into China's political, economic, and historical journey under communism. It introduces 'institutional genes' as a conceptual framework to organize a coherent historical narrative on the origins, evolution, behaviours, and impacts of China's institutions and those of totalitarian regimes at large"--

1. Introduction; 2. Institutions and Institutional Genes: Methodology; 3. Property Rights as a Form of Institutional Gene; 4. The Emergence and Evolution of the Institutional Genes of the Chinese Imperial System; 5. The Imperial Examinations and Confucianism: The Institutional Genes for Imperial Personnel and Ideology; 6. The Institutional Genes of Totalitarian Ideology; 7. Institutional Genes of Totalitarianism: The Tsarist Empire; 8. The Birth of Bolshevik Totalitarianism; 9. The Failure of Reform and Revolution in the Late Qing Period; 10. Building China's Bolshevik Party; 11. Building a Totalitarian Regime: From the Chinese Soviet to the People's Republic; 12. Regionally Administered Totalitarianism; 13. The Post-Mao Reform and Its Cessation: The Rise and Fall of Regionally Decentralized Authoritarianism; 14. Conclusion.