Jeremy L. Wallace

Seeking truth and hiding facts: information, ideology, and authoritarianism in china - Jeremy L. Wallace

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• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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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