Chapter 7
The l-space has potential as an analytical tool for the diagnosis of social and political change. Its use can be illustrated by comparing the modernization process in China, Japan, and Central and Eastern Europe.
The Confucian tradition has tended to give particular prominence to the exercise of personal power. The shift in China to a Marxist-Leninist order did not fundamentally alter this tendency. Mao Zedong, in his day, behaved as imperiously as his Qing predecessors. The economic reforms currently under way have their origins in attempts to curb Mao's personal power after the disasters of the Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s. China, however, still lacks the cultural disposition ...
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