TY - BOOK AU - RINGEN Stein TI - The perfect dictatorship: China in the 21st century SN - 9789888208944 (pbk.): PY - 2016/// CY - Hong Kong PB - Hong Kong University Press KW - CHINA KW - POLICY & GOVERNMENT KW - 2002- KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - CHINA N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-184) and index N2 - This book explains how the system works and where it may be moving. Drawing on Chinese and international sources, on extensive collaboration with Chinese scholars, and on the political science of state analysis, Stein Ringen concludes that under the new leadership of Xi Jinping, the system of government has been transformed into a new regime radically harder and more ideological than the legacy of Deng Xiaoping ER -