Wen-Hsuan Tsai

About The Author

Wen-Hsuan Tsai is a research fellow in the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica in Taiwan and a professor in the Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies at National Chengchi University. He is a winner of the Gordon White Prize for most original article in the China Quarterly, and his work has also appeared in the China Journal, Critical Asian Studies, the Journal of Contemporary China, the China Review, the Journal of East Asian Studies, and many other publications.

Books by Wen-Hsuan Tsai

A Tight Grip

State Power and Control in Modern China

By Wen-Hsuan Tsai

A non-democratic regime has two problems that make political survival more challenging than it is for other types of government: How does a ruler share power with other members of the political elite? And how does the regime control society? A Tight Grip examines the strategies that China's cu...

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