Board #42 - Power Struggles in Zhongnanhai and Imperial Japan: Elite Cliques in the Existential Crises of Chinese and Japanese Modern History

• In Event: 75-302 - Poster Session: Public Reactions to State Authority in China and Taiwan

Brief Overview

This paper examines how the Chinese Communist Party and the Meiji government responded to the
existential crises that upended the path dependency of historical institutions and reached the
punctuated equilibrium of the two political systems.

Author

• Joshua Andrew Rota - Tebb, Montclair State University