Coalitions of the weak elite politics in China from Mao's stratagem to the rise of Xi - Shih, Victor C. ca. 20./21. Jh (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
Introduction -- Coalition of the Strong: Mao's Predicament After the Great Leap Forward -- "Counterrevolutionary Splittists" in Mao's Ruling Coalition --The Scribblers Mafia: Radical Ideologues in Mao's Coalition -- Realizing the Coalition of the Weak: Politics in the Late Mao Period -- The Collapse of the Coalition of the Weak and Power Sharing in the 1980s -- Weak Successors: The Final Calculus of the Founding Generation and the Rise of Xi Jinping -- Conclusion