PYE, Lucian W <br/><br/>
Chine :  l'administration au somment de l'État dans un étrange système politique 

 - Paris :  IIAP,  juil./sept. 1997 
<br/><br/> The alliance between a Marxist-Leninist system and a very old bureaucratic tradition which was neglectful of the law has given rise to a system of government which is both peculiar and unique in nature. The secrecy which governs this system makes learning about it particularly difficult. The dominant rule is that power is not attached to a particular function but rather to the person fulfilling that function. At the top of the system are 25 to 35 leaders who have an entourage of assistants - called mishus - who serve as intermediaries and who operates via small working groups. The mishus are the key to the stability and flexibility of the Chinese system, in which written texts and the concept of neutrality do not have the same importance as they do in Western systems