The Distribution of Political Power in Urban China After 1949 - The Mechanism of Its Modification

This study focuses on the distribution of political power in the urban area of mainland China. The independent variable in this study is the change of CCPs resource of its regime legitimacy. A change in the Chinese Communist Partys (CCP) source of legitimacy is used as the independent variable, the partnership between the CCP and its allies as the intermediate variable, the distribution of political power as the dependent variable. Chinese political system has been used as the conditional variable. The hypothesis of this study is that the distribution of political power in the urban area of mainland China would correspond the changes of CCPs resource of its regime legitimacy.