Critical readings on the communist party of China.

• TeilnehmendeR: Brødsgaard, Kjeld Erik,
• Place / Publishing House: [S.l.] : : Brill,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Readings.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1,590 pages) :; illustrations.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), with nearly 90 million members, is the largest ruling political party in the world. Its power and influence reach into every corner of state, society and economy in China. Given the CCP’s omnipresence, in-depth knowledge of how the CCP is organised and managed and how it will likely evolve is of paramount importance and is a basic prerequisite for understanding China’s rise. By bringing together the best scholarship on the CCP, covering areas such as organisation, cadre management, recruitment and training, ideology and propaganda, factions and elites, reform and adaptation, corruption and law, this collection provides a key to open the black box of Chinese politics.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard -- The Chinese Communist Party / Tony Saich -- The Evolving Party System / Andrew Walder -- China’s Changing of the Guard: Authoritarian Resilience / Andrew J. Nathan -- Where Does Correct Party History Come From? The Construction of a Maoist Party History / Tony Saich -- In Search of a Master Narrative for 20th-Century Chinese History / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik -- From Individual to Organization / Yongnian Zheng -- The Organization of Political Power and Its Consequences: The View from the Inside / Kenneth Lieberthal -- The Party Domination of the State / Yongnian Zheng -- The ccp Central Committee’s Leading Small Groups / Alice Miller -- Lifting the Veil of the ccp’s Mishu System: Unrestricted Informal Politics within an Authoritarian Regime / Wen-Hsuan Tsai and Nicola Dean -- China’s “Quiet Diplomacy”: The International Department of the Chinese Communist Party / David Shambaugh -- Counting Cadres: A Comparative View of the Size of China’s Public Employment / Yuen Yuen Ang -- Management of Party Cadres in China / Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard -- Remaking the Communist Party-State: The Cadre Responsibility System at the Local Level in China / Maria Edin -- Selective Policy Implementation in Rural China / Kevin J. O’Brien and Lianjiang Li -- The Cadre Evaluation System at the Grass Roots: The Paradox of Party Rule / Susan H. Whiting -- The Chinese Communist Party’s Nomenklatura System as a Leadership Selection Mechanism / John P. Burns -- Politics and Business Group Formation in China: The Party in Control? / Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard -- Cadre Personnel Management in China: The Nomenklatura System, 1990–1998 / Hon S. Chan -- China’s Central Party School / Ignatius Wibowo and Liang Fook Lye -- Marketization, Centralization and Globalization of Cadre Training in Contemporary China / Frank N. Pieke -- Career Advancement as Party Patronage: Sponsored Mobility into the Chinese Administrative Elite, 1949–1996 / Bobai Li and Andrew G. Walder -- Getting Ahead in the Communist Party: Explaining the Advancement of Central Committee Members in China / Victor Shih , Christopher Adolph and Mingxing Liu -- China’s Propaganda System: Institutions, Processes and Efficacy / David Shambaugh -- Guiding Hand: The Role of the ccp Central Propaganda Department in the Current Era / Anne-Marie Brady -- Remaking the ccp’s Ideology: Determinants, Progress, and Limits under Hu Jintao / Heike Holbig -- The Communist Party of China and Ideology / Kerry Brown -- Norms, Values and Cynical Games with Party Ideology / Børge Bakken -- A Factionalism Model for ccp Politics / Andrew J. Nathan -- The 16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party: Formal Institutions and Factional Groups / Zhiyue Bo -- The Chinese Communist Party: Recruiting and Controlling the New Elites / Cheng Li -- Cooptation and Corporatism in China: The Logic of Party Adaptation / Bruce J. Dickson -- Political Reform and Regime Legitimacy in Contemporary China / Thomas Heberer and Gunter Schubert -- The Communist Party and Social Management in China / Frank N. Pieke -- Bringing the Party Back In: The ccp and the Trajectory of Market Transition in China / Alexei Shevchenko.