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The book is part of the recent effort to catch up with the research on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Despite its omnipresence and pivotal role in running the country, there has been a conspicuous shortage of references to the Party in most studies related to China. In its stead, the academic literature as well as popular discussions has too often treated the CCP as a type of regime destined to the dustbin of history. The inadequacy of research in this area is understandable because CCP is a tightly organised Leninist party which has kept much of its internal affairs confidential. This book examines the key aspects of the transformation of CCP in the rapidly changing national and global context. It highlights the problems faced by the ruling Leninist party in adapting to a capitalistic environment that its organisations cannot fully control and its ideology cannot effectively rationalise. It also examines CCP’s strategies for adaptation in the areas of ideological reformulation, party-society relations and the ways of exercising power and maintaining internal cohesion. In addition to helping the readers understand how China is ruled and how the Chinese system operates, the book also highlights the evolutionary dynamics of Chinese politics in the environment created by CCP’s reform and open-door policies.
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- Introduction: Can Xi Jinping Revive Leninist Party Rule? (Lance L P GORE)
- The Xi Way of Speaking: Rhetoric, Emotion and Narrative in the Modern People’s Republic of China (Kerry BROWN)
- Ideological Poverty and Chronical Crisis of the Communist Party Leadership at the Grass-roots Level (TONG Yanqi)
- The Erosion and Resurrection of Micro-Rule: The Chinese Communist Party Adapting Its Rule to the Market (Lance L P GORE)
- Regime Support in China: Who are Loyal and Who are Sceptical? (SHAN Wei and TANG Wenfang)
- The Bureaucratisation of Loyalty: The Communist Youth League as a Political Springboard in Post-Mao China (Jérôme DOYON)
- Contemporary Perceptions of the Role of the Party in Hong Kong (LIM Tai Wei)
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