China's Communist Party
Title | China's Communist Party PDF eBook |
Author | David L Shambaugh |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2008-04-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780520934696 |
Few issues affect the future of China--and hence all the nations that interact with China--more than the nature of its ruling party and government. In this timely study, David Shambaugh assesses the strengths and weaknesses, durability, adaptability, and potential longevity of China's Communist Party (CCP). He argues that although the CCP has been in a protracted state of atrophy, it has undertaken a number of adaptive measures aimed at reinventing itself and strengthening its rule. Shambaugh's investigation draws on a unique set of inner-Party documents and interviews, and he finds that China's Communist Party is resilient and will continue to retain its grip on power. Copub: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
The Party
Title | The Party PDF eBook |
Author | Richard McGregor |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2010-06-02 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0061998087 |
“A masterful depiction of the party today. . . . McGregor illuminates the most important of the contradictions and paradoxes. . . . An entertaining and insightful portrait of China’s secretive rulers.” —The Economist “Few outsiders have any realistic sense of the innards, motives, rivalries, and fears of the Chinese Communist leadership. But we all know much more than before, thanks to Richard McGregor’s illuminating and richly-textured look at the people in charge of China’s political machinery. . . . Invaluable.” — James Fallows, National Correspondent for The Atlantic In this provocative and illuminating account, Financial Times reporter Richard McGregor offers a captivating portrait of China’s Communist Party, its grip on power and control over China, and its future. China’s political and economic growth in the past three decades has been one of astonishing, epochal dimensions. The most remarkable part of this transformation, however, has been left largely untold—the central role of the Chinese Communist Party. McGregor delves deeply into China’s inner sanctum for the first time, showing how the Communist Party controls the government, courts, media, and military and keeps all corruption accusations against its members in-house. The Party’s decisions have a global impact, yet the CCP remains a deeply secretive body, hostile to the law and unaccountable to anyone or anything other than its own internal tribunals. It is the world’s only geopolitical rival of the United States, and is primed to think the worst of the West.
The Chinese Communist Party
Title | The Chinese Communist Party PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Cheek |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2021-05-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108842771 |
A mosaic of lives and voices illustrating the history of the Chinese Communist Party over the last hundred years.
Ideology and Organization in Communist China
Title | Ideology and Organization in Communist China PDF eBook |
Author | Franz Schurmann |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 608 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | China |
ISBN |
Chinese Communist Espionage
Title | Chinese Communist Espionage PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Mattis |
Publisher | Naval Institute Press |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2019-11-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 168247304X |
This is the first book of its kind to employ hundreds of Chinese sources to explain the history and current state of Chinese Communist intelligence operations. It profiles the leaders, top spies, and important operations in the history of China's espionage organs, and links to an extensive online glossary of Chinese language intelligence and security terms. Peter Mattis and Matthew Brazil present an unprecedented look into the murky world of Chinese espionage both past and present, enabling a better understanding of how pervasive and important its influence is, both in China and abroad.
The Formation of the Chinese Communist Party
Title | The Formation of the Chinese Communist Party PDF eBook |
Author | Yoshihiro Ishikawa |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 522 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0231158084 |
Official Chinese narratives recounting the rise of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tend to minimize the movement's international associations. Conducting careful readings and translations of recently released documents in Russian, Japanese, and Chinese, Ishikawa Yoshihiro builds a portrait of the party's multifaceted character, revealing the provocative influences that shaped the movement and the ideologies of its competitors. Making use of public and private documents and research, Ishikawa begins the story in 1919 with Chinese intellectuals who wrote extensively under pen names and, in fact, plagiarized or translated many iconic texts of early Chinese Marxism. Chinese Marxists initially drew intellectual sustenance from their Japanese counterparts, until Japan clamped down on leftist activities. The Chinese then turned to American and British sources. Ishikawa traces these networks through an exhaustive survey of journals, newspapers, and other intellectual and popular publications. He reports on numerous early meetings involving a range of groups, only some of which were later funneled into CCP membership, and he follows the developments at Soviet Russian gatherings attended by a number of Chinese representatives who claimed to speak for a nascent CCP. Concluding his narrative in 1922, one year after the party's official founding, Ishikawa clarifies a traditionally opaque period in Chinese history and sheds new light on the subsequent behavior and attitude of the party.
The Rise of China, Inc.
Title | The Rise of China, Inc. PDF eBook |
Author | Shaomin Li |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2022-01-27 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1316513874 |
Reveals how the CCP pursued global expansion by running the Chinese state like an organisation that acts as swiftly and flexibly as a firm.