THE GOOD COMMUNIST by Frank N. Pieke ( 9781107547698 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

THE GOOD COMMUNIST
ELITE TRAINING AND STATE BUILDING IN TODAY'S CHINA

By:

Frank N. Pieke

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Paperback

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1107547695

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

8 April, 2016

Pages:

240

Description:

This book examines how the Chinese Communist Party retains control over China's rulers through their education and training.

Synopsis:

Has China become just another capitalist country in a socialist cloak? Will the Chinese Communist Party's rule survive the next ten years of modernization and globalization? Frank Pieke investigates these conundrums in this fascinating account of how government officials are trained for placement in the Chinese Communist Party. Through in-depth interviews with staff members and aspiring trainees, he shows that while the Chinese Communist Party has undergone a radical transformation since the revolutionary years under Mao, it is still incumbent upon cadres, who are selected through a highly rigorous process, to be ideologically and politically committed to the party. It is the lessons learnt through their teachers that shape the political and economic decisions they will make in power. The book offers unique insights into the structure and the ideological culture of the Chinese government, and how it has reinvented itself over the last three decades as a neo-socialist state.

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6 b/w illus. 2 maps 4 tables

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Cambridge University Press

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