Table of Contents

Part I Overview, 1. The Chinese Communist Party: An Interpretation - Zheng Yongnian, 2. China’s Communist Party: From Mass to Elite Party - Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard Part II Organizational and Ideological Integration, 3. Managing Human Resources to Sustain One-Party Rule - Lance L P Gore, 4. Party Chiefs, Formal and Informal Rules and Institutions - Wang Zhengxu and Dragan Pavlićević, 5. Party Spirit: Producing Communist Belief in Contemporary China - Frank N. Pieke, Part III Elite Politics in the Reform Era, 6. What is a Faction? - Joseph Fewsmith, 7. Politics of Anti-corruption Campaign - Chen Gang, Part IV The Party in State, Society and Economy, 8. The Party/Army-State in Great Transformation - You Ji, 9. The Party in the Legislature and the Judiciary - Wang Jiangyu, 10. The Party in Grassroots Governance - Zhao Litao, 11. China’s Central State Corporatism: the Party and the Governance of Centrally Controlled Businesses - Li Chen, Part V The Party and Foreign Policy, 12. International Department and China’s Foreign Policy - Lye Liang Fook, 13. The Chinese Communist Party and Restructuring National Security Policymaking - Hu Weixing

About the Author

Zheng Yongnian is Professor and Director of the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore.

Lance L.P. Gore is a Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore.