The Good Communist
Elite Training and State Building in Today's China
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:28th Apr '16
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This book examines how the Chinese Communist Party retains control over China's rulers through their education and training.
Frank N. Pieke examines how government officials are trained for placement in the Chinese Communist Party, showing that the lessons learnt through their teachers shape the political and economic decisions they will make in power. He explores the ideological culture of the Chinese government, and its reinvention as a neo-socialist state.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.
'Pieke's seminal contribution is of pressing importance not only to anthropologists interested in the ways in which political power comes to be reproduced and refracted, but, obviously, also to students of politics as well. The underlying dynamics of China's resilient brand of 'adaptive authoritarianism' have emerged as a key research puzzle for students of comparative politics, to whom Pieke's work should also speak volumes.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
ISBN: 9781107547698
Dimensions: 228mm x 152mm x 13mm
Weight: 350g
240 pages