Cadre Country : how China became the Chinese Communist Party / John Fitzgerald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fitzgerald, John, 1951- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zhongguo gong chan dang.

China--Politics and government--20th century.

China.

China--Politics and government--21st century.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

x, 342 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Sydney, NSW : University of New South Wales Press, 2022.

Summary:

"Since the founding of the Communist Party in China just over a century ago, there is much the country has achieved. But who does the heavy lifting in China? And who walks away with the spoils? Cadre Country places the spotlight on the nation's 40 million cadres, the managers and government officials employed by the ruling Communist Party to protect its great enterprise. This group has captured the culture and wealth of China, excluding the voices of the common citizens of this powerful and diverse country. Award-winning historian John Fitzgerald focuses on the stories the Communist Party tells about itself, exploring how China works as an authoritarian state and revealing Beijing's monumental propaganda productions as a fragile edifice built on questionable assumptions. Cadre Country is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the workings of the Chinese Communist Party and the limits of its achievements"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Insiders, Outsiders, cadres

2. Who owns China?

3. Eat up, lift up

4. Four Little Tigers

5. Migrant labour

6. Law and planning

7. Leninism and meritocracy

8. China's national imaginary

9. Party history is family history

10. War of Resistance or Anti-Fascist War

11. Century of humiliation

12. Degeneration and regeneration

13. Managing a patch

14. Capitalism without capitalists

15. Original intentions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781742237480

1742237487

OCLC:

1285481962