The Good Communist: Elite Training and State Building in Today's China

Pieke, Frank N. Frank N. Pieke,

ISBN 10: 1107547695 / ISBN 13: 9781107547698

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Good Communist: Elite Training and State Building in Today's China
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107547695
• ISBN 13: 9781107547698
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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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.

About the Author

Frank N. Pieke is a Lecturer in Modern Politics and the Society of China at the University of Oxford, and is a Fellow of St Cross College. His previous publications include The Ordinary and the Extraordinary: An Anthropological Study of Chinese Reform and the 1989 People's Movement in Beijing (1996) and he was the co-author of Transnational Chinese: Fujianese Migrants in Europe (2004).