The Good Communist
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The Good Communist

Elite Training and State Building in Today's China

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The Good Communist

Elite Training and State Building in Today's China

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Illustrations
  7. Preface
  8. Chapter 1 Socialism, capitalism and the anthropology of neo-socialist rule
  9. Chapter 2 Cadres, cadre training and party schools
  10. Chapter 3 Cadre training and education in the twenty-first century
  11. Chapter 4 Life and work at party schools
  12. Chapter 5 Marketization and centralization of cadre education and training
  13. Chapter 6 Cadre training, cadre careers and the changing composition of Chinas political elite
  14. Chapter 7 Conclusions: cadre training and the future of party rule
  15. Appendix 1 List of interviewees
  16. Appendix 2 Student questionnaire survey
  17. Appendix 3 Glossary of Chinese terms
  18. References
  19. Index