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The Chinese Communist Party as Organizational Emperor

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the largest, and one of the most powerful, political organizations in the world today, and has played a crucial role in initiating most of the major reforms of the past three decades in China. Chinas rapid rise has enabled the CCP to extend its influence throughout the globe, but the West remains uncertain whether the CCP will survive Chinas ongoing socio-economic transformation and whether China will become a democratic country.

With rapid socio-economic transformation, the CCP has itself experienced drastic changes. Zheng Yongnian argues that while the concept of political party in China was imported, the CCP is a Chinese cultural product: it is an entirely different breed of political party from those in the West an organizational emperor, wielding its power in a similar way to Chinese emperors of the past. Using social and political theory, this book examines the CCPs transformation in the reform era, and how it is now struggling to maintain the continuing domination of its imperial power. The author argues that the CCP has managed these changes as a proactive player throughout, and that the nature of the CCP implies that as long as the party is transforming itself in accordance with socio-economic changes, the structure of party dominion over the state and society will not be allowed to change.

Zheng Yongnian is Professor at the National University of Singapore and Director of the universitys East Asian Institute. His many publications include Technological Empowerment; De Facto Federalism; Globalization and State Transformation in China; Discovering Chinese Nationalism in China and Will China Become Democratic? As co-editor his books include The Chinese Communist Party in Reform and China and the New International Order (both published by Routledge).

China Policy Series

Series Editor: Zheng Yongnian
East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore

1. China and the New International Order

Edited by Wang Gungwu and Zheng Yongnian

2. Chinas Opening Society

The non-state sector and governance

Edited by Zheng Yongnian and Joseph Fewsmith

3. Zhao Ziyang and Chinas Political Future

Edited by Guoguang Wu and Helen Lansdowne

4. Hainan State, Society, and Business in a Chinese Province

Kjeld Erik Brdsgaard

5. Non-Governmental Organizations in China

The rise of dependent autonomy

Yiyi Lu

6. Power and Sustainability of the Chinese State

Edited by Keun Lee, Joon-Han Kim and Wing Thye Woo

7. Chinas Information and Communications Technology Revolution

Social changes and state responses

Edited by Xiaoling Zhang and Yongnian Zheng

8. Socialist China, Capitalist China

Social tension and political adaptation under economic globalisation

Edited by Guoguang Wu and Helen Lansdowne

9. Environmental Activism in China

Lei Xei

10. Chinas Rise in the World ICT Industry

Industrial strategies and the catch-up development model

Lutao Ning

11. Chinas Local Administration

Traditions and changes in the sub-national hierarchy

Edited by Jae-Ho Chung and Tao-chiu Lam

12. The Chinese Communist Party as Organizational Emperor

Culture, reproduction and transformation

Zheng Yongnian

The Chinese Communist Party as Organizational Emperor

Culture, reproduction and transformation

Zheng Yongnian

LONDON AND NEW YORK

First published 2010
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
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This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2009.

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2010 Zheng Yongnian

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ISBN 0-203-86321-6 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN10: 0415559634 (hbk)

ISBN10: 0415559650 (pbk)

ISBN10: 0203863216 (ebk)

ISBN13: 9780415559638 (hbk)

ISBN13: 9780415559652 (pbk)

ISBN13: 9780203863213 (ebk)

In memory of my father Zheng Tangtu (19111997) and my mother Chu Fengxiang (19222002)

Contents

Tables and figures

Tables

2.1	Institutions governing power relations between the Party and the state, and between the Party-state and society in China
5.1	Appointments of provincial officials to be managed by and reported to the Central Committee (1990)
6.1	Two stages of decentralization in China
7.1	Heads of the Department of Propaganda (DOP)
7.2	Previous and present heads of the Central Party School (CPS)
7.3	Selected courses taught at the Central Party School under the five contemporaries (as at Year 2000)

Figures

1.1	Membership of the Chinese Communist Party (19452007)
1.2	Composition of the CCP membership (2006)
2.1	The CCP and its cultural environments
2.2	Positioning the organizational emperor and its development directions
2.3	Dimensions of change of the organizational emperorship
2.4	Hegemony and intra-party politics
2.5	Hegemony and statesociety relations
3.1	The government structure during the period of the Provisional Constitution of the Republic of China (191314)

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