Transitional Rhetoric of Chinese Communist Party Leaders in the Post-Mao Reform Period: Dilemmas and Strategies

2006 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 262-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xing Lu ◽  
Herbert W. Simons
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Reform Period

“A Good Communist Style”

2020 ◽  
Vol 151 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-50
Author(s):  
M. Paulina Hartono
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
National Policies ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Party Loyalty

This essay focuses on the history and politicization of radio announcers’ vocal delivery in China during the mid-twentieth century. It explores how Chinese Communist Party leaders used internal party debates, national policies, and broadcasting training to construct an ideal Communist voice whose qualities would ostensibly communicate party loyalty and serve as a sonic representation of political authority.

The Centralisation of the Chinese Communist Party’s Campaign against Corruption and Its Implications

China Report ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fung Chan ◽  
Biyang Sun
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Open Door ◽  
Discretionary Power ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Central Commission ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Different Levels

Following the initiation of the policy of ‘Reform and Open Door’, the possibilities for public officials to trade power for private gain in China increased. To tackle the problem of corruption, different levels of Discipline Inspection Commissions (DICs) in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) initiated investigation related to various corruption cases. However, due to the nature of the administrative set-up in China, the local DICs could not effectively carry out their functions. As a result, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) was compelled to take on a bigger role, including controlling personnel appointments in local DICs and dispatching inspection teams to local jurisdictions. This strategy also enabled the central government and the top leadership of the CCP to build up a positive image with respect to fighting corruption. Nevertheless, the discretionary power of the top party leaders that has been enhanced through these centralisation measures leads to doubts over the real motives behind the CCP’s anti-corruption efforts. In March 2018, the National Supervision Commission (NSC) was established as the highest governmental anti-corruption agency, but more time is needed to judge the effectiveness of this new institution.

scholarly journals Comparing the Soviet and Chinese Famines: Their Perpetrators, Actors, and Victims

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucien Bianco
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Rural Economy ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Party Leaders

The Soviet (1931-33) and Chinese (1958-62) famines were man-made catastrophes that occurred in underdeveloped states with growing populations during peacetime and affected traditional surplus areas. Both are marked by overly ambitious industrialization strategies at the expense of the rural economy in which central authorities failed to lower grain quotas once famine broke out and even increased them. The famines also had differences, notably regarding the nationality or ethnic question, which played a key role in Ukraine and was present in the Kazakh famine, but was absent in the Chinese famine. Also, Chinese Communist Party leaders, notwithstanding the cruelty of their policies, were much better disposed towards peasants than were the Soviet Bolsheviks. One cannot ascribe murderous intent on Mao’s part, but rather an incoherency of policy and unwillingness to recognize and correct his errors.

Strange Bedfellows: The Communist Party and Shanghai's Elite in the National Salvation Movement

1992 ◽  
Vol 129 ◽  
pp. 26-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Stranahan
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
National Salvation ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Crucial Part

During the National Salvation Movement of the mid-1930s, the Shanghai Party forged its most workable alliance not with members of the proletariat but with progressives from the city's middle and upper classes. Making use of multi-class patriotism, Party leaders established a co-operative relationship with members of the elite that became a crucial part of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) resistance work against Japan. In many cases, the relationship continued into the post-war years and contributed significantly to the CCP's easy takeover of the city in May 1949.

Formalism and anti-formalism in the Chinese Communist Party’s governance project

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 290-306
Author(s):  
Samuli Seppänen
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
Party Leadership ◽  
Rule Based ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Party Ideology ◽  
The Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Formal Rules

AbstractThis article argues that the governance project of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) oscillates between rule-based formalism and anti-formalist scepticism about rule-based governance. In this dichotomy, anti-formalist arguments support CCP leaders’ efforts to maintain and increase the Party’s influence over the judiciary and other state organs, which is a key justification for the Party’s power. Formalist language, in contrast, supports Party leaders’ attempts to constrain lower-level cadres’ uses of power within the Party. Formalist language is particularly prominent in the writings of Party ideologues on the interpretation of the Party’s internal regulations, including the CCP Constitution. At the same time, Party ideology also provides for various anti-formalist arguments about rule-based governance within and outside the Party. Paradoxical as it may be, the Party leadership seeks to exert rule-transcending political leadership through formal rules. While the focus of this article is on China, it argues that other illiberal regimes may also be studied in terms of similar, potentially incoherent approaches to rule-based governance.

Flesh Searches in China

Asian Survey ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Gorman
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Chinese State ◽  
The Chinese Communist Party ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores the relationship between netizens and the Chinese Communist Party by investigating examples of “flesh searches” targeting corrupt officials. Case studies link the initiative of netizens and the reaction of the Chinese state to the pattern of management of social space in contemporary China.

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