The Communist Party Leadership and Rule of Law: A Tale of Two Reforms

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Qianfan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Party Leadership

Control and Style: Discipline Inspection Commissions Since the 11th Congress

1984 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
pp. 24-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Young
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
Chinese Politics ◽  
Party Organization ◽  
Party Leadership ◽  
The Chinese Communist Party ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

The legacies of the Cultural Revolution have been nowhere more enduring than in the Chinese Communist Party organization. Since late 1967, when the process of rebuilding the shattered Party began, strengthening Party leadership has been a principal theme of Chinese politics; that theme has become even more pronounced in recent years. It is now claimed that earlier efforts achieved nothing, and that during the whole “decade of turmoil” until 1976, disarray in the Party persisted and political authority declined still further. Recent programmes of Party reform, therefore, still seek to overcome the malign effects of the Cultural Revolution in order to achieve the complementary objectives of reviving abandoned Party “traditions” and refashioning the Party according to the new political direction demanded by its present leaders.

Law According to the Chinese Communist Party: Constitutionalism and Socialist Rule of Law

Modern China ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ding Xiaodong
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Political Concept ◽  
The People ◽  
State Regime ◽  
The Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Socialist Rule Of Law ◽  
Party State

This article argues that the Chinese Communist Party has adopted a unique understanding of law. Unlike the liberal view and the unwritten constitution view, which generally consider law as positive norms that exist independently of politics, the party understands law as a reflection of the party’s and the people’s will and a form of the party’s and the people’s self-discipline. In the party’s view, liberal rule of law theories are self-contradictory, illusive, and meaningless. This article argues that the party views the people as a political concept and itself as a political leading party, marking a fundamental difference from a competitive party in a parliamentary system. The legitimacy of the party’s dominant role and the party-state regime, therefore, depends on whether the party can continue to provide political momentum to lead the people and represent them in the future.

China’s “Rule of Law Policy and Communist Party Reform

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 675-697
Author(s):  
Young Nam Cho
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Rule Of Law

A Law Unto Itself: Chinese Communist Party Leadership and Yifa zhiguo in the Xi Era

Modern China ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 347-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Trevaskes
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
The Political ◽  
Xi Jinping ◽  
Party Leadership ◽  
The Law ◽  
Key Aspects

This article explores the political significance of “governing the nation in accordance with the law” 依法治国 ( yifa zhiguo) in the Xi Jinping era. It examines party statements and propaganda about the necessity of exercising party leadership over all key aspects of law-based governance, particularly the politico-legal system. The aim is to understand the strategic need for yifa zhiguo as part of the ideological repertoire of the Xi leadership. The argument is that yifa zhiguo is essentially an ideological and strategic message about power relations under Xi and the capacity of the party to withstand various threats to its credibility and thus ultimately to bring about the nation’s and party’s rejuvenation.

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Party Leadership, Organization and Ideology

1957 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
John Shelton Curtiss ◽  
Boris Meissner ◽  
John S. Reshetar
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Party Leadership ◽  
The Soviet Union

scholarly journals British Views of the Legacy of the Colonial Administration of Hong Kong: A Preliminary Assessment

1997 ◽  
Vol 151 ◽  
pp. 553-566
Author(s):  
Brian Hook
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Colonial Administration ◽  
Preliminary Assessment ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Historical Significance

The legacy of the colonial administration of Hong Kong, viewed from the majority of constituencies in Britain, is chiefly formed from the characteristics of the territory on the eve of retrocession. This, it will be noted, is in sharp contrast to the views formed by both the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and many Chinese observers. The British prefer to emphasize personal freedoms, the rule of law, the independence of the judiciary, the efficiency of government, the competitiveness of business, the preeminent status in international trade, the suppression of corruption, the quality of the engineering infrastructure, and the improving health and welfare provisions as essential characteristics of their legacy.Their Chinese counterparts are much more likely to hark back to the bad old days of national humiliation and imperialist exploitation, seeking to draw the attention of all compatriots to the historical significance of reunification.

The Red Soviets of Nghe-Tinh: An Early Communist Rebellion in Vietnam

1973 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Duiker
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Rubber Plantation ◽  
Party Leadership ◽  
South Vietnam ◽  
Colonial Authority ◽  
Central Vietnam ◽  
French Colonial

In the early months of 1930, a series of strikes broke out at various spots in French Indochina - at the Phu Rieng rubber plantation near Bien Hoa in Cochin China, at a match factory at Binh Thuy near Vinh in Central Vietnam, and at a textile plant at Nam Dinh in Tonkin. While not exceptionally important in themselves, these strikes can be seen in retrospect as the opening shots in a year of violence and rebellion. By midsummer the discontent had spread from outbreaks in the big industrial centers to the rural areas in Central and South Vietnam, where a series of major peasant revolts broke out against French colonial authority. As governmental authority in the Central provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh disintegrated, it was rapidly replaced by village peasant Soviets under communist party leadership. The French responded vigorously to these “Nghe-Tinh Soviets” but it was only several months later, in mid-1931, that order was restored over a battered, exhausted, and resentful peasantry.

China’s Rule of Law Dilemma

2016 ◽  
Vol 08 (04) ◽  
pp. 38-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongnian ZHENG ◽  
Wen Xin LIM
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Legal Reform ◽  
The West ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Do So

China’s rule of law took an ugly turn in less than a year after the legal reform was announced. The country detained lawyers on 9 July 2015. The Chinese Communist Party seems to have inherited the "Rule of Man" from the past and acts like an "organisational emperor". While it took the West a few centuries to build its system of rule of law, it will take China even longer to do so.

Vietnam 2016 Congress will see leadership shake-up

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
National Government ◽  
Party Leadership ◽  
Content Type ◽  
National Congress ◽  
The Government

Subject Outlook for the Vietnamese communist party's 2016 party assembly. Significance The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV)'s Central Committee is meeting from December 14-22 in preparation for the party's twelfth National Congress in January that will inaugurate new leadership for 2016-20. New party leadership brings a new national government. Impacts Party infighting will probably spike before the 2016 congress convenes. The congress is likely to confirm Vietnam's support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership. If the next Party leadership does not gel and operate effectively, the government may struggle to coordinate policy.

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