The Eighth Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party: A Study of an Elite

1957 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 392-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franklin W. Houn
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Chinese Nation ◽  
Educational Backgrounds ◽  
Status Mobility ◽  
National Congress ◽  
The Chinese Communist Party ◽  
To Come

At its national congress, September 15 to 27, 1956, the Chinese Communist Party, among other items of business, elected a new group of leaders officially known as the Eighth Central Committee. For some time to come this group of men and women will have a highly influential role in the affairs of their party and of the Chinese nation. What they say and do may also affect the course of world events.What kind of people are they? What are their social and educational backgrounds? How long have they been in the Communist movement? By what roads have they been able to reach the summit of their party hierarchy? What kinds of influence can they exert in the various fields of national affairs? To what extent did their election to the central committee represent a “status mobility” within the party? Answers to these and similar questions should illuminate some broader questions: (1) whether the Chinese Communist Party is really led by the working class as the Communists themselves have claimed; (2) what are the typical features of the Chinese Communist leadership; (3) how the characteristics of that leadership have been conditioned by those of Chinese society; and (4) what are the strengths and weaknesses of the Communist leadership? This paper is addressed to these questions.

Chinese Society in 2017: Addressing Unbalanced Development

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (01) ◽  
pp. 32-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Litao ZHAO
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Income Growth ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Central Task ◽  
National Congress ◽  
The Chinese Communist Party

China performed well in 2017 creating jobs, controlling inflation and promoting income growth. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had not been troubled by major disturbing incidents as in previous years. The single most important event in 2017 was the CCP’s 19th National Congress where “people’s ever-growing need for a better life versus unbalanced and inadequate development” was given emphasis. Addressing unbalanced development will likely be the CCP’s central task in the coming years.

The Sixteenth Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party: Hu Gets What?

Asian Survey ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 553-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Cheng ◽  
Lynn White
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
Turnover Rates ◽  
Standing Committee ◽  
New Findings ◽  
Trends Over Time ◽  
The Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Elite Selection ◽  
Over Time

This essay offers data about China's Central Committee, Politburo, and Standing Committee, e.g., turnover rates, generations, birthplaces, educations, occupations, ethnicities, genders, experiences, and factions. Past statistics demonstrate trends over time. Norms of elite selection can be induced from such data, which allow a broad-based analysis of changes in China's technocracy. New findings include evidence of cooperation among factions and swift promotions of province administrators.

Revolution and Reaction in the Chinese Countryside: The Socialist Education Movement in Cultural Revolutionary Perspective

1969 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 92-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Baum
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
Education Movement ◽  
The Chinese Communist Party

At the time the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) issued its now-famous Circular Notice of 16 May 1966, which roundly criticized Peking's Mayor P'eng Chen and thereby ushered in a dramatic new stage of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, a large-scale and intensive Socialist Education Movement was still being implemented systematically in the Chinese countryside.

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