TOC Critical Readings on Communist Party of China Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard Introduction The Party System: General Overviews Tony Saich, The Chinese Communist Party, in Tony Saich, Governance and Politics in China (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011): 108-141. Andrew Walder, The Evolving Party System, in Andrew Walder, China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2015): 101-122. Andrew J. Nathan, China s Resilient Authoritarianism, Journal of Democracy 14(1) (January 2003): 6-17. Party History Tony Saich, Where Does Party History Come From: The Construction of a Maoist Party History, in Chun-Chieh Huang (eds.), Norms and the State in China (Leiden: Brill, 1993): 296-336. Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, In Search of a Master Narrative for 20 th Century Chinese History, The China Quarterly 188 (December 2006): 1070-1091. Zheng Yongnian, From Individual to Organization: The Transformation of the Emperorship, in Zheng Yongnian, The Chinese Communist Party as Organizational Emperor (New York: Routledge, 2010): 45-70. Party Organization Kenneth Lieberthal, The Organization of Political Power and Its Consequences: The View from the Inside, in Kenneth Lieberthal, Governing China: From Revolution Through Reform (New York: W.W. Norton Company, 2004): 206-242. Zheng Yongnian, The Party Domination of the State, in Zheng Yongnian, The Chinese Communist Party as Organizational Emperor (New York: Routledge, 2010): 98-122. Alice Miller, The CCP Central Committee s Leading Small Groups, China Leadership Monitor 26 (June 2008). 1
Wen-Hsuan Tai and Nicola Dean, Lifting the Veil of the CCP s Mishu System: Unrestricted Informal Politics within an Authoritarian Regime, The China Journal 73 (2015): 158-185. David Shambaugh, Chinas Quiet Diplomacy : The International Department of the Chinese Communist Party, China: An International Journal 5(1) (March 2007): 26-54. Cadres and cadre management Yuen Yuen Ang, Counting Cadres: A Comparative View of China s Public Employment, The China Quarterly 211 (September 2012): 676-696. Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard, Management of Party Cadres in China, in Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard and Zheng Yongnian (eds.), Bringing the Party Back In: How China is Governed (Singapore: Eastern Universities Press, 2004): 57-91. Maria Edin, Remaking the Communist Party-State: The Cadre Responsibility System at the Local Level in China, in Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard and Zheng Yongnian (eds.), Bringing the Party Back In: How China is Governed (Singapore: Eastern Universities Press, 2004): 175-191. Kevin J. O Brien and Lianjiang Li, Selective Policy Implementation in Rural China, Comparative Politics, 31(2) (January 1999): 167-186 Susan H. Whiting, The Cadre Evaluation System at the Grass Roots: The Paradox of Party Rule, in Barry Naughton and Dali L. Yang (eds.), Holding China Together: Diversity and National Integration in the Post- Deng Era (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004): 101-119 Nomenklatura John P. Burns, The Chinese Communist Party s Nomenklatura System as a Leadership Selection Mechanism: An Evaluation, in Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard and Zheng Yongnian (eds.), The Chinese Communist Party in Reform (London: Routledge, 2006): 33-58. Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard, Politics and Business Group Formation in China: The Party in Control? The China Quarterly 211 (September 2012): 624-648. Hon S. Chan, Cadre Personnel Management in China: The Nomenklatura System, 1990-1998, The China Quarterly 179 (2004): 703-743. Recruitment, career advancement, and training Ignatius Wibowo and Lye Liang Fok, China s Central Party School: A Unique Institution Adapting to Change, in Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard and Zheng Yongnian (eds.), The Chinese Communist Party in Reform (London: Routledge, 2006): 139-156. 2
Frank Pieke, Marketization, Centralization and Globalization of Cadre Training in Contemporary China, The China Quarterly 200 (December 2009): 953-972. Bobai Li and Andrew G. Walder, Career Advancement as Party Patronage: Sponsored Mobility into the Chinese Administrative Elite, American Journal of Sociology 106(5) (March 2001): 1371-1408. Victor Shih, Christopher Adolph, and Mingxing Liu, Getting Ahead in the Communist Party: Explaining the Advancement of Central Committee Members in China, American Political Science Review 106(1) (February 2012): 166-187. Party Ideology and Propaganda David Shambaugh, China s Propaganda System: Institutions, Processes and Efficacy, China Journal 57 (January 2007): 25-58. Anne-Marie Brady, Guiding hand: The Role of the CCP Central Propaganda Department in the Current Era, Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture 3(1) (2006): 58-77. Heike Holbig, Remaking the CCP s Ideology: Determinants, Progress, and Limits under Hu Jintao, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, Vol. 38, No. 3 (2009): 35-61. Kerry Brown, The Communist Party of China and Ideology, China: An International Journal 10, no. 2 (August 2012): 52-68. Børge Bakken, Norms, Values and Cynical Games with Party Ideology, The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies 16 (2002): 106-137. Party Factions and Elites Andrew Nathan, A Factionalism Model for CCP Politics, The China Quarterly 53 (January-March 1973): 34-66. Bo Zhiyue, The 16 th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party: Formal Institutions and Factional Groups, Journal of Contemporary China (May 2004): 223-256. Cheng Li, The Chinese Communist Party: Recruiting and Controlling the New Elites, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 3 (2009): 13-33. Party Reform and Adaptation Bruce Dickson, Cooptation and Corporatism in China: The Logic of party Adaptation, Political Science Quarterly 115(4) (2000): 517-40. 3
Thomas Heberer and Günther Schubert, Political Reform and Regime Legitimacy in Contemporary China, Asien 99 (April 2006): 9-28. Frank Pieke, The Communist Party and Social Management in China, China Information 26(2) (July 2012): 149-165. Alexei Shevchenko, Bringing the Party Back In: The CCP and the Trajectory of Market Transition in China, Communist and Post-Communist Studies 37 (2004): 161-185. Wen-Hsuan Tsai and Nicola Dean, The CCP s Learning System: Thought Unification and Regime Adaptation, The China Journal 69 (January 2013): 87-107. Local Party Work Akio Takahara and Robert Benewick, Party Work in the Urban Communities, in Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard and Zheng Yongnian (eds.), The Chinese Communist Party in Reform (London: Routledge, 2006): 157-172. Patricia Thornton, The New Life of the Party: Party-Building and Social Engineering in Greater Shanghai, The China Journal 68 (July, 2012): 58-78. Stig Thøgersen, Parasites or Civilizers: The Legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party in Rural Areas, Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard and Zheng Yongnian (eds.), Bringing the Party Back in: How China is Governed (Singapore: Far Eastern Universities Press, 2004): 192-216. Thomas Heberer and Gunter Schubert, County and Township Cadres as a Strategic Group. A New Approach to Political Agency in China s Local State, Journal of Chinese Political Science, Vol. 17, No. 3 (2012): 221-249. Party and Corruption Xuezhi Guo, Controlling Corruption in the Party: China s Central Discipline Inspection Commission, The China Quarterly 219 (September 2014): 597-624. Yan Sun, The Politics of Conceptualizing Corruption in Reform China, Crime, Law & Social Change 35 (2001): 245-270. Andrew Wedeman, The Intensification of Corruption in China, The China Quarterly 180 (December 2004): 895-921. Bruce Dickson, Political Instability at the Middle and Lower Levels: Signs of Decaying CCP, Corruption and Political Dissent, in David Shambaugh (ed.), Is China Unstable? Assessing the Factors (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000): 41-56. Party and Law 4
Zou Keyuan, The Party and the Law, in Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard and Zheng Yongnian (eds.), The Chinese Communist Party in Reform (London: Routledge, 2006): 77-102. Ling Li, The Chinese Communist Party and People s Courts: Judicial Dependence in China, US-Asia Law Institute, New University School of Law, Working Paper 2 (2014): 1-36. Larry Catá Backer, The Rule of Law, The Chinese Communist Party, and Ideological Campaigns: Sange Daibiao (The Three Represents ), Social Rule of Law, and Modern Chinese Constitutionalism, Journal of Transitional Law and Contemporary Problems 16(1) (2006): 102-173. The Future of the CCP Bruce Dickson, The Future of the Chinese Communist Party: Strategies of Survival and Prospects for Change, in Jae Ho Chung (ed.), Charting China s Future: Political, Social, and International Dimensions (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006): 21-49. Joseph Fewsmith, Staying in Power: What Does the Chinese Communist Party Have to Do?, in Cheng Li (ed.), China s Changing Political Landscape: Prospects for Democracy (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2008): 212-26. Cheng Li, The End of the CCP s Resilient Authoritarianism? A Tripartite Assessment of Shifting Power in China, The China Quarterly 211 (September 2012): 595-623. David Shambaugh, International Perspectives on the Communist Party of China, China: An International Journal 10(2) (August 2012): 8-22. Zheng Yongnian, Where Does the Party Go From Here, China: An International Journal 10(2) (August 2012): 84-101. 5