The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers

Richard McGregor (Vanderbilt University)

The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
Format
Paperback
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Country
United States
Published
31 July 2012
Pages
336
ISBN
9780061708763

The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers

Richard McGregor (Vanderbilt University)

A masterful depiction of the party today… . McGregor illuminates the most important of the contradictions and paradoxes… . An entertaining and insightful portrait of China’s secretive rulers. –The Economist

Few outsiders have any realistic sense of the innards, motives, rivalries, and fears of the Chinese Communist leadership. But we all know much more than before, thanks to Richard McGregor’s illuminating and richly-textured look at the people in charge of China’s political machinery… . Invaluable. – James Fallows, National Correspondent for The Atlantic

In this provocative and illuminating account, Financial Times reporter Richard McGregor offers a captivating portrait of China’s Communist Party, its grip on power and control over China, and its future.

China’s political and economic growth in the past three decades has been one of astonishing, epochal dimensions. The most remarkable part of this transformation, however, has been left largely untold–the central role of the Chinese Communist Party. McGregor delves deeply into China’s inner sanctum for the first time, showing how the Communist Party controls the government, courts, media, and military and keeps all corruption accusations against its members in-house. The Party’s decisions have a global impact, yet the CCP remains a deeply secretive body, hostile to the law and unaccountable to anyone or anything other than its own internal tribunals. It is the world’s only geopolitical rival of the United States, and is primed to think the worst of the West.

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