Party Leads All - The Evolving Role of the Chinese Communist Party

Examining the past, current, and potential future roles of the Communist Party in governing China
This book offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the party's roles in China's economy, government, civil society, legal system, military affairs, and foreign policy. It does so at a critical moment, with the full contours of the Xi Jinping era in China becoming more evident and as the CCP reaches its 100th anniversary and nears three-quarters of a century in power. It will be essential reading for all scholars, students, and policy-makers interested in contemporary China.

About the author

Jacques deLisle is the Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law, professor of political science, and director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania, and director of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.Guobin Yang is the Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology at the Annenberg School for Communication and the Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online (2009), The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China (2016), and The Wuhan Lockdown (forthcoming, 2022).

Product details

• Authors: Jacques Delisle, Jacques Yang Delisle, Guobin Yang
• Assisted by: Jacques Delisle (Editor), Guobin Yang (Editor), Yang Guobin (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2022
• EAN: 9780815739517
• ISBN: 978-0-8157-3951-7
• No. of pages: 438
• Series: Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, International Relations, Politics & government, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Marxism & Communism