Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-07-06 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
On the centennial of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, the definitive history of how Mao and his successors overcame incredible odds to gain and keep power. Mao Zedong and the twelve other young men who founded the Chinese Communist Party in 1921 could hardly have imagined that less
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-06-08 - Publisher: Harper Collins
“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
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Stanford University Press
In this pathbreaking book, Xiaoyuan Liu establishes the ways in which the history of the Chinese Communist Party was, from the Yan’an period onward, intertwined with the ethnopolitics of the Chinese “periphery.” As a Han-dominated party, the CCP had to adapt to an inhospitable political environment, particularly among the Hui
Authors: Kui-Kwong Shum, Senior Lecturer School of History Shum Kui-Kwong, Shum Shum Kui-Kwong
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Using Chinese, Japanese, and Western sources, this book reexamines the intraparty politics of the Chinese Communist Party from 1935 to 1945. Focusing on the Anti-Japanese national united front policy, the author makes an important contribution to the continuing debate about the success of the Chinese Communist Party.