The Party

by McGregor, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780061708763
• ISBN10: 0061708763
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-31
• Publisher: Perennial

Summary

In this provocative and illuminating account, 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. In The Party, Richard 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.

Author Biography

Richard McGregor is a reporter for the Financial Times and the publication's former China bureaue chief. He has reported from North Asia for nearly two decades and lives in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. xv
Prologue	p. xvii
The Red Machine: The Party and the State	p. 1
China Inc.: The Party and Business	p. 34
The Keeper of the Files: The Party and Personnel	p. 70
Why We Fight: The Party and the Gun	p. 104
The Shanghai Gang: The Party and Corruption	p. 135
The Emperor is Far Away: The Party and the Regions	p. 170
Deng Perfects Socialism: The Party and Capitalism	p. 194
Tombstone: The Party and History	p. 229
Afterword	p. 263
Acknowledgements	p. 274
Notes	p. 277
Index	p. 294
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