Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Communist Party 1st Edition by Willy Wo Lap Lam ISBN 9781134847440 1134847440

Part I Overview and introduction

1 The agenda of Xi Jinping: is the Chinese Communist Party capable of thorough reforms?

Part II History and traditions

2 The legacy of Mao Zedong

3 The CCP’s exploitation of Confucianism and Legalism

4 The CCP’s use and abuse of nationalism

Part III How the Party works and stays relevant

5 The Party runs the show: how the CCP controls the state and towers over the government, legislature and judiciary

6 The role of Party congresses

7 The PLA as the lifeline of the Party

8 Factional politics in the Party-state apparatus

9 Evolution of the Party since 1976: ideological and functional adoptions

10 The CCP’s meritocratic cadre system

11 “The new (old) normal”: the CCP propaganda system under Jiang, Hu, and Xi

Part IV Major policy arenas

12 How the party-state runs the economy: a model of elite decision-making in the financial market

13 Implementing tax reform and rural reconstruction in China: a case study of the CCP’s agrarian policy

14 The Party’s policy toward labor

15 Reform, repression, co-optation: the CCP’s policy toward intellectuals

16 The Party and the law

17 Two steps forward, one backward: the CCP’s policy toward women

18 Public policy and LGBT people and activism in mainland China

19 The CCP’s Tibet policy: stability through coercion and development

20 The party-state’s nationalist strategy to control the Uyghur: silenced voices

Part V The CCP in the twenty-first century

21 The future of the Chinese Communist Party

22 Changing patterns of Chinese civil society: comparing the Hu-Wen and Xi Jinping eras

23 Can the Internet and social media change the Party?

24 China and the world: from the Chinese Dream to the Chinese World Order

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