...Hekang Yang Fewsmith and Saich demonstrate how the CCP at the central level has adapted to the challenges of policymaking and governance over time. We have to keep in mind that the party apparatus has alienated itself by creating a vast interest complex above the people. Chinese universities...

...Tien-Wei Wu Abstract The Chinese Communist movement stemmed from nationalism and assumed the left wing in the Chinese national revolution. The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) was organized in the wake of the May Fourth Movement which had kindled a great fervor of patriotism, particularly among...

...Stephen C. Averill Abstract In August 1927 the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Jiangxi seemed moribund, yet by the end of 1930 the movement was larger and more active than ever before. How did this occur? Past studies have especially emphasized Mao Zedong's famous rural guerrilla strategy...

... might soon become the victims of their own success. Chiang had already given evidence of his displeasure of Communist activities. In March he had staged a “coup” against his Russian advisers and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), but a reconciliation had been effected. In October Stalin had telegraphed...

... by the Chinese Communist party on women's lives. Throughout its history (with the possible exception of the 1920s) the CCP has failed to commit itself to the achievement of gender equality. To have done so, the new scholarship suggests, would have alienated male peasants, the most important constituency...

.... If the article was published under his name without his approval, then those who undertook this venture may have had the support of Soviet authorities, perhaps even of Stalin himself. There is also the possibility that it was forged and published by intriguers within the CCP who disapproved of the united front...

... is committed to both “socialist transformation and construction,” modernization in China involves two tasks: revolution and development. As for China's rural problems, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regards the commune as the best organization for achieving these two goals during its transition to communism...

... Communist party (CCP) and the Guomindang (GMD) after 1941, the Communists focused sharply on the atrocities committed by Juntong and portrayed Dai Li as a monstrous instrument of Chiang Kai-shek's dictatorship. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 List of References...

... that was rooted in their own diverse political origins and in the often contradictory influence of Comintern, JCP, and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) policies. By 1931, the party was disbanded, but, in its two “Political Theses,” the TCP had laid out a revolutionary strategy and a set of political goals...

...Franklin W. Houn Abstract Mao Tse-tung and his associates in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) appear to have a penchant for reducing an important and complex policy or strategy to a relatively simple set of rules that their followers can easily understand and implement without undue deviation...

... picked up on these changes by identifying the rise of “disestablished intellectuals” in the post-Tiananmen period, particularly intellectuals who had been active in the reformist administration of the CCP in the 1980s associated with disgraced General Secretary Hu Yaobang (Goldman 2007, 15ff, 86ff...

... interpretations. The volume's time-frame is indicative of van de Ven's ability to re-view interpretations. In particular, he sees the real founding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a several-year process, before the modalities of a Marxist-Leninist organization permeated the CCP members' consciousness...

... in the history of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands during the Mao era has steadily increased. Historians and political scientists have sought to explain the dynamic process by which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) established control over the Tibetan regions. Xiaoyuan Liu, a specialist on China's ethnic frontier...

... Party (CCP) that offers far more than new insights on the Cultural Revolution. By using the bizarre case of sixty-one CCP cadres who (at the party s behest) recanted their Communism in 1936 but who nonetheless served the CCP effectively for some three decades only to be excoriated in the Cultural...

..., Bibliography, Index. $15. James Reardon-Anderson argues that the foreign policy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) "began in 1944" when the Communist leadership was forced to respond to the opportunities and dangers presented by the actions of the great powers the United States and the Soviet Union. The task...

... is tenuously held together by an argument that because the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is decaying, it is important to save the Chinese people and the people of the world from the horrendous consequences of chaos by promoting gradual democratization beginning with media freedom. Zhou wishes to persuade...

... society is largely democratic at present. Therefore, in the absence of a democratic political system to accompany Chinese citizens’ expectations, there is a crisis of legitimacy for the Communist Party of China (CCP). Moreover, the compact that the CCP has with the citizenry to improve their economic life...

... to show moderate rural reforms, such as rent and interest reduction, simply acted to reinforce peasant support for CCP policies designed to carry out the war of resistance. Interestingly, Johnson draws the data to support this thesis from a Chinese source which strongly suggests that the CCP reduction...

... seeks to unearth the history that village people remember and that he believes the CCP has hidden (although he refers often to published party historical materials). Oral history helps to give the book a strong pulse. The reader feels a throb of daily life amidst the larger turbulent events of 1915...

... the Chinese peasantry and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). His focus is the Shanxi Hebei Shandong Henan border region in the 1930s and 1940s. In contrast to those who credit the victory of the CCP to that party's mobilization of a largely passive peasantry "bringing] peasant expectations in{to] line...