In 1989, after 40 years in power, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is faced with its worst
crisis since the Cultural Revolution (1966–69) over the issue of reform of the Stalinist …

In his report to the Fourteenth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in October
1992, Party Secretary Jiang Zemin summarized two of the reasons why the regime has been …

This book provides the most comprehensive analysis of one of the most important issues in
China today: the tensions between the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese state …

China's reform era is ending. Core factors that characterized it—political stability, ideological
openness, and rapid economic growth—are unraveling. In part, this is the result of Beijing's …

Contrary to the expectations of many people, China's recent economic growth has not led to
the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party. In fact, the Party has recently carried out a …

Since reform began in the early 1980s, China has had opposing political camps of reformists
and leftists. The reformists were democratically inclined students, intellectuals, and Chinese …

This chapter provides a brief history of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) before 1949, the
socialist transformation of China in the Mao's era of 1949-76, and the post-1978 market …

Contrary to the earlier political upheavals which culminated in the 1989 Prodemocracy
Movement, China has achieved an extended stability in the 1990s. This paper argues that …

During its fifty years of existence the People's Republic of China has seen dramatic
changes, from the proclamation of the independent state through the period of the …

One of the major issues of concern in contemporary China as well as in the international
community is the direction and manner in which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will …