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The Secret World Of China's Communist Rulers
Harper
June 2010
On Sale: June 1, 2010
336 pages ISBN: 0061708771 EAN: 9780061708770 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
An eye-opening investigation into china's communist party
and its integral role in the country's rise as a global
superpower and rival of the united states China's
political and economic growth in the past three decades is
one of astonishing, epochal dimensions. The country has
undergone a remarkable transformation on a scale similar to
that of the Industrial Revolution in the West. The most
remarkable part of this transformation, however, has been
left largely untold—the central role of the Chinese
Communist Party. As an organization alone, the
Party is a phenomenon of unique scale and power. Its
membership surpasses seventy-three million, and it does more
than just rule a country. The Party not only has a grip on
every aspect of government, from the largest, richest cities
to the smallest far-flung villages in Tibet and Xinjiang, it
also has a hold on all official religions, the media, and
the military. The Party presides over large, wealthy
state-owned businesses, and it exercises control over the
selection of senior executives of all government companies,
many of which are in the top tier of the Fortune 500 list.
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 how it keeps all corruption accusations
against its members in-house. The Party's decisions have a
global impact, yet the CPC remains a deeply secretive body,
hostile to the law, 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
steadfastly poised to think the worst of the West.
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.
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