By Frank N. Pieke
Has China develop into simply one other capitalist state in a socialist cloak? Will the chinese language Communist Party's rule live to tell the tale the following ten years of modernization and globalization? Frank Pieke investigates those conundrums during this interesting account of the way govt officers are educated for placement within the chinese language Communist celebration. via in-depth interviews with employees contributors and aspiring trainees, he indicates that whereas the chinese language Communist occasion has passed through an intensive transformation because the innovative years lower than Mao, it really is nonetheless incumbent upon cadres, who're chosen via a hugely rigorous procedure, to be ideologically and politically devoted to the get together. it's the classes learnt via their lecturers that form the political and fiscal judgements they're going to make in energy. The publication deals distinct insights into the constitution and the ideological tradition of the chinese language govt, and the way it has reinvented itself over the past 3 a long time as a neo-socialist country.
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Zhonggong Zhongyang guanyu banhao geji dangxiao de jueding’ (Decision of the Chinese Communist Party centre on the correct handling of party schools at all levels), 5 October 1977. ‘Song Renqiong tongzhi zai quanguo ganbu jiaoyu gongzuo dianhua huiyi shang de jianghua’ (Speech of comrade Song Renqiong during the national tele-conference on cadre education work), 1 February 1981, Zugong tongxun 1981: 31. Zhonggong Qianyang xianwei dangxiao zhi 1959 nian -1985 nian (Gazetteer of the Qianyang County Party School 1959–1985): 2.
Cadre training and management are a truly national enterprise in which the central authorities are not only the driving force, but also take on an increasing number of tasks. At the other, regional end, cadre training is a crucially important prong in the Chinese state’s long-term civilizing project to bring modern, unifying government to even the most remote corners of the nation. Cadre training involves not only the extraordinary system of thousands of party schools, but also a plethora of other training centres, cadre academies, regular schools and universities and ad hoc training programmes.
19 In the only 17 18 19 ‘Decision of the Chinese Communist Party centre on the strengthening of the party’s ruling capacity building’ (Zhonggong zhongyang quanyu jiaqiang dang de zhizheng nengli jianshe de jueding). Beijing: Renmin Chubanshe, 2004. This point is made time and again by all top leaders throughout the reform period, see for instance the collection of Jiang Zemin’s speeches in On Party Building ( Jiang Zemin 2001). Despite the central role that cadre training plays in the CCP’s form of governance, there are only two books on the development of Chinese communist cadre training before 1949, one in Chinese (Wang Zhongqing 1992) and the other in English (Price 1976).
