The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers - Softcover

McGregor, Assistant Professor Of Religious Studies And Islamic Studies Richard

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ISBN 10: 0061708763 ISBN 13: 9780061708763

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2012

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Title: The Party( The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers) <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: RichardMcGregor <>Publisher: HarperPerennial

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Review:

"A masterful depiction of the party today. . . . McGregor illuminates the most important of the contradictions and paradoxes. . . . An entertaining and insightful portrait of China's secretive rulers."--The Economist

"A fascinating and ambitious book. . . . Revealing. . . . McGregor lays bare the secretive machinery of the party, how it operates far more pervasively in public life and commerce than many suspect."--Forbes

"McGregor does a persuasive job of sketching how communist the country really still is. . . . Anyone who wants to understand more about China would be well advised to pick up McGregor's book.--Newsweek

"As informative as it is entertaining. . . . China has been transformed. There is no denying it. The system that takes the credit is brilliantly described by McGregor."--The Financial Times

"Astute. . . . A sober, realistic book. . . . A readable guide to how China is governed."--Bloomberg

"Richard McGregor has penned a detailed look at the Chinese Communist Party that is must reading for U.S. officials and China affairs specialists who profess to be perplexed at why the regime in Beijing consistently operates like a Soviet-style communist dictatorship and not a Western-style democracy."--The Washington Times

"Fascinating. . . . The Party examines the intricate relationship between the Communist Party and the Chinese government, exposing how a political machine subverts the will to properly govern a billion people."--Esquire

"The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers is a careful, highly well-informed and entertaining account of China's ruling class, chronicling the country's 30-year rise to major economic power despite high levels of poverty."--The Associated Press

"Richard McGregor is one of the best foreign journalists who have ever reported from China. The Party is a fine contribution for those who want to know about the rising power they will face in the decades ahead."--Ezra Vogel, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University

"An engrossing read. . . . McGregor's is a vivid narrative, sprinkled with humour and insightful analysis, of how the party has imprinted itself on almost every aspect of life in China, and how it has maintained its stranglehold on power."--The South China Morning Post

From the Back Cover:

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.

China's political and economic growth in the past three decades has been one of astonishing, epochal dimensions. The most remarkable part of this transformation, however, has been left largely untold--the central role of the Chinese Communist Party. 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 keeps all corruption accusations against its members in-house. The Party's decisions have a global impact, yet the CCP remains a deeply secretive body, hostile to the law and 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 primed to think the worst of the West.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0061708763
• ISBN 13: 9780061708763
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336