The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers
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An eye-opening investigation into china’s communist party and its vital 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 Manufacturing Revolution in the West. The most remarkable part of this transformation, but, 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 Chance 500 list.
In The Party, Richard McGregor delves deeply into China’s inner study 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 additional than its own internal tribunals. It is the world’s only geopolitical rival of the United States, and is steadfastly poised to reflect 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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The book has been praised and well received by critics and audiences, who have placed it nearly at the height of “the definitive book about how the Party runs the country”. Maybe my expectations were too high, but the truth is that the book does not achieve such an ambitious goal. Richard McGregor certainly makes an appealing account of all-purpose aspects of the party organization and its power, but you permanently have the feeling that he could have dug further, that the real protagonists, the choice makers, are still in the shade. The leader himself playes a lot with the thought of the Party as an invisible force, which ultimately can place the reader the impression that “yes, is very hard to know how the party works, and you weren’t able to find out neither after all”.
I don’t know if the title (The Party, The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers) was chosen by McGregor or by the publishing house, but the truth is that it seems much more a marketing technique than a description of its content. Really, there are no huge leaders talking in the book, it doesn’t clarify how the laws are passed in the country, it doesn’t speak about the Communist Youth (an vital Party organization that seems to be growing in influence) and there is a lack of many additional key issues (it would have been appealing to talk about the politicians in the government that are not party members, like Chen Zhu).
The book, but, is a very appealing description of the relationship between the Party and business. Here you can see some of the most vital CEO of the country, the books examines who pulls the strings within each company and the symbiosis that’s going on between the Party and entrepreneurs. The description of the corruption case of Chen Liangyu, the ex- party secretary of Shanghai, is a fascinating glimpse of the abuses of power in contemporary China and the internal disputes within the government. Special mention also for the case of milk contaminated with melamine after the Beijing Olympics, clarified from the point of view of the company, the media and the government in a way that makes you see how the system failures can be lethal for its citizens.
As a ex- Financial Times reporter, McGregor has used all his contacts he has developed over last years in China, and the result is an appealing book where the economy is the protagonist. Two of the eight chapters are clearly about this (“China Inc.: The Party and Business” and “Deng Perfects Socialism: the Party and Capitalism”), but others chapters like the one about corruption, the personnel selection or “the Party and the Regions”) tend to end up inevitably into the economic meadow. In this sense, the book can be fascinating for persons (and there are many) who see China as an economic opportunity, are doing business in the country or are interested in the business world
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
McGregor’s “The Party” provides vital insight into how China operates. Membership in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) exceeds 73 million (about 12% of adults), and controls every level of government, as well as official religions, the media, large, state-owned businesses, and the various additional allowed political parties. Ironically, the CCP came into power as a result of well loved abhorrence of corruption, and it is now likewise riddled itself. Its foundation has go from preaching equality to allowing incomes as unequal as anywhere in Asia, and from despising to enabling business leaders. Nonetheless, the World Bank credits China with lowering the number of its poor by one-half billion from 1981 to 2004. Star students and wealthy entrepreneurs are sought out for CCP membership.
Public institution officials receive periodic training from a network of 2,800 schools before apt eligible for promotion; accusations of criminal conduct are first investigated by the Party, and it decides whether to take action. Leaders and budgets of the 8 approved ‘democratic parties’ are set by the CCP. Things that formerly required Party praise (where one lives, works, studies, marries) have largely become acts of choice in urban areas, less so in rural zones.
Corruption is a major problem, especially in Shanghai, possibly because it has become a socialism showcase. Positions in customs, taxation, land sales, infrastructure development, procurement, and regulation are especially vulnerable.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
This is one book you can read, from beginning to end, and get original information abaout one of the most secret organization on planet !
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Many people have been wondering how China, such a populous and huge country, is run in such an rumor has it that tidy way. Even China experts are regularly puzzled by the question.
Richard McGregor is no ordinary China practiced. His book “The Party: the Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers” has solved the puzzle.
The book is based on a wealth of information, including much that is not accessible to most people. Thanks to his considerable knowledge and experiences in China and the world in all-purpose, his analysis of the information is astute and convincing. His intense curiosity and intrepid exploration has redefined investigative television journalism. The readers benefit by all this.
As the theme matter is so huge, no one should be expected to take in all the fields. Regrettably, the book doesn’t deal adequately with how the Party controls the news. I hope he will produce another book to take up this topic.
If you’re going to read only one book in order to know China, this is it.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Every now and again, a truly definitive book on China emerges. One such was “Hungry Ghosts”, Jasper Becker’s account of Mao’s disastrous “Fantastic Leap Forwards”. Another is “The Dragon’s Gift,” Deborah Brautigam’s definitive account of China’s involvement in Africa. “The Party”, Richard McGregor’s investigation of the Chinese Communist Party(CCP), its structure, influence and power, is a truly authoritative work.
McGregor’s might as an leader is that “The Party” is not only informative, but also immensely readable. It is enlivened with anecdotes of particular case studies, cadres who have risen and fallen from grace, entrepreneurs who have carved out business empires only to fall foul of the authorities, and Party officials who have made fortunes from bribes, only to be executed as scape-goats for the Party’s overall corruption. He reveals the sheer extent and pervasiveness of the Party’s grip on China as no additional book has yet done. And suddenly, so much of what emerges from China as distinctly alien politics makes perfect sense. The Party has the same hierarchical structure and power as the medieval Church of Rome. Indeed, the sale of Party official posts and favours resembles nothing so much as the sale of indulgences in pre-Reformation Europe. Simony, the buying or selling of ecclesiastical pardons, offices, or emoluments, is exactly paralleled by the sale of similar, secular perks in China by the CCP.
A few quotations will give the spirit of the book, and a quick insight into the flavour of 21st. century Communism, Chinese-style.
“The Party is like God. He is everywhere. You just can’t see him.” [a professor at People's University in Beijing].
“Listen, we are the Communist Party and we will define what communism is.” Chen Yuan, Administrator of China Development Bank, in response to being hectored by a US political scientist about contradictions between Marxism and China’s free market reforms.
“…the only way to place the latest communist principles into practice was to maximise returns for shareholders.” Guo Shuqing, CEO of the China Construction Bank.
McGregor draws on twenty years of reporting from China, and has done more than any additional writer really to penetrate the veils of secrecy and paranoia surrounding China’s ruling elite. He shows how a non-elected Standing Committee of just nine men ultimately control every aspect of Chinese political life.
McGregor points out that one organisation alone, the Central Organization Department, the party’s vast and opaque human resources agency, has extraordinary power by any standards. “It has no public phone number, and there is no sign on the huge building it occupies near Tiananmen Square. Guardian of the party’s personnel files, the department handles key personnel decisions not only in the government bureaucracy but also in business, media, the judiciary and even academia. Its deliberations are all secret.
“If such a body existed in the United States, McGregor writes, it `would oversee the appointment of the entire US cabinet, state governors and their deputies, the mayors of major cities, the heads of all federal regulatory agencies, the chief executives of GE, Exxon-Mobil, Wal-Mart and about fifty of the remaining largest US companies, the justices of the Supreme Court, the editors of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, the bosses of the TV networks and cable stations, the presidents of Yale and Harvard and additional huge universities, and the heads of reflect-tanks like the Brookings Institution and the Heritage Foundation.’”
Chairman Mao said that the State stands on three legs, the Military, the Economy, and the Media. The CCP has perfect control of all three.
Richard McGregor has written a stunning, engrossing, fascinating book. Don’t miss it. China controls an ever-expanding slice of the world. This book shows whose hands are on the levers.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5