The Chinese Communist Party as Organizational Emperor Culture, reproduction, and transformation China Policy Series

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the largest and one of the most powerful, political organizations in the world today, which has played a crucial role in initiating most of the major reforms of the past three decades in China. China?s rapid rise has enabled the CCP to extend its influence throughout the globe, but the West remains uncertain whether the CCP will survive China?s ongoing socio-economic transformation and become a democratic country.

With rapid socio-economic transformation, the CCP has itself experienced drastic changes. Zheng Yongnian argues that whilst the concept of political party in China was imported, the CCP is a Chinese cultural product: it is an entirely different breed of political party from those in the West - an organizational emperor, wielding its power in a similar way to Chinese emperors of the past. Using social and political theory, this book examines the CCP?s transformation in the reform era, and how it is now struggling to maintain the continuing domination of its imperial power. The author argues that the CCP has managed these changes as a proactive player throughout, and that the nature of the CCP implies that as long as the party is transforming itself in accordance to socio-economic changes, the structure of party dominion over the state and society will not be allowed to change.

1. Bringing the Chinese Communist Party Back In 2. The Chinese Communist Party as Organizational Emperor: identity, culture and politics 3. From Individual to Organization: the transformation of the emperorship 4. Elite Politics and Power Succession: institutions, rules, and norms 5. The Party Domination of the State 6. Hegemonization over Social Forces: domination and legitimacy 7. The CCP Party School: discourse, action and hegemony 8. The Organizational Emperorship, Transformation and China’s Democratic Future

Books (in English)

1. Technological Empowerment: The Internet, the State and Society in China, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008.
2. De Facto Federalism in China: Reforms and Dynamics of Central-Local Relations, Singapore and London: World Scientific Publishing, 2007
3. Globalization and State Transformation in China, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004 (cloth and paper editions). (This book is also in Chinese language.)
4. Will China Become Democratic? Elite, Class, and Regime Transition, Singapore, London and New York: Eastern Universities Press, 2004.
6. . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999 (cloth and paper editions). (This book is now also in Korean language.)

1. China’s Information and Communications Technology Revolution: Social changes and state responses, co-edited with Zhang Xiaoling, London: Routledge, 2009.
2. China in the New International Order, co-edited with Wang Gungwu, London: Routledge, 2008.
3. China’s Opening Society: The Non-State Sector and Governance, co-edited with Joseph Fewsmith, London: Routledge, 2008.
4. Sources of Conflict and Cooperation in the Taiwan Strait, co-edited with Raymond Wu, Singapore and London: World Scientific, 2006.
5. The Chinese Communist Party in Reform, co-edited with Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard, New York and London: Routledge, 2006.
6. The SARS Epidemic: Challenges to China’s Crisis Management, co-edited with John Wong, Singapore and London: World Scientific, 2004.
7. Bringing the Party Back In: The Party and Governance in China, co-edited with Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard, Singapor