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

Richard McGregor

Red Leviathan: The Secret World of the CCP RulersSources The Party - The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers (2010) (Richard McGregor) Richard McGregor's book, The Party: The Secret World of the Chinese Communist Party Rulers, provides a profound analysis of how the Chinese Communist Party has maintained its absolute leadership during this unprecedented economic growth. The book reveals how the regime, through the Central Organization Department's tight control over personnel appointments and its covert manipulation of large state-owned enterprises, has successfully grafted a Leninist political system onto a vibrant market economy. Through numerous interviews and case studies, the author outlines how the Party organization operates behind the scenes within the government and enterprises, utilizing the Central Propaganda Department's control over ideology and historical narratives, and its authoritarian rule over the military and legal systems to resolve a series of existential crises. The book's aim is to reveal that despite China's increasingly open commercial facade amidst globalization, its core remains a complex system dominated by an extremely closed and highly adaptable political machine.