scholarly journals Adhere to the Four Cardinal Principles and Socialism with Chinese Characteristics

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Huiming Guo
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The People ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
The Chinese Communist Party

Adhering to the four basic principles is the foundation of socialist China, the embodiment of the fundamental interests and will of the Chinese Communist Party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country, and the primary issue of the theory of building socialism with Chinese characteristics.

Law According to the Chinese Communist Party: Constitutionalism and Socialist Rule of Law

Modern China ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ding Xiaodong
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Political Concept ◽  
The People ◽  
State Regime ◽  
The Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Socialist Rule Of Law ◽  
Party State

This article argues that the Chinese Communist Party has adopted a unique understanding of law. Unlike the liberal view and the unwritten constitution view, which generally consider law as positive norms that exist independently of politics, the party understands law as a reflection of the party’s and the people’s will and a form of the party’s and the people’s self-discipline. In the party’s view, liberal rule of law theories are self-contradictory, illusive, and meaningless. This article argues that the party views the people as a political concept and itself as a political leading party, marking a fundamental difference from a competitive party in a parliamentary system. The legitimacy of the party’s dominant role and the party-state regime, therefore, depends on whether the party can continue to provide political momentum to lead the people and represent them in the future.

Party Spirit Made Flesh

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian P. Sorace
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Sichuan Earthquake ◽  
The People ◽  
State Administration ◽  
The Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter examines how the Chinese Communist Party engineered “glory” in the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake by mobilizing the discourse of “Party spirit” (dangxing). In addition to being responsible for state administration and economic growth, the cadre is also an embodiment and conduit of Party legitimacy. Antithetical to Max Weber's definition of institutions as that which remove embodiment from governance, in China, cadres are Party legitimacy made flesh. As flesh, they must be prepared to suffer. This chapter argues that the Party revitalizes its legitimacy by showing benevolence and glory, which depend on the willingness of cadres to suffer and sacrifice themselves on behalf of the people. In the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake, these norms and expectations were implemented in concrete policy directives and work pressures.

Diplomacy with Chinese Characteristics

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 358-369
Author(s):  
Qingmin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Personal Style ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Distinct Features ◽  
Cultural Features ◽  
Cross National

Summary Scholarship on what constitutes the major characteristics of China’s diplomacy lacks consensus. This essay argues that many of what have been considered the distinct features of China’s diplomacy are the common features of all diplomacy, rather than specifically those of China’s diplomacy. These distinctive characteristics can be understood from historical and cross-national comparisons, and include strong self-consciousness of and emphasis on its distinction, the declining significance of diplomacy accompanied by the rise of power, the unified leadership of the the Chinese Communist Party, remarkable cultural features and the Chinese leadership’s personal style.

The People According to the Chinese Communist Party: Reinterpreting the Party’s Political Theory

Modern China ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-223
Author(s):  
Xiaodong Ding
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
The Political ◽  
Mass Line ◽  
The People ◽  
The Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Contradictions Among The People ◽  
Political Understanding

This article argues that the Chinese Communist Party has adopted a unique understanding of the people. Unlike the liberal view, which generally considers the people a nonpolitical and positive entity, the party views the people as essentially political. The party’s political understanding of the people, this article argues, is consistent with the very nature of the people. Viewed from the political understanding of the people and representing the people, the party’s theories of “contradictions among the people,” of the “mass line,” and of distinctions among different classes and individuals are consistent with self-governance by the people. The party’s theories are not inherently totalitarian, antidemocratic, and arbitrary, as liberal theorists argue.

The Ashes of Defeat

1964 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 3-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Martin Wilbur
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
The People ◽  
Red Army ◽  
The Chinese Communist Party

An interesting reconstruction and description of the Nanchang Uprising of August 1, 1927, which the Chinese Communist Party and the people on the Mainland now celebrate as Red Army Day, was given by Colonel Guillermaz in The China Quarterly, No. 11. As a footnote I present translations of four accounts by three participants—Li Li-san, Chang Kuo-t'ao and Chou I-ch'ün—all written within a few weeks of the smashing of the revolt on about October 1 near Swatow, together with four other nearly contemporary Communist items.

Flesh Searches in China

Asian Survey ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Gorman
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Chinese State ◽  
The Chinese Communist Party ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores the relationship between netizens and the Chinese Communist Party by investigating examples of “flesh searches” targeting corrupt officials. Case studies link the initiative of netizens and the reaction of the Chinese state to the pattern of management of social space in contemporary China.

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