The Party - by Richard McGregor (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><P> Few outsiders have any realistic sense of the innards, motives, rivalries, and fears of the Chinese Communist leadership. But we all know much more than before, thanks to Richard McGregor s illuminating and richly-textured look at the people in charge of China s political machinery.... Invaluable. James Fallows, National Correspondent for The Atlantic<P>The Party is Financial Times reporter Richard McGregor s eye-opening investigation into China s Communist Party, and the integral role it has played in the country s rise as a global superpower and rival to the United States. Many books have examined China s economic rise, human rights record, turbulent history, and relations with the U.S.; none until now, however, have tackled the issue central to understanding all of these issues: how the ruling communist government works. The Party delves deeply into China s secretive political machine."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>"Few outsiders have any realistic sense of the innards, motives, rivalries, and fears of the Chinese Communist leadership. But we all know much more than before, thanks to Richard McGregor's illuminating and richly-textured look at the people in charge of China's political machinery.... Invaluable." -- James Fallows, National Correspondent for <em>The Atlantic</em></p><p><em>The Party</em> is <em>Financial Times</em> reporter Richard McGregor's eye-opening investigation into China's Communist Party, and the integral role it has played in the country's rise as a global superpower and rival to the United States. Many books have examined China's economic rise, human rights record, turbulent history, and relations with the U.S.; none until now, however, have tackled the issue central to understanding all of these issues: how the ruling communist government works. <em>The Party</em> delves deeply into China's secretive political machine.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>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. </p><p>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. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"<i>The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers</i> 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."--<i>The Associated Press</i><br><br>"A compelling exploration of the world's largest and most successful political machine."--Isabel Hilton, <i>New Statesman</i><br><br>"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."--<i>Forbes</i><br><br>"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."--<i>The Economist</i><br><br>"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."--<i>The Financial Times</i><br><br>"Astute. . . . A sober, realistic book. . . . A readable guide to how China is governed."--<i>Bloomberg</i><br><br>"Fascinating. . . . <i>The Party</i> 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."--<i>Esquire</i><br><br>"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.--<i>Newsweek</i><br><br>"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."--<i>The Washington Times</i><br><br>"Superb in its depiction and demystification of the most important force at work in China today. Essential, riveting guide to how the rising power really works."--Jonathan Fenby, author of <i>The Penguin History of Modern China</i><br>
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