Party Leadership and Revolutionary Power in China

Abstract

Preface Stuart R. Schram Introduction John Wilson Lewis Acknowledgements Part I. The Changing Role of the Communist Party in the Revolutionary Struggle: 1. The influence of the past: how the early years helped to shape the future of the Chinese Communist Party C. Martin Wilbur 2. Transfer of legitimacy in the Chinese Communist Party: origins of the Maoist myth William F. Dorrill 3. The roles of the monolithic party under the totalitarian leader Leonard Schapiro and John Wilson Lewis Part II. The Power Elite in Theory and Practice: 4. The reign of virtue: some broad perspectives on leader and Party in the Cultural Revolution Benjamin I. Schwartz 5. The Party in Chinese Communist ideology Stuart R. Schram 6. Factionalism in the Central Committee Philip Bridgham Part III. The Communist Party and Chinese Society After the Take-Over: 7. Keeping the revolution going: problems of village leadership after land reform Thomas P. Bernstein 8. Party policies towards the intellectuals: the unique blooming and contending of 1961-2 Merle Goldman 9. Getting ahead and along in Communist China: the ladder of success on the eve of the Cultural Revolution Michel Oksenberg Part IV. The New View of Power in the Cultural Revolution Donald W. Klein 11. Army-Party relations in the light of the Cultural Revolution John Gittings Contributors Index.