This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by historian Timothy Cheek of the University of British Columbia, political scientist Elizabeth Perry of Harvard, and our very own Jeremy Goldkorn, editor-in-chief of The China Project, in a wide-ranging discussion of the Chinese Communist Party on the occasion of its 100th birthday. The three each contributed chapters to a new volume called The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in 10 Lives, edited by Timothy Cheek, Klaus Muฬlhahn, and Hans van de Ven. Donโt miss this one!
8:59: Cosmopolitan traditions within the CCP
13:10: Continuity and change within the Party
20:19: The oscillations between flexibility and rigidity
34:25: Intellectuals and their relationship with the Party
50:37: Wang Guangmei and the Peach Garden Experience
A full transcript of this episode is available on TheChinaProject.com.
Recommendations:
Jeremy: The Dairy Restaurant, by Ben Katchor.ย
Elizabeth: Middle Class Shanghai: Reshaping U.S.-China Engagement, by Cheng Li, and The Wuhan Lockdown, by Yang Guobin.ย ย
Timothy: The Internationale, performed by heavy metal band Tang Dynasty.ย
Kaiser: The July/August edition of Foreign Affairs, especially the pieces by Wang Jisi and Yan Xuetong.
