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The year 2021 is the centennial anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Just as the CCP strived to celebrate this symbolic event, the China Studies academia also tried to shed light on the history of the CCP and the survival as well as future prospect of the regime. Among all these publications, “The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives” and “Rethinking Chinese Politics” were probably the most representative. The former explained history of the CCP with 10 people’s life courses. The latter tried to examine whether Chinese politics is institutionalized from the perspective of elite politics and the party-state regime. The last part of both books focused on the implication of Xi’s ruling on the centennial development of the CCP and party-state system regime. Through criticizing these two books within the framework of “power sharing” and “state-society relations”, this article will investigate the implication of Xi’s ruling on the development of Chinese politics, and even comparative politics in terms of the organizational and institutional changes, the choice of reform path, and social stability and the nature of regime. |
