The Chinese Communist Party: Deepening of a Crisis or Renewal of the Party Base?

摘要

Is the Chinese Communist Party showing sign of crisis due to changes in the internal and external environment? Or, is the world's largest political Party, this interest group of superlative scale, turning these changes to its advantage to recast its base and grow new and stronger roots? Following the analytical elements of organizational theory (structure, objectives, and membership of the organization), this paper examines the phases of its transformation and inspects these two different points of view calling the former one as the “dusk position” and the latter the “dawn position”. Supporting “dawn position”, the author glimpses CCP's “survival strategy” behind it.