The Chinese Communist Party

Timothy Cheek is Director of the Institute of Asian Research and Louis Cha Chair Professor of Chinese Research at the University of British Columbia. Klaus Mühlhahn is Professor of Modern China Studies and President of Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen. Hans van de Ven is Professor of Modern Chinese History at the University of Cambridge.

'In this brilliantly structured anthology, the last century of the Chinese Communist Party is told through the perspectives of ten individuals. Their stories are the perfect antidote to heated political rhetoric on China that can obscure the human cost of geopolitical conflicts.' Joanna Chiu, Toronto Star

• Introduction. Telling the story of the Chinese Communist Party; 1. 1920s: a Dutchman's fantasy: Henricus Sneevliet's united front for the Chinese Communist Party Tony Saich; 2. 1930s: Wang Ming's Wuhan moment: a brief flowering of popular front communism Hans J. van de Ven; 3. 1940s: Wang Shiwei's rectification: intellectuals and the party in yan'an Timothy Cheek; 4. 1950s: from fallen star to red star: Shangguan Yunzhu Zhang Jishun; 5. 1960s: Wang Guangmei and peach garden experience Elizabeth J. Perry; 6. 1970s: The death of Mao and life of Chairman Gonzalo Julia Lovell; 7. 1980s: Zhao Ziyang and the voices of reform Klaus Mühlhahn; 8. 1990s: Wang Yuanhua: a party intellectual reflects Xu Jilin; 9. 2000s: Jiang Zemin and the naughty Auties Jeremy Goldkorn; 10.2010s: Guo Meimei: the story of a young netizen portends a political throwback Guobin Yang; Afterword. The party and the world Philip Bowring; Index.