Cadre Country

John Fitzgerald is a China historian. He headed the Asia-Pacific philanthropy studies program at Swinburne University of Technology from 2013 to 2017 after serving five years as China Representative of The Ford Foundation in Beijing. Before that he was Head of the School of Social Sciences at La Trobe University and Director of the International Centre of Excellence in Asia-Pacific Studies at the Australian National University. His books include Big White Lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia, awarded the Ernest Scott Prize of the Australian Historical Association, and Awakening China: Politics, Culture and Class in the Nationalist Revolution, awarded the Joseph Levenson Prize of the US Association for Asian Studies.

"It takes decades of patient observation, experience and study of China to produce a book like this. Cadre Country is a must read for specialists and the general public." — Anita Chan, Australian National University"One of the most important books on China written since Xi Jinping assumed power, Cadre Country is a forensic and profound explication of the true nature of the Chinese Communist Party." — John Lee, Hudson Institute and United States Studies Centre