Looking through 100 years of the Chinese Communist Party. Interview with Jérôme Doyon and Chloé Froissart

CCP_Doyon_Froissart_book_coverJérôme Doyon (CERI Sciences Po) and Chloé Froissart (IFRAE Inalco ) have recently edited The Chinese Communist Party. A 100-Year Trajectory (ANU Press, 2023), available in Open Access. This volume, bringing together complementary disciplines and perspectives, investigates the many facets of the Chinese Communist Party’s 100-year trajectory. Chloé and Jérôme answer our questions in the interview below.

The book explores the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) historical trajectory through four lenses, looking at its two core features—organisation and ideology—and also its two main historical missions—modernising the country and unifying it through a Party-led nation-building project. The first part examines the different aspects of the CCP’s organisational adaption and expansion. The second part dives into the ideological tensions between the Party’s revolutionary heritage and recent developments, as well as the discursive bricolage the Party develops in an attempt to reconcile the two. The third part explores the CCP’s attempts to modernise the country, and how, in turn, this project compels the CCP to adapt to a diversifying society. And the fourth part delves into the CCP’s efforts to build a unified nation despite ethnic and territorial diversity, using methods ranging from subtle co-optation to forced assimilation. (...)

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