Class and the Communist Party of China, 1921-1978

Marc Blecher is James Monroe Professor of Politics and East Asian Studies at Oberlin College, USA.David S G Goodman is Professor of Chinese Politics and Director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia.Yingjie Guo is Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia.Jean-Louis Rocca is a professor and researcher at the Center for International Studies, Sciences Po Paris, France.Tony Saich is Daewoo Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School, USA.

• 1. The CCP’s Shifting Class Discourse: The Objectivity, Subjectivity and Utility of Class 2. Learning to Live with Social Change: The Communist Party of China, Class and Mobilisation 3. Between Revolution and Reform: Class, Class Struggle, and Land Redistribution 4. The Communist Party of China, Working Class and Social Change, 1920-1949 5. Class as a Political Tool in Rural China: The Middle Peasant in the War of Resistance to Japan, 1937-1945 6. Radical Politics and the apotheosis of the working class, 1949-1978 7. Emergence without settling: the trajectory of the Chinese middle class from 1949 to the 1980s 8. The Dominant Class in a Changing Polity: Transformation and Institutionalisation