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oapen-20.500.12657-640002023-07-20T02:48:36Z Factional-Ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics Cheung, Olivia Chinese Communist Party, factionalism, ideology, model, policymaking bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJF Asian history bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPF Political ideologies::JPFC Marxism & Communism bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPV Political control & freedoms This book reconstructs the factional-ideological conflicts surrounding socialist transformation and political reform in China that were played out through ‘factional model-making’, a norm-bound mechanism for elites of the Chinese Communist Party to contest the party line publicly. Dazhai, Anhui, Nanjie, Shekou, Shenzhen, Guangdong and Chongqing were cultivated into factional models by party elites before Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. Although factional model-making undermined party discipline, it often did not threaten regime security and even contributed to regime resilience through strengthening collective leadership and other means. This follows that the suppression of factional model-making under Xi might undermine longer-term regime resilience. However, Xi believes that regime security rests on his strongman rule, not any benefits that factional model-making may contribute. It is in this spirit that he grooms Zhejiang into a party model for his policy programme of common prosperity, which is designed to legitimize his vision of socialism. 2023-07-19T09:31:53Z 2023-07-19T09:31:53Z 2023 book 9789463720298 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/64000 eng Politics, Security and Society in Asia Pacific application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789048557080.pdf Amsterdam University Press 10.5117/9789463720298 10.5117/9789463720298 dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a 4c0c0c72-854a-4692-aa5c-12ec2339edf8 9789463720298 6 190 Amsterdam UK Research and Innovation UKRI open access
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This book reconstructs the factional-ideological conflicts surrounding socialist transformation and political reform in China that were played out through ‘factional model-making’, a norm-bound mechanism for elites of the Chinese Communist Party to contest the party line publicly. Dazhai, Anhui, Nanjie, Shekou, Shenzhen, Guangdong and Chongqing were cultivated into factional models by party elites before Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. Although factional model-making undermined party discipline, it often did not threaten regime security and even contributed to regime resilience through strengthening collective leadership and other means. This follows that the suppression of factional model-making under Xi might undermine longer-term regime resilience. However, Xi believes that regime security rests on his strongman rule, not any benefits that factional model-making may contribute. It is in this spirit that he grooms Zhejiang into a party model for his policy programme of common prosperity, which is designed to legitimize his vision of socialism.
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