The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives
Edited by Timothy Cheek, Klaus Mühlhahn and Hans van de Ven
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“This year is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, and there has been a slew of books about it from different angles…A lot of the works have focused either on the organization, or its formal ideology, or on particular leaders. What this trio of historians decided to do was go decade by decade, picking a different individual to highlight, who could either be a member of the party or have a key relationship in their life to the party. The contributors are mostly academics who write well and work in different disciplines, and the book can serve as a sampler of who you might want to read more by, if you want to go deeper into the last 100 years. A couple of the contributors are scholars active within China who are critical intellectuals, but not dissidents, which is a tricky line to walk at this point.” Read more...
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Historian
