What Explains the Resilience of Chinese Communist Party Rule?

Tony Saich (Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation / Daewoo Professor of International Affairs)

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Abstract

This talk will look at different explanations for the continued resilience of CCP rule. While the Chinese party-state can employ coercion and threaten those individuals and groups it deems to be a danger, it is inconceivable that it could retain sufficient authority over the long-term through the threat of force alone. This talk will consider the shift from the CCP’s use of charismatic authority and the importance of ideology to its manipulation of nationalism, historical justification and cultural appropriation, and its ability to satisfy citizen’s needs and wants through its policies (performance legitimacy).

What Explains the Resilience of Chinese Communist Party Rule

About the speaker

Tony Saich is the Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Daewoo Professor of International Affairs. He has published widely on the politics and history of contemporary China. Currently, he is working on two projects: an analysis of survey data on citizen satisfaction in China and the recent development of philanthropy and its social consequences. He has just completed a book on the history of the CCP, From Rebel to Ruler. One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party , The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. For more about Tony Saich

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This webinar will take place online via Zoom. After registering, a separate Zoom registration link will be emailed to you closer to the date of the webinar. Online Registration

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Chair: Professor Steve Tsang (Director, SOAS China Institute)

Organiser: SOAS China Institute and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation

Contact email: sci@soas.ac.uk