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China's Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation.

Publication: Contemporary Southeast Asia
Publication Date: 01-AUG-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: China's Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
China's Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation. By David Shambaugh. Washington DC & Berkeley: Woodrow Wilson Center Press & University of California Press, 2008. Hardcover: 234pp.

Ever since the Tiananmen Square massacre nineteen years ago, predictions about the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) impending demise have been repeatedly made by Chinese and foreign observers. Yet while the 87-year-old party has been plagued by serious problems including endemic corruption, it has continued to defy doomsayers by not only attracting more members but also boosting its control over 1.3 billion Chinese.

Veteran Sinologist David Shambaugh has advanced a persuasive argument for explaining the CCP's staying power: while certain values...

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