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Featured as Book of the Week by The Wire China in August 2020! If your business has anything to do with China or you simply seek to understand the rise of China, you need to read this book. In The China Paradox, business strategist and historian Dr. Paul G. Clifford uses vivid examples from his deep experience in China to lay bare the delicate and fragile balance of forces which lie at the heart of China’s success. He explains how, against all the odds, the ruling Communist Party boldly led the economic reforms as the surest way to preserve their grip on power. This flourishing of China’s hybrid developmental model is placed firmly in the historical context, shedding light on the legacies that thwarted earlier attempts at change and which today still threaten to render the progress unsustainable. China is taking its place on the world economic stage, displaying business acumen and innovation. But China’s un-reformed political governance, coupled with the challenges resulting from breakneck growth, may hamper the nation’s ability to realize its potential and impact its longer-term prospects. This book is for anyone who needs to understand how China competes, anyone with business or other affairs in China, and anyone involved in foreign trade will benefit from this book. Click to read the author's article on Open Democracy: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/the-us-should-not-demonize-huawei-it-should-invest-to-compete/ Click here to see a related article in the South China Morning Post: http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2134180/reform-or-no-reform-authors-clash-over-chinas-way

Economics --- Economic development --- China --- Economic policy --- Economic conditions --- E-books --- CCP. --- Chinese Famine. --- Chinese Trade. --- Cultural Revolution. --- Deng Xiaoping. --- Five Year Plan. --- Gang of Four. --- Great Leap Forward. --- Mao.

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The first comprehensive political history of the communist partyVanguard of the Revolution is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world. The communist party was a revolutionary idea long before its supporters came to power. In this book, A. James McAdams argues that the rise and fall of communism can be understood only by taking into account the origins and evolution of this compelling idea. He shows how the leaders of parties in countries as diverse as the Soviet Union, China, Germany, Yugoslavia, Cuba, and North Korea adapted the original ideas of revolutionaries like Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin to profoundly different social and cultural settings.Taking readers from the drafting of The Communist Manifesto in the 1840s to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, McAdams describes the decisive role played by individual rulers in the success of their respective parties-men like Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Fidel Castro. He demonstrates how these personalities drew on vying conceptions of the party's functions to mesmerize their followers, mobilize their populations, and transform their societies. He also shows how many of these figures abused these ideas to justify incomprehensible acts of inhumanity. McAdams explains why communist parties lasted as long as they did, and why they either disappeared or ceased to be meaningful institutions by the close of the twentieth century.The first comprehensive political history of the communist party, Vanguard of the Revolution is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand world communism and the captivating idea that gave it life.

Communism --- History. --- Activism. --- Bolsheviks. --- Bourgeoisie. --- Capitalism. --- Central Committee. --- Chairman. --- Chiang Kai-shek. --- China. --- Class conflict. --- Collective leadership. --- Cominform. --- Communism. --- Communist International. --- Communist Party USA. --- Communist Party of China. --- Communist Party of Germany. --- Communist Party of the Russian Federation. --- Communist Party of the Soviet Union. --- Communist party. --- Communist state. --- Comrade. --- Counter-revolutionary. --- Criticism. --- Cultural Revolution. --- Czechoslovakia. --- Democracy. --- Democratic centralism. --- Deng Xiaoping. --- Despotism. --- Dictatorship of the proletariat. --- Dictatorship. --- Employment. --- Erich Honecker. --- Failed state. --- French Communist Party. --- Governance. --- Government. --- Grigory Zinoviev. --- Ideology. --- Imperialism. --- Institution. --- Insurrectionary anarchism. --- Joseph Stalin. --- Josip Broz Tito. --- Kuomintang. --- Labor unrest. --- Left-wing politics. --- Leninism. --- Leon Trotsky. --- Leonid Brezhnev. --- Liu Shaoqi. --- Majority. --- Manifesto. --- Mao Zedong. --- Maoism. --- Marxism. --- Marxism–Leninism. --- Mass mobilization. --- Mikhail Gorbachev. --- Nationalization. --- New Course. --- New Economic Policy. --- Nikita Khrushchev. --- Nikolai Bukharin. --- Paris Commune. --- Party discipline. --- Party leader. --- Politburo. --- Political party. --- Politician. --- Politics. --- Populism. --- Pretext. --- Proclamation. --- Proletarian revolution. --- Protest. --- Rebellion. --- Reformism. --- Regime. --- Representative democracy. --- Revolution. --- Revolutionary movement. --- Self-determination. --- Social democracy. --- Socialist state. --- Sovereignty. --- Soviet Union. --- Soviet people. --- Stalinism. --- Strike action. --- Supporter. --- The Communist Manifesto. --- Trade union. --- Unintended consequences. --- Vanguardism. --- Voting. --- War. --- Working class. --- Yugoslavia. --- Zhou Enlai.