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Ben Hillman is Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World at the Australian National University. Fengyuan Ji is Associate Professor at the School of Culture, History and Language in the Australian National University's College of Asia and the Pacific.

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The Communist Party of China has ruled mainland China since 1949. From Marxist revolution and class struggle to market reforms and national rejuvenation, the Party has repeatedly reinvented itself and its justification for monopolizing political power. Bringing together experts from a range of disciplines around the globe, this collection serves as a guide to understanding the Party's unparalleled durability. They examine a range of themes including the mechanics and organisation of one-party rule, the ideologies underpinning party rule, the Party's control of public discourse, technologies of social control, and adaptive policymaking. Read together, these essays provide a comprehensive understanding of the reasons for the Party's continued grip on political power in China today.

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Acknowledgments; 1. The Communist Party of China: Sources of Strength Ben Hillman; 2. The CPC's Metamorphosis from Class-based Organization to Nationalist Party Yingjie Guo; 3. The Chairman's Long Shadow: Mao Zedong and Mao Zedong Thought in Post-Maoist China Matthew Galway; 4. Language, Discourse, and Hegemony Fengyuan Ji; 5. Patriotic Nationalism as Commodity Delia Lin; 6. Manufacturing Consent and 'Correct Collective Memory' Shuyu Zhang; 7. Neo-Maoist Sticks and Nationalist Carrots: Maintaining Party Cohesion in the New Era Fengming Lu; 8. Co-opting the Private Sector Minglu Chen; 9. China's Adaptive State Capitalism and its International Sources Sarah Eaton and Wendy Leutert; 10. Digital Power: Technological Leadership, Smart Governance, and Ideological Control John Lee and Katja Drinhausen; 11. Social Stability through Responsive Social Policy Bingqin Li; 12. Dealing with Dissent Anna Hayes; 13. The Party and the Army You Ji; 14. After Xi Richard McGregor and Jude Blanchett; Index.