Revival: Fundamentals of the Chinese Communist Party (1976)

This title was first published in 1976. From 1966 to 1969 the large-scale political turmoil and intense conflicts of the Cultural Revolution in China shattered notions of institutional permanence and unshakable legitimacy that many analysts had come to associate with the Communist Party of China, which had ruled the People's Republic for over fifteen years. Just as the high-level bureaucrats of the Party were shaken from their complacency, it seemed for a time, from the outside, as though it could no longer be taken for granted that the Communist Party would continue to provide the institutional core for political leadership in China. Fundamentals of the Party (Tang ti chi-ch'u chih-shih), which we are translating and publishing here as Fundamentals of the Chinese Communist Party, was published by the Shanghai People's Press in 1974 and constitutes an important source of the type needed to study the revival of the Party.

A graduate of M. I. T., Pierre M. Perrolle received his Ph.D. in Political Science and Chinese Studies from Brown University. He has been teaching at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, where he is an assistant professor of government and director of the Asian Studies Program.

FUNDAMENTALS OF THE PARTY- Quotations from Chairman Mao 1. The Nature of the Party 2. The Guiding Thought of the Party 3. The Basic Program and the Ultimate Goal of the Party 4. The Basic Line of the Party 5. The "Three Do's and Three Don'ts" Principles of the Party 6. The Centralized Leadership of the Party 7. The Democratic Centralism of the Part 8. Party Discipline 9. The Three Great Work Styles of the Party 10. Train Successors for the Cause of Proletarian Revolution 11. Tasks of the Party Organizations at the Basic Level 12. The Party Members' Exemplary Role as the Vanguard 13. The Membership Qualifications and the Application Process for Joining the Party 14. Uphold Proletarian Internationalism