Willy Wo-Lap Lam is Adjunct Professor at the Centre for China Studies and the Department of History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Overview and Introduction 1. The Agenda of Xi Jinping: Is the Chinese Communist Party Capable of Thorough Reforms? Willy Wo-Lap Lam History and Traditions [...] Legacy of Mao Zedong Yiu-Chung Wong and Willy Wo-Lam Lam3. The CCP's Exploitation of Confucianism and Legalism Delia Lin 4. The CCP's Use and Abuse of Nationalism Edward Friedman How the Party Works and Stays Relevant 5. The Party Runs the Show: How the CCP Controls the State and Towers over the Government, Legislature and Judiciary Jean-Pierre Cabestan 6. The Role of Party Congresses Guoguang Wu 7. The PLA as the Lifeline of the Party Ka Po Ng 8. Factional Politics in the Party-State Apparatus Bo Zhiyue 9. Evolution of the Party since 1976: Ideological and Functional Adoptions Joseph Yu-shek Cheng 10. The CCP's Meritocratic Cadre System Akio Takahara 11. "The New (Old) Normal": the Party's Propaganda System under Jiang, Hu, and Xi Anne-Marie Brady Major Policy Arenas 12. How the Party-State Runs the Economy: a Model of Elite Decision-Making in the Financial Market Victor Shih 13. Implementing Tax Reform and Rural Reconstruction in China: a Case Study of the CCP's Agrarian Policy Chiew-Siang Bryan Ho 14. The Party's Policy Toward Labor Bill Taylor 15. Reform, Repression, Co-Optation: the CCP's Policy Toward Intellectuals Jean-Philippe Béja 16. The Party and the Law Eva Pils 17. Two Steps Forward, One Backward: the CCP's Policy toward Women Marina Thorborg 18. Public Policy and LGBT People and Activism in Mainland China Elaine Jeffreys 19. The CCP's Tibet Policy: Stability through Coercion and Development Tsering Topgyal 20. The Party-State's Nationalist Strategy to Control the Uyghur: Silenced Voices Dru C. Gladney The CCP in the Twenty-First Century 21. The Future of the Chinese Communist Party Kerry Brown and Konstantinos Tsimonis 22. Changing Patterns of Chinese Civil Society: Comparing the Hu-Wen and the Xi Jinping Eras Chloé Froissart 23. Can the Internet and Social Media Change the Party? David Bandurski 24. China and the World: From the Chinese Dream to the Chinese World Order Simon Shen