The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers - Tapa dura

""The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers" is a careful, highly well-informed and entertaining account of China's ruling class, chronicling the country's 30-year rise to major economic power despite high levels of poverty."--"The Associated Press"

"Illuminating and richly-textured. . . . "The Party" will be invaluable for anyone trying to make sense of China's future plans and choices. It has certainly enriched my own understanding of the country."--James Fallows, National Correspondent for "The Atlantic"

"Fascinating. . . . "The Party" examines the intricate relationship between the Communist Party and the Chinese government, exposing how a political machine subverts the will to properly govern a billion people."--"Esquire"

Richard McGregor has penned a detailed look at the Chinese Communist Party that is must reading for U.S. officials and China affairs specialists who profess to be perplexed at why the regime in Beijing consistently operates like a Soviet-style communist dictatorship and not a Western-style democracy. --"The Washington Times""

"The Party: The Secret World of China s Communist Rulers" is a careful, highly well-informed and entertaining account of China s ruling class, chronicling the country s 30-year rise to major economic power despite high levels of poverty. --"The Associated Press""

A compelling exploration of the world s largest and most successful political machine. --Isabel Hilton, "New Statesman""

This is a marvellous and finely written study of how China is really run, and how its strange but successful system of Leninist capitalism really works. It should be read by anyone doing business with or just trying to understand China. --Bill Emmott, former editor of "The Economist""

Illuminating and richly-textured. . . . "The Party" will be invaluable for anyone trying to make sense of China s future plans and choices. It has certainly enriched my own understanding of the country. --James Fallows, National Correspondent for "The Atlantic""

Richard McGregor is one of the best foreign journalists who have ever reported from China. "The Party" is a fine contribution for those who want to know about the rising power they will face in the decades ahead. --Ezra Vogel, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University"

An engrossing read. . . . McGregor s is a vivid narrative, sprinkled with humour and insightful analysis, of how the party has imprinted itself on almost every aspect of life in China, and how it has maintained its stranglehold on power. --"The South China Morning Post""

"Examines China's Communist Party, with a focus on the large role it has played in the nation's competition with the United States, an economic and political rivalry the stems from its achievement of superpower status. 25,000 first printing."