Party Building in Chinese Counties, 1949-1987

• In Event: The Chinese Communist Party in Historical and Contemporary Perspective

Brief Overview

This paper explains why Communist party membership of localities in China is geographically extremely uneven and elucidates the persistence of early state-building by using a novel database among nationally representative samples from 1949 to 1987.

Authors

• Pierre F. Landry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Zheng ZHANG, The Chinese University of Hong Kong