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• Editor's Foreword; Preface; Reader's Note; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Chronology; Introduction; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; X; Y; Z; Bibliography; About the Authors.

This second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Civil War studies the longer, broader war and its chronology carefully tracks the major events. The introduction then provides a broad overview, describing the contending forces, and showing how the Communists come out on top. The details, and these are crucial, are laid out in over 200 cross-referenced dictionary entries dealing with the opposing forces and parties, the major campaigns and battles, the Long March, and of course the leadership on both sides. This book, one of few such in English, provides a very solid basis for study, but that can be accomplished more effectively by consulting the titles listed in an extensive bibliography.
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• 1. Introduction--
• 2. The organizational landscape--
• 3. Managing the managers--
• 4. Fusing party and market--
• 5. The entrepreneurial party school--
• 6. Adaptation measured--
• 7. Conclusion: risks and limits to party reforms-- Appendices: A. Number of party schools, by locale and national share of leading cadres-- B. Note on sources and research methods-- C. Central Party School organization-- D. City Z training allocations, 2008-- E. Descriptive statistics and robustness tests of PSM presented in Chapter 3-- F. Central Party School Mid-Career Cadre Training Classes descriptive data-- G. International partnerships, central and provincial-level party schools-- H. Categories for coding training syllabi.
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Charlotte P. Lee considers organizational changes taking place within the contemporary Chinese Communist Party (CCP), examining the party's renewed emphasis on an understudied but core set of organizations: party-managed training academies or 'party schools'. This national network of organizations enables party authorities to exert political control over the knowledge, skills, and careers of officials. Drawing on in-depth field research and novel datasets, Lee finds that the party school system has not been immune to broader market-based reforms but instead has incorporated many of the same strategies as actors in China's hybrid, state-led private sector. In the search for revenue and status, schools have updated training content and become more entrepreneurial as they compete and collaborate with domestic and international actors. This book draws attention to surprising dynamism located within the party, in political organizations thought immune to change, and the transformative effect of the market on China's political system.
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