One Hundred Years of Chinese Communist Party (1921-2021): From Periphery to the Centre-stage of the Party-State

Abstract

The Chinese society was complex and intricate with myriad social relations and classes: a limited but rapidly growing working class, a small national bourgeoisie, a small but powerful land-owning class, peasants, rich and poor, landed and landless, artisans, bureaucrats, militarists, monks, bandits, rural vagabonds and compradors in the service of foreign capitalists. The article is about solving the question of political succession smoothly and also demonstrates that it can live peacefully with its neighbours, despite its commitment to the Westphalian state system and the principle of national sovereignty. Historical analysis is used to explain the Chinese communist and cultural revolution associated with the Chinese Communist Party. In its history of the first hundred years of the CCP, it has had many impressive achievements. It is now firmly in the saddle at the start of the second hundred years.