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19 Mag 2025 16:00

Through the Past Darkly: Culture and Practice of the Chinese Communist Party

​​​​​​​Sala Marino Berengo, Ca’ Foscari Dorsoduro 3246 - Venezia

Prof. Anthony Saich, Harvard Kennedy School

Through the Past Darkly: Culture and Practice of the Chinese Communist Party

presentano la prof.ssa Laura De Giorgi e il prof. Guido Samarani

Abstract
Little could the founders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have known that they were setting in motion one of history’s greatest revolutionary movements. A party that would seize power and, despite self-inflicted setbacks, one hundred years later would develop an economic juggernaut to cause the United States of America to view China as the greatest geo-political rival. Are there lessons to be learned from this revolutionary history that guide the CCP’s actions today? The founders may have been baffled by the role of private capital, engagement with the global economy, and that the party no longer portrays itself as representing a radical break with the past. Yet, while much has changed, there is important continuity in the practice and the culture of the party. It is an organization and propaganda party; an infallible and autonomous party; a controlling party; a collectivist party; an adaptable and flexible party; and a global party.

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Department of Asian and North African Studies

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