John Fitzgeraldis an Emeritus Professor at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. He served for five years as China Representative of The Ford Foundation in Beijing (2008-2013) before heading the Asia-Pacific philanthropy studies program at Swinburne University. His books include Big White Lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia, awarded the Ernest Scott Prize of the Australian Historical Association, and Awakening China: Politics, Culture and Class in the Nationalist Revolution, awarded the Joseph Levenson Prize of the US Association for Asian Studies. Cadre Country: How China became the Chinese Communist Party is due for release in March 2022.

employed off-budget in shiye danwei service units, while just over onehalf occupy established positions, divided between fourteen million inThe Hoover Project on China’s Global Sharp Power invites you to"Cadre Country: How China became the Chinese Communist Party" on Wednesday, March 16, 2022,at 3:00 pm- 4:00 pm PT. It takes decades of patient observation, experience and study of China to produce a book like this. Cadre Country is a must read for specialists and the general public.’ – Anita Chan, Australian National University

In addition, Fitzgerald scrutinises the Party’s key claim that it achieves goals because of its long-term planning, for example in infrastructure, compared to democratic short-termism. But, as the book observes, long-term planning removes the autonomy of individuals, families, and private firms. Fitzgerald cites the violations of individual autonomy during the One Child Policy (1980-2016) to illustrate his claim. He is surely right. Yet what is interesting is that Western governments increasingly perceive that long-term planning has enabled China to develop economically. For example, leaders in the United States and European Union have recently announced plans related to technology development to compete with China. difference between the English and Chinese titles of the China NonProfit Center tells us that an organisation can be Chinese in every sense Cadre Country is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the workings of the Chinese Communist Party and the limits of its achievements. On the Leninist model of state organisation, ideology and organisation (including economic organisation) are supposed to match up. Award-winning historian John Fitzgerald focuses on the stories the Communist Party tells about itself, exploring how China works as an authoritarian state and revealing Beijing's monumental propaganda productions as a fragile edifice built on questionable assumptions.halls, including one with wall-to-wall photographic portraits of lowerlevel prefectural and provincial party cadres who, the captions inform Professor John Fitzgerald will talk about his recent book Cadre Country, which places the spotlight on the nation’s 40 million cadres - the managers and government officials employed by the ruling Communist Party to protect its great enterprise - and shows they constitute a powerful interest group that associates its interests with those of the country. measures the world’s largest economy. The party presides over diversified and liberalised communities and a highly marketised economy.6 Award-winning historian John Fitzgerald focuses on the stories the Communist Party tells about itself, exploring how China works as an authoritarian state, and revealing Beijing’s monumental propaganda productions as a fragile edifice built on questionable assumptions.

In October 2022, at the 20 th Communist Party Congress, China’s President Xi Jinping cemented his power to win a third term of leadership and become the most powerful leader since Mao Zedong. To understand the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), its political organisation, and how it has maintained its grip on power, China historian John Fitzgerald’s 2022 book Cadre Country is a great place to start. implement the three represents’ might make some sense in partyspeak Mandarin but it does not translate well into any other language, what this means for people in China and those of us outside. The ongoing assault on the legal profession is not simply an arbitrary exercise The attempt itself is not out of character for a communist partystate. Historically, on seizing power, communist parties demolishOne of the most important books on China written since Xi Jinping assumed power, Cadre Country is a forensic and profound explication of the true nature of the Chinese Communist Party.’ — John Lee, Hudson Institute and United States Studies Centre