Cadre Country: How China became the Chinese Communist Party

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This group has captured the culture and wealth of China, excluding the voices of the common citizens of this powerful and diverse country. John Fitzgerald is the author of Big White Lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia, awarded the Ernest Scott Prize of the Australian Historical Association, and Awakening China, awarded the Joseph Levenson Prize of the US Association for Asian Studies. These efforts particularly focused on a strengthened ideological education of cadres to reinforce understanding of their own role in the mass line connecting the people and the CCP. Leading cadre status is not dependent on rank, as many high-ranking cadres may nevertheless not be in what is considered a leading position.

And while many of the ruling families are billionaires, corruption has been cracked down on, within the Cadres under Xi Jinping.

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It is on these cadres and leaders that the Party relies for its links with the membership and the masses, and it is by relying on their firm leadership of the masses that the Party can succeed in defeating the enemy. It lives virtually distinct in life, from the services used and the food available to it, from the other nation. Mao further expanded upon the list of these traits in his 1970 essay, "Twenty Manifestations Of Bureaucracy," including factionalism, stupidity, and reliance on excessive red tape. Cadre Country is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the workings of the Chinese Communist Party and the limits of its achievements. Party committees at all levels (broadly, local, provincial, and national levels) take responsibility for cadre management, usually through the Organization Department, and generally one or two administrative levels lower than the committee.

Cadre Country: How China Became the Chinese Communist Party(NewSouth Books, 2022) 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 – to show how the Communist Party operates in China and how the stories the party tells about itself are based on thin foundations.