Book contents
- Law and the Party in China
- Law and the Party in China
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- 1 Ideology and Organisation in Chinese Law
- Part I Ideology and the Party in Law
- Part II Ideology and the Party in Law and Organisation
- 6 Seeking Truthful Names
- 7 The ‘Organisational Weapon’ of the Chinese Communist Party
- 8 Disorientation for the New Era
- 9 Technologies of Risk and Discipline in China’s Social Credit System
- Glossary of Chinese Terms
- Index
- References
6 - Seeking Truthful Names
The External Implications of China’s Internal Ideology and Organisation
from Part II - Ideology and the Party in Law and Organisation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 December 2020
- Law and the Party in China
- Law and the Party in China
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- 1 Ideology and Organisation in Chinese Law
- Part I Ideology and the Party in Law
- Part II Ideology and the Party in Law and Organisation
- 6 Seeking Truthful Names
- 7 The ‘Organisational Weapon’ of the Chinese Communist Party
- 8 Disorientation for the New Era
- 9 Technologies of Risk and Discipline in China’s Social Credit System
- Glossary of Chinese Terms
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter looks at the Chinese Communist Party’s ‘new-type political-party system’ announced in 2018 and at related attempts by the Party-state to export its governance ethos in international contexts. The People’s Republic of China leadership’s assertion is that there is a China model of governance that is not just an alternative, but actually superior, to a structure based on separation of powers. Since its projection of its governance strengths are nowadays propagated across the globe, the words that the Party-state uses to describe its structure of governance matter both domestically and internationally, as it reaches beyond borders with money, surveillance technology and military hardware, and into international organisations. Within this context, Lewis cautions against validating some of the discourse of the current Party approach to governance in international arenas such as the UN Human Rights Council as an attractive alternative to traditional understandings of government based on a separation of powers.
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- Law and the Party in ChinaIdeology and Organisation, pp. 151 - 186Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021