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Overseas cadre training is a highly institutionalized arrangement that the Chinese Communist Party has employed to learn state-of-the-art governing skills from around the world. One of the greatest challenges of dispatching numerous party and state cadres abroad is to ensure their faithfulness to authoritarian rule without being "infiltrated by the West." By examining the routine management of overseas training programs and the state control mechanisms toward trainees, this article suggests that immersing in the Western environment and being trained at established democracies does not necessarily give rise to an appreciation of democratic values and norms among Chinese political elites. On the contrary, overseas training, as a means of nurturing talented cadres, rewarding loyal veteran party members, and shaping trainees' perceptions of democratic societies, plays a pivotal role in strengthening the attendees' confidence in the party-state, which may eventually assist the Communist Party in consolidating its ruling ideology and authoritarian rule.
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184747
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Faced with the burgeoning NGOs in China in recent years, the Party-state has adopted a model of adaptive party building to maintain its presence and strengthen its grip over the evolving social sphere. Based on a two-year field work in Shanghai, this article finds that the new model is characterized by the party’s rigidity in the principle of social penetration and an array of flexible strategies to facilitate its entry. While promoting the party’s rapid organizational expansion in NGOs, the adaptive tactics also bring up problems, which may undermine the effectiveness of the party’s permeation in the long run. This article highlights the behaviors of the party’s agencies in the state-society interaction, which we suggest may shape the country’s grassroots political development in the future.
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