If you want to know the secret behind the CPC’s success, you will find it much more efficient to read this book than to read 100 others articles. The authors look at the history and development of the CPC and its impact on the growth of China, without evading the setbacks and failures. It answers many of your questions about China. – Zhao Qizheng, member of the CPPCC Standing Committee and chairman of its Foreign Affairs Committee The volume by Chinese scholars provides foreign readers with a good overview and a considerable amount of data on the evolution of the Communist Party of China (CPC) over nine decades. It offers Chinese perspectives on many complicated and sensitive subjects – even if foreign readers and scholars do not agree with these perspectives, they should still be aware of them. – David Shambaugh, professor and director of the China Policy Program at George Washington University, USA