Richard McGregor -The Party November 24, 2010

China's political and economic growth in the past three decades is one of astonishing, epochal dimensions. The most remarkable part of this development, however, has been left largely untold—the central role of the Chinese Communist Party. As an organization, the Party is a phenomenon of unique scale and power. With a membership surpassing seventy-three million, it does more than just rule a country - it has a grip on all official religions, the media, the courts and the military. McGregor delves deeply into China's secretive political machine for the first time, showing how it remains unaccountable to anyone or anything other than its own internal tribunals and tells the eye-opening story of how it controls China and its future. Richard McGregor is the former China bureau chief for the Financial Times. Since 1990, he has spent all but two years in north Asia, starting in Taiwan, and then in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Beijing

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