What's on the reading list of CCP cadres?
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Summary: What have the leading members of the CCP been reading over the past year? Study Times, an influential CCP-run newspaper, sent out a questionnaire to students at the Central Party School in Beijing, as well as to provincial-level schools, to ask what books they had been reading in the past year. News of recommended books within the CCP are often published in an effort to signal the current political mood, such as when secretary of the Communist Party's Central Commission for Discipline Wang Qishan recommended Alexis de Tocqueville's "The Old Regime and the Revolution" in 2013. Many interpreted the news as evidence that the CCP was concerned over the paradox of rising living standards leading to an increase in social friction.
The book list from the story:
1. "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China"
2. "Study the Speeches of Xi Jinping"
3. "The Deng Xiaoping Era" by Ezra Vogel (the title of the English-language edition was "Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China")
4. "Premier of the Qing Dynasty" (a study of Chen Tingjing, one of the emperor Kangxi's teachers)
5. "Lee Kuan Yew: On China and the World"
6. "Capital in the 21st Century" by Thomas Piketty
7. "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order" by Samuel P. Huntington
8. "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith
9. "Public Authorities Under the Heaven: Multi-centered Governance and Federal Approaches to Authority" by Wu Jiaxiang
10. "20 Years' Reflection on Soviet Communist Party's Decline" by Li Shenming
Note: All books in the list refer to the Chinese-language editions.
Source: 学习时报
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