The Chinese Communist Party; Graft, Growth, Discord Trouble Aging Coalition

From: The Washington Post | Date: September 13, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

In 76 years since its founding, China's Communist Party has gone from 60 members to more than 58 million, from a tiny group of rebels to leaders of a mammoth bureaucracy, and from makers of revolution to defenders of stability.

Whereas the party founders met clandestinely in a small, second-floor room in Shanghai, the 15th party congress opened today at the cavernous Great Hall of the People on Tiananmen Square amid an international throng of reporters and television lights.

However, despite its rise to power, China's Communist Party is deeply troubled. It has cast aside most of its ...

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