1. Historical evolution of public security organizations; 2. From the social affairs department to the ministry of public security; 3. Leading central security agency: Central Guard Bureau; 4. Elite security corps: Central Guard Regiment; 5. Armed police and its historical role in the CCP politics; 6. People's armed police in the reform era; 7. Garrison commands; 8. CCP intelligence agencies and services in the revolutionary era; 9. The intelligence apparatus and services under PRC; 10. The PLA, security services, and the elite politics.
Describes the creation and evolution of Chinese security and intelligence agencies as well as their role in influencing Chinese Communist Party politics throughout the party's history.
Xuezhi Guo is currently a full professor and director of intercultural studies at Guilford College, North Carolina. He graduated from South China University of Technology in 1982, and after research in Japan and Germany, entered the University of North Florida in 1991. He completed his master's degree in public administration in 1993 and earned his PhD in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia in 1999. He spent a year as a research fellow in the Miller Center before becoming an associate professor at Guilford College. He is the author of The Ideal Chinese Political Leader: A Historical and Cultural Perspective (2001).
'Among the paradoxes of China's miraculous economic growth is that,
despite rising per capita incomes and living standards, popular
protest has increased. Since 2010, the People's Republic has thus
spent more on its domestic security apparatus than on military
security. Yet there has been very little serious scholarship on
this development. Xuezhi Guo's book is the first comprehensive
analysis of China's security state since the Cultural Revolution.
Based on thorough archival research as well as wide reading in
contemporary memorial and documentary literature, this is an
outstanding monograph.' Lowell Dittmer, University of California,
Berkeley
'This fascinating study examines the formation and early
development of the Chinese security state. It begins to fill a
gaping hole in understanding the intimate relationship between
power, authority, coercion, and access to information that is at
the heart of political rule under the Communist regime. The
strengths of the book are the extensive use of Chinese-language
materials and detailed historical descriptions of important but
previously little known internal security and intelligence
organizations … from the public security services to the praetorian
central guards unit. This book offers a useful historical
perspective to better comprehend the growing power and reach of the
contemporary Chinese security state.' Tai Ming Cheung, University
of California, San Diego
'[This book is] particularly helpful to the understanding of the
CCP's mechanisms for controlling both Party members and the general
population.' Zheng Yongnian, Pacific Affairs
'The book is a must-read for scholars studying the CCP's coercive
apparatuses, particularly for scholars focused on 1927–1978. These
readers will find a wealth of information gathered from a large
number of Chinese-only primary sources, and they will be able to
check Guo's specific arguments against a larger body of
literature.' William Welsh, Journal of Chinese Political Science
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