ABSTRACT

Managing Transitions examines the history and roles of China's minor parties and groups (MPG's) in the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) united front between the 1930's and 1990's using Antonio Gramsci's principles for the winning and maintaining of hegemony. Gramsci advocated a "war of position," the building of political alliances to isolate existing state powers and win consent for revolutionary rule and transform society. Economic reform is now creating new socio-economic groups and the CCP is adjusting the united front and the MPGs to co-opt their representatives and deliberately forestall the evolution of an autonomous civil society and middle class which could challenge CCP rule. This has resulted in a new and expanding role for the united front, the MPGs and organisations representing the new interest groups.

chapter |22 pages

China's Minor Parties and Groups

1930–1945

chapter |25 pages

Winning Hegemony

The MPGs, the GMD, and the United Front, 1945–1948

chapter |7 pages

Cooperation with the CCP

1948–1949

chapter |15 pages

Toward Socialism

1949–1955

chapter |13 pages

Hibernation and Revival

1966–1981

chapter |13 pages

Re-Building for the New Era

1981–1986

chapter |19 pages

Expansion of the United Front

1989 to Mid-1990s