ABSTRACT
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rules China through two main tools, namely, organization and ideology. If the organizational domination represents the ‘hard power’, the ideological domination can be interpreted as its ‘soft power’. The reproduction of the CCP as the organizational emperorship means that the CCP has to maintain its domination over social forces by accommodating a changing socio-economic environment. To achieve that goal, reproduction takes place not only in terms of organization but also in terms of ideology. I have discussed the organizational dimension of reproduction through which the CCP establishes and maintains its hegemonic domination over both the state (Chapter 5) and social forces (Chapter 6). This chapter shifts the focus to the ideological dimension of reproduction, namely, how the CCP has struggled to maintain its ideological domination over the state and society.
