ABSTRACT
A cultural approach to the study of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) involves several dimensions. First, it is to describe the political phenomenon of the Party domination of the state and the Party-state domination of society, a phenomenon which I call an ‘organizational emperorship’. Second, it is to examine the process of how domination is materialized, a process which I call the ‘hegemonization’ of the Party over the state, and of the Party-state over society. Third, it is to analyse the cultural-institutional environment in which the ‘organizational emperorship’ is justified and which makes it acceptable to society. And, fourth, it is to analyse the process of the reproduction and reconstruction of the ‘organizational emperorship’, a process of cultural self-sustaining and self-transforming in accordance with changing social and economic environments.
