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Shades of Red: Changing Understandings of Political Loyalty in the Chinese Communist Party, 1921–2021

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While changes in Chinese Communist Party (CCP) recruitment are generally described as different phases focused on recruiting either “reds” or “experts,” giving more or less weight to political or technical criteria, we instead stress the importance of changing understandings of political loyalty to examine these evolutions. By tracing these changes throughout the party's 100 years, we show that how the party understands loyalty is largely strategic, detached from a purely ideological approach. The CCP has alternatively approached loyalty in ascriptive terms, based on class background, and behavioural ones, looking at active displays of loyalty or passive obedience. The level and form of activism expected from party members and cadres have also dramatically changed over time. Relying on recruitment data, this article shows that it is paradoxically during periods of party expansion that the CCP becomes more politically demanding with its members.
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Jérôme Doyon, Long Yang. Shades of Red: Changing Understandings of Political Loyalty in the Chinese Communist Party, 1921–2021. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 2022, 51 (3), pp.386-410. ⟨10.1177/18681026221119220⟩. ⟨hal-03887926⟩
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