Why Does the CCP Need a Core?

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Podcast Episode by Jude Blanchette

Published March 13, 2025

In this episode of Pekingology which aired in February 2022, Jude Blanchette is joined by Xuezhi Guo, the Lincoln Financial Professor of Political Science at Gilford College, to discuss his book, The Politics of the Core Leader in China: Culture, Institution, Legitimacy, and Power.

Jude Blanchette

Jude Blanchette

Former Freeman Chair in China Studies

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