O 100-leciu KPCH w Strefie Kultur SWPS

The Communist Party of China (CCP) is celebrating its 100th anniversary. It was founded by a handful of idealists in a small Shanghai venue that is now part of the fashionable restaurant and shopping district. The CCP has over 95 million members (almost 7% of the Chinese population) and is the strongest organization in the Middle Kingdom. It brings together the full executive power. The judiciary is subordinate to it, and party cells operate in every larger institution, enterprise or private company. The Chinese Communist Party has come a long way and today is a completely different organization from the one in which Mao Zedong was active. It has opened the doors to business and rules an increasingly wealthy, modern and technologically advanced country.

Is the CCP communist in name only? Does he still promote revolutionary slogans and Marxist-Leninist ideology? How does it resemble the former official structures of Imperial China until 1911? Or maybe it should be viewed as a quasi-mafia group of influence based on nepotism and corruption? Who actually rules China, and how does Chinese society judge the party? These questions were answered by dr hab. Dominik Mierzejewski, prof. Of the University of Lodz and dr hab. Józef Pawłowski from the University of Warsaw. The meeting was chaired by dr hab. Marcin Jacoby, prof. SWPS University.