TONI LI was still in high school when she first asked to join the Communist Party. Recruiters at the time declined her three-page handwritten application. But when she tried again at university, she had more luck. After a two-year application period, during which time she attended party-run classes on politics and history, and scribbled a dozen philosophical essays, she was granted entry just before graduating. Despite the time-consuming process, she thinks almost all her classmates also applied.
At the end of 2016 China’s Communist Party boasted nearly 90m members, or around one in 12 adult Chinese. (Only the...Continue reading
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