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Article: FROM OUTCASTS TO HONORED GUESTS: THE CHANGING FORTUNE OF PRIVATE ENTREPRENEURS IN CHINA AND THE STRUGGLE FOR CCP LEGITIMACY
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- Journal of Third World Studies
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
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INTRODUCTION
On November 14, 2002 the Sixteenth National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) adopted a new constitution. Passed at a critical juncture of the history of the CCP and China's post-Mao reform, this document contains some very noticeable changes from the earlier CCP constitution. One of the most interesting changes concerning the membership of the party. Article 1, Chapter 1 reads: "Any Chinese worker, farmer, member of the armed forces, intellectual or any advanced element of other social strata who has reached the age of eighteen and who accepts the Party's Program and Constitution and is willing to join and work actively in one of the Party organizations, carry out ...