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From a revolutionary party that emerged in the aftermath of the collapse of the Chinese empire and World War I, it became in 1949 a political regime in its own right, a party-state dominating the world`s most populous country. Against this background, adopting a dichotomous perspective that contrasts a vibrant liberalised economy with an ossified Leninist state, and a society trying to find ways to resist or gain autonomy, misses the evolution of the party itself and its interactions with social forces, which have oscillated between inclusive tendencies and "totalitarian refluxes" (Barm . . .
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