Why Does the CCP Need a Core?

In this episode of Pekingology which aired in February 2022, Jude Blanchette is joined by Xuezhi Guo (guilford.edu/profile/gguo), 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 (cambridge.org/core/books/politics-of-the-core-…).