However, negative speculations about China's future never die down, as we see in works warning of the "China threat" and the "coming collapse of China." In last two to three decades, conversations in Western countries continue to build scenarios and assess the possibilities for a "China at the crossroads." Their conclusions are largely the fruits of their own imagination, and the hypotheses vary wildly from China bearing down with "a strong hegemony" to being "a country in disorder" or a nation "due to collapse." But reality does not bear these predictions out, the authors argue. Since carrying out the policy of reform and opening-up, China has developed socialism with Chinese characteristics, striking out on an independent course and striding to the center of the world arena from the periphery of it (as at the Yalta Conference). The authors make a strong case for why the CPC can overcome all future obstacles and continue on the path of success. This book looks beneath the facts at the course of history and asks the readers to come to their own conclusions. In modern times, it is not uncommon for people to assert that the CPC can no longer work, and some even prophesized that it will fail. It deals with the philosophic dimensions readers are bound to consider. This is a book written by contemporaries, people who are part of the history they delve into.
Hegel's The Philosophy of History is the best example of this category, and I think Why and How the CPC Works in China in essence belongs in the first category. The third is philosophic history which analyzes the reasons why history happened the way it did. History textbooks belong in this category. The second is reflective history, written by later generations who view an historical period from the perspective of their own with additional evidence. This is usually the most valuable of historical records. Georg Hegel divided our portrayal of history into three categories.First is the original history, written by contemporaries about the history they were involved in, and includes oral history and memoirs. Reading the book put everything in place for me and helped me reflect further on this historic process. The history and anecdotes recorded in this book are part of my own experience, but my memories were a little bit jumbled. This time span is a period I not only lived through but I also took part in this entire process. Why and How the CPC Works in China, edited by Xie Chuntao, a professor with the Party School of the Central Committee of the CPC, records how the Communist Party of China established the People's Republic and began the construction of a modern socialist country.
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