Review Essay

Richard McGregor, The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers, Penguin Books, London, 2012, Pound 9.99, ISBN 978-0-141-03885-8

Rowan Callick, The Party Forever: Inside China's Modern Communist Elite, Palgrave MacMillan, New York, 2013, 266 pp., Rs. 999, ISBN 978-1-137-27885-2

William A. Joseph, ed., Politics in China: An Introduction, Oxford University Press, New York, 2014, Rs. 1045, ISBN 978-0-19-533531-6