University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons CUREJ - College Undergraduate Research Electronic Journal College of Arts and Sciences March 2009 The Party Controls the Gun, but How? Institutionalization as a Trend in Chinese Civil-Military Relations Katherine V. Fleming University of Pennsylvania,
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[email protected]. The Party Controls the Gun, but How? Institutionalization as a Trend in Chinese Civil-Military Relations Abstract Originally characterized by a tightly intertwined relationship based in informal manners of control, the relationship between the Chinese army, party, and state has evolved over the past few decades. Instigated by the reforms of Deng Xiaoping, which changed Chinese politics, economics, and society, the party and the army’s relationship is no longer based in the "interlocking directorate," which characterized the party- army hierarchies of the past. Changes to the army, the party, and the state have contributed to an evolution of Chinese civil-military relations which can be characterized as “institutionalized.” Keywords Chinese studies, civil-military relations, military studies, Political Science, Social Sciences, Avery Goldstein, Goldstein, Avery This article is available at ScholarlyCommons: https://repository.upenn.edu/curej/89 The Party Controls the Gun, but How? Institutionalization as a Trend in Chinese Civil-Military Relations Katherine Fleming Spring 2009 Advisor: Dr.