| Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 中國大陸研究所碩士在職專班 === 104 === Party-masses relationships refer to the interactions and mutual influences between a party and masses. The embodiment of these relationships comes from the ways connecting and linking the party and masses. The Chinese Communist Party took power by appealing for the “dictatorship of the proletariats”. The support from masses constructed the legality of the regime established by the Chinese Communist Party. However, the general public is the subject being governed by the ruling party. How does the leader of the Chinese Communist Party deal with and respond to the situation under which on one hand he possesses the political power and on the other hand he has to govern the masses having the legality of the regime? In this study, the right of discourse serves as the basis while the new institutionalism featuring involution is adopted as the research path. Literature review and historical research are applied as the research methods. Based on the above mentioned structure, this study aims at organizing the overall global situation encountered by China, the theory and practice of individual party-masses relationships and the challenges faced by China during the ruling periodsunder the four leaders from Mao Zedong to Hu Jintao.
It is found that Mao Zedong’s appeal to proletariats facilitated to construct the legality of the regime as the leaders starting from Mao Zedong to Hu Jintao went for the party mass line. However, since Deng Xiaoping initiated the blueprint of China’s economic development, a few people who got rich earlier together with the corrupted ones from the party and bureaucrats had formed another group of people enjoying “privileges” within the Chinese Communist Party. Thus, they became the target which the masses protested against. The successor Jiang Zemin adopted stability maintenance with coercion but he was unable to truly eliminate the corrupted, privileged and overnight rich whom the masses fought against. Instead, social contradictions were even deepened in China. This was why Hu Jintao, after taking office, went for a mass line that emphasized on “moderately prosperous” society reducing the gaps between the poor and the rich as well as the anti-corruption strategy aiming at eliminating corruption and strengthening party discipline.
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