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The Party

Richard McGregor

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Brad Setser recommends it
Uh it's by a friend of mine, Richard McGregor, uh long time um [snorts] Beijing correspondent for the Financial who wrote a book called The Party. And he really showed that you can't understand modern China without understanding the modern Chinese Communist Party.

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It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.