What of the Big Outstanding Research Questions About the Communist Party That You Want to Explore in the Future?

This week's episode of The Daily Discussion will focus on the Chinese communist party and its relationship to the state. We'll start with an essay that you wrote for maid and china journal, in which you argue that Xi Jinping can revive the position of party chairman. What was it? What powers did it confer historically, and then what happened to it? Where did it go? This is opened up a whole range of possibilities here, and we're going to get to in our discussion to day.