Source: South China Morning PostThis is the fifth in the South China Morning Post’s series of explainers about China’s Communist Party, in the lead up to the party’s 100th anniversary in July. In this piece, Jane Cai and Qin Chen shed some light on why so many people in China join the Communist Party, and what this entails.China’s ruling Communist Party had only 50 members when it was founded in 1921 by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao.Both Chen and Li studied Marxism in Japan, and were among the Chinese intellectuals with communist…Read More