Chinese Politics Part 1 – China and Political Science

This might be a little too much, but here is an entire course on the subject:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/chinesepolitics1

This is only part 1 of 2. Even viewing the first few lectures will address major differences.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/chinesepolitics1

Yes but if you want college credits you have to pay.

一个香港科技大学的教授 David Zweig 在它的在线课程《 Chinese Politics》里说过，今天的中国政府，依然保持信息垄断（Information Monopoly），也就是说今天的中国人可以享受到西方的一切物质生活，汽车，电脑，豪华商场，高铁等等，但是唯有信息是被共产党政府所垄断的，只有政府才能决定中国人能看到什么，能说什么。

You might also want to check out David Zweig's two-part course on Coursera on Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy. His slides are dense AF too. I think it's up to date as of the late Hu/early Xi years, but I don't know if he's done any subsequent updates on more recent developments.

After /u/therosx asked about online courses a couple weeks ago, I signed up for a seven-week course on politics in China. Pretty interesting stuff. The CCP controls all levels and all branches of government - executive, legislative, judiciary, military - down to the village level. At the top is the General Secretary and the Politburo Standing Committee (usually seven people), meeting once a week, with the larger Politburo (usually 25 people) meeting once a month. Whereas achieving power in democracies requires politicians to appeal to a broad electorate (like the CPC leadership race, or the US general election), in China the struggle for power takes place at the top of the party, and what really matters (e.g. in the conflict between Hua Guofeng and Deng Xiaoping after Mao's death) is having a strong power base within the party. Reminds me a bit of Game of Thrones.