本书的主要特色之一在于是一项实证的而不是建立预设价值立场之上的研究，客观地分析和描述了20世纪90年代以来西方学者关于中国共产党的分析框架和预测，同时对近20年来中国共产党在组织和思想上的建设举措提出了详尽的分析，在此基础上判断中国共产党实际上一直处于一直转型即收缩与调适的过程之中，并对中国共产党的未来作出了谨慎预测。(One of the main features of this book lies in that it is a study based on solid evidence rather than preset values. It objectively analyses and describes the analysis framework of and forecast to the Communist Party of China by western scholars since the 1990s, at the same time, puts forward detailed analysis to the construction and measures made by the Communist Party of China in organization and thought in the past 20 years, on the basis of which, concludes a judgment that the Communist Party of China has always been in the process of transformation, i.e. shrinking and adjustment, and gives cautious forecast on the future of the Communist Party of China.)