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Retirement of Revolutionaries in China - Public Policies, Social Norms, Private Interests (Hardcover)
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Retirement of Revolutionaries in China - Public Policies, Social Norms, Private Interests (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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In this book Melanie Manion analyzes the largest bloodless
circulation of elites in history--the massive retirement of
officials in the People's Republic of China. Beginning in 1978 and
continuing through the 1980s, Chinese leaders in Beijing replaced
millions of old cadres, including veterans of the communist
revolution, with younger generations of better educated and less
generalist officials. How were the elders persuaded to retire?
Manion shows how a norm of age-based exit from office, historically
novel in the Chinese communist setting, was engineered by top
policymakers and aided by younger cadres. Manion's research
combined a wide variety of sources and methods, many new to the
study of Chinese politics. The author examined hundreds of party
and government documents, surveyed articles in newspapers and
journals, and interviewed officials in charge of supervising cadre
retirement policy. She first conducted long exploratory interviews
with retired cadres, and then designed questionnaires distributed
to hundreds of others for quantitative analysis. Finally, to
understand the viewpoints of those with the most to gain, she
interviewed younger, employed cadres. The result is a rich
portrayal of manipulative leadership in post-Mao China, which
reveals the key role of the private interests of all the parties
involved. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy
Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make
available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
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