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Retirement of Revolutionaries in China: Public Policies, Social Norms, Private Interests
By (Author) Melanie Manion
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
951.058
Hardback
210
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
454g
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 o