Description: From Revolutionary Cadres to Party Technocrats in Socialist China, Paperback by Lee, Hong Yung, ISBN 0520303075, ISBN-13 9780520303072, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK Using a wide variety of previously unavailable sources, Hong Yung Lee offers a theoretical and historical perspective on China's ruling elite, examining their politics and the bureaucratic system in which they participate. He traces the evolution of these cadres from the guerrilla fighters who first joined the communist movement and founded the new regime in 1949 to the technocratic specialists who wield power today. In the revolution, communist leaders built a peasant-based party organization whose members were largely recruited from uneducated poor peasants and hired laborers. Even after they became the founders of a new regime, their rural orientation and revolutionary experiences continued to affect the political process. Lee shows how the requirements of modernization compelled the state to replace the revolutionary cadres with bureaucratic technocrats. Selected from the postliberation generation, the new leaders are more committed to problem-solving than to socialism. Despite uncertainties in the immediate future, this elite transformation signifies an end to modern China's revolutionary era. Lee argues that it seems only a matter of time before China will have a bureaucratic-authoritarian regime led by technocrats possessing a managerial perspective and a pragmatic economic orientation. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.
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Book Title: From Revolutionary Cadres to Party Technocrats in Socialist China
Number of Pages: 456 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: From Revolutionary Cadres to Party Technocrats in Socialist China
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Year: 2018
Subject: History
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Weight: 680 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Hong Yung Lee
Subject Area: Political Science
Series: Center for Chinese Studies, Uc Berkeley
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
