Retirement of Revolutionaries in China : Public Policies, Social Norms, Private Interests

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Manion, Melanie, 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Retirement.
Pensions.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Affairs & Administration.
HISTORY > Asia > China.
China.
China > Officials and employees > Retirement.
China > Officials and employees > Pensions.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 y.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (212 pages).
ISBN:9781400863419

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