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

by Melanie Manion

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691086532
• ISBN13: 9780691086538
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 212 Pages