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THE NEW GENERATION Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/chinasleadersnewOOIich China s Leaders Chinas Leaders The New Generation Cheng Li ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. Lanham • Boulder • New York Toronto • Oxford • ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. Published in the United States of America by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706 www.rowmanlittlefield.com PO Box 317 Oxford 0X2 9RU, UK Copyright © 2001 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or trans- mitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Li, Cheng, 1956— China’s leaders: the new generation / Cheng Li. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8476-9496-8 (alk. paper)—ISBN 0-8476-9497-6 (pbk.: alk.paper) 1. Communist leadership—-China. 2. Political leadership—China. 3. China—Politics and govern- ment—1976- I. Title. HX518.L4L48 2000 320.951—dc21 00-062539 Printed in the United States of America (0™The p p used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National a er Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992. f To Yinsheng Li Contents List of Figures ix List of Tables xi List of Abbreviations xiii Acknowledgments xv 1. Coming of Age: A New Generation of Leaders 1 2. The Rise of Technocrats: Elite Transformation in the Reform Era 25 3. The Fourth Generation of Leaders: A Biographical Analysis 51 4. The “Qinghua Clique”: School Networks and Elite Recruitment 87 5. Taizi and Mishu: Informal Networks and Institutional Restraints 127 6. Collective Characteristics: Attitudes and Outlooks of the New Generation of Elites 175 7. Intra-Generational Diversity and Its Implications 217 Bibliography 245 Index 265 About the Author 285 vii
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