by David Lampton and Sai-cheung Yeung
University of Michigan Press, 2000
Cloth: 978-0-89264-063-8 | Paper: 978-0-89264-064-5
Library of Congress Classification HN740.Z9E44 1986
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.520951

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Grappling with enduring questions about the means of achieving power in the Chinese Communist hierarchy, this study analyzes the rise of six individuals (Ji Dengkui, Peng Chong, Gu Mu, Yu Qiuli, Xu Shiyou, and Chen Xilian) who held positions of elite political power in the immediate post-Mao Zedong era. In a new preface, the author applies his hypotheses to China’s more recent political developments.