Rejuvenating communism : : youth organizations and elite renewal in post-Mao China / / Jérôme Doyon.

Working for the administration remains one of the most coveted career paths for young Chinese. Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China seeks to understand what motivates young and educated Chinese to commit to a long-term career in the party-state and how this...

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Place / Publishing House:Ann Arbor, Michigan : : University of Michigan Press,, [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (206 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1: Introduction Overview of the Argument Political Youth Organizations in Contemporary China Seeing like a Young Cadre
  • Chapter 2: Becoming a Student Cadre Student cadres at the center of the student-management apparatus Commitment is rewarded
  • Chapter 3: Student Leaders as a Rogue Minority Student leaders' narrowing social circles Cultivating their Party Spirit The "bureaucratization" of student cadres
  • Chapter 4: Sponsorship Networks in Elite Universities Clientelism at Peking University Chains of sponsorship ties in elite universities An elite within the elite: the political career of student leaders from Peking University and Tsinghua University
  • Chapter 5: Starting a Political Career on CampusThe Counselor System Counselors as officials in training Starting a political career outside the university
  • Chapter 6: Youth League Officials as Future Party-state Leaders The perfect reserve cadres Cultivating a role as leaders-to-be
  • Chapter 7: Towards a Diffuse Allegiance to the Party-State Each posting entails diverse personal ties Turnover and the multiplication of personal networks
  • Conclusion: Commitment and Allegiance
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography.