Paths to Power: Elite Mobility in Contemporary China Volume 55

By David M. Lampton

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892640634
• ISBN13: 9780892640638
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: U of M Center for Chinese Studies
• Length: 416 Pages