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2024-03-29T06:04:56ZThe New Military Elite: Generational Profile and Contradictory Trends
http://hdl.handle.net/10722/335441
Title: The New Military Elite: Generational Profile and Contradictory Trends
Authors: Li, Cheng
Abstract: A central issue surrounding the Chinese military has been the tension between its pronounced objectives and the prevailing obstacles it must surmount. For a long time, China’s quest for military modernization was undermined by economic deficiency, ideological stagnation, and political interference. However, the unprecedented growth of the Chinese economy during the past two decades has ensured that military modernization is no longer merely an empty slogan used to “scare others,” but instead constitutes a concrete and comprehensive program. Communist ideology has become irrelevant. The strategic thinking and military doctrines of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have been progressively influenced by its counterparts in the West. The PLA’s mission is more focused and its role better defined than ever before. The possibility that China’s military will interfere in domestic politics, especially political succession, has become increasingly unlikely.2015-01-01T00:00:00ZPoised to take the helm: Rising stars and the transition to the fourth generation
http://hdl.handle.net/10722/335342
Title: Poised to take the helm: Rising stars and the transition to the fourth generation
Authors: Li, Cheng
Abstract: Central leaders have had to use indirect methods of assessing changing public expectations from a growing plurality of social strata. As society continues to outgrow the Leninist bureaucratic structures intended to contain and control it, central authorities are uncertain how to cope with the new constraints on their authority created by commercialization and cultural impact from the outside. China’s leaders in the 1990s addressed the challenge with Band-Aids-marginal readjustments to shore up the existing social and political structures for co-opting and controlling society. The focus on internal Party reform at the Sixteenth Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Congress is viewed as a substitute for systemic structural change. Recent sociological studies of the relationship between State and society in China, would suggest that new Chinese leaders will face some very difficult historic choices in social policy and political reform.2015-01-01T00:00:00ZThe political elite in China: A dynamic balance between integration and differentiation
http://hdl.handle.net/10722/335303
Title: The political elite in China: A dynamic balance between integration and differentiation
Authors: Li, Cheng
Abstract: Studying the composition and circulation of the Chinese political elite enables analysts to transcend the long-standing diagnostic paradigm of the Leninist party-state. It provides a more specific context that can potentially help in understanding China’s future political trajectory. It can also contribute to a broader understanding of the various political transition processes--including their respective advantages and disadvantages--in authoritarian regimes in general. This chapter offers an empirically grounded, comprehensive study focused on the dynamic evolution of Chinese elite politics to enrich the wider academic literature on comparative political systems.2017-01-01T00:00:00ZChina's political trajectory: Internal contradictions and inner-party democracy
http://hdl.handle.net/10722/335223
Title: China's political trajectory: Internal contradictions and inner-party democracy
Authors: Li, Cheng2009-01-01T00:00:00Z