Leadership change in Shanghai: Toward the dominance of party technocrats

Asian Survey

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 671-685

  Chen, Shi ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

LEADERSHIP; NATIONAL POLITICS; POLITICAL CHANGE;

CHINA, SHANGHAI;

EID: 0032445056     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/as.1998.38.7.01p03714     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Among numerous examples are Li Cheng and Lynn White, "Elite Transformation and Modern Change in Mainland China and Taiwan: Empirical Data and the Theory of Technocracy," China Quarterly 121 (March 1990), pp. 1-35; Hong Yung Lee, From Revolutionary Cadres to Party Technocrats in Socialist China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991); and Xiaowei Zang, "Elite Formation and the Bureaucratic-Technocracy in Post-Mao China," Studies in Comparative Communism 24:1 (March 1991), pp. 114-23.
2. Among numerous examples are Li Cheng and Lynn White, "Elite Transformation and Modern Change in Mainland China and Taiwan: Empirical Data and the Theory of Technocracy," China Quarterly 121 (March 1990), pp. 1-35; Hong Yung Lee, From Revolutionary Cadres to Party Technocrats in Socialist China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991); and Xiaowei Zang, "Elite Formation and the Bureaucratic-Technocracy in Post-Mao China," Studies in Comparative Communism 24:1 (March 1991), pp. 114-23.
3. Among numerous examples are Li Cheng and Lynn White, "Elite Transformation and Modern Change in Mainland China and Taiwan: Empirical Data and the Theory of Technocracy," China Quarterly 121 (March 1990), pp. 1-35; Hong Yung Lee, From Revolutionary Cadres to Party Technocrats in Socialist China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991); and Xiaowei Zang, "Elite Formation and the Bureaucratic-Technocracy in Post-Mao China," Studies in Comparative Communism 24:1 (March 1991), pp. 114-23.
4. William deB. Mills, "Leadership Change in China's Provinces," Problems of Communism 34 (May-June 1985), p. 29.
5. Keith Forster, "To the Editors: Leaders of Chinese Provinces," ibid., p. 85.
6. Xiaowei Zang, "The Fourteenth Central Committee of the CCP: Technocracy or Political Technocracy?" Asian Survey 33:8 (August 1992), pp. 791, 801.
7. See Li Cheng, "The Rise of Technocracy: Elite Transformation and Ideological Change in Post Mao China" (Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1992); and Li Cheng and David Bachman, "Localism, Elitism, and Immobilism: Elite Formation and Social Changes in Post-Mao China," World Politics 1 (October 1989), pp. 64-94. However, in their excellent essay "China's Technocratic Movement and the World Economic Herald," and White took note of "generation gaps, ideological conflict, and factional struggle" among Chinese technocrats that would erode "technocratic legitimacy" and even lead to "democratic practice." Modern China 17:3 (July 1991), pp. 373-83.
8. See Li Cheng, "The Rise of Technocracy: Elite Transformation and Ideological Change in Post Mao China" (Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1992); and Li Cheng and David Bachman, "Localism, Elitism, and Immobilism: Elite Formation and Social Changes in Post-Mao China," World Politics 1 (October 1989), pp. 64-94. However, in their excellent essay "China's Technocratic Movement and the World Economic Herald," and White took note of "generation gaps, ideological conflict, and factional struggle" among Chinese technocrats that would erode "technocratic legitimacy" and even lead to "democratic practice." Modern China 17:3 (July 1991), pp. 373-83.
9. See Li Cheng, "The Rise of Technocracy: Elite Transformation and Ideological Change in Post Mao China" (Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1992); and Li Cheng and David Bachman, "Localism, Elitism, and Immobilism: Elite Formation and Social Changes in Post-Mao China," World Politics 1 (October 1989), pp. 64-94. However, in their excellent essay "China's Technocratic Movement and the World Economic Herald," and White took note of "generation gaps, ideological conflict, and factional struggle" among Chinese technocrats that would erode "technocratic legitimacy" and even lead to "democratic practice." Modern China 17:3 (July 1991), pp. 373-83.
10. See Li Cheng, "The Rise of Technocracy: Elite Transformation and Ideological Change in Post Mao China" (Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1992); and Li Cheng and David Bachman, "Localism, Elitism, and Immobilism: Elite Formation and Social Changes in Post-Mao China," World Politics 1 (October 1989), pp. 64-94. However, in their excellent essay "China's Technocratic Movement and the World Economic Herald," and White took note of "generation gaps, ideological conflict, and factional struggle" among Chinese technocrats that would erode "technocratic legitimacy" and even lead to "democratic practice." Modern China 17:3 (July 1991), pp. 373-83.
11. One exception is Keith Forster's "The Reform of Provincial Party Committee in China: The Case of Zhejiang," Asian Survey 24:6 (June 1984), pp. 618-36.
12. The political significance is obvious when considering that a high proportion of the national leaders, including Jiang Zemin, Zhu Rongji, Wu Bangguo, and Zeng Qinghong, were promoted from the leadership posts of Shanghai.
13. Specifically, the objects of my examination are confined to the party and administrative leaders of Shanghai, namely municipal party secretaries and deputies, chairpersons and vicechairpersons of the Municipal Revolutionary Committee, and mayors and vice-mayors of the municipal government.
14. See Hong Yung Lee, "China's New Bureaucracy?" in State and Society in China: The Consequences of Reform, ed. Arthur Lewis Rosenbaum (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1992), p. 60.
15. Lynn T. White, "Leadership in Shanghai, 1955-69," in Elites in the People's Republic of China, ed. Robert A. Scalapino (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1972), p. 368.