Leaders of communist China
ResearchPublished 1956
ResearchPublished 1956
A 1956 analysis of the significant data available on the elite governed Mainland China and dominated its public life since 1949. Part I attempts to explain the nature and exercise of power and the role of leadership in Communist China. Part II deals with individual members of the elite and the types of careers they have had.
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