China’s Changing of the Guard: The Rise of the Technocrats

Issue Date January 2003
Volume 14
Issue 1
Page Numbers 60-65
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With both reformists and leftists pushed aside, political center-stage now belongs to new pragmatists both inside and outside the Communist Party.

About the Author

Gongqin Xiao is professor of history at the Shanghai Normal University. He is the author of Good-bye to Political Romanticism (2001), Collected Works of Gongqin Xiao (1995), and The Dilemma of Confucian Culture (1986). He has published several influential articles on Chinese politics in Strategy and Management, China’s leading policy journal.

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