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Book SynopsisWorking for the administration remains one of the most coveted career paths for young Chinese. This book seeks to understand what motivates young and educated Chinese to commit to a long-term career in the party-state and how this question is central to the Chinese regime’s ability to maintain its cohesion and survive.
Trade Review"Doyon has produced a first-rate study that not only offers a persuasive conceptual framework on how the Party renews itself through a complex system of youth recruitment and retention, but also raises thought-provoking questions on some of the key contentious issues in Chinese elite politics." —
The China QuarterlyTable of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Overview of the Argument
- Political Youth Organizations in Contemporary China
- Seeing like a Young Cadre
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- Chapter 2: Becoming a Student Cadre
- Student cadres at the center of the student-management apparatus
- Commitment is rewarded
- Chapter 3: Student Leaders as a Rogue Minority
- Student leaders’ narrowing social circles
- Cultivating their Party Spirit
- The “bureaucratization” of student cadres
- Chapter 4: Sponsorship Networks in Elite Universities
- Clientelism at Peking University
- Chains of sponsorship ties in elite universities
- An elite within the elite: the political career of student leaders from Peking University and Tsinghua University
- Chapter 5: Starting a Political Career on Campus
- The Counselor System
- Counselors as officials in training
- Starting a political career outside the university
- Chapter 6: Youth League Officials as Future Party-state Leaders
- The perfect reserve cadres
- Cultivating a role as leaders-to-be
- Chapter 7: Towards a Diffuse Allegiance to the Party-State
- Each posting entails diverse personal ties
- Turnover and the multiplication of personal networks
- Conclusion: Commitment and Allegiance
- Appendix
- Bibliography
