From Revolutionary Cadres to Party Technocrats in Socialist China

"This volume, along with Hong Yung Lee's earlier work, The Politics of the Chinese Cultural Revolution , will be judged by many in the field to be among the best books in English on Chinese communist politics. There are other books with a broader brush that are quite good, but in terms of political science and Chinese studies placed genuinely in comparative politics, I believe Lee's are superior. And he is a master at analyzing the language of Chinese communism."--Chalmers Johnson, Rohr Professor of Pacific International Relations, University of California, San Diego