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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Shih, Victor C.
Titre(s) : Coalitions of the weak [Texte imprimé] : elite politics in China from Mao's stratagem to the rise of Xi / Victor Shih, University of California, San Diego
Publication : Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2022
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XV-232 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Cambridge studies in comparative politics
Lien à la collection : Cambridge studies in comparative politics
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 201-232
"In mid-1975, a sickly Mao had one of the last meetings with the Politburo. During
the meeting, Mao shook hands with the entire Politburo, probably for the last time
in his life. When he greeted alternate Politburo member and Vice Premier Wu Guixian,
Mao confessed "I don't know who you are." An embarrassed Wu said "Chairman, we met
in 1964 during the national day parade." Mao compounded her embarrassment by responding
"I didn't know that" (Mao 1975). It was both surprising and expected that Mao had
failed to recognize Wu. On the one hand, Wu's elevation into the Politburo and into
the vice premier position had been recommended by Mao himself at the 10th Party Congress
less than two years before Mao shook her hand (Teiwes and Sun 2007: 101). It was therefore
astonishing that Mao failed to remember the name of his hand-picked political rising
star. On the other hand, Wu was far from a revolutionary veteran with whom Mao had
worked for decades like Deng Xiaoping or Ye Jianying. Mao greeted those two warmly
at the meeting by calling them by their nicknames, "Xiaoping" for Deng and "Old Marshal"
for Ye (Mao 1975). In contrast, Wu had only joined the party in 1958 and had been
nothing more than a model worker until the beginning of the Cultural Revolution (Huang
2007). With the formation of the revolutionary committees at every level of governments
starting in 1967, Wu found her career enjoying a rocket-like rise toward the center
of power. Still, among the millions of model workers who had benefited from a class-based
promotion system instituted during the Cultural Revolution, Wu's elevation to the
Politburo was striking"
Sujet(s) : Mao, Ze dong (1893-1976)
Leadership politique -- Chine
Politique et gouvernement -- Chine -- 1949-....
Indice(s) Dewey :
324.220 951 (23e éd.) = Leadership (partis politiques) - Chine
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781316516959. - ISBN 1316516954. - ISBN 9781009016513. - ISBN 1009016512. -
ISBN 9781009022859 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47046715p
Notice n° :
FRBNF47046715
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction ; Coalition of the Strong: Mao's Predicament After the Great Leap Forward
; "Counterrevolutionary Splittists" in Mao's Ruling Coalition ; The Scribblers Mafia:
Radical Ideologues in Mao's Coalition ; Realizing the Coalition of the Weak: Politics
in the Late Mao Period ; The Collapse of the Coalition of the Weak and Power Sharing
in the 1980s ; Weak Successors: The Final Calculus of the Founding Generation and
the Rise of Xi Jinping ; Conclusion.
