The Making of a Premier: Zhao Ziyang's Provincial Career

by David Shambaugh

Book Overview

How did Zhao Ziyang rise through the provincial apparatus of the Chinese Communist Party to become premier in 1980? How did he develop the policies of economic reform in the provinces that have now become national policy? What does Zhao Ziyang's professional development indicate about upward elite mobility in the Chinese political system? These are the central questions the author addresses in this political biography, tracing Zhao Ziyang's career...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367309122
• ISBN13: 9780367309121
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 157 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 9.4"