Coalitions of the weak (Record no. 10574)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 978-1009016513
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 324.22SHI
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Shih, Victor C.
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Coalitions of the weak
Remainder of title elite politics in China from Mao's stratagem to the rise of Xi
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Cambridge University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2022
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xiii,219
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General note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary, etc. 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"
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976.
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