02889oam 2200469 450 991055449330332120231110224523.090-485-4264-210.1515/9789048542642(CKB)4100000011746288(OCoLC)1236268025(MdBmJHUP)muse96873(MiAaPQ)EBC6467763(DE-B1597)574726(DE-B1597)9789048542642(EXLCZ)99410000001174628820210623d2021 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Chinese communist youth league juniority and responsiveness in a party youth organization /by Konstantinos TsimonisAmsterdam :Amsterdam University Pres,[2021]©20211 online resource (1 online resource 321 p..)China: from Revolution to Reform Description based upon print version of record.Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 ‘Juniority’ and the generational subordination of party youth organizations -- 3 The League on Campus -- 4 The League in the workplace -- 5 Training youth cadres -- 6 In Search of Responsiveness -- Conclusion: From Hu to Xi -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- IndexIn 2003, President Hu Jintao instructed Communist Youth League cadres to 'keep the Party assured and the Youth satisfied'. This laconic recognition that winning the support of Chinese youth requires a more responsive engagement with their interests and demands, provided the League with a new youth work mandate to increase its capacity for responsiveness. This original investigation uses a combination of interviews, surveys and ethnography to examine the often contradictory and self-defeating ways the League implemented this mandate locally and nationally. By doing so, it also sheds light on Xi Jinping's decision to downgrade it politically and organizationally in 2016. This book introduces a previously unexplored organization and develops 'juniority' as a conceptual tool that captures the ways generational power is institutionalized and fuels youth political apathy. For this reason, apart from China scholars, this study will be of particular interest to those working on comparative youth politics and sociology.YouthChinaChina, Youth, Communist Youth League, Authoritarianism, Mass Organizations.Youth305.2350951Tsimonis Konstantinos1217512MiAaPQMiAaPQUtOrBLWBOOK9910554493303321The Chinese communist youth league2815697UNINA