The Chinese Communist Youth League

Pub Date : 2021-02-11 DOI:10.2307/J.CTV1G13JMP

Konstantinos Tsimonis

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The Chinese Communist Youth League is the largest youth political organization in the world, with over 80 million members. Former Chinese President Hu Jintao was a firm supporter of the League, and believed that it could play a bigger role in winning the hearts and minds of Chinese youth by actively engaging with their interests and demands. Accordingly, he provided the League with a new youth work mandate to increase its capacity for responsiveness under the slogan 'keep the Party assured and the youth satisfied'. This original investigation of the hitherto-unexamined organization uses a combination of interviews, surveys and ethnography to explore how the League implemented Hu's mandate at both local and national levels, exposing the contradictory nature of some of its campaigns. By doing so, it also sheds light on the reasons for Xi Jinping's turn against the League during his first term in office. The Chinese Communist Youth League: Juniority and Responsiveness in a Party Youth Organization develops the original concept of 'juniority' to capture the complex ways that generational power is institutionalized, alienating young people from official political processes, with significant implications for China's political development. The book will be of interest to researchers and students of Chinese politics, as well as to scholars of comparative youth politics and sociology.

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中国共产主义青年团

中国共产主义青年团是世界上最大的青年政治组织，有党员8000多万。因此，他在“党放心，青年满意”的口号下，向联盟党提供了一项新的青年工作任务，以提高其响应能力。这份对迄今为止未经审查的组织的原始调查结合了访谈、调查和民族志，探讨了国联如何在地方和国家层面执行胡的任务，揭示了其一些运动的矛盾本质。《中国共产主义青年团:党团组织中的少壮性与响应性》提出了“少壮性”的原始概念，以捕捉代际权力制度化的复杂方式，使年轻人远离官方政治进程，对中国的政治发展具有重要意义。这本书对研究中国政治的研究人员和学生，以及比较青年政治和社会学的学者都很有兴趣。

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