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Modernisation and the Maoist Vision—Some Reflections on Chinese Communist Goals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Benjamin Schwartz
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What can be said at this point about the broad goals and motivations of the present Chinese Communist leadership? The question is, of course, distressingly imprecise and begs further definition. Is the leadership a monolithic group? Have its goals remained constant and unchanging? Is there a rigid Chinese Communist “goal structure,” etc.?

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The China Quarterly , Volume 21 , March 1965 , pp. 3 - 19
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1965

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