China’s Rise: Role of Two Defining Generations

• Main Author: Han, Fook Kwang
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: East Asia and Asia Pacific; International Political Economy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88466; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44630
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The Long March generation of revolutionary leaders is widely acknowledged as the founding heroes of modern China. But there is another generation ̶ the Cultural Revolution survivors ̶ whose experience during that tumultuous period shaped them in a similar way and who are now leading the country.