| Abstract: | Until 1962 the Chinese communist policies of class conflict had been directed at the remnants of China's precommunist class structure. After 1962 the Maoist oligarchy had to concern itself not only with the continuing influence of the ‘bourgeois ideas’ of the old China, but with new patterns of social stratification which had been created by the communist regime. Despite the efforts of Mao Tse-tung, the party and the government cadres have increasingly become an elite set apart from the population. The purpose of this article will be to briefly examine this phenomenum and its impact on Chinese politics. |
