The Changing Face of China’s Local Elite: Elite Advantage and Path Dependence in Business Communities

Central control and local governance: the political economy of change since 1949

“…Most were now not just graduates of high school, but many had university degrees and a substantial proportion had returned to college and university for higher degrees (Nee and Opper 2012: 36). Education aside, an examination of their social backgrounds indicates not simply a strong correlation with past Party-state affiliations, but entrenched family positions in the local elite (Goodman 2018).…”