DOYON, Jérôme. 2023. Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press

In the landscape of China’s mass organisations, the Communist Youth League (CYL, Zhongguo gongchan zhuyi qingnian tuan 中國共產主義青年團) deserves special attention. Conceived as a means of connecting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to young people aged 14-28 (14-25 before 1982) and involving them in organised political activity, the CYL has traditionally provided the institutional basis for the political socialisation and mobilisation of young people in support of CCP policies, monopolising what ...