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| | The New York Review of Books: China's New Rulers: The Path to Power |
 | | He will be head of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, an assembly intended to show the support the Chinese Communist Party receives from distinguished Chinese who are not Party members. |
 | | Zeng Qinghong, for his part, has accumulated great influence over the last five years as Jiang Zemin's chief of political staff, manager of his ideological campaigns, supervisor of the Party's high-level appointments and promotions, director of the all-knowing Party Central Office, and godfather of the clique of "princelings." His ambitions have no self-imposed limit. |
 | | Deng sponsored the "four transformations" program, which aimed to produce Communist leaders who, as he put it, were "revolutionary, younger, more knowledgeable, and more specialized." In the early 1980s this program enhanced the careers of all the men and women who have now been chosen for membership in the new Politburo. |
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