Synopses & Reviews
This volume presents a concise history of how China's Communist Party (CCP) selected a new generation of leaders in late 2002 and why the individuals, in their late 40s and 50s, were so well qualified to govern China. Addressed to the expert or ordinary reader, the essays see China's leaders as challenged by a new trend whereby the losers in society are catching up with the winners of the recent economic and political reforms. The leaders of the largest, single ruling party and state authority in the world must somehow reverse that trend if China is to survive as one nation. This volume explains they are doing that by reconfiguring their huge command economy, promoting a market economy, and undertaking gradual political reforms. It is unflinching in its discussion of how China's leaders face mounting political corruption, spreading unemployment, growing disparity of wealth and income, and a crisis of belief.
Synopsis
This volume considers how Chinaâs Communist Party selected a new generation of leaders in late 2002 and why they were so well qualified to govern China. In order to maintain the position of a regional and world power this essays explain how Chinaâs leaders are reconfiguring their huge command economy, promoting a market economy, and undertaking gradual political reforms. The volume is unflinching in its discussion of how Chinaâs leaders face mounting political corruption, spreading unemployment, growing disparity of wealth and income, and a crisis of belief.
Synopsis
Examines the selection of new Communist Party leaders in China.
About the Author
Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica and Professor of Political Science at the National Taiwan University.Associate Professor of Political Science at Soochow University and Executive Director of at the Insitute for National Policy Research.Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and also curator of the East Asian archives.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The 16th Party Congress: New Leaders, New China Yun-han Chu, Chih-cheng Lo, and Ramon H. Myers; Leadership Change and Chinese Political Development Lowell Dittmer; The New Generation of Leadership and the Direction of Political Reform after the 16th Party Congress Suisheng Zhao; Jiang and After: Technocratic Rule, Generational Replacement and Mentor Politics Yu-Shan Wu; The Changing of the Guard: Chinaâs New Military Leadership David Shambaugh; Social Change and Political Reform in China: Meeting the Challenge of Success John W. Lewis and Xue Litai; State and Society in Urban China in the Wake of the 16th Party Congress Dorothy J. Solinger; Old Problems for New Leaders: Institutional Disjunctions in Rural China Jean C. Or; The International Strategy of Chinaâs New Leaders Gerrit W. Gong; US-China Relations in the Wake of the 16th Party Congress and Tenth National Peopleâs Congress Kenneth Lieberthal; Power Transition and the Making of Beijingâs Policy Towards Taiwan Yun-han Chu; Systematic Stresses and Political Choices: The Road Ahead Richard Baum.