How China's Leaders Think The Inside Story of China's Past, Current and Future Leaders

by Kuhn, Robert Lawrence

• ISBN13: 9781118085905
• ISBN10: 1118085906
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-15
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

China will soon undergo a complete change of senior leaders, and How China#x19;s Leaders Think presents this new generation of leaders, their backgrounds and ideas, including exclusive conversations with Xi Jinping, who is likely to become China#x19;s next senior leader as general secretary of the Communist Party and president of the country. Thirty years of reform and opening up have transformed China from national destitution to an economic superpower involved with every major foreign affairs issue. This astonishing transformation, which generated growth rates that averaged almost 10 percent per year for three decades, has naturally engendered concomitant challenges and contradictions.#xA0; This book is the story of those 30 years of reform as a way of understanding China#x19;s current and future role on the world stage. Based on personal interviews with members of China#x19;s ruling party as well as just-declassified Party material, this unique book has the personal commitment of China#x19;s senior leaders, the next generation of leaders as well as the current generation. It is an exclusive and detailed insider#x19;s account from China#x19;s most senior ministers on the current and future state of media, culture, press and publications, film, internet, religion, science and technology, healthcare (including sensitive transplants), rural problems in addition to the economic, financial, banking sectors.#xA0; Featured are the political ideas and development of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao. How China#x19;s Leaders Think is an exploration of the present and a forecast of the future.#xA0; As the book#x19;s title unambiguously declares, China#x19;s leaders are its focus, particularly China#x19;s current and future leaders, examining how they think as well as what they say and do.

Author Biography

Dr. Robert Lawrence Kuhn is an international corporate strategist, investment banker, and public intellectual. For over 20 years he has worked with China’s senior leaders and advised the Chinese government. Dr. Kuhn also advises multinational companies on formulating and implementing China strategies, and Chinese companies in capital markets financings.

The author or editor of over 25 books, Dr. Kuhn is often in the media (e.g., CNBC, Euronews, BBC, BusinessWeek, Xinhua News Agency), discussing China’s politics and economy and the philosophies and policies of its senior leaders. He is senior international affairs commentator on Euronews, the leading television news network in Europe, and senior international commentator of China Central Television (CCTV News).

Dr. Kuhn works with China’s leaders on special projects. He is the author of The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin—the first biography of a living Chinese leader published in China and China’s best-selling book of 2005. He is the author of two event-marking books: China 30 Years: A Great Transformation Of Society, which commemorates China’s 30^th anniversary of reform and opening up and features President Hu Jintao; and How China’s Leaders Think (the first edition of this book), which commemorates China’s 60^th anniversary and focuses on China’s new (“Fifth”) generation of leaders. Dr. Kuhn has visited more than 40 cities in over 20 provinces and regions in China. He is senior advisor to CCTV and Xinhua.

Dr. Kuhn is chairman of The Kuhn Foundation, which produces Closer To Truth, the public television / PBS series on science and philosophy (which Dr. Kuhn hosts)—www.closertotruth.com. He has an A.B. in human biology (John Hopkins), a Ph.D. in anatomy / brain research (UCLA) and an S.M. in management (MIT).

Table of Contents

About the Author	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Overview: How China's Leaders Think	p. xiii
Guiding Principles	p. 1
Pride	p. 3
Stability	p. 14
Responsibility	p. 19
Vision	p. 27
Thinking Reform	p. 35
Subjugation, Humiliation, Oppression	p. 37
Reform's Epic Struggle	p. 51
Tiananmen and Thereafter	p. 66
What's a "Socialist Market Economy?"	p. 73
How Communism Adopted Capital and Ownership	p. 93
The Hidden Power of Jiang Zemin's "Three Represents"	p. 105
The Driving Relevance of Hu Jintao's "Scientific Perspective on Development"	p. 120
Snapshots of Economic Reform	p. 131
The Countryside is Core	p. 143
Rebalancing Imbalances	p. 152
How Reform Permeates All Society	p. 161
Here Come the Lawyers	p. 172
Facing Up to Corruption	p. 180
Values and the New Social Contract	p. 187
Doing Reform	p. 201
Provincial Pictures of Reform	p. 203
Regional Dragonheads: Pudong (Shanghai) and Binhai (Tianjin)	p. 216
What to Do with State-Owned Enterprises?	p. 225
The Private Business Revolution	p. 244
Banking Reform: The Largest Assets and Greatest Risks	p. 253
Reforming Science & Technology with Sparks & Torches	p. 266
Education: When Reform and Tradition Clash	p. 276
Healthcare and Medical Reform: One Doctor's Story	p. 281
Media and Publishing Reform: Hidden in Plain Sight	p. 290
How Telecommunications and the Internet Changed China	p. 308
Diversity of Culture; Question of Censorship	p. 320
How China's Leaders Love Film	p. 331
Why Religion Became Important	p. 344
Foreign Policy Breaks Free	p. 361
What does Military Reform Mean?	p. 379
Telling China's Story to the World	p. 391
Reform's Future	p. 405
China's Future Senior Leaders	p. 407
China's New Kind of Leaders	p. 426
China's Economic Future: How Far Can It Go?	p. 447
Guangdong Visions	p. 459
China's Political Future: Is Reform Real?	p. 473
China Threat or China Model?	p. 491
China Reflections and Visions	p. 507
Index	p. 521
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