"Lu Ning, former assistant to a vice-foreign minister of China, draws on archival materials, interviews, and personal experiences, to provide unique insights into the key players in, and the formal and"

Lu Ning, formerly a Chinese career foreign service officer, is a correspondent for The Business Times in Singapore.

List of Acronyms

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction: An Emerging Giant?

1

(4)

Notes

5

(2)

The Foreign Affairs Structure

7

(18)

An Overview of the Political Power Structure

7

(1)

The Foreign-Policy Decisionmaking Structure

8

(11)

Decisionmaking Methodology

19

(1)

Notes

20

(5)

The Organization and Processes of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

25

(20)

The Anatomy of a Bureaucracy: The MFA

25

(13)

Policy Initiation, Coordination, and Subversion

38

(2)

Notes

40

(5)

The History and Political Culture of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

45

(38)

History of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cadres' Corps

45

(14)

The Political Culture

59

(12)

Notes

71

(12)

Main Actors: The Central Leadership

83

(32)

The Mao Era

84

(10)

The Deng Era

94

(8)

Conclusion

102

(1)

Notes

102

(13)

Main Actors: Institutions and Individuals

115

(46)

Foreign Affairs Institutions

115

(31)

Individual Bureaucrats and Researchers

146

(7)

Notes

153

(8)

Changing Dynamics in Foreign-Policy Decisionmaking

161

(22)

Foreign-Policy Decisionmaking in the Era of Mao

161

(6)

Foreign-Policy Decisionmaking in the Deng Era

167

(11)

Notes

178

(5)

Western Theories and Chines Practices

183

(14)

The Classical School

183

(4)

The Institutional School

187

(1)

Theory and Practice: A Summary

188

(5)

Notes

193

(4)

Appendix I: Foreign-Policy Decisionmaking Structure

197

(2)

Appendix II: The Foreign Affairs Office of the State Council

199

(2)

Appendix III: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs

201

(2)

Appendix IV: The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC)

203

(4)

Appendix V: The Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council (HMAO)

207

(2)

Appendix VI: The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council (TAO)

209

(2)

Appendix VII: The Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council (OCAO)

211

(4)

Appendix VIII: Xinhua News Agency

215

(2)

Bibliography

217

(6)

Index

223

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