How China's Leaders Think: The Inside Story of China's Reform and What This Means for the Future

by Robert Lawrence Kuhn

• ISBN13: 9780470825884
• ISBN10: 047082588X
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-11-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

China impacts everyonean economic superpower competing in every arena of human endeavor. Here are those who run China, its current and future leaders. Here's how China's leaders think about China's growing global strengthin trade, business and finance; in diplomacy, defense and security; in science, technology and innovation; in culture, media and sportsand what this all means for the future of the world. Here also are China's leaders in economics, private business, state-owned enterprises, banking, foreign affairs, military, healthcare, religion, film, television, press, Internet, literature, ideology, and more.Robert Lawrence Kuhn speaks with over 100 Chinese leaders and has inner access to Communist Party officials and material. He focuses on President Hu Jintao's philosophies and policies, and looks to the next generation of China's leaders. Who are China's future leaders? What are they doing today? What's their way of thinking about China's place in the world? What about prospects for democracy and political reform? Is there a road map for political reform?What about the so-called "China Threat?" Or the emerging "China Model?" Kuhn confronts China's leaders with China's problems: economic imbalances (rural vs. urban), pollution, unsustainable development, migrant workers, human rights, democracy, rule of law, corruption, minorities, ethnic conflicts, censorship, social instability, ideological shakeup, shifting moral and family values, religious repression, death penalty, organs from executed prisoners, global conflicts, resource competition, and the worldwide financial crisis. The best way to know Chinathe best way to do business with Chinais to know what motivates China's leaders and what drives their policies. This book is an intimate, candid portrayal of how China's leaders think. Readers will never get closer to China's leaders than this.

Table of Contents

About the Author

Acknowledgments

Overview: How China's Leaders Think

Guiding Principles

Pride

Stability

Responsibility

Vision

Thinking Reform

Subjugation, Humiliation, Oppression

Reform's Epic Struggle

Tiananmen and Thereafter

What's a "Socialist Market Economy?"

How Communism Adopted Capital and Ownership

The Hidden Power of Jiang Zemin's &"Three Represents"

The Driving Relevance of Hu Jintao's "Scientific Perspective on Development"

Snapshots of Economic Reform

The Countryside is Core

Rebalancing Imbalances

How Reform Permeates All Society

Here Come the Lawyers

Facing Up to Corruption

Values and the New Social Contract

Doing Reform

Provincial Pictures of Reform

Regional Dragonheads: Pudong (Shanghai) and Binhai (Tianjin)

What to Do with State-Owned Enterprises?

The Private Business Revolution

Banking Reform: The Largest Assets and Greatest Risks

Reforming Science & Technology with Sparks & Torches

Education: When Reform and Tradition Clash

Healthcare and Medical Reform: One Doctor's Story

Media and Publishing Reform: Hidden in Plain Sight

How Telecommunications and the Internet Changed China

Diversity of Culture; Question of Censorship

How China's Leaders Love Film

Why Religion Became Important

Foreign Policy Breaks Free

What does Military Reform Mean?

Telling China's Story to the World

Reform's Future

China's Future Senior Leaders

China's New Kind of Leaders

China's Economic Future: How Far Can It Go?

Guangdong Visions

China's Political Future: Is Reform Real?

China Threat or China?

China Reflections and Visions

Index

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