The New Chinese Leadership: Challenges and Opportunities after the 16th Party Congress

by Edited by Yun-han Chu , Chih-cheng Lo , Ramon H. Myers

• ISBN13: 9780521600583
• ISBN10: 0521600588
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-05
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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. These leaders are trying to lead China to become a regional and world power in which their people can enjoy a modest living standard and take pride in the nation's achievements. Addressed to the expert or ordinary reader, these essays see China's leaders as challenged by a new trend, visible only in the last decade, of a widening gap between the losers in society and 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.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	vii
The 16th Party Congress: New Leaders, New China
YUN-HAN CHU, CHIN-CHENG LO AND RAMON H. MYERS	1	(9)
Leadership Change and Chinese Political Development
LOWELL DITTMER	10	(23)
The New Generation of Leadership and the Direction of Political Reform after the 16th Party Congress
SUISHENG ZHAO	33	(36)
Jiang and After: Technocratic Rule, Generational Replacement and Mentor Politics
YU-SHAN WU	69	(20)
The Changing of the Guard: China's New Military Leadership
DAVID SHAMBAUGH	89	(18)
Social Change and Political Reform in China: Meeting the Challenge of Success
JOHN W. LEWIS AND XUE LITAI	107	(17)
State and Society in Urban China in the Wake of the 16th Party Congress
DOROTHY J. SOLINGER	124	(17)
Old Problems for New Leaders: Institutional Disjunctions in Rural China
JEAN C. OI	141	(15)
The International Strategy of China's New Leaders
GERRIT W. GONG	156	(24)
US-China Relations in the Wake of the 16th Party Congress and Tenth National People's Congress
KENNETH LIEBERTHAL	180	(18)
Power Transition and the Making of Beijing's Policy towards Taiwan
YUN-HAN CHU	198	(21)
Systemic Stresses and Political Choices: The Road Ahead
RICHARD BAUM	219	(20)
Glossary of Chinese Terms	239	(8)
Index	247