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Chinese Politics in the Hu Jintao Era: New Leaders, New Challenges

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Chinese Politics in the Hu Jintao Era: New Leaders, New Challenges

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New Leaders, New Challenges

Chinese Politics in the Hu Jintao Era: New Leaders, New Challenges

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Chinese Politics in the Hu Jintao Era: New Leaders, New Challenges book

New Leaders, New Challenges
ByWilly Lam
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2006
eBook Published 21 June 2016
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315497419
Pages 376
eBook ISBN 9781315497419
Subjects Development Studies, Environment, Social Work, Urban Studies
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Lam, W. (2006). Chinese Politics in the Hu Jintao Era: New Leaders, New Challenges: New Leaders, New Challenges (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315497419

ABSTRACT

Drawing on hundreds of interviews with top Chinese officials, parliamentarians, scholars, and businessmen, Willy Lam, a renowned journalist and writer on Chinese affairs, presents a first-hand, multi-dimensional account of twenty-first century China and the impact of fourth generation leaders, including President Hu Jinato and Premier Wen Jiabao. Lam goes behind the glitzy facade of nouveau-riche Beijing and Shanghai to examine how the Hu leadership has tried to extend the Communist Party's "mandate of heaven" by tackling an array of daunting problems: the weakening legitimacy of the Party's leadership; restive peasants; angry workers; political stagnation over the lack of reform; foreign relations difficulties; unreliable energy supplies; resurgent nationalism; and the increasingly dubious "Chinese model" of development. The author assesses possible contributions that the new classes of private businessmen, professionals, and intellectuals - as well as new ideas such as nationalism, globalization, and federalism - will make to economic prosperity and political liberalization. The book also includes a chapter on foreign policy, which contains an insightful account of Beijing's evolving and sometimes difficult relations with the United States, Europe, Japan, and other major countries and blocs, as well as the role of the People's Liberation Army.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|31 pages

Introduction: The Rise of Hu Jintao and the Traits of the Fourth-Generation Leadership

chapter 2|29 pages

The Crisis of Legitimacy: Hu Jintao’s Search for a Perennial Mandate of Heaven

chapter 3|44 pages

The Communist Party vs. Peasants and Workers: Will

chapter 4|50 pages

The Scourge of Governmental Stagnation: The Price of Holding Up Political Reform

chapter 5|55 pages

The Fourth-Generation Leadership’s Ambitious Foreign-Policy Agenda

chapter 6|35 pages

The Challenge of Nationalism, and Other Ideas and Trends for the New Century

chapter 7|44 pages

Conclusion: Where Is the New Thinking?

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