Chinese Politics in the Hu Jintao Era: New Leaders, New Challenges: New Leaders, New Challenges (East Gate Books) - Hardcover

Lam, Willy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0765617730 ISBN 13: 9780765617736

Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Lam is an authority on China and is a journalist, author and researcher with more than 20 years experience. He is a graduate of The University of Hong Kong and the University of Minnesota.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0765617730
• ISBN 13: 9780765617736
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 376