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Informationen zum Autor Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of Political Science! Academia Sinica and Professor of Political Science at the National Taiwan University. Associate Professor of Political Science at Soochow University and Executive Director of at the Insitute for National Policy Research. Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and also curator of the East Asian archives. Klappentext These essays reveal how China's Communist Party selected a new generation of leaders in late 2002 to maintain the position of a regional and world power. They explain how China's leaders are promoting a market economy and undertaking gradual political reforms and note the problems they are having in handling mounting political corruption! spreading unemployment! growing disparity of wealth and income! and a crisis of belief. Zusammenfassung China's Communist Party selected a new generation of leaders in late 2002. This volume explains how! in order to maintain its position as a regional and world power! China's leaders are reconfiguring its huge command economy! promoting a market economy! and undertaking gradual political reforms. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The 16th Party Congress: New Leaders, New China Yun-han Chu, Chih-cheng Lo, and Ramon H. Myers; Leadership Change and Chinese Political Development Lowell Dittmer; The New Generation of Leadership and the Direction of Political Reform after the 16th Party Congress Suisheng Zhao; Jiang and After: Technocratic Rule, Generational Replacement and Mentor Politics Yu-Shan Wu; The Changing of the Guard: China's New Military Leadership David Shambaugh; Social Change and Political Reform in China: Meeting the Challenge of Success John W. Lewis and Xue Litai; State and Society in Urban China in the Wake of the 16th Party Congress Dorothy J. Solinger; Old Problems for New Leaders: Institutional Disjunctions in Rural China Jean C. Or; The International Strategy of China's New Leaders Gerrit W. Gong; US-China Relations in the Wake of the 16th Party Congress and Tenth National People's Congress Kenneth Lieberthal; Power Transition and the Making of Beijing's Policy Towards Taiwan Yun-han Chu; Systematic Stresses and Political Choices: The Road Ahead Richard Baum....
