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

Examines the selection of new Communist Party leaders in China.

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

9780521600583, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 18 March 2004

264 pages
24 x 15.7 x 1.8 cm, 0.435 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: International relations [JPS], Politics & government [JP], 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], General & world history [HBG]