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

Examines the selection of new Communist Party leaders in China.This volume considers how China's Communist Party selected a new generation of leaders in late 2002 and why they were so well qualified to govern China. In order to maintain the position of a regional and world power this essays e xplain how China's leaders are reconfiguring their huge command economy, promoting a market economy, and undertaking gradual political reforms. The volume 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.This volume considers how China's Communist Party selected a new generation of leaders in late 2002 and why they were so well qualified to govern China. In order to maintain the position of a regional and world power this essays e xplain how China's leaders are reconfiguring their huge command economy, promoting a market economy, and undertaking gradual political reforms. The volume 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.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.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-Sl£w