How China's Leaders Think: The Inside Story of China's Reform and What This Means for the FutureA fascinating look at China now and in the years to come, through the eyes of those at the helm As China continues its rapid ascent, attention is turning to its leaders, who they are, and how they view the country's incredible transformation over the last thirty years. In "How China's Leaders Think: The Inside Story of China's Past, Current and Future Leaders, Revised," bestselling author Lawrence Kuhn goes directly to the source, talking with members of China's ruling party and examining recently declassified Party material to provide readers with an intimate look at China's leaders and leadership structure, visionary principles, and convulsive past, and tracing the nation's reform efforts. Focusing on President Hu Jintao's philosophies and policies, the book looks to the next generation of China's leaders to ask the questions on everyone's lips. Who are China's future leaders? How do they view China's place in the world? Confronting China's leaders head on, Kuhn asks about the county's many problem, from economic imbalances to unsustainable development, to find out if there's a road map for change. Presenting the thoughts of key Chinese leaders on everything from media, military, banking, and healthcare to film, the Internet, science and technology, and much more, the book paints an intimate, candid portrayal of how China's leaders really think. Presents a fascinating insight into how China's leaders think about their country and where it's headed Asks the tough questions about China's need for reform Pulls together information from over 100 personal interviews as well as recently declassified Party documents Taking readers closer to Party officials than ever before, "How China's Leaders Think" documents China's thirty-year struggle toward economic and social reform, and what's to come. |
Contents
Pride | |
Stability | |
Responsibility | |
Vision | |
Thinking Reform | |
Subjugation Humiliation Oppression | |
Reforms Epic Struggle | |
What to Do with StateOwned Enterprises? | |
The Private Business Revolution | |
Banking Reform The Largest Assets and Greatest Risks | |
Reforming Science Technology with Sparks Torches | |
Education When Reform and Tradition Clash | |
Healthcare and Medical Reform One Doctors Story | |
Media and Publishing Reform Hidden in Plain Sight | |
How Telecommunications and the Internet Changed China | |
Tiananmen and Thereafter | |
Whats a Socialist Market Economy? | |
How Communism Adopted Capital and Ownership | |
The Hidden Power ofJiang Zemins Three Represents Chapter 11 The Driving Relevance of Hu Jintaos Scientific Perspective on Development | |
Snapshots of Economic Reform | |
The Countryside is Core | |
Rebalancing Imbalances | |
How Reform Permeates All Society | |
Here Come the Lawyers | |
Facing Up to Corruption | |
Values and the New Social Contract | |
Doing Reform | |
Provincial Pictures of Reform | |
Regional Dragonheads Pudong Shanghai and Binhai Tianjin | |
Diversity of Culture Question of Censorship | |
How Chinas Leaders Love Film | |
Why Religion Became Important | |
Foreign Policy Breaks Free | |
What does Military Reform Mean? | |
Telling Chinas Story to the World | |
Reforms Future | |
Chinas Future Senior Leaders | |
Chinas New Kind of Leaders | |
Chinas Economic Future How Far Can It | |
Guangdong Visions | |
Chinas Political Future Is Reform Real? | |
China Threat or China Model? | |
China Reflections and Visions | |
Other editions - View all
How China's Leaders Think: The Inside Story of China's Reform and What This ... Robert Lawrence Kuhn No preview available - 2009 |
How China's Leaders Think: The Inside Story of China's Past, Current and ... Robert Lawrence Kuhn No preview available - 2011 |