China under Hu Jintao [[electronic resource] ] : opportunities, dangers, and dilemmas / / edited by Tun-Jen Cheng, Jacques deLisle, Deborah Brown

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783921303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Singapore ; ; Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2006
• ISBN: 1-281-88126-0; 9786611881269; 981-270-110-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (431 p.)
• Collana: Series on contemporary China ; ; vol. 2
• Altri autori (Persone): ChengTun-jen; deLisleJacques <1961->; BrownDeborah
• Disciplina: 951.06
• Soggetti: China Politics and government 2002-; China Economic policy 2000-; China Foreign relations 1976-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; China under Hu Jintao: Introduction Tun-jen Cheng, Jacques deLisle, and Deborah Brown; THE PARTY-STATE; DOMESTIC CONTEXTS; EXTERNAL FACTORS; Part I; 1. Political Succession: Changing Guards and Changing Rules Joseph Fewsmith; 2. Is the Chinese State Apparatus Being Revamped? Yanzhong Huang; 3. Who Does the Party Represent?: From "Three Revolutionary Classes" to "Three Represents" Bruce J. Dickson; Part II; 4. Jiang Zemin's Successors and China's Growing Rich-Poor Gap Edward Friedman; 5. Information Technology in China: A Double-Edged Sword Tun-jen Cheng; 6. The Future of SOEs: From Shortage Economics to "Enron-omics"? Xiaobo Hu7. The Evolution of Elections in China Amy E. Gadsden; 8. What Does Buyun Township Mean in the Context of China's Political Reform? Yawei Liu; Part III; 9. China and the WTO: Evolving Agendas of Economic Openness, Domestic Reform, and International Status, and Challenges of the Post-Accession Era Jacques deLisle; 10. China's Accession into the WTO and China's Financial Markets K. Thomas Liaw; ; 11. China-ASEAN Relations: The Significance of an ASEAN-China Free Trade Area Alice D. Ba; 12. New Leadership Team, New Approaches toward Taiwan? Chih-cheng Lo13. China's Relations with the United States and Japan: Status and Outlook Robert Sutter; Contributing Authors; Alice D. Ba; Deborah Brown; Tun-jen Cheng; Jacques deLisle; Bruce J. Dickson; Joseph Fewsmith; Edward Friedman; Amy E. Gadsden; Xiaobo Hu; Yanzhong Huang; K. Thomas Liaw; Yawei Liu; Chih-cheng Lo; Robert Sutter; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The fourth generation of leaders of the People's Republic of China, while benefiting from the prestige of China's entry into the World Trade Organization and the honor of hosting the 2008 Olympic Games, also needs to contemplate the sobering side-effects of a rapid and internationally-interdependent economy and a troubled and only partly reformed political system. This important book approaches the study of the PRC under Hu Jintao in a two-fold manner: by examining the new political parameters within which the party-state functions and by analyzing the prominent issues - at home and abroad - t