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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784473303321

Autore

Lam Willy Wo-Lap

Titolo

Chinese politics in the Hu Jintao era : new leaders, new challenges / / by Willy Wo-Lap Lam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Armonk, N.Y. : , : M.E. Sharpe, , 2006

ISBN

1-315-49739-5

1-315-49740-9

1-315-49741-7

1-280-91286-3

9786610912865

0-7656-2218-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 359 pages)

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

951.06092

Soggetti

China Politics and government 2002-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"An East Gate Book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-343) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: the rise of Hu Jintao and the traits of the fourth-generation leadership -- The crisis of legitimacy: Hu Jintao's search for a perennial mandate of heaven -- The communist party vs. peasants and workers: will Hu Jintao's "new social contract" work? -- The scourge of governmental stagnation: the price of holding up political reform -- The fourth-generation leadership's ambitious foreign-policy agenda -- The challenge of nationalism and other ideas and trends for the new century -- Conclusion: where is the new thinking?

Sommario/riassunto

Presents a first-hand, multi-dimensional account of twenty-first century China and the impact of fourth generation leaders, including President Hu Jinato and Premier Wen Jiabao. This book examines how the Hu leadership has tried to extend the Communist Party's ''mandate of heaven'' by tackling an array of daunting problems.