LEADER 02186oam 2200469 450 001 9910784473303321 005 20170523091551.0 010 $a1-315-49739-5 010 $a1-315-49740-9 010 $a1-315-49741-7 010 $a1-280-91286-3 010 $a9786610912865 010 $a0-7656-2218-1 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315497419 035 $a(OCoLC)527355677 035 $a(MiFhGG)GVRL1XIM 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000348424 100 $a20060509d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun|---uuuua 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChinese politics in the Hu Jintao era $enew leaders, new challenges /$fby Willy Wo-Lap Lam 210 1$aArmonk, N.Y. :$cM.E. Sharpe,$d2006. 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 359 pages) 225 0 $aGale eBooks 300 $a"An East Gate Book." 311 $a0-7656-1774-9 311 $a0-7656-1773-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 291-343) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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? 330 $aPresents 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. 607 $aChina$xPolitics and government$y2002- 676 $a951.06092 700 $aLam$b Willy Wo-Lap.$0299654 801 0$bMiFhGG 801 1$bMiFhGG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784473303321 996 $aChinese politics in the Hu Jintao Era$9729861 997 $aUNINA