Chinese politics in the Hu Jintao era new leaders, new challenges / [electronic resource] :
by Willy Wo-Lp Lam.
- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2006.
- xvi, 359 p. ; 24 cm.
"An East Gate book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-343) and index.
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?
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