Table of Contents

Introduction: The 16th Party Congress: New Leaders, New China Yun-han Chu, Chih-cheng Lo, and Ramon H. Myers; Leadership Change and Chinese Political Development Lowell Dittmer; The New Generation of Leadership and the Direction of Political Reform after the 16th Party Congress Suisheng Zhao; Jiang and After: Technocratic Rule, Generational Replacement and Mentor Politics Yu-Shan Wu; The Changing of the Guard: China's New Military Leadership David Shambaugh; Social Change and Political Reform in China: Meeting the Challenge of Success John W. Lewis and Xue Litai; State and Society in Urban China in the Wake of the 16th Party Congress Dorothy J. Solinger; Old Problems for New Leaders: Institutional Disjunctions in Rural China Jean C. Or; The International Strategy of China's New Leaders Gerrit W. Gong; US-China Relations in the Wake of the 16th Party Congress and Tenth National People's Congress Kenneth Lieberthal; Power Transition and the Making of Beijing's Policy Towards Taiwan Yun-han Chu; Systematic Stresses and Political Choices: The Road Ahead Richard Baum.

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Examines the selection of new Communist Party leaders in China.

About the Author

Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica and Professor of Political Science at the National Taiwan University. Associate Professor of Political Science at Soochow University and Executive Director of at the Insitute for National Policy Research. Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and also curator of the East Asian archives.