Table of Contents

The Art of Governance: Managing Rising Expectations and Ensuring Leadership Renewal: Introduction (CHEN Gang); China's Fifth Generation Leadership: Characteristics and Policies (BO Zhiyue); Debating Political Reform: Societal Pressures and Party-State Responses (WU Guoguang); Intra-Party Democracy in Practice: Balloting for City Leaders in Jiangsu (ZHENG Yongnian and CHEN Gang); Township Government Reform: Improving Local Governance? (TAN Qingshan); Innovations in China's Local Governance: An Assessment (XIA Ming); The Impact of Market on the Grassroots Organisations of the Chinese Communist Party (Lance L P GORE); China Struggles to Maintain Stability: Strengthening its Public Security Apparatus (XIE Yue and SHAN Wei); How Secure is China's Food Security? (John WONG); China's "New Deal" in Xinjiang and its Challenges (SHAN Wei and WENG Cuifen); The Chinese Leadership and the Internet (LYE Liang Fook and Lily HONG); Women's Political Participation in China (YANG Lijun and GUO Xiajuan); Enhancing and Re-Orienting Governance to Promote Sustainable Development: Introduction (Sarah Y TONG); China Coming to the End of its High Growth (John WONG and HUANG Yanjie); China's Economy after Three Decades of Reforms: A System Approach (Wolfgang KLENNER); Evolving Industrial Policies in China: A Governing Tool for Development and Restructuring (Sarah Y TONG); China's Regional Development Policies (YU Hong); The 12th Five-Year Programme: A Turning Point in China's Socioeconomic Development (John WONG); China's Shadow Banking: A Call for Financial Reforms (YAO Jielu and YANG Mu); The Rise of the Renminbi as International Currency (YANG Mu and YAO Jielu); China's Local Government Debts: Thorny but Manageable (YAO Jielu); China's State-Owned Enterprises: The Dilemma of Reform (HUANG Yanjie); An Update on China's Sovereign Wealth Fund: China Investment Corporation (Catherine CHONG Siew Keng); China's Economy Remains Highly Export-Oriented (Sarah Y TONG); Rethinking the Success of China's High-Tech Exports (XING Yuqing); China's Research and Development (WU Yanrui); Are Chinese Small and Medium Enterprises Victims of Institutional Pitfalls? (CHEN Shaofeng); China: A Newly Mint Upper Middle Income Country (LU Ding); China's Labour Shortage and its Implications (HUANG Yanjie); Can China Continue to Reap its Demographic Dividend in Economic Growth? (YAN Hao); Social Transformation, Stability and Governance: Introduction (ZHAO Litao); Chinese Working Class and Trade Unions: Transformation and Predicament in the Reform Era (QI Dongtao); China's Middle Class: Still in the Making (YANG Jing); China's New Rich Posing a Challenge to Social Stability (SHENG Sixin); Non-Governmental Organisations in China: Developments and Challenges (XU Ying); Chengzhongcun in China (ZHONG Sheng); China's Hukou Reform: The Guangdong and Shanghai Cases (Courtney FU Rong); Reinventing China's Health System (QIAN Jiwei); Meeting the Ageing Challenge: China's Social Care Policy for the Elderly (ZHANG Yanxia); China's Way to Good Housing Governance (ZHOU Zhihua); China Attracting Global Top Talent: Central and Local Government Initiatives (ZHU Jinjing); China's Higher Education Reform: The Issue of Governance (ZHAO Litao); Improving Local Governance without Democratisation: Community Building in Shanghai (SHI Fayong); Rising Trend of Labour Strikes: Tables Turned for Chinese Workers? (YEW Chiew Ping); China's External Relations and Global Governance: Introduction (LYE Liang Fook); China - US Relations: Coping with a US Pivot to the Asia-Pacific Region (LYE Liang Fook); Sino - Japanese Relations: Dark and Bright Spots in an Ambivalent Relationship (LAM Peng Er); China and India: The World is Big Enough for Both (ZHAO Hong); China - South Korea Relations and Implications for China in Global Governance: Some Notes after 20 Years of Relations (CHOO Jaewoo); Comrades No More: Beijing's Evolving North Korea Policy (YUAN Jingdong); China - ASEAN Relationship: An "Offer-Response" Analysis (WANG Yuzhu); China and Singapore: An Asymmetrical but Substantive Relationship (LYE Liang Fook); China and the EU: Will China Come to the Rescue of Troubled Economies? (Kjeld Erik BRODSGAARD); China's Diplomacy in the Middle-East (CHEN Gang and Ryan CLARKE); Will the United States Desert Taiwan? (John F COPPER); Managing Cross-Strait Economic Relations (CHIANG Min-hua); China and the Rise of the BRICS (Anthony P SPANAKOS); China's Soft Power: Growth and Limits (LAI Hongyi); China's Efforts to Enhance its Energy Security (ZHAO Hong); The South China Sea Disputes: Current State of Play and Future Prospects (Katherine TSENG Hui-yi); China and Global Governance (PANG Zhongying and LYE Liang Fook).