Kuhn How China's Leaders Think

The Inside Story of China's Past, Current and Future Leaders, Revised Edition
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-118-10425-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 576 Seiten, E-Book

A fascinating look at China now and in the years to come, through the eyes of those at the helm
As China continues its rapid ascent, attention is turning to its leaders, who they are, and how they view the country's incredible transformation over the last thirty years. In How China's Leaders Think: The Inside Story of China's Past, Current and Future Leaders, Revised, bestselling author Lawrence Kuhn goes directly to the source, talking with members of China's ruling party and examining recently declassified Party material to provide readers with an intimate look at China's leaders and leadership structure, visionary principles, and convulsive past, and tracing the nation's reform efforts.
Focusing on President Hu Jintao's philosophies and policies, the book looks to the next generation of China's leaders to ask the questions on everyone's lips. Who are China's future leaders? How do they view China's place in the world? Confronting China's leaders head on, Kuhn asks about the county's many problem, from economic imbalances to unsustainable development, to find out if there's a road map for change. Presenting the thoughts of key Chinese leaders on everything from media, military, banking, and healthcare to film, the Internet, science and technology, and much more, the book paints an intimate, candid portrayal of how China's leaders really think.
* Presents a fascinating insight into how China's leaders think about their country and where it's headed
* Asks the tough questions about China's need for reform
* Pulls together information from over 100 personal interviews as well as recently declassified Party documents
Taking readers closer to Party officials than ever before, How China's Leaders Think documents China's thirty-year struggle toward economic and social reform, and what's to come.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kuhn, Robert Lawrence

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Author vii
Acknowledgments ix
Overview: How China's Leaders Think xiii
PART I GUIDING PRINCIPLES 1
1. Pride 3
2. Stability 14
3. Responsibility 19
4. Vision 27
PART II THINKING REFORM 35
5. Subjugation, Humiliation, Oppression 37
6. Reform's Epic Struggle 51
7. Tiananmen and Thereafter 66
8. What's a "Socialist Market Economy?" 73
9. How Communism Adopted Capital and Ownership 93
10. The Hidden Power of Jiang Zemin's "Three Represents" 105
11. The Driving Relevance of Hu Jintao's "Scientific Perspective on Development" 120
12. Snapshots of Economic Reform 131
13. The Countryside is Core 143
14. Rebalancing Imbalances 152
15. How Reform Permeates All Society 161
16. Here Come the Lawyers 172
17. Facing Up to Corruption 180
18. Values and the New Social Contract 187
PART III DOING REFORM 201
19. Provincial Pictures of Reform 203
20. Regional Dragonheads: Pudong (Shanghai) and Binhai (Tianjin) 216
21. What to Do with State-Owned Enterprises? 225
22. The Private Business Revolution 244
23. Banking Reform: The Largest Assets and Greatest Risks 253
24. Reforming Science & Technology with Sparks & Torches 266
25. Education: When Reform and Tradition Clash 276
26. Healthcare and Medical Reform: One Doctor's Story 281
27. Media and Publishing Reform: Hidden in Plain Sight 290
28. How Telecommunications and the Internet Changed China 308
29. Diversity of Culture; Question of Censorship 320
30. How China's Leaders Love Film 331
31. Why Religion Became Important 344
32. Foreign Policy Breaks Free 361
33. What does Military Reform Mean? 379
34. Telling China's Story to the World 391
PART IV REFORM'S FUTURE 405
35. China's Future Senior Leaders 407
36. China's New Kind of Leaders 426
37. China's Economic Future: How Far Can It Go? 447
38. Guangdong Visions 459
39. China's Political Future: Is Reform Real? 473
40. China Threat or China Model? 491
41. China Reflections and Visions 507
Index 521

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Robert Lawrence Kuhn is an international corporatestrategist, investment banker, and public intellectual. For over 20years he has worked with China's senior leaders and advisedthe Chinese government. Dr. Kuhn also advises multinationalcompanies on formulating and implementing China strategies, andChinese companies in capital markets financings.
The author or editor of over 25 books, Dr. Kuhn is often in themedia (e.g., CNBC, Euronews, BBC, BusinessWeek, Xinhua NewsAgency), discussing China's politics and economy and thephilosophies and policies of its senior leaders. He is seniorinternational affairs commentator on Euronews, the leadingtelevision news network in Europe, and senior internationalcommentator of China Central Television (CCTV News).
Dr. Kuhn works with China's leaders on special projects.He is the author of The Man Who Changed China: The Life andLegacy of Jiang Zemin--the first biography of a livingChinese leader published in China and China's best-sellingbook of 2005. He is the author of two event-marking books: China30 Years: A Great Transformation Of Society, which commemoratesChina's 30th anniversary of reform and opening upand features President Hu Jintao; and How China's LeadersThink (the first edition of this book), which commemoratesChina's 60th anniversary and focuses onChina's new ("Fifth") generation of leaders. Dr.Kuhn has visited more than 40 cities in over 20 provinces andregions in China. He is senior advisor to CCTV and Xinhua.
Dr. Kuhn is chairman of The Kuhn Foundation, which producesCloser To Truth, the public television / PBS series onscience and philosophy (which Dr. Kuhnhosts)--www.closertotruth.com. He has an A.B. in human biology(John Hopkins), a Ph.D. in anatomy / brain research (UCLA) and anS.M. in management (MIT).