The New Chinese Leadership: Challenges and Opportunities after the 16th Party Congress

by Yun-Han Chu (Editor), Chih-Cheng Lo (Editor), Ramon H. Myers (Editor)

These essays reveal how China's Communist Party selected a new generation of leaders in late 2002 to maintain the position of a regional and world power. They explain how China's leaders are promoting a market economy and undertaking gradual political reforms and note the problems they are having in handling mounting political corruption, spreading unemployment, growing disparity of wealth and income, and a crisis of belief.

266 pages, Paperback

First published April 5, 2004