Book Description:

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.

This volume considers how China's Communist Party selected a new generation of leaders in late 2002 and why they were so well qualified to govern China. In order to maintain the position of a regional and world power this essays e xplain how China's leaders are reconfiguring their huge command economy, promoting a market economy, and undertaking gradual political reforms. The volume is unflinching in its discussion of how China's leaders face mounting political corruption, spreading unemployment, growing disparity of wealth and income, and a crisis of belief.