Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping Renaissance, Reform, or Retrogression?
Auteur : Lam Willy Wo-Lap
Renowned for his coverage of China's elite politics and leadership transitions, veteran Sinologist Willy Lam has produced the first book-length study in English of the rise of Xi Jinping--General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since November 2012. With rare insight, Lam describes Xi's personal history and his fascination with quasi-Maoist values, the factional politics through which he ascended, the configuration of power of the Fifth-Generation leadership, and the country's likely future directions under the charismatic "princeling."
Despite an undistinguished career as a provincial administrator, Xi has rapidly amassed more power than his predecessors. He has overawed his rivals and shaken up the party-state hierarchy by launching large-scale anti-corruption and rectification campaigns. With a strong power base in the People's Liberation Army and a vision of China as an "awakening lion," Xi has been flexing China's military muscle in sovereignty rows with countries including Japan, Vietnam, and the Philippines while trying to undermine the influence of the United States in the Asia-Pacific region. While Xi is still fine-tuning his art of governance, his zero tolerance for dissent and his preoccupation with upholding the privileges of the "red aristocracy" and the CCP's status as "perennial ruling party" do not bode well for economic, political, or cultural reforms. Lam takes a close look at Xi's ideological and political profile and considers how his conservative outlook might shape what the new strongman calls "the Great Renaissance of the Chinese race."
1. Factors Behind Xi Jinping's Rise: Factional Intrigue and Controversies Over the Future of Reform 2. The Making of a New Helmsman 3. Xi Jinping's Ideology and Politics 4. Economics vs. Politics: Beijing's Uphill Battle to Retool the China Model 5. China's Great Leap Outward 6 Conclusion: Xi Jinping and the Closing of the Chinese Mind
Date de parution : 03-2015
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 03-2015
15.2x22.9 cm
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Mots-clés :
president; dream; politburo; standing; committee; member; eighteenth; party; congress; state; CCP Leadership; Eighteenth Party Congress; Cyl Faction; Young Men; CCP Member; PBSC Member; CCP Central; Macau Special Administrative Regions; Mao Zedong; SOE Reform; Xi Zhongxun; Xiao Gang; CCP General Secretary; CCP Central Committee; Deputy Party Secretary; Seventeenth Party Congress; Hu Chunhua; Chinese Government; Chinese Dream; NGO Activist; Chinese Style Socialism; Central Committee General Office; Shanghai Faction; CCP General; ASEAN Member