Hu Jintao: China's Silent Ruler

Hu Jintao: China's Silent Ruler

Author: Kerry Brown

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2012-03-26

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 9814460532

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Over the six-month period from late 2012 to early 2013, Hu Jintao, the President of the People's Republic of China, Chair of the Central Military Commission, and Party Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), will relinquish at least two of his three positions. According to the constitution of the CCP, his time as Party head will come to an end, given that he has already served for two terms. Well over the supposed retirement age of 68, he will have to hand over the leadership of China to a new generation of leaders at the 18th Party Congress in Beijing. In Chinese politics, the act of retirement is surprisingly difficult, but Hu Jintao is widely known for his reserve and reticence; there is little doubt that he could disappear into a quiet and anonymous retirement if he so desires.This timely volume thus aims to provide an analytical assessment of Hu's period in charge of the world's most populous country. It concentrates briefly on his early life and entry into politics, then considers and evaluates his stewardship of the economy and of international affairs, as well as his ideological contribution and leadership of the communist party. In the process, the reader will also be afforded a broad overview of China's rapid developments over the last decade, since 2002.


China Under Hu Jintao

China Under Hu Jintao

Author: Tun-jen Cheng

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 9812563474

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The fourth generation of leaders of the People's Republic of China, while benefiting from the prestige of China's entry into the World Trade Organization and the honor of hosting the 2008 Olympic Games, also needs to contemplate the sobering side-effects of a rapid and internationally-interdependent economy and a troubled and only partly reformed political system.This important book approaches the study of the PRC under Hu Jintao in a two-fold manner: by examining the new political parameters within which the party-state functions and by analyzing the prominent issues ? at home and abroad ? that are commanding the attention of China's new leaders. The book tackles a comprehensive range of topics, including elites, institutions and state-society relations, politics and the political implications of economic change, domestic politics and foreign relations.


China's Leaders

China's Leaders

Author: David Shambaugh

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2021-06-25

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1509546529

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Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China over 70 years ago, five paramount leaders have shaped the fates and fortunes of the nation and the ruling Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping. Under their leaderships, China has undergone an extraordinary transformation from an undeveloped and insular country to a comprehensive world power. In this definitive study, renowned Sinologist David Shambaugh offers a refreshing account of China’s dramatic post-revolutionary history through the prism of those who ruled it. Exploring the persona, formative socialization, psychology, and professional experiences of each leader, Shambaugh shows how their differing leadership styles and tactics of rule shaped China domestically and internationally: Mao was a populist tyrant, Deng a pragmatic Leninist, Jiang a bureaucratic politician, Hu a technocratic apparatchik, and Xi a modern emperor. Covering the full scope of these leaders’ personalities and power, this is an illuminating guide to China’s modern history and understanding how China has become the superpower of today.


Hu Jintao

Hu Jintao

Author: Daniel K. Davis

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1438104685

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When Hu Jintao became president of China in 2003, very little was known about this enigmatic man. The son of a man who fell victim to China's tumultuous Cultural Revolution, Jintao began his Communist Party career in some of China's poorest and most remot


Chinese Politics in the Hu Jintao Era: New Leaders, New Challenges

Chinese Politics in the Hu Jintao Era: New Leaders, New Challenges

Author: Willy Lam

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-01

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 1315497395

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Drawing on hundreds of interviews with top Chinese officials, parliamentarians, scholars, and businessmen, Willy Lam, a renowned journalist and writer on Chinese affairs, presents a first-hand, multi-dimensional account of twenty-first century China and the impact of fourth generation leaders, including President Hu Jinato and Premier Wen Jiabao. Lam goes behind the glitzy facade of nouveau-riche Beijing and Shanghai to examine how the Hu leadership has tried to extend the Communist Party's "mandate of heaven" by tackling an array of daunting problems: the weakening legitimacy of the Party's leadership; restive peasants; angry workers; political stagnation over the lack of reform; foreign relations difficulties; unreliable energy supplies; resurgent nationalism; and the increasingly dubious "Chinese model" of development. The author assesses possible contributions that the new classes of private businessmen, professionals, and intellectuals - as well as new ideas such as nationalism, globalization, and federalism - will make to economic prosperity and political liberalization. The book also includes a chapter on foreign policy, which contains an insightful account of Beijing's evolving and sometimes difficult relations with the United States, Europe, Japan, and other major countries and blocs, as well as the role of the People's Liberation Army.


Jintao

Jintao

Author: Jack Phillip Hall

Publisher: Jack Phillip Hall

Published: 2018-03-27

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 1452463417

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The year is 2089 and China is the most technically advanced nation on Earth. An orbital reactor built by the Jintao Corporation begins to malfunction and a survey crew is sent to investigate. Their report attracts the attention of the company’s CEO who soon disappears. His son, Quan Jintao, returns home hoping to find out what happened. Clues lead him to a clandestine laboratory where he finds a revelation that will forever change our understanding of reality. Government agencies move to seize the discovery joined by gangsters, hackers and cult zealots. Quan vaults into action to protect his colleagues and loved ones from annihilation while the future of civilization hangs in the balance.


Rethinking Chinese Politics

Rethinking Chinese Politics

Author: Joseph Fewsmith

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-06-17

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1108831257

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A comprehensive but accessible examination of how elite Chinese politics work covering the period from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping.


China Under Hu Jintao

China Under Hu Jintao

Author: Tun-jen Cheng

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 9812701109

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The fourth generation of leaders of the People''s Republic of China, while benefiting from the prestige of China''s entry into the World Trade Organization and the honor of hosting the 2008 Olympic Games, also needs to contemplate the sobering side-effects of a rapid and internationally-interdependent economy and a troubled and only partly reformed political system. This important book approaches the study of the PRC under Hu Jintao in a two-fold manner: by examining the new political parameters within which the party-state functions and by analyzing the prominent issues OCo at home and abroad OCo that are commanding the attention of ChinaOCOs new leaders. The book tackles a comprehensive range of topics, including elites, institutions and stateOCosociety relations, politics and the political implications of economic change, domestic politics and foreign relations."


Chinas African Peacekeeping Decision-making in the Hu Jintao Era

Chinas African Peacekeeping Decision-making in the Hu Jintao Era

Author: Fanie Herman

Publisher: Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

Published: 2015-11-01

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 9384464902

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China’s role in international peacekeeping has greatly expanded during the leadership of Hu Jintao, and China has since become a significant contributor to peacekeeping operations (PKOs) in Africa. The importance of the book is expressed in the view that peacekeeping intervention is a tool that strengthens or fulfills policy goals in the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), and the UN Mission in Darfur (UNAMID). China has considerable interests at stake in Africa, in terms of promoting economic cooperation or gaining access to natural resources. In order to maintain these efforts, it is imperative that a secure and stable environment is created, not only to maintain diplomatic relations with its African partners, but also to express the harmonious worldview and peaceful development concepts, which rose to prominence under the presidency of Hu Jintao. The purpose of this book is therefore to examine the extent to which peacekeeping intervention contributes to China’s relations with these countries. Two models are employed to shed light on this thesis. The rational actor model (RAM) developed by Graham Allison is used in the first instance to explain the goals for each country, the options considered to reach the goals, the consequences or outcomes of choice that will ensure whether a particular option is chosen, and then selecting the option that has the consequences that rank the highest in the leadership’s payoff function. However, the leadership in policy formulation does not always act in a unitary fashion and often needs the input of governmental actors to produce results in decision making. Therefore, the bureaucratic politics model (BPM) of Allison is used in the second instance to indicate the bargaining, influencing and compromising positions of the bureaucracy that has reinforced the rational decisions of the leadership. The main findings are that peacekeeping interventions serve as a mechanism to facilitate cooperation, is significant to China’s goals in the mission countries, and influence and shape bargaining that occur between bureaucratic actors regarding peacekeeping.


Carnival China: China In The Era Of Hu Jintao And Xi Jinping

Carnival China: China In The Era Of Hu Jintao And Xi Jinping

Author: Kerry Brown

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2014-03-28

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1783264268

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With Foreword by John KeaneThe era of the Chinese leaders Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao was one in which China became richer, more powerful, more prominent and more vexed. This series of essays, originally published on the Open Democracy website between 2006 and 2013, attempts to make sense of the cultural, political and economic dynamics within which China operates. They deal with internal and external matters, and cover a range of topics, from the fall out over the award of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo to the build-up in 2008 to the Beijing Olympics. Furnished with a comprehensive introduction which sets out an assessment of where China was heading in the first and second decades of the 21st century, the essays encompass voices from the political elite, the migrant labourers and the complex patchwork of groups, people and interests that constitute a rising China whose influence is now felt across the world. Carnival China is a celebration of the confusion, dynamism and colour of China, presented through short essays which were written at the time key events happened and which capture and analyse the country's contradictions and complexities.